May 2012
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April 2012
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question for people who write...
abbyjean:
i was taught never to use pronouns in that shit. like, “this paper examines,” not “in this paper i examine.” now i have been, well, forcefully informed that the way i do it is wrong and also stupid and mostly so very very wrong. thoughts? experiences?
I was taught to avoid personal pronouns — but to use them when to avoid their use borders on prevarication or forces you into...
results are in: Stalin actually not worse than... →
All in all, the Germans deliberately killed about 11 million noncombatants, a figure that rises to more than 12 million if foreseeable deaths from deportation, hunger, and sentences in concentration camps are included. For the Soviets during the Stalin period, the analogous figures are approximately six million and nine million. These figures are of course subject to revision, but it is very...
