Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kennedy's bleak portrait of life in the next century. Small wonder that he begins with a tip of the hat to Thomas Malthus' dire -- but ultimately incorrect -- late 18th century prediction of worldwide starvation. "The world's population was less than a billion when Malthus first wrote his Essay ((on Population))," Kennedy notes. "Now it is heading, at the least, toward 7 or 8 billion, perhaps to well over 10 billion." But elsewhere Kennedy has the intellectual honesty to admit that such population projections can be grossly inaccurate, missing such behavioral trends as a sharp drop in the Brazilian...
...next year, in a European History class taught by the same history teacher, Ali wrote an essay on the exploitation of Third World peoples by European expansionism. The result was a surprise even...
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