Tag: Conflict

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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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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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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