A friend who is a college teacher asked me to help provide two cases to the teaching plan, namely the ideal and belief to provide spiritual pillars and ideals and beliefs to improve the spiritual realm of the argument, in my opinion does not seem to be particularly big difference, I proposed to start from the film content, was rejected, if you can, I still want to start from the "mainstream values in Hollywood movies" This topic, I suggest that the other party to look at the history of the party and Mao Xuan, find some suitable cases from it, and be rejected again, which is beyond my knowledge reserves and ideas.
(Stephen Zweig)
Fortunately, I thought of a book that I particularly liked, Stephen Zweig's "When the Stars of Mankind Shine", and I deliberately signed it for Kobayashi, and the old house probably understood the connection between the two, so I decided to wash Zweig's manuscript and find two suitable cases from it, as a great historical story, I simplified the length, first of all, the proposition of "ideals and beliefs provide spiritual pillars":
(French cavalry in the Napoleonic era)
In the long course of history, the speed of information dissemination has not changed qualitatively for a long time, for example, Napoleon's cavalry is certainly faster than the father of marathon born in the Persian War, Fidipitz, but compared with Genghis Khan's cavalry or the cavalry of the earlier Roman Empire, it may not be much faster, even when the steam engine was first improved by Watt (it should be emphasized here that Watt improved the steam engine, not invented the steam engine), the locomotive did not run faster than the horse, and the same was true of the early cars of the Ford era. (Just like today's 5G phones, can you feel that the network speed has improved significantly compared to 4G?) Anyway I didn't)
(Old-fashioned telegraph)
All this changed rapidly after the invention of the telegraph, and then people found that rubber could be used as an insulating material to wrap cables to connect the land between the oceans, and soon people used submarine cables to connect Britain and the European continent through the English Channel, and people naturally thought about whether they could connect Europe and the Americas through submarine cables, because at that time Eurasia was already connected, and at this time the protagonist of the story, Cyrus Field, appeared, who was a young man who had achieved commercial success. He hopes to solve this problem, but obviously there are various obstacles waiting for him, such as the following:
1. There is no relay station in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and there is no such a powerful generator that can reach 2,000 miles away without interruption;
2. The rubber insulation technology is immature, has not undergone the pressure test of the seabed, and does not know whether there is geomagnetic influence, and any small crack will lead to failure;
3. There is no ship large enough to hold up to 2,000 miles of cable, but in the middle is solid copper and iron;
Everyone said it was impossible, including Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, who thought it was incredible. (That is, the inventor of the Morse code that you often mention in movies))
(Morse and telegraph)
Cyrus did not have an engineer background, but with his enterprising and enterprising spirit, he contracted projects connecting Europe and the United States with cables, and this sense of mission allowed Cyrus to travel to the ocean 31 times in the next time.
Under call of duty (speaking of the call of mission, not the game of call of duty), Cyrus quickly persuaded the British and American governments to provide the top tonnage battleships "Agamemnon" and "Niagara".
(Cyrus Field)
(i). First boot:
In 1857, the first launch began, and people from all walks of life went to bid farewell to the departure of the big ship, all wanting to witness this historical moment. The Niagara will set sail from Ireland, and has been exchanging signals to Ireland since its departure, and after passing through the deep-sea plateau, the signal is also very clear, until 335 miles away, the cable suddenly slipped off the hoist, and salvage was naturally impossible, everyone could only accept the failure, but Cyrus was not willing;
(ii). Secondary start:
In 1858, after optimizing the cable laying equipment, it was replaced by the Agamemnon, but on the third night after the departure, the captain suddenly found that the barometer was rapidly decreasing, which meant that the storm came, especially the modified warships were not cargo ships, the cables were piled in the middle of the ships, the force was uneven, and they could be buried at any time in extreme weather, fortunately, the coal collapse and the boiler overturning caused many injuries in addition to causing many injuries, and did not cause a capsizing accident, and then at the board of directors, the chairman of the board of directors proposed to cancel the plan. The Vice-Chair agreed to cancel and submit his resignation, but Cyrus's idealism kept the project going;
(NIAGARA and Agamemnon)
(iii). Three-shot boot:
Later that year, with no farewell, no farewell, no speech, the cause finally succeeded, the United States received a telegram from Queen Victoria of England, and people immediately compared Cyrus to Columbus, and during the parade Cyrus sat in the first carriage, followed by the captain of the Niagara, and the president of the United States sat in the third. But the submarine cable did not know why it stopped functioning on the day of the parade, so Cyrus was also notorious as a liar, suddenly fell from the tide to the bottom, and even everyone began to wonder whether the telegram sent by Queen Victoria really existed, Cyrus lost friends, lost funds, lost everything like a criminal;
(iv). Six years later:
Then the United States broke out the Civil War, after people have forgotten this project, but technology has not stopped progressing, and Cyrus has not forgotten his belief, with his faith and obtained a new financing, and the market also appeared his dream of the giant ship, 22,000 tons of the Great Eastern, almost twice the tonnage of the previous two ships, as long as it has not given up, the whole world will make way for people with ideals and beliefs, it just so happens that this giant ship is idle because it is too advanced, In 1865 Cyrus set sail again with conviction, but only two days away from his goal, the ocean once again swallowed up the cable due to cracks in the seabed;
(Great Eastern)
(5). Final:
Then, on July 13, 1866, the Great Eastern set sail for the sixth time, this time with a great victory, and a few days later the last lost cable was found, so the two cables linked Eurasia and the Americas together, to quote Zweig's original text: from this moment on, the earth seems to have a single common pulse. Human beings, who live from one end of the earth to the other, can now listen to each other, look at each other, understand each other at the same time, and through their own creativity, have reached a state of omnipresence like gods.
The above is the story of Comrade Cyrus who did not forget his original intention and remembered his mission, and without the support of ideals and beliefs, it is difficult to believe that he can still achieve such a great cause after enduring so much suffering.
Two thousand words, I put the content of "ideals and beliefs to improve the spiritual realm" in the next part, welcome friends who like this kind of historical story to continue to pay attention to the next part. Zweig is praised, but Zweig's perspective is almost only shining in Europe, and I hope that someone else will give up this prejudice and create more real human stars.