Most students today are still struggling with math and certainly with the proper use of the English language.
Works in reverse too...
Could a 19th century shipman give an account of Clinton’s e-mail server or climate change or expand on Soros and glowBullization?
That’s a rough final. But doable with adequate prep and I am sure this final covers course work
No I am not!
Knowledge isn’t intelligence.
I’m sure those were extensive answers to those questions. On the other hand, those midshipmen would have been expected to study those events and would have been prepared to answer them.
Without studying I could get about 60% and that is being generous. The instructor of the times may consider my answers inadequate. One must consider the degree needed to answer the questions to the satisfaction of the instructor.
How stupid. If you can’t speak ancient Egyptian, does that mean ancient Egyptians are smarter than you???
This is right up your alley!
Nautical gentlemen had to do trigonometry.
Not one of those young men could have explained why the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. So I'd call it even.
Many of these events were current news or recent history at that time and reported in newspapers and taught in school. So it wouldn’t be likely for 21st century people to be familiar with these events.
It was Georgia Indian Territory to start with. My 6th great
grandparents lived down there on a plantation (Cothams).
My 6th great grandmother was a snob. Their son (my 5th great
grandfather) married a Cherokee girl and his mother had a
fit. (Yes. They had several slaves.) The father gave them
their inheritance in gold and put them on a ship going up
the Tennessee River. They landed in Perryville, TN on the
river & settled there. - My second great grandfather got a
job (much later) working as a lightskeeper on the river.
It was a rough crowd that hung around there and they would
just as soon kill you and leave you on the river bank as to
look at you. He carried a Smith & Wesson revolver in his
job. - I now have that revolver in my possession and
Hitler-y & Hussein can kiss my ass! IF they intend to “take”
my S&W, they’ll have to clear more hurdles than Hitler-y or
Hussein are physically able to clear AND take my
grandfather’s revolver from my cold dead hands!
No. Sorry.
But I do know how to work a TV remote, if that counts for anything.
Let that midshipman give a timeline of the rise of modern liberalism and discuss the actions of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Specifically how those actions have endangered the U.S.