Cool the Skies, End the Cries

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Imagine your home destroyed by a tsunami. Now, imagine you lost your job just a month beforehand, and your country was ravaged by hunger. While this event feels distant to most, it is a reality for millions of climate refugees who are forced to flee their hometowns and leave memories behind in order to survive. Understanding climate change and its causes is essential to understanding how the world can reduce it. A global warming trend, which constitutes climate change, is caused by greenhouse gases. The producers of greenhouse gases are numerous; these include deforestation, where carbon in trees is released, and they stop absorbing CO2; energy production, where carbon-rich materials are burned to create electricity; and meat, where livestock produce greenhouse gases as waste. Greenland, known for its ice, is melting, with 1.4% of all ice covers and glaciers in Greenland having melted, contributing to a 23-foot(7m) rise in sea levels. A rising sea level is not helping anyone and will force people in the affected area to move. Every ecosystem will be affected by climate change. If the damages of climate change are so dystopian, then why are leaders not implementing harsher restrictions? This is because the benefits of carbon are too enticing. While systemic change has yet to come, we can all reduce our carbon footprint in numerous ways. One way is to reduce our energy usage, such as using less heating or cooling, switching to more efficient bulbs, or opting for electric appliances. Also, local communities can help educate children about climate change and set up workshops about sustainability. While the world may seem dystopian, it can still recover from this crisis if we act fast enough. 

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A lost king, A lost purpose, A lost arm

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The French Revolution, a revolution that fought for the freedom of the people, changed people’s lives forever. One, it granted equality for the people with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Because of this, people could now speak up against the government and not be suppressed. Also it allowed people to have an equal chance at everything. This was because the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen removed noble titles. As such, people wouldn’t get picked for their family status but for their talents. One example was Napoleon, where he was constantly not allowed to rank up because of his low family status. Another change was the role of the church. The church’s power decreased, and people started to question everything. As such, invention increased, catapulting the French into an industrial powerhouse. However, many things stayed the same. For one, the government was changed back into absolute power, even though the revolution aimed to prevent it. For another thing, there was economic inequality. This meant the poor people were still really poor, and the rich were still really rich. To the normal peasant, nothing changed for them. The changes didn’t really apply to them. They were poor, hungry, and under constant labor.

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From Bread Riots to the Guillotine: The French Revolution

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"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant"
-Maximilien Robespierre

The French Revolution, a pivotal moment in European history, emerged because of social, economic, and political factors. Before the Revolution, France was governed by an absolute monarchy where the king had absolute power over the country. There were 3 estates or classes: the clergy (First Estate), the nobility (Second Estate), and everyone else (Third Estate). While the First and Second Estates bathed in comfort and wealth, the Third Estate had heavy tax burdens and no say in the government. This social imbalance was exacerbated by a financial crisis due to France’s involvement in costly wars and extravagant spending by the royal family. The government, led by King Louis XVI, was on the brink of bankruptcy. Another factor was the Age of Enlightenment, where ideas about God, reason, nature, and humanity were questioned. These factors caused the Third Estate to question why they needed a king. They eventually rose up against the king and overthrew the absolute monarchy government. To learn more about the revolution and the events, please watch the following video: French Revolution Explained In Plain English.

Photo Citations:

“Storming of the Bastille.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 Mar. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille. Accessed 30 Mar. 2024.
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The Suspected Themes and Ideas in The Borden Murders

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Lizzie Borden | Rhyme, Biography, Trial, & Facts | BritannicaOver the past two weeks, I have been reading Sarah Miller‘s novel The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden & The Trial of the Century. The book is about The Borden Murders, a Murder case that confused the nation a century ago. The day, August 4th, 1892, was when everything changed for Lizzie Borden. A murder happened at their house in Fall Rivers. The victims were Andrew and Abby Borden, Lizzie’s father and stepmother, respectively. Suspects were removed from the list one by one. Only one person remained, Lizzie herself. But how could Lizzie, a woman, murder her parents? Join me in my notebook, where we discover the themes and ideas of the book. 

 

This page is about Lizzie’s traits and how they could have been a motive to kill her parents. I also researched her traits to fact-check them and find new ones. I think that her dominating traits would be a significant motive for the murder.

This page is about bias and inaccurate evidence used in court cases. I used evidence from the book to show how there was bias and inaccurate evidence. This issue can connect to our world today, with so much misinformation on the Internet. I believe that we should improve the accuracy of the information on the Internet.

This page is about discrimination in the book, especially against Portuguese. There was also gender discrimination. I did research on the topic of discrimination in the period. Only a decade before, the civil rights movement ended, which showed me that discrimination was widespread during that time.

This page is about the relationship between Lizzie and her family. I see that there was a conflict between Lizzie and her stepmother. I added on when I read to page 221, where the trial disregarded evidence of Lizzie and her family because of how biased and single-minded.

This page is about connecting ideas. I connected discrimination to bias in court cases and also the relationship with family for Lizzie to bias in court cases.

Thank you for reading my whole blog post. The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden & The Trial of the Century is a great read with many ideas and themes.

Credit to Britannica for the photo of Lizzie Borden.

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The People Behind Changing the World

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Humanists changed how the world worked. They changed the world from darkness to light. They used multiple ways to change the world. But can I do it? Well, I am 75% Humanist, so I do have the possibility to change the world. I got this number by ranking myself to 4 important Humanist attributes. The first one is education. I ranked myself a 4 for it. I love learning new things and reading books. I will be always learning from my friends or from experiences. But sometimes I will get lazy and procrastinate. An example is when I had a Math summative the next day, but I was still watching YouTube. This shows that sometimes I believe that education is something that is not important. The next one is social status. I do believe that academic achievement should decide social status and not birth status. I think that just because someone is richer than me, I shouldn’t have a lower social status than them. I don’t live in the past, so that is why I gave myself a rating of 1 on Ancient Ideas. A very good example that shows that I don’t like the past is when I went to the British Museum. I went through the whole museum in just 10 minutes. This shows that I don’t really care for the past. I do love asking questions so I gave myself a 5 on Curious Minded. I ask questions about everything like “Why are we here?” This is the explanation for my own ratings. What are yours?  
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Whispers of Shaving Blades

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The following poem is from “Lather and Nothing Else” and it is written by Hernando Tellez. I made the poem out of pages 3 and 4 and is from the part of the climax. The conflict of the story is between a barber and himself. The barber is both the protagonist and the antagonist because of how he is battling against himself. The conflict is internal because the conflict is about him making a hard decision, where he must choose between killing a man or letting him go. This man is the barber’s enemy because the barber is a rebel, and the man is a captain who kills rebels. The barber must choose if to kill the captain with a razor which he is using to shave the captain. The poem shows the question that the barber asks himself. An example is the opening statement where the poem states, “to kill or not.” I chose these four words as the first words of the poem because this directly states the conflict. Also, I chose to pick out “Torres was enemy” and “But I am not a murderer.” These lines show why he wants to kill Torres but also doesn’t. My design adds to the poem because I have added pictures of a barber and razor and also blood, because it is all connected to the barber and the blood is if Torres is killed. I have also changed some word’s color. Some examples are “kill,” “murderer,” and “deserves.” The reason for the color change is to make these words pop out as they are connected to him killing Torres. 

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My weird and dumb cardboard thing

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Something I would change if we did this again is I would make the holes bigger. When people hit the ball the ball would get stuck and so we would have to say that even though the ball didn’t it make it through the hole it still counted as a point. Also, letting the ball go though the hole would let us have a central area to collect the balls. One challenge we faced is how to do circle in the middle of a piece of cardboard. First we tried using a knife to slowly cut it out.  He did eventually cut it out but the holes were wonky. Then we asked our great teacher Mr. Lamyman how to cut out circles what we had to do was to use a long toothpick and punch tiny holes on the side of the circle, then we just pushed it out. My biggest success was that we had a kind of finished product that kind of works, and we did it on time. In the end, I think that our project a success because we had fun making it and people played it.

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Welcome to Your New Blog!

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When you blog you create posts and posts are categorised according to your subject. Some categories have already been set up for you. If you need more categories you can add them as needed. It’s important that your posts have the following:

  • An engaging title – this should not include the name of the subject since this is referenced in the category.
  • Body – this is where you share your learning. This can include text, images, embedded videos from Dragons’ Tube or elsewhere. You should always consider how your post looks to your audience. Is it engaging? Do they want to keep reading?
  • Category – select one that has been set for you or add a new category. Posts can have more than one category e.g. Humanities and Myself as a Learner

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