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A hundred years of heresy | New Humanist

A hundred years of heresy | New Humanist | ToK Essays Nov 2024 | Scoop.it
From newhumanist.org.uk - August 25, 2022 4:54 AM
A century after its publication, is Joyce’s epic still the greatest work of humanist literature?
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Nov2022 Title 6: 'Ulysses', religion & the counterculture: TWE are the artistic tools of 'parodies and mockeries' an asset in interpreting the effects of the past on how we see ourselves today?
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Lessons in Defending Liberalism - by Damon Linker

Lessons in Defending Liberalism - by Damon Linker | ToK Essays Nov 2024 | Scoop.it
From damonlinker.substack.com - August 24, 2022 3:44 AM
Thirty years after it appeared, Francis Fukuyama's "End of History" remains a model and inspiration
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Nov2022 Title 6: 'The end of history', Plato's 'thymos' & the historical process: Reviewing the idea that the desire for recognition is a 'motor of universal and unidirectional historical development toward liberalism'...
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Eight blockbuster films that got history wrong

Eight blockbuster films that got history wrong | ToK Essays Nov 2024 | Scoop.it
From www.bbc.co.uk - August 17, 2022 3:43 AM
These films got their history wrong - find out how.
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Nov2022 Title 6 From 'Mary Queen of Scot's to 'Braveheart': when artists get creative with the facts of the past, they tread a line between historical accuracy and artistic merit...
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How Star Wars' Jedi were inspired by the Knights Templar

How Star Wars' Jedi were inspired by the Knights Templar | ToK Essays Nov 2024 | Scoop.it
From theconversation.com - August 9, 2022 3:43 AM
Both are orders of religious warriors and both were taken down by power-hungry rulers
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Nov2022 Tittle 6: Jedi Knights, the Knights Templar & the Primitive Rule: How an understanding of the past is an asset in influencing the construction of popular culture...
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What Did Medieval Peasants Know?

What Did Medieval Peasants Know? | ToK Essays Nov 2024 | Scoop.it
From www.theatlantic.com - August 6, 2022 3:34 AM
The internet has become strangely nostalgic for life in the Middle Ages.
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Nov2022 Title 6: The Medieval Age, pop-historical beliefs & using the past to understand the present: One obstacle to historians is that our 'understanding of the past isn't settled fact'...
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ‘may fuel dangerous Holocaust fallacies’ | Holocaust | The Guardian

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ‘may fuel dangerous Holocaust fallacies’ | Holocaust | The Guardian | ToK Essays Nov 2024 | Scoop.it
From www.theguardian.com - May 29, 2022 4:52 AM
John Boyne’s story is used by more than a third of teachers in England in lessons on the Nazi genocide, a study found
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Nov2022 Title 6: Fictions, fables & historical facts: artists have the freedom to explore the 'legitimate space between imagination and reality' as a way of cultivating empathy...
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Book review: Time's monster | New Humanist

Book review: Time's monster | New Humanist | ToK Essays Nov 2024 | Scoop.it
From newhumanist.org.uk - August 24, 2022 3:46 AM
A new book explores why history is the perfect subject of study for those with political ambitions.
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Nov2022 Title 6: History as story or history as 'science'?: TWE are 'narratives of progress and destiny' an obstacle to our understanding of the political past and even present?
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With "Station Eleven", apocalyptic fiction has come of age | New Humanist

With "Station Eleven", apocalyptic fiction has come of age | New Humanist | ToK Essays Nov 2024 | Scoop.it
From newhumanist.org.uk - August 21, 2022 5:01 AM
The pandemic revealed to us that global disasters don't have a simple start, middle and end.
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Nov2022 Title 6: 'Station Eleven', fictional pandemics & visions of the apocalypse: how new forms of artistic storytelling not only make some sense of a traumatic past, but also showcase how we can live better in the present.
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Thirteen Lives true story: How accurate is Ron Howard’s Thai cave rescue movie?

Thirteen Lives true story: How accurate is Ron Howard’s Thai cave rescue movie? | ToK Essays Nov 2024 | Scoop.it
From slate.com - August 9, 2022 3:44 AM
Thirteen Lives stars Colin Farrell and Viggo Mortensen as two of the heroic divers. Is it accurate?
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Nov2022 Title 6: 'Thirteen Lives', the Tham Luang Nang Non rescue & filmic fudging: when past events are so well known, TWE does the the line between fact & fiction in Art become easier to discern?
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History is complicated. Let's teach the complexity

History is complicated. Let's teach the complexity | ToK Essays Nov 2024 | Scoop.it
From fairforall.substack.com - August 7, 2022 4:54 AM
Opinion
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Nov2022 Title 6: Jingoistic history vs. nihilistic revisionist history: how to navigate a more fruitful path towards an understanding of a past that is full of complexity...
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Photos of wartime Europe still shape views of conflict – here's how we're trying to right the record

Photos of wartime Europe still shape views of conflict – here's how we're trying to right the record | ToK Essays Nov 2024 | Scoop.it
From theconversation.com - June 13, 2022 6:23 AM
There has been a marked difference in the coverage of Ukraine with media outlets invoking images of the world wars.
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Nov2022 Title 6: War photography, EyCon & the search for metadata: Aiming to overcome the obstacle of artistic expressions of eurocentric viewpoints on past global conflicts...
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Matters of Importance | History Today

Matters of Importance | History Today | ToK Essays Nov 2024 | Scoop.it
From www.historytoday.com - May 29, 2022 4:26 AM
Making History Matters of Importance There are several obstacles between Tudor women and their biographers. Bypassing them is a slow but necessary process. Suzannah Lipscomb | Published in History Today Volume 72 Issue 6 June 2022 For a long time – in the view of my publisher far too long a time –...
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Nov2022 Title 6: Henry VIII's wives, gendered judgments & narrow perspectives: how distorted source material is an obstacle to understanding the place of women in the past...
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