This bloody way to victory started in France. The nation lived under a monarchy, under the old Regime. This socio-political system split apart the privileged and the unprivileged. The unprivileged, which was also known as the third of the three estates, had approximately 98% of the population. These were mostly consisted of peasants and working-class people, and they had to do things like pay taxes. Moreover, they were dictated by the king and the Government. Up to 1789, everything remained the same, however in that year bloody events started to take place. During that year, France was bankrupt, mostly because the population had grown too fast for the food supplies to keep up. Leading to a famine, food prices were rising. Louis XVI, the king, convened the Estates-General. Because the third estate wanted votes by heads, as they had the majority of the population, they were kicked out of the meeting. Nevertheless, they had soon found a tennis court nearby to form the National Assembly in June 1789. This was the foreshadowing of the Revolution, including sanguineous battles. Watch our video to find out more about the French Revolution!
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Quiet Power, a nonfiction book by Susan Cain, describes how introverts can often become greater people than most of the popularity. Unlike many, this book does not tell one single story. It has many different stories of successful young introverts and strategies that led them to greatness. Most of those characters started as being quiet, friendless, and discriminated in some way. One of the central ideas for this book is that people should never think less of introverts.
During day 6, I identified some of the big ideas of the book and connected them to some evidence and events I found in the book.
In day 9, the big idea of the lesson was being aware of when you don’t understand a passage or an important one. On this page, I researched about Shakespeare and Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
On this page, I discovered two of the central ideas in the book and found evidence of them, including direct quotes and explanations. The two central ideas are “Quiet people possess leadership abilities” and “Introverts aren’t always negative”.
On the first day, I identified central ideas, social issues, and themes in the beginning of the book about introverts.
Thank you for being patient and watching my blog post on my notes about the book Quiet Power, including some central ideas, big ideas, social issues, and themes. If you are interested in this book, you can buy it on amazon.
This found poem comes from the short story “Button button” by Richard Matheson. It shows a character versus character conflict between Norma, the protagonist, and Arthur, the antagonist. The story starts with Mr. Steward giving them a button. He explains that if they press the button, someone they don’t know will die, whilst they receive 50000 dollars. In the rising action, the two people started to be very confused, then Norma slowly switched her mind around, wanting to use the button. Nonetheless, Arthur keeps his morality and denies the idea of the button. This causes the conflict between them. Towards the end of the story, the climax happens. Norma presses the button and surprisingly, the person she loves the most, Arthur, dies. The last sentence of the story goes like “My dear lady,” Mr. Steward said. “Do you really think you knew your husband?”. He was saying that because when they were having the conflict, although Norma keeps on trying to brainwash Arthur with the idea of going to Europe and have a better life, she didn’t know what kind of person Arthur exactly is. Hopefully this story can let the reader learn that we must keep our morality and using unethical ways to do things don’t always give out the best results.
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