Tag: idealism
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How Boys Become Men – or – Can Memoirs Stop the Violence?
aggression, anger, assertiveness, Boys, development, essay, gender, idealism, Islam, males, Memoirs, men, Muslims, rebellion, thumosEven though Husain’s ideology was light-years away from mine, our hearts followed similar paths. Both of us believed that our political beliefs were righteous and important. Both of us felt responsible to take any action necessary to change the world to conform to our beliefs. This sense of righteous urgency caused both of us to…
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Gary Presley’s Memoir Defangs the Horror of Disability
The children’s illustrator, Maurice Sendak told an interviewer that when he was little, he was scared of old people. He was afraid of their wrinkled skin and hair growing out of the wrong places. “Now that you are 80 years-old yourself, do you feel you have become a monster to the small children who read…
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