Hello and Thank you for following the steps all the way here.

Before I share the homework submitted by Jimmy to, let’s review the contest again:

For $50K  a  Social Studies ran a high school wide contest where every student from freshmen to graduating class was eligible to submit an entry:

Contest was to submit a summary of the world history from 1820 to present in no more than 50 words. I do not know about you but this is one of the toughest assignment I’ve ever seen.  I would not have been able to answer this even with 500 or 5000 words let alone 50 words maximum.  Every word in that 50 word maximum homework would be a very expensive word, don’t you think? Anyway let us count how many words are there in Jimmy’s entry:

“The 19th century belonged to England and Europe.                                (8)

The 20th century belonged to USA and North America.                        (9)

The 21st century belongs to China and Asia.”                                              (8)

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” OF Course!”  I  exclaimed when I was told the answer.  (That is a whopping $2,000/word. )

This case caught my attention because of two things:

1.  It involved security issues and I was called to weigh on it.

2. The homework sounded more like economics than history to me.

3. It touches on issues that need to be brought into the radar screen of families.

I touched very briefly on these issues in the article on Ironies. If you came here through the sign up page, you will receive in next email  a short discourse on the financial implications of this in the western world in both short and long terms.

Thanks for following Jimmy’s answer.

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Marina Foyos Dean,

Founder of Agaahanview