Blood, Wars, and Guns Seized the Ten Tragic Years

Call me Gabriel. You might think of me as a typical wealthy landowner who is strongly against the Mexican Revolution. However, I was young and naïve back then. Over these years, I have grown, and my perception of this revolution has changed. Today I will unveil my story: a journey of self-reflection and illumination that started with the encounter of a little boy.

After the revolution ended, distinct situations stayed the same but many changed by a lot. More than one million people were killed during the revolution, and an abundance of citizens sacrificed their lives in order to protest. The Mexican Revolution ended the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, and people aren’t allowed to run for a second term in their presidency. Along with these changes, the Mexican Revolution brought human rights, universal education, and land reform to the country and expanded it towards the world.

Blood! Wars! Dictatorship…

Conflicts: Mexican Revolution

The Mexican revolution, a devastating yet dominant period of history throughout 1910-1920, was a time of battling, hijacking places, robbing people, and also overthrowing presidents. The main cause of this revolution was to overthrow president Porfirio Díaz, then leading into distinct events which eventually caused more bombardment and conventions throughout the country. Fortunately, the Mexican revolution ended with prosperity and peace after ten years of savage civil war.

Please enjoy our common craft style video retelling the most important parts of the Mexican revolution. Thank you!

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The Quiet Power of Introverts

Quiet Power presents the strengths of introverts and their unique ways of handling situations. This book is a mixture of different stories about introverts from divergent countries and how they act in school, work, and with their family. Susan Cain, the author of this book, is an introvert herself and provides the readers with a variety of information about people like her. Through the experiences of many young adults, people will know more about introverts and their thoughts. Introverted people are crucial and helpful to the society, so everyone should treat them with respect just as how they treat extroverts. Quiet people have many great opinions on the world, it is just important for everyone to acknowledge each other’s thoughts. If you want to know more about introverts, you can read this book!

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This is my notebook page from the first day of class. We were investigating the central idea and the theme of our reading-club books. My first idea of Quiet Power is that introverts should be honored as well as different kinds of people. Even though introverts are usually shy and quiet, they have great ideas in their minds that can influence the society.

This is my notebook page from day 4. We were digging deep into how the author show the ways introverts act in school.

This is my notebook page from day 5 of class. We were doing a group speech/debate about the reason why introverts are going to become more successful in the society. I have two evidence supporting my reason which deliberately conveys the message that there are many introverts who achieved great things, such as Rosa Parks.

Thank you for reading my blog post! If you are interested in this book, I recommend you to read it because either you will know more about yourself or you will know more about people who are completely different from you.

 

 

“She might just as well hit him with a steel club”

The found poem above was taken from page 4 of the story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl. It shows the man versus man conflict between Mary, the protagonist, and her husband Sam. In the climax of the story, this conflict illustrates Mary’s anger towards Sam wanting to leave her and how Mary can’t hold her frustration anymore. In this passage, Mary is resembled as a furious and uncontrollable woman that ended her husband’s life. In the story Mary’s actions reveal that she was very calm about killing Sam as “She sat down before the mirror, tidied up her hair, touched up her lips and face. She tried a smile.” (Dahl 4) This again characterizes the characteristics of Mary in this passage. In the end, the police believed that Mary was innocent and she luckily faked it.

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