Word: corrieã
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...Name is Rachel Corrie?? is based on the letters and journal entries of American student Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003. Ruled to be an accident by an Israeli Army inquiry, Corrie??s death nonetheless became a cause célèbre among the far left. The play, which opened in London and received mixed reviews in New York, has been heralded as a moving portrait of idealism, activism, and the horrors of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...problem with “My Name is Rachel Corrie,” and many other works of art that deal with political conflict, is that they dramatize and idealize individuals while ignoring the greater political forces at play. “My Name is Rachel Corrie?? may provide a moving look at the personal diaries of a blindly idealistic young girl, but it ignores the fact that Corrie??s death was simply a tragic accident that was inherently meaningless in the greater scheme of the conflict. In fact, Corrie, at the time of her death...
Rachel Corrie deserves to be remembered as another tragic casualty in a war that has consumed so many lives, not as the idealized heroic freedom fighter that “My Name is Rachel Corrie?? presents her to be. It is only when those on both sides of the conflict can shed this kind of misplaced idealization that a true peace settlement will be possible...
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