So, the pen is mightier than the sword quite simply because its effects last longer and can be appreciated by humans for many years to come. Conclusion: The less violence that there is in the world, the better place it becomes. There are so many reasons why the pen is mightier than the sword. Passionate and well-articulated ideas can change the world for better or worse. Good writing inspires openness, thinking, talking, and action. We ask our panel to share with us stories, examples and extracts of writing that inspired positive change. Chaired by Julie R Goddard, Psychologist, MasterCoach and YA fiction author. Book to the Future. To make one of the strongest cases, in favor of the aphorism, “the pen is mightier than the sword.” Said undoubtedly proves the legacy of colonialism manifests itself into a lingering imperialism in the spheres of culture, and specific ideological, political, economic, and social practices. Jun 15, 2018 “The pen is mightier than the sword” is a metonymic adage written by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the year 1839. It found a place in his play, Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy. The play opened in March 1839 at London’s Covent Garden.

Fuerst, Gerhard Albert 7/9/1936 - 1/6/2021 Kalamazoo It is with a heavy heart that we share the news of the passing of Gerhard Albert Fuerst, age 84. Gerhard went peacefully to be with his Lord on January 6, 2021. He was born on July 9, 1936, in Bayreuth, Germany, and grew up in Feuchtwangen, Germany. Growing up during World War II profoundly affected him and caused him to take nothing in life for granted. Life was tough but fulfilling and adventurous. Gerhard was a renaissance man. He was an artist, actor, athlete, author, and a tireless champion of truth, justice, and peace. He proved every day that the pen is mightier than the sword and never shied away from doing what 1s right. He first came to the United States in 1952 as an exchange student at Santa Cruz High School, California. As a result of a serendipitous friendship with Knox Wicks from Kalamazoo, Michigan, Gerhard returned to the states in 1958 to continue his university studies. On a Western Michigan University-sponsored trip to East Africa, he met his wife Marianne. They lived and raised their four children in Kalamazoo and recently celebrated their 54th wedding anniversary. Gerhard was a world traveler, animal lover, spoke many languages, and climbed several mountains. He loved classical music and opera, photography, gardening, as well as making various jams and jellies. He created beautiful wooden bowls, mosaics, ceramic bowls and plates, calling himself 'The Happy Potter'. Incredibly handy and skilled in laying tile and carpentry, he often could be found with a hammer in his hand working on numerous home-improvement projects. He came from a long line of musicians and artists. Gerhard extensively researched and preserved his family's history including many paintings from his grandfather. In addition to discovering extended family members, he loved to make connections with numerous artists, writers, singers, and humanitarians from around the world. Gerhard was a respected teacher in the Kalamazoo Public Schools for over 37 years. He also taught part-time as an adjunct professor at Western Michigan University. He taught U. S. Government, U.S. History, Civics, Anthropology, World History, World Geography, German, and Introduction to the Non-Western World. A life-long lover of learning, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Social Sciences, and a Master of Arts degree in International and Area Studies (with a focus on Africa) from WMU. Gerhard also completed special course work at the Technical University of Munich, Kalamazoo College, University of Michigan, la Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, University of Oxford, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, University of Nairobi, St. Mary's College, and Harvard University. During his career, Gerhard was honored with the George Washington Honor Medal from the Freedom's Foundation of Valley Forge and three Excellence in Education awards by the Kalamazoo Education Foundation. What he liked best about teaching was the opportunity to prepare young people to be responsible, respectful, and informed citizens. Community service played an important part in Gerhard's life. He served as a board member of the Kalamazoo Bach Society and on the council of Trinity Lutheran Church in Kalamazoo. Over the years he sponsored German, figure skating, fencing, and chess clubs. He accompanied student delegations to Russia, Washington, D.C., Australia, and New Zealand. Gerhard was a member of many professional associations including the U.S. Figure Skating Association and the U.S. Fencing Association. For a few years, he sang in community choruses with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra. Gerhard was a published poet, writing in German, English, French, and Spanish, with some of his works appearing in various publications around the world. He authored a book of poetry entitled, Dies und Das und sonst noch Was… published in 2016, with a second edition coming out in 2021. Above all, he loved and was very proud of his family. His four children and eight grandchildren gave him much joy and pleasure. He supported and encouraged his children throughout their education and careers. Gerhard and Marianne always attended their children's and grandchildren's musical performances and athletic events. He often traveled home to Germany to spend time with family and friends, who were all very important to him. He leaves behind his wife Marianne (Oberman) Fuerst, their four children Christina (Chad) Devlin, Michael (Sarah) Fuerst, Heidi (Randy) Albertson, Sarah (David) Zimmermann, and eight grandchildren, Benjamin Devlin, Annabelle and Henry Fuerst, Kaitlyn and Elyse Albertson, and Emma, Jacob, and Joseph Zimmermann. He has a loving brother Werner (Uta) Furst, and sister Heidrun (Dieter) Guntz, a 100-year-old cousin, Ingrid Neuner who live in Germany as well as many cousins, nieces, and nephews living in Germany, Michigan, and around the world. He also leaves a sister-in-law Barbara Scott. He was preceded in death by his parents, Adolf and Luise Furst, and sister Dietlind Haberl. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Gerhard's name may be made to Trinity Lutheran Church, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo Junior Symphony Orchestra, Western Michigan University – School of Music, WMUK, or Communities In Schools – Kalamazoo. Due to the current situation with the Coronavirus, the memorial service will take place for the family on January 30 and will be streamed live for friends and relatives to attend. A larger Celebration of Life is being planned for later in the summer or next summer, depending on COVID regulations. Please visit Gerhard's personalized online guestbook at https://www.langelands.com for service information and to share a memory.

Over the summer, I struggled to read a book by Edward Said entitled Culture and Imperialism. Despite its density, each time I read a few pages, I couldn’t help but feel enlightened. A new realization would come to me every couple of sentences, and I could not shake off the theme of identity his arguments conveyed. To what extent does that way I view my history and culture concern the existence of imperialism? This is the question that lingered. I found myself utterly bewildered each time I turned the page, only to realize that the answer was, immensely.

A child from Jordan is incapable of writing about the limestone buildings, the rolling hills, and star-filled desert skies that surround her. Yet writes with ease and fluidity, on the looming skyline of Manhattan of which she knows nothing. To what extent has the experience of colonialism impacted the self-identification and narratives of the decolonizing world? A more sophisticated way of phrasing the question. Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism is an invaluable guide to the way in which Western literature managed to strip and silence the identity of the people in the decolonizing world. Said utilizes a tool he coins “contrapuntal reading,” defined as the intertwined histories and perspectives, specifically in regards to colonial texts. To make one of the strongest cases, in favor of the aphorism, “the pen is mightier than the sword.” Said undoubtedly proves the legacy of colonialism manifests itself into a lingering imperialism in the spheres of culture, and specific ideological, political, economic, and social practices.

Edward Said starts of his book exploring the interconnected nature of history and geography. He argues that just as “none of us are outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle of geography.” The earth, in effect, cannot hold empty, uninhabited spaces (Said, Pg 7). What was colonization and imperialism, other than the conquest of spaces, in effect, a complex struggle? Said draws the distinction early on between imperialism and colonialism. Colonialism, with the Latin root word colonus, meaning farmer, tenant farmer, or serf, requires the “transfer of populations to a new territory, where they permanently settle” maintaining loyalty to their country of origin. At the opening of Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens emphasizes the importance of his son’s birth through this statement “ the earth was made for [them] to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light” (Said, 13). The East to many westerners was empty; it was theirs for the taking, this was an essential concept in justifying the action of colonialism. Despite the fact that both imperialism and colonialism stem from political and economic power, an important distinction is present. The distinction therein lies in the ability to exert power over lands through the means of ideology, rather than physical presence.

The complex struggle of colonialism and imperialism didn’t merely exist between soldiers and cannons; it was about “ideas, forms, about images and imaginings” (Said, Pg 7). One of the most interesting things I learned from this book is the existing power struggle between the previously colonized people, and the colonizers. It is the bearing of the past upon cultural attitudes, which allows the old hierarchy of colonizer and colonized to extend to the modern day hostility (Said, Pg 16). Essentially the pattern of earlier imperialist history has been reiterating and reproducing, due to a shattered, destructive and impoverished understanding of the alignment of powers. Our lack of acceptance, understanding, and shared understanding of what the history of colonialism and imperialism has done, has allowed us to recreate such asymmetric alignments of power. Our inability to critically engage with this history, has allowed no space of mutuality and interdependence between the two experiences, of colonized and colonizer.

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We see this today, especially in race relations on the global scale. Whether it tension between whites and blacks in America, due to a stinging wound that was slavery, or apartheid in South Africa, based on a hierarchy of race. The power struggle is evident. Ideas, sometimes can be more detrimental and destructive to society that a sword, a gun, or a bomb. It destroys the way we view the “other”, and the way we interact with the “other.” Often resulting in a power asymmetry that requires courage to see, and bravery to overcome.