Yes! Tell them you'll break for pizza halfway through. They won't think about Bollywood, cricket, or colonial tax collection in the same way again. (To say nothing of encouraging them to think in many interesting ways about how to "write" imperial lives)

Apparently AI will also save us from proper syntax. Shouldn't that last sentence be: "Because when everyone does, no one does"?

docs.google.com/document/d/1....
Addresses the sacking, if not the police funding

Marking Passover by creating new plagues.

I would argue that women of color are bearing a disproportionate burden. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/h...
The Times has run a number of stories over the past year about declining resources & maternal mortality among Black mothers.

Sounds like the makings of a great assignment-- what would a not-depressing (happy? hopeful? uplifting?)-- history look like? Can the student write one? It's a great way to investigate the relationship between evidence and opinion.