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Month: January 2024

Rielizing Métis Rights

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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Brave New Worlds

“Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream/Wave upon wave of demented avengers /March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream”-Pink Floyd, 1977, Sheep Ideas are what drive human progress. But what happens when people start to question the ways of life that they have been accustomed to? This is what we learned about in Humanities: revolutions!  According to Crane Brinton in “Anatomy of a Revolution,” a revolution has four distinct stages.…

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