Civil War: on the one hand, those historians who have focused on the “causes and results of the war,” and on the other, what Walt Whitman called “the real war,” the experiences of soldiers in battle and civilians on the home front. Through skillful narrative in a broad-ranging oeuvre of essays and books, McPherson has succeeded in telling both stories, combining social, political, and military history to reach a broad scholarly and popular audience, emphasizing all the while that the Civil War constituted
Marchepiede is also portrayed as a religious and conservative lunatic and is criticized subtly in this novel. My paper focuses on Le Pen’s political proposals as they are reflected by fictional characters in the novel and implicitly criticized by the narrative voice of the heroine implicitly. Jean-Marie Le Pen is obsessed with the national identity of France. He used to claim that his political position was neither left nor right, but French. He promotes the identity attached to Western, Humanist, and
"Intelligence", "Integrity", "Courage", "Wisdom", and " the Capacity to See Beyond." (Lowry, 1993, p. 62 & 63). The Receiver of Memory is the one person in the community who stores all the past memories of the time before Sameness. The position of Receiver of Memory is important because there may be times where one must use the wisdom gained from history to aid the community’s decision making; "guidance in the present using
and take a look at some of the controversy revolving around Wolf. Born Christa Ihlenfeld on March 18th 1929 in a town by the name of Landsberg an der Warthe (what is today the town of Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland), Christa’s father owned a grocery store with some help from Christa’s mother, which provided Christa and her younger brother with a comfortable and carefree childhood. 1“Gorzow-wielkopolski is located approximately twenty-five miles from Germany’s eastern border. Landsberg, with its modest
Statue of Buddha Sakyamuni, Bodh Gaya, India It is in this way that we must train ourselves: by liberation of the self through love. We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis, take our stand upon it, store it up, and thoroughly set it going. The Buddha, Samyutta Nikaya Environmental and social breakdown is now vast and global in scale. Technological advances have provided the basis for a new kind of social evolution, beyond cultural, religious
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