Canadian Identity and 9/11

Published by adamgi on October 30, 2024

Planes landing, Gander International Airport, September 11, 2001 The world is a scary place. Less than 8% of people live in a full democracy, authoritarianism and fascism are gaining popularity in powerful countries, the climate is changing, World War III looms, and America faces a hard decision: elect a far right criminal or elect a woman. It’s a tough one to be sure. But we have it pretty good in Canada, with a full democracy,…

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Jeux Sans Frontières (Games Without Frontiers)

Published by adamgi on June 15, 2024

“When every man is torn apart/With nightmares and with dreams/Will no one lay the laurel wreath/When silence drowns the screams”-Epitaph, King Crimson Hi everybody! In our most recent Humanities project, we made a comic book about WWI. Let me tell you about it. To begin the project, we watched documentaries and the movie 1917, which was very good. To introduce us to the idea of a WWI comic, we read “The War to End all…

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And Who’ll Deny it’s What the Fighting’s all About

Published by adamgi on May 7, 2024

“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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Making Ungodly Mistakes and Abominations

Published by adamgi on March 14, 2024

“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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Rielizing Métis Rights

Published by adamgi on January 25, 2024

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

Published by adamgi on January 11, 2024

“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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We ❤️ The King!!!

Published by adamgi on October 20, 2023

“Now my advice for those who die (taxman!)/Declare the pennies on your eyes (taxman!)/‘Cause I’m the taxman/Yeah, I’m the taxman”-The Beatles, 1966, Taxman Recently in PLP, we played a simulation called Nation X, which is based on the French/Russian Revolutions. In this game there are 4 groups: A and B (The 3rd Estate), C (The Nobility), and D (The Clergy). Pay and jobs were distributed like this: A: Write 100 words a day about daily…

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Re-Living The Dream Again

Published by adamgi on October 15, 2023

I am climbing a mountain of brimstone. The steep hill I’m walking up seems to go on forever. But, in the distance, I can see light at the end of the tunnel: the top. I’m sure of it this time! I pick up my pace. After what seems like forever, I make it to what I thought was the top. But now, as I look up, I realize I can’t be more than half way…

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I Am Not Just The Medium. I AM The Message!

Published by adamgi on June 9, 2023

“And all the people bowed and prayed/to the neon god they made/and the sign flashed out it’s warning/in the words that it was forming/ and the silence said the word of the prophets are written on the subway walls/ Teniment Halls” -The Sound of Silence Recently in Humanities, we worked on a project about advertisements and did our Spring Exhibition. Keystone 1 For our first keystone, we did a survey on advertising and how it…

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The Colonization Of The Americas

Published by adamgi on May 6, 2023

For our most recent Humanities project, we learned about colonization. For our finish line, we got to make an augmented reality video. First, let’s look at the keystones. Keystone 1: What Changed About The European Power’s Worldview? For our first keystone, we got to make an Art Chart. We got to pick a piece of art made by C.W. Jeffreys and then decipher implicit and explicit messages. Because of this, I can say that when…

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The Glass Onion

Category: Humanities