History is ugly. Everyone knows it is full of violence and death, but it is also full of heroism, self-reflection, romance, intrigue, and achievements which have occurred against all odds. Why should we deny young people the opportunity to experience it through historical fiction graphic novels.
Such a novel is actually a comic book. Using comic books to relay events from the past, utilizing the same colorful language, exciting character development, and dramatic effect just might allow us to make young people understand why the world is the way it is. More than that, comic books have always inspired young readers to really Be-Somebody when they grow up.
More than novelists, however, as some of these young people grow up to create science fiction as fact. Many elements of basic physics have been woven into the stories of Marvel comics from the very beginning. As a young person begins to realize that some of this technology is actually being developed, they have a desire to be a part of that future.
If we can make the future seem so interesting to young readers, then is it such a crime to bring the same light and color to stories of the past. Many history teachers might get their feathers ruffled a bit, but their complaints really should be ignored at this point. The men and women who teach history are often as dry as winter grass themselves, and are less interesting than the classes they purport to teach.
If we want young people to get excited about learning their history, then it needs to be more than lists of names and dates to be memorized then forgotten. The illustration of events from the past need to show the reality of battle, and the passion of love in a way that our textbooks deny them. Kids today are not nearly as naive as we were.
No one would suggest that our history be taught in such a manner that one would give it an NC-17 rating. However, the watered-down, hoarse-dry version being taught in schools today teaches them very little about how mankind has arrived to this point. It fails them by failing to give them the information they need to connect history with current events.
There are a number of researchers diligently rewriting the lies our generation was handed for the past ten thousand years. We are finally able to use terms like alien technology in the overall discussion of theory. If we are to rewrite the misinformation and denial of blatant facts that is the history of history, then we must do this now before we let down yet another generation of students.
It is not merely the ignorance of our past that condemns us to repeat, but misinformation taught to generations of our young. When all students from all nations can connect past events with current events, then they are empowered to create a better future for themselves. If we deny them this power, then we deserve whatever future we get as punishment for letting them down on a worldwide scale.
Such a novel is actually a comic book. Using comic books to relay events from the past, utilizing the same colorful language, exciting character development, and dramatic effect just might allow us to make young people understand why the world is the way it is. More than that, comic books have always inspired young readers to really Be-Somebody when they grow up.
More than novelists, however, as some of these young people grow up to create science fiction as fact. Many elements of basic physics have been woven into the stories of Marvel comics from the very beginning. As a young person begins to realize that some of this technology is actually being developed, they have a desire to be a part of that future.
If we can make the future seem so interesting to young readers, then is it such a crime to bring the same light and color to stories of the past. Many history teachers might get their feathers ruffled a bit, but their complaints really should be ignored at this point. The men and women who teach history are often as dry as winter grass themselves, and are less interesting than the classes they purport to teach.
If we want young people to get excited about learning their history, then it needs to be more than lists of names and dates to be memorized then forgotten. The illustration of events from the past need to show the reality of battle, and the passion of love in a way that our textbooks deny them. Kids today are not nearly as naive as we were.
No one would suggest that our history be taught in such a manner that one would give it an NC-17 rating. However, the watered-down, hoarse-dry version being taught in schools today teaches them very little about how mankind has arrived to this point. It fails them by failing to give them the information they need to connect history with current events.
There are a number of researchers diligently rewriting the lies our generation was handed for the past ten thousand years. We are finally able to use terms like alien technology in the overall discussion of theory. If we are to rewrite the misinformation and denial of blatant facts that is the history of history, then we must do this now before we let down yet another generation of students.
It is not merely the ignorance of our past that condemns us to repeat, but misinformation taught to generations of our young. When all students from all nations can connect past events with current events, then they are empowered to create a better future for themselves. If we deny them this power, then we deserve whatever future we get as punishment for letting them down on a worldwide scale.
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