The general topic of this week's reading is social studies textbooks and what their perspective is. In Loewen's book, Lies My Teacher Told Me, the author points out that the books present a one-sided view of historical figures, fail to show the conflicts taking place today, and fail to present the multiple facets of a problem. David Tyack's second article, Monuments Between Covers, talks about the idea of ​​showing that our past was full of good times and that anything immoral was just a small part and not much. Tyack highlights the constant influence of political groups with different agendas who struggle to influence and control what school textbooks tell our countries' children. In the final reading, History Lesson by Dana Lindaman speaks from the perspective of American history through public school textbooks around the world. Overall, each country diminished their nation's role in terrible events and criticized other nations for their actions. In Loewen's book, Lies My Teacher Told Me, talks about the true perspective of textbooks in the classroom. Many textbooks create this idea of ​​heroification, where people from the past are perfect creatures, without conflict or suffering. The idea is to inspire students to strive for great things and become like these people. However, showing only the good side of people or events is misleading. We must show both sides, the good and the bad, in order to show a complete picture of the past. Another thing that textbooks do is hide events or make them more simplistic. Many textbooks show the idea that racism is over and hide the fact that society still struggles with racism. Textbook companies do this because they don't want students to have difficult conversations. Middle of paper ......ceded because of alliances with the Allied Powers. My favorite is that Britain declared that going to war was a difficult choice. I completely disagree with this statement, as it is necessary to defend Belgium's sovereignty and its ties to the Hanoverians in northwest Germany. Overall, we see textbook publishers being pulled in multiple directions, fearing the influence of powerful lobby groups to create bland textbooks, which have limited multiple points of view and controversy. Loewen only talks about the good traits of historical figures like Woodrow Wilson, instead of showing both sides. Tyack presents a similar point of view, that textbooks only talk about American acceptanceism and that we as a society have done nothing wrong. Finally, in Lindaman's work, each nation does the same thing in order to show that their nation is in a good light or to limit the dirty laundry of their past..