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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the American

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Revolution responsible not only for the birth of America but the birth of [Man wearing american themed clothing]

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putting the American flag on literally anything all right let's say you have to

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do a research report on the American Revolution for class to start off your

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research your teacher gives you four documents to pick from which of the [Teacher with 4 different documents in class]

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following do you think would have the least amount of bias and here are your potential

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answers.......all righty well

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let's keep in mind that a biased text is one where the beliefs of one group have

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more importance than the beliefs of another group so if any of these texts

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seem a bit too infested with bias you probably look elsewhere and maybe call [Man walks around home and text follows him]

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an exterminator we've got a few options here so let's see which one is the most

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bias free starting with A) it's all well and good to read a book detailing your [Girl on a couch reading a book]

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revolution from the British side of the conflict but you should also probably

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expect that the views of the British will be getting a bit more prominence..

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Great for the British not so great if you want the right answer so A is out.

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What about B) if we read a book detailing the revolution from the [Woman reading a book]

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American side of the conflict we'll get the same problem of bias just with the

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sides reversed, American bias isn't actually any better than British bias

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despite what 90% of country music songs will tell you so B) is gone how about

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C) we wouldn't want to knock American freedom

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seriously the country singers might write some angry songs about us, but if [American singing with guitar]

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you read a book written by someone who believes strongly in American freedom it [Man typing on a typewriter]

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shouldn't be a huge surprise if it has some serious pro-america bias, so

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C) is a definite no well which leaves us with D), now we're talking a book that

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academically looks at all sides of the revolution will give us both sides of [Person takes a book from a shelf]

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the story which means that we'll find way less bias, so D) is our answer now we

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know exactly which book we should choose whether will actually enjoy reading [Boy picks up textbook and begins reading]

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that's another story, hopefully a story without bias..

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