“They are not martyrs on the path of human evolution, they are the pioneers.”
The Endless Trail to Justness
Call me François, that’s how they all do. Before the revolution, my family and I lived in a shabby wooden cabin beside our interfile farmland. We were the peasant members of the Third Estates under the Old Regime, being maltreated as slaves and beasts by the noblemen. We had nothing to eat, nothing to wear, our lives were like flies, monotonous, and pointless. However, everything were change by that day, by that day when dawn of justness finally arrived…
The sun fell down the horizon, and the night have now enveloped France. After the the revolution, the political system have still remained as a centralized government, though in name of Consul instead of King. After several years, how Napoleon declared himself as the emperor of France can totally show how much power Napoleon himself gain in his government – if the political was not a centralized government, he will never be able to commit such crime. Further on, the status and power of the women was still not improved. Women holds up half of the sky, they prop up the responsibility of cherishing the children and the whole family. However, even the constitution was called “The Declaration of the Rights of MAN”. No matter before, during or after the revolution, the men always unfairly excluded the women and their rights. However, although the revolution was not successful, it still did leave many legacies and changes. For example, the Old Regime, or the old social structure were demolished. The power and privileges of the noblemen were strongly weaken in comparison to before the revolution, while the peasants had a far better life, no-longer in endless hunger and cold. Another significant change was the establishment of the constitution. Only the constitution can confirm that the rights of peasants were being protected. This marked an immense change of the France society. Lastly, the revolution also introduced a new thought, which influenced other countries among Europe. The thought of the country could be lead by farmers and workers was never being brought to the world before, even in the American Revolution. The peasants among other countries, especially under suppress of dictators could be strongly inspired. Even the revolution failed, but its spirit will forever last in the grand history, guiding the later generations through the darkness of dictatorship.
French Revolution: A Blood Bath from a Monarchy… to another Monarchy
“The French Revolution was a series of events that changed the course of history and had a profound impact on the world we live in today.” – Barack Obama
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Paris, France – this was where it all started. After the death of the beloved and majestic king Louis XIV, the grand state of France already began to go downhill. When the gear of time arrived 1899, France was already a kingdom full of debts and conflicts because of external war supports and internal unbalanced society. Externally, because that France had funded the American Revolution for a long time, the money of the government was gradually ran out. On the other hand, internally, the French social system was also facing great challenges. The old French society was divided to three Estates: The First and Second Estates of nobles, and the Third Estate of peasants. The noble estates had privileges, such as remitting taxes, while the Third Estates of the peasants farmed and suffered all the time. This social system was called the “Old Regime”. As time passed with France under the Old Regime, the peasant members of the Third Estates slowly become more and more dissatisfied and angered. It seems that things have reached a critical point, and the outbreak of the revolution was only one fuse away – and that blasting fuse finally arrived – in May 1789, in Versailles, in the conference hall of the Estate General…
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Legendary Voyage Legendary Themes
The narrative non-fiction, Lost in the Antarctic, by Tod Olson, recorded an expedition led by Ernest Shackleton in the aim of crossing Antarctica. In this book, through describing the expedition, the author communicated many central ideas and themes to the readers. For instance, one of the major themes of the book is that the author believes cooperations can often bring through difficulties and challenges. Further on, the expedition recorded in the book in fact actually happened. At 1911, after the race to the South Pole ended with Roald Amundsen’s victory, Shackleton, the British Antarctic explorer, turned his attention to another subject — crossing the Antarctica. Through years of preparations, in 1914, Shackleton, along with his 27 men and the Endurance, launched the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
However, what Shackleton and his crew didn’t know at that time was, with the launch of the expedition, they’ve also started one of the greatest legendary battles between humanity and nature in history……
The first notebook page I’m sharing with you is about a central idea that the author was repetitively mentioning through out the book: Antarctica is a harsh place for humans to survive. I think this is one of the most important ideas of the book that the author was communicating. See my evidences below:
In narrative non-fictions, despite the central ideas, there’re also many themes that the author want readers to understand. In this book particularly, the most important theme the author was communicating is about how cooperations can often bring through difficulties and challenges. The second page I’m sharing is about this theme. Take a look of it here:
Every single incident that happened in the universe have its causes & effects. By analyzing them, we can gain a better and wider understanding of that incident. The last page I’m sharing is about the causes & effects of the most important incident, the turning point of this expedition — the sunk of Endurance. See details in my C&E map below:
Here ends my notebook tour, thanks for your time. If you’re curious about this legendary voyage, welcome to click here for more informations.
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Humanism During the Renaissance Period
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The Perfidious Patrick
The found poem was taken from Paragraph 3 – Paragraph 29 in the short story Lamb to the Slaughter, by Roald Dahl. My poem shows a man versus man conflict between Mary, the protagonist, and her husband. In the part of story I included in my poem, the rising action, the author described the dialogues and actions between the two characters, showing the different mood of them, and how do they slowly build up the storyline to the inciting incident, where Patrick tells Mary that he is going to leave her. After the rising action, Mary uses a lamb to kill Patrick by hitting his back of the head, and uses her superb acting technique and anti-detect consciousness to evade her responsibility of murdering, and the whole story ends by a sentence of description about Mary giggling. Lastly, I think we should totally avoid Mary’s action in real live. Instead, we should protect our rights and properties by legal ways.