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Limerick. John Edgar Wideman's "Our Time", and Patricia Nelson Limerick's "Empire
of Innocence", are two very different stories about one particular theme. ...
Limerick. John Edgar Wideman's "Our Time", and Patricia Nelson Limerick's "Empire
of Innocence", are two very different stories about one particular theme. ...
limerick. Limerick Knowing the past prepares us for the future. ... For example in the
Indian-White Wars, as Limerick calls them, atrocities happened on both sides. ...
... Studying Clifford Geertz, Patricia Limerick, John Wideman, and Ralph Waldo
Emerson has made it easier for me to answer my own question. ...
... Patricia Limerick goes into depth in many different subtopics of the west. ... As
Limerick puts it, there were people from every background. ...
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Limerick
Knowing the past prepares us for the future. The only good in knowing war, misery, greed, incompetence, and slaughter is to know their true nature; the reality of their horror. If all that is known of the dark side of life is that it is undesirable, then nothing can be truly learned or taught from its influences on past events. The old saying, "learn from your mistakes", has no greater importance and impossibility than in this situation. The morals I was taught as a child reflect that I think that war is bad and hurting another is never a good thing. What I have begun to learn, and will always continue to build on, is the reality of what it means to actually kill another, what it means to go to war, what it means to live; all of which cannot be taught, only learned. In Limerick's work, she asks what is the point of retelling and reliving the atrocities of history? Limerick does an excellent job in presenting the question of why, and preparing a reader to truly think about what their answer is going to be. If I were to be asked why is it good to know about past discrepancies against my fellow man, I spit out the answer that it isn't right to wrong another. And I believe in that answer, but to truly understand what has gone before and what is possible in the future has an entirely different effect. The knowledge of those that committed the atrocities in the Modoc War, Bad Axe River and on even to WWII and Vietnam, gives not only the knowledge of the lesson, but a fear of the possible. It never strikes home, at least for me, when a history book talks about the who or the how many that got killed in a battle or a war. They are just tallies on a page. Tallies of how many injured, how many killed, but never are those individuals given names, given faces. Reading in a book that hundreds of people were killed should invoke in everyone a feeling of intense sorrow for the injustice of so many, but in actuality that response is found wanting in many...
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