Such messages are formed in the recollection of 'War Stories' (Ford) that transpire the core values of policing and exaggerate values of heroism, physicality, danger, and a general 'us versus them' mentality that acts as a divider between police and regular citizens. ...
David Leeb wrote a very compelling, unpublished paper titled "Shades of Goodman Brown". In this paper, Leeb discussed a common "yarn" that presented itself in Young Goodman Brown, The Man that Corrupted Hadleyberg, Monster, and The Devil and Daniel Webster. He writes that "It is truly curious that ...
This mystery soldier is the one who ignores the forewarnings prompted by the most respected philosophers of our time, and although he knows that war leads to carnage, continues to fight until an opposing bullet kills him. ... These words lack individuality, and attempt to imply a certain image of heroism. ...
1. 60 million years ago, the age of giant reptiles came to an end. Dinosaurs ruled the earth, while mammals were not able to evolve because they could never challenge the dinosaurs. Then, a comet hit the earth and the dinosaurs disappeared. Mammals, including primates, were then able to evolve. Over 5 million years ago, primates walked on all fours. ...
As Hong Kong prepared to return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, the end of martial law in Taiwan made its political future less certain in the mid-1980s, and anti-Chinese sentiments in Southeast Asia and other parts of the world continued to take their toll, the heroism of a Chinese fugitive without a country could be appreciated by all those Chinese who felt "forever foreign- [4] inside of America because of racism or outside of the United States because of the legacy of colonialism. ...
