At the expense of thousands of lives, what we call the “Terror,” has saved our beloved country, France, from the brink of total collapse. The Committee of Public Safety and its leader, Maximilien Robespierre created a much needed military and got rid of internal France opposition. Although people may say that the massive bloodbath that the Committee has created was barbaric and extreme, it was essential to defeat the many problems threatening France during this “Reign of Terror.” During this…
was the misbranded soldier who was manipulated to kill, ruining his honorable and wise status. Brutus did the act of capital murder and treason because Cassius tricks Brutus into a false sense of leadership and warped reason. For example, Cassius forges notes from people of a higher social status and places them around the city for Brutus to find as read on page 21 of the red reader, “I will this night, in several hands in at his windows throw [rocks], as if they came from several citizens.”. …
Ciccarcelli and White, Social Psychology is the study of the behavior of the group of an individual in their relationship to other groups. That cause the change of that person behavior due to what that person has affected to them. This concept can forge more compassionate interpersonal relationship because it help you learn about that person based on their social interactions. To find out who they are before you start off judging someone. The ways that it can enhance the social institutions is…
Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts on December 8, 1765 and is best known for inventing the cotton gin (“Eli Whitney”, n.d.). Upon graduating from Yale College in 1792, Whitney intended to study law but instead traveled south and ended up on the farm of Mrs. Catherine Greene near Savannah, Georgia (“Cotton Gin and Eli Whitney”, 2010). While staying on Mrs. Greene’s farm, Eli Whitney learned about the difficulty that farmers had cleaning green-seed cotton. To thoroughly clean…
it is imperative to cultivate mutual understanding and cooperation among different stakeholders as well as to bridge the gap between the science community and the public. Concurrently, meaningful initiatives and regulatory policies are necessary to forge a sustainable society such as the one that incentivizes renewable energy resources and divests fossil fuels. The government sector plays a central role in formulating and implementing such policies. Therefore, when I complete the MPA program at…
Designed to forge connections among art, artists, and the community, the program's collaborative and individual curatorial projects allow students to explore new methods of exhibition presentation-thinking outside of traditional models and training to create relevant…
were able to directly trade with the French. This made up about 25 percent of the “trade with the enemy.” (Truxes, 88) Much of the rest of the “trade with the enemy” happened via indirect trade with neutral islands. They would also bribe officials, forge documents, and hide the contraband good inside of legal goods (Truxes, 41). The persistence of the industry of wartime trade with France was largely dependent upon the ingenuity of these…
When children enter the world, they automatically have a curiosity to everything they see. Their minds never stop; they are constantly searching for the answers to the never-ending unknown. Each and every child “[is] organically predisposed to be [a] critical thinker[ ]” (Hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking). A child never wants to stop learning. They will yearn for knowledge even if they have heard and received all the possible answers. At this moment in life it is critical for the educational…
Tally Youngblood, from the novel Pretties by Scott Westerfeld, just wants to be free. The city has been controlling her ever since she was a littlie and now Special Circumstances has an even tighter hold on her. They made her Pretty and put lesions in her brain so that she is always happy, and always does what she is told. Then something happens and she realizes that she needs to escape. To free herself from the power of the Specials. Tally’s struggle to free herself greatly affects herself, the…
role models. In The Other Wes Moore, two boys living across the street from each other have very different outcomes in life. For example, when Wes was young, he pulled pranks in school and didn’t get good grades. His mother sent him away to Valley Forge, a military school. At the school, he was set straight by his officers. This had a big influence on his identity because he started getting better grades which allowed him to join the military and be accepted into Johns Hopkins University. The…