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==Close Reading== | ==Close Reading== | ||
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| + | ===Vol. 1 No.2=== | ||
| + | [http://library.brown.edu/jpegs/1354913821828875.jpg '''The Boy Scout Movement'''] by George R. Kirkpatrick | ||
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| + | ''"The Boy Scout movement is an organized, craftily subsidized effort for creating the kill-lust in boys, the love of arms, the desire for the military life, and the brainlessly automatic obedience of soldiers."'' | ||
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| + | Kirkpatrick discusses the BSA and how they are developing soldiers through blind obedience. He mocks the idea of the Scouts as he believes they cater to the primal nature of violence rather than promote the ideals of education and subsequently reform. They train these boys to follow rather than have them think on their own. | ||
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