Frances Harper

REPORT France Language In France the official spoken language is French and is the first language of 88% of the population. There are a number of minority languages spoken in France but as minority languages are given no legal recognition in France, French is a necessary second or third language. Other languages spoken as minority languages and dialects include Catalan, Flemish, and Breton. These languages and other dialects are spoken in specific regions and many are products of Frances close…

In our changing world, the growing phenomenon of human mobility emerges. Last year, Pope Francis said “migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity” However, according to what is happening around the globe, migrants and refugees seem to be puppets moved from side to side, with no future ahead and leaving everything they are in the past. Evan Barttlet reminds the reader how kind British people were throughout history when they accepted and received refugees from different…

people. Historians estimate that anywhere between 80,000 and 500,000 French people on both sides died in the Vendee in 1793 (Doc. C). France was destroying itself from the inside out due to their fear of the internal threats. People in Vendee fought against a Revolutionary military draft called levee en masse and against laws that tried to abolish Christianity in France (Doc. C). French Government officials shouldn’t be sending out military drafts to kill their own people, let alone rid the…

Sweden’s pro-immigrant consensus has led Sweden to become one of the main countries in Europe accepting refugees into their country. However, during the last decade the large number of incoming asylum seekers from Syria and other countries has caused controversy. The unemployment rates in Sweden, as well as the far-right, anti-immigrant party election polls rates, have increased significantly during the past few years. Sweden has become divided between those who want the welcoming consensus to…

Eradicating the veil has been part of the agenda of some secular countries like France. In 1989, controversy broke out over the veiling of French female students which led to the suspension of Muslim girls. The justification of such action was that the act of hijab was unacceptable for French public schools which had a long history of secularism. Such political moves against the hijab have only intensified, according to Leila Ahmed, “relevance to the issues being debated in Muslim societies…

Unbroken is a Biography of Louis Zamperini and his life from an Olympic runner to a stranded bomber pilot at sea all the way to his experiences as a prisoner of war and the effects it had on his life after war and how through it all he survived. Author Laura Hillenbrand is an award-winning author whose chose to write the biography Of Louis Zamperini a world war 2 story of redemption, resilience, and most of all of survival. She also wrote the award-winning book Seabiscuit. I decided to do I…

In the article “The Migrant Crisis” the author brings up an important issue that is affecting globalization, immigration. An interesting, and well horrible, thing that was mentioned in the beginning of the article was the condition people in Africa go through to get to Europe. They are crammed into small boats with dozens of others and sail for hours and hours like that. Another fact interesting fact was that there have been more refugees since World War 2. Imagine the number for refugees then,…

In this world, there are people who are always optimistic about what they have, and there are people who do not appreciate what they have. The story The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant is about a French middle class, married woman named Madame Loisel who grieves incessantly about her luxury items. The story displays a melodramatic genre at the beginning and transitions to a comedy-like mood. Due to her selfish personality, she loses a diamond necklace she borrows from a friend and suffers through…

In the beginning of the French Revolution, all problems the third estate were facing were mostly pushed by the bourgeoisie. The people that had actually fought for almost all of the causes were the peasants. Peasants, the heart of the revolution, took the major steps in the revolution including the March on Versailles, Storming of the Bastille and the execution of the king. Peasants fought because the king had not provided enough to them. By fighting, the peasants showed that you did not need…

The French army, “landing in June 1830,” easily overpowered the forces of the “dey.” But this success brought France only a small region round Algiers. The city of Constantine holds out “against the French for seven years.” In the meantime the invading force was also under threat from the strong amir of Mascara, Abd-el-Kader. “In 1839 Abd-el-Kader proclaimed a jihad, or holy war,” against the Christian intruders. He finally surrendered in1847. He was promised a safe conduct to a Muslim country.…