In the middle of positive British propaganda during World Wa…
In the middle of positive British propaganda during World War I, English soldier and poet Wilfred Owen composed a poem (“Dulce et Decorum Est”) in which he vividly described the horrors of war. In one section, he horrifyingly describes the agony of a comrade who has inhaled poisonous gas on the battlefield: His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs . . . This example ties in with John Ruskin’s assertion that “Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts: the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three,
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“ _______ is the process with the thinker being an active participant going through a ‘digestion process’ based on, among other things, open-minded observation, experience or reflection, and results in an outcome that affects behavior.”
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