Peran Pembelajaran Sejarah Membentuk Karakter Siswa (Studi Kasus SMA Mulia Pratama)

Education plays an important role for the development of students to shape the character of human beings, citizens, and good citizens. The problem currently experienced by the Indonesian nation is a moral crisis that has begun to arise and result in the Indonesian nation losing its true character and identity as stated in Pancasila. The character of the Indonesian nation emerged when the heroes fought to obtain the independence of the Indonesian state. Therefore, to be able to shape the character of students in the world of education in order to become a good Indonesian nation, a way is needed to make it easier for educators to instill character in their students. The role of history learning can be used as a way to shape the character of the Indonesian nation. With history learning, teachers can show attitudes that should be exemplified when heroes fought for Indonesian independence. Historical lessons play a role in shaping the character of the nation to foster an attitude of nationality and love for the homeland. Teachers must be able to put themselves in place to inspire students to have a good national character through history learning

Tales from a Boston Customs House: “Worthy” Suffering

Despite Francis Clarke’s argument that men who suffered in exceptional ways, such as amputees, were regarded as national martyrs and held up as the emblem of sacrifice to the nation, this argument cannot be applied wholesale to all exceptional sufferers in the post-war North. Although men who lost limbs in battle were often remembered in terms of glory and treated as national heroes, those who suffered in non-heroic ways, such as prisoners of war and the victims of non-combat related accidents, were often treated as less deserving of honor. [excerpt

Project: Screenplay Going Home

This paper explained the process and the result of my final project which is a screenplay entitled Going Home. The screenplay is about Dahlia, a thirteen-year-old girl who was born and grew up in Australia. Then, she has to return to Jakarta, Indonesia and continue her education in Indonesia. She has an assignment about history of Indonesia. She needs to write one of heroic history of Indonesia with her own words and write her reflection about it. Once, she goes to Surabaya for a holiday and stays at Majapahit Hotel Surabaya. In the hotel, she experiences the past life about several historical moments by going back and forth to a past life and present life. After experiencing it, she can feel and understand the spirit of the Indonesian revolutionary heroes. She respects Indonesia heroes more. Also, she can encourage her friends to love Indonesia better and to blend in diverse group of ethnics as strong and one Indonesian who support to improve Indonesia. I would like to show that young generations are now lack the spirit to build their country. They forget to become one; One Land, One Nation, One Language. This creative work focuses on how history of Indonesia can help young generations to gain the spirit of Indonesian revolutionary heroes to love and improve Indonesia. To put this issue into a form of entertainment, I decided to make a screenplay which type of genre is adventure fantasy

Cultural Distortion: The Dedication of the Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson Monument at Manassas National Battlefield Park

The Stonewall Jackson monument on Henry Hill at the Manassas National Battlefield Park stands as a testament to the propensity of Americans to manipulate history in order to fit current circumstances. The monument reflects not the views and ideologies of the veterans of the Civil War, but rather the hopes and fears of those who spent the prime years of their lives immersed in the Great Depression. Those of the latter generation searched in vain for heroes among the corrupted businessmen on Wall Street who ran the economic affairs of the country, and who, in the eyes of the public, plunged the nation into insurmountable debt. Historian Lawrence Levine observed that fear served as a motivator for 1930s Americans as they struggled to feed their children during the Great Depression. One reflection of this overwhelming fear appeared in President Franklin Roosevelt\u27s 1933 inaugural address as he insisted “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” In order to cope with this stress, Americans turned to a plethora of heroes as guiding lights for the dark days of the Great Depression. Some turned to gangster heroes like Bonnie and Clyde who undermined the financial and legal systems by lashing out against the institutions. Others devoured the serialized adventures of Superman, a new kind of hero created by the sons of Jewish immigrants in 1938. Still others turned to literature that reminisced about other crises in American history, namely Margaret Mitchell?s Gone with the Wind, a bestseller in 1938. It was in this cultural setting that the Virginia State Legislature conceived and financed the idea for a Stonewall Jackson monument

Perancangan Buku Ilustrasi Dengan Teknik Aquarelle Sebagai Upaya Mengenalkan Tokoh Pahlawan 10 November Kepada Siswa SMP Di Surabaya

Surabaya known as City of Heroes since the 10th November incident which known as Heroes Day. The three weeks of war that held on Surabaya many years ago is well known for the biggest war against the foreign nation since the declaration of independent. About 6000-16.000 warriors died, 200 civilians evacuate, and about 2000 peoples from the opponent killed on that incident. It is very equitable if in the future the government established the 10th November incident as the Heroes Day.The fact, not everyone, especially people in Surabaya, knows the people behind the battle. This fact based on the survey that held in 4 junior high schools in Surabaya. The result shows that 63.75% from 80 students can not mention any 10th November heroes beside Bung Tomo. The lack of knowledge about local heroes can cause the lack of appreciatioin amongst the student in Surabaya. According to that problem, then the goal of this research is to design an educational media in the form of illustration book with aquarelle techniques as an attempt to introduce the people behind the 10th November incident towards junior high school students in Surabaya

Making heroes, (un)making the nation?: ZANU-PF’s imaginations of the Heroes' Acre, heroes and construction of identity in Zimbabwe from 2000-

Abstract: This article explores the post 2000 national identity formation through the use of national heroes narrative and the Heroes’ Acre shrine in Zimbabwe. The Heroes’ Acre marks the country’s physical reminder of the past and acts as a tool for national identity and its symbolic maintenance through state presided rituals that happen at the shrine. Attached to the Heroes’ Acre as a permanent physical symbol of nationhood are the people the burial site was built for –the heroes, that is, the ‘war’ dead and the living who participated in the country’s liberation ‘war’. The argument made in this paper is that the definition and usages of heroes and Heroes’ Acre has mutated over the years to suit ZANU-PF’s shifting political agendas. Specifically the article addresses questions around conferment of a hero’s status on the dead, access to the Heroes’ Acre and the meanings of these to the emotive issue of nurturing a monolithic Zimbabwean national identity as imagined by ZANU-PF. The article concludes that the elite’s uses of the Heroes’ Acre and heroes’ status which excludes democratic public participation has served to carve a skewed and narrow narrative on the meaning of Zimbabweanness meant to bolster ZANU-PF’s hegemony. National identities, the article argues, are transient and always changing

Queens of Failing Nations in Classical Tragedy

This thesis will compare the role that queens in failing nations, motivated by revenge, play as tragic heroes in Classical tragedy. Focusing on the classical tragedies of Euripides’ Medea and Hekabe to Seneca’s Medea and Trojan Women, this thesis compares the roles that these queens play as tragic heroes in both the Greek and Roman renditions. As politically significant characters and tragic heroes, Medea and Hecuba both operate as both poison and cure, representing nations and houses that are failing, on the basis of their identity and their actions. I have focused on how Euripides and Seneca offer queens and tragic heroes, ultimately creating a similar outcome--they nobly face dilemmas, for which there is no “easy” or “right” choice, and that they attain magnificence through the endurance of their unique plight. In their respective tragedies, Euripides and Seneca explore the boundaries of female agency, particularly in the sense that the Euripidean Hekabe actively resigns to her fate as a barking dog, explaining to Polymestor that “paying you back is my only concern” (1244); Seneca’s vision for Hecuba and Andromache is much more passive. Seneca’s queens suffer simply because they are mothers; instead of being the source of life for Troy and tasked with extending Troy’s legacy, they are forced to witness the destruction of their kingdom and sacrifice the last of their children in the process. Ultimately, the aftermath of nations that have fallen is a liminal state. The queens who live in these in-between places face the question of how to endure life as the consequence. For queens like Medea and Hecuba, endurance is synonymous with suffering; suffering is synonymous with mothering children and mothering the nation that defines their authority. In essence, classical queens achieve tragic heroism because they suffer as women in the state of motherhood, both poison for the grief that comes with losing children, losing husbands and monarchs, and the very land in which the nation sits, and cure in their ability to perpetuate a nation through childbearing, or even through a queen’s dignity and ability to negotiate with their captors

‘The Others’: Gender and Conscientious Objection in the First World War

In a time when ‘if one was born a male, one became a soldier’, what does it mean to be a man who refuses to fight? This article uses Connell’s framework of ‘hegemonic masculinity’ to locate conscientious objectors’ male identities as a suppressed, subaltern manliness that deviated from the dominant norm of martial masculinity. It argues that despite rejecting many aspects of this norm, objectors nonetheless articulated their counter-hegemonic struggle in starkly militarised language, presenting themselves as heroes sacrificing their lives for the greater good. It suggests that in order to understand, rather than merely judge, this strategy, it is important to see masculinity not as a completely discrete field of struggle, but as one of many mutually constitutive structuring principles underpinning a social order that is arranged not merely along patriarchal lines, but along lines of nation and class. In turn, these other principles impose limits on the nature of and possibilities for counter-hegemonic struggle

Heroism in Doctor Who

This first comprehensive study of heroism and the heroic in “Doctor Who” (1963-2020) uses one of Britain’s longest-running TV series to access the changing state of the nation and its collective emotions since the early Sixties. The analysis of two decade-spanning processes of heroization (of the Doctor and female characters in the series) is combined with close readings of individual episodes that feature heroic moments in crystallized narratives of past and future. Nostalgic collective memory, female empowerment and key moments of British history (e.g. World War II) all resonate in the series, which shows how popular heroes negotiate socio-cultural change and identity construction.PublishedThis first comprehensive study of heroism and the heroic in “Doctor Who” (1963-2020) uses one of Britain’s longest-running TV series to access the changing state of the nation and its collective emotions since the early Sixties. The analysis of two decade-spanning processes of heroization (of the Doctor and female characters in the series) is combined with close readings of individual episodes that feature heroic moments in crystallized narratives of past and future. Nostalgic collective memory, female empowerment and key moments of British history (e.g. World War II) all resonate in the series, which shows how popular heroes negotiate socio-cultural change and identity construction