Mary Fyler Moore once said “Behind every beautiful fur there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story”. This topic, linking to the SGD goal, number 15, Life on Land connects to the compelling question, what is animal cruelty? And how can we prevent it? The video above focuses on the topic of how we can help and prevent animal testing as much as we can.
A Sense of Inevitability
Mia Rossi, a foreign journalist, who doesn’t really like how Batista ruled the people of Cuba, she supported Castro at first, but slowly started doubting his actions as the months pasted.
Changes and Continuities
Castro and Batista are two different people who have their own views on how to rule, after Castro took over, the revolution succeeded in its two basic goals, ousting the Batista regime and overturning the old political, economic and social order. Batista favored imperialism while Castro, the said to be champion of socialism, was in fact anti-imperialism. Following the successful takeover of the Government, American businesses were nationalized on August 6, 1960.
After the effects of the Cuban Revolution, a lot has changed, but what stayed the same? Cuba still heavily relied on sugar profits, and this means the Cuban Government was unable to shift from an agricultural-based economy to an industrialized economy. The revolution also failed to keep its promise to restore civil rights guaranteed by the 1940 constitution and to hold fair elections.
¡Patria o muerte!
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Translation to words in the picture: Batista flees
Led by Fidel Castro, a group of rebels desire to overthrow Fulgencio Batista’s corrupt government.
“Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!” – Fidel Castro
Why did people want Batista gone? To know we have to go all the way back to 1952, three months before the elections, Batista, staged a coup and seized power. He canceled the elections and took control of the government, making himself the new provisional president. Giving people something to think of him, he’s known to be an unfair and violent person. Because he took control of the government he holds power over the civilians of Cuba. With the stunt he pulled in the elections the chance of him being a good leader is none, and behold the people of Cuba were experiencing social and racial inequality. They wanted a change, and thats when Fidel Castro, a young lawyer decided he wanted to make history. There were ups and downs in the battle, it was a long, time challenge but eventually the group of rebels now known as the M-26-7 had control of the government. It’s still not the end, as Castro said “It is just the beginning.” If you want to learn about the Cuban Revolution and Cubas relationships with the U.S and USSR in a funner, more detailed way check our group video below.
The Cuban Revolution In Plain English
Group members: Isabelle, Emily
The Blog to the Infamous Borden Murders
A true murder mystery, The Borden Murders by Sarah Miller, describes the story in detail of how a young girl allegedly is the cause of two brutal murders. Taking place in 1892 in Fall River, a city in Bristol Count, Massachusetts is when Lizzie Borden someone said to have a sensitive nature, who does not usually communicate with others but also said to be classy and raised in a wealthy family. But even with a life a lot would kill for it all went downhill when on August fourth, 1892, the most gruesome murders took place at the Bordens household. Andrew Borden, Lizzies father and Abby Borden, Andrews second wife and Lizzies stepmother were both butchered to death. Lizzie quickly became the first suspect and was soon put on trial but did she do it?
Since we only just started the bookclub, everyone spent time reading the first couple pages in there book, and took notes. For me, this notebook page contains information and notes I’ve taken from pages 1 all the way to sixty. Pages 1 – 20 giving a brief to what happened to Lizzie Borden even years after the trail. Pages 21 – 35, teaching us more about Lizzie as a person, and pages 36 – 60 bring up how Lizzie seems to act wary and distrustful when questioned.
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Day 3, todays big idea is; how can we track complex thinking? And who else in the Borden Murders is as complex as Lizzie? On this notebook page, the information mainly focuses on Lizzies relationship with her father and step-mother.
Which isn’t the best, mostly with her step-mother, Lizzie won’t even call her mother even after her death.
One class to prepare for the town hall, our group decided to go with the ‘should’ statement of: Lizzie Borden should be arrested. Our group of four, evenly split parts of what we will say, we checked who had what information and after we have assigned one part each, we went spent the rest of time in class to added anymore information that was needed. And for me, I mainly focused on what she wore to the funeral, something that’s thought to be disrespectful. And how she acted during her questioning.
Day 9, Cause & effect page,1 cause can lead to more then just one effect, and this is the same in the opposite way, with multiple causes leading to one effect.
Cause & Effect of Lizzie Borden being suspected, the town was buzzing, everyone thinking the same thing, what if the murder was still loose? Knowing of how the Borden couple passes in such a tragic way, when the top suspect for the murder, Lizzie Borden, was put on house arrest, page 65, the townsfolk felt more at ease. The reason is that the majority of the town certainly believe Lizzie is the one who butcher her parents. Which is one of the cause leading into the effect around Lizzie being suspected.
For this Notebook page, the focus was all on how Lizzie acted it, the information is parts of the the book were Lizzie was suspicious, such as how Lizzie acted towards the fact when she learned she was suspected. As well as how her alibi doesn’t make sense or fully match what others are saying. 
Thank you for spending time to read my blog post, truly thankful, if you want any more information about the Borden Murders here is a Brainatica. If you wish to learn more about the author, Sarah Miller.
Humanities = Humanism?
The uprise of humanism
Information Texts in English Infographic Natural Fluro Cardboard Doodle Style by Isabelle
80% a humanists.
The Bass who survived the drama
Design by Isabelle [STUDENT]
“The Bass who survived the drama”
This Found poem was birthed from the page 4 of “The bass the river and Sheila Mant” by W. D. Wetherell. The found poem reflexes an external conflict between man vs nature, in this case “I” the main character, being the protagonists and the bass, the nature taking up the role of the antagonist. The found poem reflects the conflict by using key words to picture a clear image of the conflict in the reader’s head. The poem shows the Bass and “I” fighting against each other, in the end, unfortunate for “I” but fortunately for the bass, it has gotten away. The inspiration I had for this design was from the story, including a river, a boat/canoe and lastly a fishing rod hooked to a bass, I was hoping to get a view that looks like a bass fighting back. Apart from the external conflict within the poem, there is also an internal conflict, man vs self, which would be; “I” wished to catch the fish and impress someone else on the canoe, he wanted to make a good impression towards that person, who is Sheila. Sadly, his passion for fishing isn’t something Sheila adores. When “I” caught the bass, it made “I” Incredibly happy, while “I” was fight the bass and tying to capture it, Sheila becomes inpatient which made “I” have to chose one thing over another, capture the bass or cope with his crush and row her back to shore, this is the climax of the story, knowing “I” has to choose, and this can be shown from the words; “Without a doubt, I would lose the fish” showing how “I” knew that to cope with Sheila, they would lose the fish. Hopefully things get better for “I.”
Welcome to Your New Blog!
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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