“Haven’t you heard/it’s a battle of words/the poster bearer cried/listen, son/said the man with the gun/there’s room for you inside”-Pink Floyd, Us and Them   The Second World War is such an incredibly fascinating and complex topic that has shaped the modern world in profound ways. From the rise of Fascism across Europe and Asia, to the devastating consequences of the first atomic bomb, and even the unsettling parallels we can draw between the events…

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“Why, why do we suffer each race to believe That no race has been grander”- Genesis, Time Table Hello. Most recently in Humanities we learned about the cause and consequences of nationalism and how it was a contributing factor to WWI. I chose to focus on British nationalism and examine how it contributed to WWI.  To learn about nationalism, I came up with a series of questions: -Who were the major players in spreading British…

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“Well, that’s all the time we had for our movie. We hope you found it entertaining, whimsical and yet relevant, with an underlying revisionist conceit that belied the films emotional attachments to the subject matter.” “I just hoped you didn’t think it sucked.”-Wayne’s World Animal experimentation. Mutation. Mutilation. Murder. A room full of bodies hanging from the rafters. Movies. What do these horrible things have in common? This may shock you, but PLP does all…

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Louis Riel, The Canadian Encyclopedia, by George F.G. Stanley, April 22, 2013 “Come on you target for faraway laughter/Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine”-Pink Floyd, 1975, Shine on You Crazy Diamond Hi! For our final semester 1 project in Humanities, we learned about Louis Riel. In this short 3 week project, we had the opportunity to create a multi paragraph response to the driving question: “How have portrayals of Louis Riel…

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