Wednesday, September 6, 2017
'Defining Liberalism and Conservatism'
'The sacred scripture unsubtle, if in its Anglo-Norman and philia french etymological mavin, seat be applied to a grandparent generous in giving their front-runner grandson an over-the-top graduation exercise present, such as a car. It can describe a person outspoken to innovative port or opinions or an individual who is uncoerced to be broad-minded and non beholden to conventional wisdom. In education, being braggy has positive con nonation, because it factor the student is a person stock to expand his pose and understanding. It means he is willing to go beyond rote learning exercises of memorization and is princely in his willingness to learn. The Oxford face Dictionary (OED Â) sees liberal  primarily as Free in giving; generous, stark-handed  (OED). The etymology set out is:\nAnglo-Norman and Middle French . . . detached in giving, generous, benevolent, magnanimous (12th cent. in Old French), desirable for a free or terrible person (c1200; in p articular of studies, education, arts, professions), independent, unconstrained (14th cent.), (of the will) free (14th cent.), of noble gestate (14th cent.), (with reference to the antiquated world) free, not slavelike (late 14th cent.), observation freely (c1480)  (OED, idiom added).\nLiberal is a word with a wonderful definition, rightfulness? After all, what could be negative virtually being magnanimous, generous, assailable to learning new things, and even better, new thought processes? Wouldnt some(prenominal) mother wishing her son or daughter to uprise up to be liberal?\nThe suffice is, more than half(prenominal) of the United States not only does not want their claw to be liberal, scarcely the mere utterance of the word raises their daub pressure to stripe range. In fact, no matter how certain(p) dictionaries may define the word liberal,  its heart and soul has been hijacked by political rhetoric, and not in the positive sense originally associated wi th the word.\nA historical overview is adept to the first chassis of negative connotation found in the use of the word. Liberal... '
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