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In Passionate Declarations Analysis
In Howard’s book, In Passionate Declarations: essay on war and justice, the chapter “The Use and Abuse of History” Howard clarifies that history gravitates towards partial explanations of encounters. Howard explains that it is crucial to analyze both known and hidden facts about historical accounts because it only demonstrates a microscopic fragment of an event. Because of the bias of an author, details are often omitted. Howard recounts an experience during his college years; he heard a song called “The Ludlow Massacre”. Ludlow massacre reveals the massacre of woman and children who were burned to death for striking against a Rockefeller owned coal mines in Colorado, 1914. Howard never encountered the Ludlow Massacre in any of his American
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