Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of MemoryBloomsbury Academic, 28 de fev. de 2000 - 176 páginas According to Bertman, just as an individual needs memories to maintain a sense of personal identity, so does a nation need them in order to survive. Like Alzheimer victims, however, today's Americans are rapidly losing a consciousness of history, and with it, a sense of national identity and direction. |
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... land where a curious plant , known as the lotus , grows . After his scouts fail to return , Ulysses goes in search of his men and finds them sitting with the natives , feasting on the lotus's sweet fruit . Whoever ate the lotus's honey ...
... lands . However , most sites are located on private lands , where they are not pro- tected . That means property ... land are not safe . In New York City's thou- sand parks there are some fifteen hundred public monuments , over half ...
... land of Judah and destroyed Jerusalem , its holy capital . To weaken his enemy and insure their compliance to his will , Nebuchadnezzar took ten thousand Judaeans prisoner and deported them to Babylon to be slaves and hostages . While ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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