Revolutions of 1848

Chapter five of The View from Saturday starts off with Mrs. Laurencin, the principal of Epiphany Middle School, calling Mrs. Olinski up to her office. Mrs. Laurencin warns Mrs. Olinski that she must have an answer ready for any parents of high honor roll students that didn’t make the Academic Bowl team. After this conversation with Mrs. Laurencin, Mrs. Olinski makes efforts to think about how she should pick her Academic Bowl Team. Then, on a Saturday in late October, while grading social…

King Louis XVI addressed the Assembly in February of 1790, and offered his full support for the Revolution. His simple speech moved the legislators deeply, as he approved new reforms, offered support in producing the new constitution, and officially accepted the Civil Constitution. However, would the king stand by his words? The creditability of the king was deeply undermined, and the abolition of the monarch, and establishment of a republic became ever increasing. Despite his lack of popular…

future revolutions in Europe, namely the revolutions of 1848, all look back on the French Revolution as their ideal mode of change, even The Great Terror and subsequent consequences. On a global scale, the revolution gave rise to republics and democracies – even if only the idea of the institutions. The French Revolution gave hope to some countries while The Great Terror petrified others. It was the starting point for the widespread outbreak of liberalist movements. The effects of the revolution…

Europe, powerful rulers sought to suppress revolutionary ideas and preserve their own power. They felt that revolutionary ideas not only threatened them and their power, but also undermined the values of the old social order. (www.britannica.com/revolution-of-1848)…

In the End, it is Always Family Regardless of how many differences we all have with our family, they’re the ones who will always be there for us. They will lift us up when we are down and they’ll straighten our path when our road becomes a little curvy. They will love us unconditionally, no matter how many times you mess up. And that’s the one really good thing about family. You can scream, rip each other’s head off, and mistreat each other, but deep down, nothing can change the love we have in…

When I was a young girl, I begged and pleaded my mom for a phone. "But mom, everyone has a phone," I told her. She always told me that it didn 't matter what everyone else had, I was not them. That always bothered me because I obviously knew I was not them. The rule in our house was that when my siblings and I turned sixteen we would get a phone. Both my siblings already had phones, and it felt like an eternity before I would turn sixteen and receive one. On my thirteenth birthday on…

pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood.” (Thoreau, 314). Thoreau further associates payment of taxes to violence and even termed it as “violent and bloody”. Nonpayment to him is equivalent to staging a peaceful revolution. Money and property as observed by Thoreau corrupt morals. As such, Thoreau urges a simple, self-reliant lifestyle as a way of upholding people’s freedom. While in prison, Thoreau noted that government treats its subject, as they were objects…

Tuesday, November 10th: Today I was at Hospice Home. It was the Hospice Home building location, not the home visits. I had a good experience with the nurse I shadowed and learned a lot. I learned quickly that being a Hospice nurse at the Hospice Home is very different than other types of nursing. Right away something that stuck me is that the nurses in this setting have more autonomy in their practice. They make a lot more independent decisions and then just notify the physician as to what they…

Brandon’s Wedding’s Effect On Me During the span of 5 days, I realized how I want to live my life. I started my trip September 10th to go to my cousin Brandon’s wedding. The wedding was in Wisconsin and it was a very chilly couple of days, especially the day before and day of the wedding. Only a select few members of the family weren’t attending. During this trip, I realized how important family and God is to our lives. On September 10th, I arrived in Wisconsin at about 11 a.m. My mom and I…

In the picture, it is December 2005, close to Christmas. My family and I are visiting my dad’s side of the family in Chadron, Nebraska, for a family Christmas party. The cheerful atmosphere is captured in the smiles on my cousin Spencer and I. The one in the front is me, and I am six years old. I am playing with Spencer and his guinea pig. While we were playing, my mom snapped a picture, capturing the silly moment when Spencer put the guinea pig on my head. When I was as young as I am in the…