Student Exams...
...the time of the semester when other people's stupidity takes up large amounts of time.
Here are two gems from the seven exams I've graded so far for my First World War class. This has a lot to do with why I've only done seven of them. What's great is that they're not only bad, but dynamically bad.
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Short Answer 1
United States' Entry into the war
The United States entered the war when room 40 (a British decoding group) found or decoded a telegram sent to Mexico from Germany saying "invade america so we can fight our own homeland while the americans are busy fighting you and in return we will give you your land back from the American-mexican war. America was in the war already but this little event triggered the beast who goes by the name america
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ID #7
Emperor Karl: Karl Marx was the 8th Russian Emperor. His assassination brought Russia into the war on the side of the allies.
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