The foundation of the America is based on morality and virtue. Each sentence has been carefully thought and each word has been carefully chosen. I am The foundation of the America is based on morality and virtue. Each sentence has been carefully thought and each word has been carefully chosen. I am so glad to see that Cyrus the Great's bill of human right (which is the first bill of rights in the world) had inspired great men like Founding Fathers to write the Constitution of the United States.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
The purpose of government is NOT to bestow rights; rather it is to PROTECT those rights already endowed upon human beings by God. I am urtterly speechless by this...
God may bless the bloods of those who fight for freedom and independence in the world. May God bless the hearts of all who have faith and persistence in the goodness.
On Fairy-Stories is an essay by Tolkien that tries to answer three questions: What is a fairytale? What is their origin? What is the use of them?
In thiOn Fairy-Stories is an essay by Tolkien that tries to answer three questions: What is a fairytale? What is their origin? What is the use of them?
In this essay, Tolkien argues that all fairytales have four shared features: They start with "Once upon a time..." - an unknown date They are dealing with royalty or members of loyalty (e. g., Prince and Princesses, Queens and Kings, etc) They have the element of magic - the most necessary feature in all fairytales They finish with "...lived happily ever after." (the story gets dark and hopeless, but it will ultimately end happily.)
This essay is well-elaborated and -categorized....more
On Three Ways of Writing for Children is a short yet intriguing essay on children literature and fairy tales by great fantasy writer, C. S. Lewis.
LewiOn Three Ways of Writing for Children is a short yet intriguing essay on children literature and fairy tales by great fantasy writer, C. S. Lewis.
Lewis argues the importance of moral imagination and storytelling for children. According to Tolkien, he explains, the appeal of the fairy story lies in the fact that man there most fully exercises his function as a 'sub-creator'; not, as they love to say now, making a 'comment upon life' but making, so far as possible, a subordinate world of his own. Since, in Tolkien's view, this is one of man's proper functions, delight naturally arises whenever it is successfully performed. For Jung, fairy tale liberates Archetypes which dwell in the collective unconscious, and when we read a good fairy tale we are obeying the old precept 'Know thyself'.
I am an old soul with a child heart. I enjoy watching cartoons and reading children's great classic books. I have an overly active imagination, and like Lewis, I don't feel ashamed of any of these at all. For me, children are not stupid, gullible individuals in desperate need of advice from grown-ups, but rather, humans who perceive the world from a unique and remarkable perspective. I respect children and their sacred world.
Lewis beautifully puts it, "We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals. Our superiority consists partly in commanding other areas, and partly (which is more relevant) in the fact that we are better at telling stories than they are. The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man. But the worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the Jump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle. We must of course try to do them no harm: we may, under the Omnipotence, sometimes dare to hope that we may do them good. But only such good as involves treating them with respect."...more
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