New Caledonia

experienced some violent moments with the French Government, to search for their lost identity within the French territory. It is devoted to the origins of the culture and searching for the identity of the native Kanak people of New Caledonia. By using haptic architecture within its architectural form, Renzo Piano desires to regain the balance between modern culture and traditional culture by capturing certain relationship with the French Government.…

by force, from being a country ruled by a king with a “God given right”. The danger is that if this identity was in any way redefined then all the angst and self sacrifice of those turbulent times would have been in vain. What form would this redefinition take, why should it take place, what would be the disadvantages or consequent dangers? Are there in fact any inherent dangers at all in attempting to change one’s identity? A national Identity is an organic construct. It changes over time as…

colonization of the region, for it was through the forts located on islands on the river and located around the coast that the European colonists provided guns, cloth, and industrial products to the interior. Through these forts, French influence spread until they had full control in a traditional colony. Due to four cities being colonized earlier, which formed the basis of the four communes, Senegal had Blaise Diagne representing the colony in the Chamber of Deputies in Paris. This was a…

that of its morals". (87) He went on to propose the Jewish population renounces their laws and judges and live by the laws of France in order to attain their citizenship, and any who refused should be banished. The end of this debate shows a pathway to citizenship for the Jewish population of France, but it is not absolute and has roadblocks which could exclude many Jewish people from attaining citizenship. Free Blacks and Slaves The next debate was over the free black and slave…

The French Revolution was about the citizens of France wanting better for themselves. During the revolution, the people cultivated strong ideals. Those ideals were essentially liberty and equality, for every single citizen of France. As a byproduct, those ideas produced “democracy, human rights, and citizenship”Those ideals were so strong in France and such an intensely vibrant way of thinking. (some might even say an enlightening way of thinking) It was able to topple a feudal regime and put an…

21st century is known to be the start of new beginnings. It was that generation where machineries evolve the economics and social life of the human beings: from traveling to one place to another, a click of a button for communication, and to sending news to the residents of the world. But, as the year progress the mortals abused the capability of these machines. One of the problems is how they report news and how they edit stuff to create news and spread rumors. Can news reporters be fully…

regards to today’s news. Social media has changed many aspects of journalism. Now, for the consumer, sharing news has become more important than searching for it. Based on who you follow or who you’re friends with will determine what kinds of information pops up on your timeline. Because of things like Twitter, where news is easily accessible with real-time updates, there is a demand for instant news stories that quickly inform. Newspapers cannot cater to the majority of the population because…

The new social media has not made for a more enlightened, connected and democratic society. Instead, it has used mechanisms to instill fear and mass hysteria to those following them and will continue to negatively influence and mislead people in the future. The traditional media that baby boomers have used is the newspaper. A newspaper passes through many editors and every person is assigned a single section, so you know your section well. Information is passed through journalists to writers…

The American news spends a lot of time discussing the events that take place Iran, Syria, Eqypt, England, and a few others. Some countries are not a majorly discussed country in the news in the United States. There are several others that could be mentioned more, as well. Scotland, Ireland, Australia, Denmark, Switzerland, and Sweden are just a few that we rarely hear anything about in our media. American news networks seem to only discuss a fraction of countries that make up the world.…

my life, and as well as potential risks it poses. These ideas prove that social media has had a negative impact on our society. First of all, people have been relying too heavily on technology for everyday life. Yzzy Gonzalez wrote a descriptive article discussing the way she relies not only just on social media, but how much of her day is controlled by apps. She states, “I eat my breakfast reading theSkimm, Deadline Hollywood, Cupcakes and Cashmere, and many more news sites and blogs, all…