Essay Archive - Flawless Heroes?
Flawless Heroes?
It is important for youth to have heroes but society cannot ignore the
facts and only report on the good side of those heroes. Everyone is human, and
they are going to make mistakes. Hopefully they learn from those mistakes, and
if those mistakes are brought to light and conveyed to the young people then
they too learn from those mistakes.
History has a duty to report on the entire story. To report anything
less would be wrong. To just simply say that Columbus was a perfect man who
never did anything wrong would paint an unrealistic picture of the past. Mr.
Gibbon, the author of this article seems to think that re....
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