Professor Ron

A collection of experiences from the history classes of Professor Ron.

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Madame Chiang [Kai-shek] and Eleanor Roosevelt were best friends. Eleanor got her [Madame Chiang] a penthouse in New York City until she could go back and conquer Taiwan.

Professor Ron on Sino-American relations

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You see apology comes from the Greek word 'apologia' which simply means an explanation without any element of guilt. So if you're ever in a fight with your significant other, you can say you apologize in the Greek sense of the word.

Professor Ron dispenses relationship advice

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Humanists such as we should really be looking into this stuff vis a vis the culture of these places

Professor Ron on the need to study the humanities

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The Koreas can absolutely unify. What needs to happen is they need to form a kind of detente, a peaceful coexistence in which neither side feels threatened by the other.

Professor Ron doesn't fully understand the concept of containment

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Is that a hidden genocide?

Professor Ron on how Kim Jong Il's responsibility for North Korea's famines may be a type of genocide against North Koreans

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Menial means 'work that little men can do'

Professor Ron on labor

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Emerson was more of a religionist, especially towards the end of his life

Professor Ron on spirituality

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Trebuchets were used to throw soldiers over the city walls so they could fight on the other side

Professor Ron seriously misunderstands a student's presentation

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A trebuchet is a catapult

Professor Ron on siege warfare

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She made these statues nudes to reflect the nature of the Lenni Lenape tribe because the women didn't wear clothes

Professor Ron on Native American culture

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We're using ourselves as tertiary sources

Professor Ron on how having read a history textbook makes any student cite-able

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University comes from 'universitas', which means 'corporation' which comes from 'corpus' which means body. So the idea is you bring enough bodies together and within our bodies are our minds...so this is where the synergy comes from.

Professor Ron uses logic

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And because wealth at this time was in the form of land, that meant that they had the choicest farmland! That's why they were hated!

Professor Ron on how the Jews had the best land in feudal Europe

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People couldn't figure out whether they were hallucinating from fasting and depriving themselves of the pleasures of the flesh

Professor Ron on Jesus and Mohammed

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Pope Francis was an order priest. He didn't go through the politics of rising up through the ranks. He didn't have to become bishop or cardinal or anything.

Professor Ron on how the church works

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You see here the conflicts between church and state which led to the fall of the Roman empire

Professor Ron on Rome

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This is all leading up to the French Revolution

Professor Ron sees all of history leading to a single climax