First described by the editor of the Richmond Examiner in 1867, the "Lost Cause" myth claimed that slavery was not the issue that drove the conflict, but rather that the South was the victim of Northern aggression and only lost the war because of the North's overwhelming advantage in terms...
The Myth of the Lost CauseThe former Confederate states have continually mythologized the South's defeat to the North, depicting the Civil War as unnecessary, or as a fight over states' Constitutional rights, or as a David v. Goliath struggle in which the...Edward H. Bonekemper III...
It was also difficult to find the line between myth and history. While still in grade school I searched the local public libraries to see what I could learn about the massacre, but nothing turned up. That struck me as odd. If the Rape of Nanking was truly so gory, one of the worst ...
go easy on its host when that makes it more successful. It's a myth that all diseases evolve to coexist peacefully with us. A virus will crank up its lethality to 99% so long as that viciousness also lets it reach a new host. If a virus could make people explode like rotten balloon...
this kind of language is rather better than all of the eulogies to heroes,it reveals that there is a kind of splendor, solemn ,sacred aesthetic cognition included in the human definition of the surviving cause, nothing is more great , more honourable than this thing, this is the heroism ‘...
After the Vanguard learned that the Hive wern't a myth and remained on Earth and the Moon, Zavala commanded the Last City's forces during the Battle of Burning Lake. The Vanguard barely won a victory there, but the Consensus began planning an invasion of the Moon to drive their ancient ...
and that’s only the first piece. She declares that people must be strong, physically and mentally, and find out how their bodies function, and then ‘find out as much as [they] can about what people used to know’ and start taking ‘things literally like myth and symbol. Just believe...
The Myth of the Lost Cause_ Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won by Edward H. Bonekemper III 星级: 80 页 why they fought 星级: 34 页 高中语文《墙上的斑点》课件2_新人教版选修 星级: 14 页 They fought the law and the law won 星级: 2页 They fought the ...
Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before. It was, moreover, a frightful confirmation of all I had sought to dismiss as myth and dream. Mercifull there is no proof, for in my fright I lost the awesome object which would...
The French thinker Jean Baudrillard wrote about the myth of human progress just before the Millennium, critiquing the optimistic talk of a New World Order by reminding us that humanity continues to have a serious waste disposal problem (theologians would call this Original Sin, the persistent flaw...