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Be prepared to weep as you read Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students, a horrifically hilarious compendium of actual North American college student essays. Learn about the victims of the Black Death (who "grew boobs on their necks"), the Automaton Empire, Martin Luther King's famous "If I Had a Hammer" speech, the Iran Hostess Crisis, Zorroastrologism (the "duelist" religion "founded by Zorro"), and Joan of Ark, Noah's wife, at rest on Mt. Arafat. Meet Dim El Sum of Korea, the Vestigal Virgins, "dedicated to burning the internal flame," and Hitler, who "shot himself in the bonker." Did you know a position as "lady-in-mating helped a young girl's chances for a marriage," and "the assignation of Archduke Ferdman gave sweet relief to mounting tensions," or that "the major cause of the Civil War is when slavery spread its ugly testicles across the West"?

Well, you'd better buckle down and learn, then! --Tim Appelo

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Shocking and hysterical. You'll laugh until you cry, shedding tears for the state of American education. Baltimore Sun (Baltimore Sun )

A horrifically hilarious compendium...knitting together errors, assumptions, and creative fact-making that are shocking and hysterical. Associated Press (Associated Press )

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4.0 out of 5 stars Selected history from College and Graduate Students, Nov 22 2004

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This review is from: Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students (Hardcover)

This is a selected collection of history papers by Collage students. They have been adjusted for publication and sorted into 26 categories, from "Hindsight into the Future" to "The Age of Now". The items are full of misunderstandings and euphemisms.

Some samples are:

* Christianity was just another mystery cult until Jesus was born.

* Hannabelle crossed the Alps with a herd of elephants and thus invaded Africa.

* The five European grade powers were England, France, Germany, Russia, and Australia-Mongolia.

At fires it seems dump but then you get hooked and almost want to top them.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Off to college..., July 19 2004

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This review is from: Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students (Hardcover)

My parents gave me this book as a gift before my first semester of freshamn classes and said, "Don't make these mistakes." Some mistakes are really funny, some are really sad, and others just plain stupid. Since then I have made a few typos myself when writing essay exams with a time constraint. These comments are belivable especially because with a time limit all students make a mistake now and then. It is a light hearted book and should be taken that way.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Depressingly Funny, Jun 14 2004

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I'm not sure if this says more about my students or more about me, but I have to say when one of my classes bombs a test, or completely misses the point of a research paper, or writes two sentences and passes it off as an expository essay, when I read this book I feel that at least I'm not alone in my frustration. In fact, my students compare reasonably well to the "scholars" whose work is included in Non Campus Mentis.

This past semester, I was teaching my Grade 11 students about the French Revolution. They were having difficulty with the subject matter, I assumed because they had difficulty relating the material to the world in which we live today. After reading this book, perhaps their difficulty was the result of me providing the wrong information:

- Another problem was that France was full of French people. Dickens made this point in The Tail of Two Sisters, which he required us to read.

- The French Revolution was like a tractor. It gave people the understanding that you need to change in order to make tracks in the world. The Third Estate was locked out of its motel and had to du business on a tennis court. This led to the Tennis Court Oath. This act of small defiance was the fuse that led to the explosion that blew up the government.

- Revolters demanded liberty, equality, and fraternities. Fraternity breeded pride in the nation and therefore thicker political boundaries. Victims of the terror were rolled to the gilotine in tumblers, an unpleasant thing for all involved. Many of these unfortunate people became known as Emma Grays.

- Along came a man named Roisieu Thermidorean who saved the people. The revolution evolved through monarchial, republican, and tolarian phases until Napoleon performed a coo in 1799. Napoleon was ill with bladder problems and was very tense and unrestrained. As his power leaked away his body became a symbol. He was later troubled by Spanish gorillas who formed a sore in his side.

I'm not sure that one could make up gems of knowledge as those I've included above if one tries.

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