French Guiana

the common people under control with the feeling that they were being represented even though only about one in thirty people could vote. Schurz’s writing was a recollection of past events that gave the details of the day and day after news of the French Revolution of 1848 reached his university, it gives his feelings and the effect it had on the students and their social area, but also the lack of exciting changes occurring days after. Schurz’s…

Before there was the revolution, the French Crown did its best to concentrate the power to its hands rather than having it divided to the local nobilities, as it was done in the Feudal times. As Tocqueville explains in his book, the most vivid description is the centralization of power that leads to the crown: the crown employed in a nutshell bureaucrats, who were usually from the outside of the nobility class (Tocqueville, Book II Chapter 2), to do the works of the nobility during the Feudal…

beginning of the 19th Century many trials and tribulations really shook some continents and the countries within their borders. One of those countries was France in the European continent. France was a powerful country within the continent Europe. The French was a power house that had the largest population and the most dominated culture in Europe. With France came the largest military and it contained more exports than any of the other European countries. France with its huge influences in…

the week and the date in French on a piece of paper. This gave the time for the students to get settled and have individual time. Next, the students worked in partners. Within their partners, they had to check each other’s work to see if it was written correctly. Then, the teacher would begin a group discussion about the weather. In French, she would ask, “Is it rainy outside? Is it sunny outside? Are their clouds?” The students would reply with, “Yes,” or “No,” in French. The teacher did this…

Firstly, the scramble for Africa was the invasion and imperialistic takeover of the African continent by European countries in the nineteenth century. In the past, in the eighteenth century, trading of slaves was the main source of profit for the Europeans, but “political instability, lack of transportation, and the unhealthy climate”1 all created disadvantages for the Europeans to move further into the African continent. In the nineteenth century, many things changed. The scramble for Africa…

revolution, taking into account whether or not the revolution succeeded in adapting, accepting, and fulfilling the rights and values of society and its people. The French Revolution was at times both successful and unsuccessful. Through a short-term lens, The French aspired and succeeded in giving more power to…

revolution since he named himself emperor and had more power than any bourbon King. An equal number of people, however, consider him a champion of the ideals of the French Revolution which was, in turn, based on Enlightenment thought. While there is plenty of evidence for both of these views, I believe That Napoleon’s advance of the ideals of the French Revolution, and the after-effects his rule, far outweigh his betrayals of those ideals, and that he should be considered a champion of the…

The purpose of the interview was to learn about Vietnam, the country where my informant was born and lived until 1975 when Saigon was invaded by the North Vietnamese. In addition, I had desired to see Vietnam from a perspective other than the Vietnam War where Americans fought. However, there is another reason I chose Vietnam, I work with students whose parents are from Vietnam even though the parents are a younger generation their culture is alive and lived out in their community. Some of…

July. You’re French and celebrating Bastille Day. It has been a national holiday since 1878 in honor of rioters attacking the Bastille, a political prison, in 1789. It was the beginning of the French revolution. Through the eyes of a realist, we will see what lead to the storming of the Bastille and why the French revolution could not be avoided. The Bourbon monarchy ruled France in the 1700’s. Because of how harsh the monarchy was and food shortages, there was unrest in the French people. A…

Discovering the Importance of Literacy As I read the prompt, I struggled to think about a time when literacy became important to me. The word “literacy” to me is just being able to read, write, and speak. As I stared at my blank computer screen, waiting for an idea to come up, I remembered that I have a unique trait about me that other people in my area do not have: I am bilingual, but my first language is Tagalog, not Spanish. Most people believe that Tagalog is the same language as Spanish…