New France

France, the country known for its art, love, and food. France has a broad history filled with war and peace. Since France is such a big country with much history, this essay will mainly focus on one city. The city is known as The City of Lights. If you cannot tell already, this essay will be about Paris, France. Paris is an ancient city founded in the 3rd century (300 BC to 201 BC) by the Parisii, a Celtic Gaul Tribe. Nothing much went on after the Parisii settled Paris until the Battle of…

Zygmut Bauman refers to history as well but he has a negative point of view on the matter. He claims that humanity has always been moving, this is not something new. Migrants have always sought for a better future. “… waste producers of yore … used to seek and find global solutions to problems they produced locally” (Bauman, p. 32). What is new is that migrants are considered the excess of population nowadays; they are the human waste as Bauman calls them.…

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…

most other European countries do not want to take action in this case, due to economical or religious factors. Some claim they cannot afford it, while other Christian countries are debating whether they will let in refugees of other religion (Polish News Bulletin). In order to make sure that the European immigration crisis is solved in a sustainable fashion, journalist Ross Douthat states that every country should contribute to the Syrian refugee crisis; however, the extent to which they should…

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,…

someone and the people around them is Monsieur Loisel's reaction to Madame Loisel’s resistance to attending the party. The third person point of view is displayed after he tells his wife about being invited to an evening reception. Once she heard the news, she reacted greedily saying that she didn’t have an evening dress when she already had one. When she started crying, Monsieur Loisel was dumbstruck at her reaction, “He hadn’t given that a thought. He stammered, ‘Why, the dress you wear when…

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.…