Mount McKinley renamed?
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Thread Topic: Mount McKinley renamed?
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I was doing some research as to what purpose this had, and although I am still looking, what I have found is that the war McKinley led... I know it sounds like a bit of an conspiracy theory, and I am not saying that was the reaosn, nor am I claiming our president to believe or stand for anything (mainly because I can't stand your incompetent arguments and have no time to debate anymore)
Don't look at this as such a small thing. Do some research. People don't just rename important landmarks without reason. -
Wtf was it renamed to?
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Istanbul, not Constantinople.
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople.
Can't go back to Constantinople.
Cus Constantinople's got the works.
Ain't nobody's business but the Turk's. -
Nothing to be that worked up about. William McKinley was a pretty unremarkable president, he didn't do much of anything that would warrant having the continent's highest peak named after him.
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I saw the renaming article! I didn't really look into it, cuz we're supposed to be researching right to life issues(the teacher is so annoying about that) but I did see it. Why would they need to rename a mountain? kind of a waste of time, doncha think? they've probably got better things to worry about.
like in California, a group of people were trying to exempt a doctor for assisting suicide, etc., etc. so the court decided not to, so now how to punish the guy? that seems not necessarily bigger (pun intended) than a mountain, but probably higher on the list of priorities, if you ask me. -
Alex@ Denali. I haven't found an further definition for it, but you don't just rename things without a reason and you don't go through the trouble of renaming things without having some meaning to its new name.
Tounge@ Who are you to judge an president's worth? And what standards are there to weight one's impact? Without any one of our presidents our country would not be where it is right now. And how is the word 'Denali' more important than the name of our president?
Paige@ America is screwed up and politics like to pull up small issues to cover up bigger ones and hide higher intentions. -
The indigenous peoples have called it Denali long before we acquired Alaska and named it Mount McKinley. And sorry, McKinley did nothing to monumentally shape our history other than making Theodore Roosevelt his vice president then getting assassinated. He didn't free the slaves, end the Depression, win World War 2, bust the trust's, guide a young nation through its infancy, or anything else that the truly monumental presidents did.
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Then why change it? What purpose was there for renaming an mountain? And, if that is the case, then why the f--- is Obama so important? He didn't lead world war three, he didn't write any important act that kept us from another great depression? If McKinley isn't important, then what makes Obama anymore significant other than the fact that he is the first black president? (Which, by the why, isn't an valid reason for his importance since you are arguing an public forum debate type, not an Lincoln Douglas one which would have allowed you to bring the focus over to categorical imperative critera.)
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