Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Freedom
Close observers can see that, rather than standing still, the Statue of Liberty steps forward over broken shackles, representing how freedom progresses, its very definition changing over time. In the medieval worldview, freedom meant acting according to reason, and it focused on the discussion of free will. However, the modern definition of freedom primarily focuses on political and civil freedoms, having little to do with reason. This differentiation between … Read the rest
I wrote this article at university on American myth of the wild west. Unfortunately I lost the works cited section. Therefore I don’t remember who Fink was to whose work I refer several times in the article.Apparently the West had some sort of wildness. It was the region where โcivilizationโ arrived later. It had been the direction to go. And, in a sense, it had been what the young American … Read the rest
