Oliver French School Analysis

“The School” is a short story written by Donald Barthelme and published in 1974 in The New Yorker. Donald Barthelme is a post-modernist writer known for his deceptively simple yet powerful and insightful short stories. “The School” is a story that takes a good hard look at the sensitive topic of death. The theme of this story is about the cycle of life and how death is an integral part of it. The story is written in first person narrative. The narrator here is the teacher and he talks about how he and his young students of 30 kids encountered death throughout their time together in class. He uses edgy humor and a conversational tone in his seemingly complex plot with a surprising effect that will stick with the reader long after they are done reading it.

In France in 1789, A revolution began. The people of France were fighting for their inalienable rights such as freedom from serfdom , equality between the classes. Within this chaos in France, Napoleon, a new thinker, came about and changed France in many ways. Napoleon's policies can be seen as preserving the legacy of the French Revolution by giving equality to the lower classes and creating a governmental system that helped to put the people in charge of their sovereignty, however it can be seen as hurting the legacy by protecting the ideas of absolutism.

Many are quick to disregard education’s role outside of the classroom. According to Mike Rose, “a good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it” (Rose 33). Rose emphasizes the value in the experience of education beyond the value of education for the purpose of custom or intelligence; he explores the purpose of going to school in terms of how he defines himself and his personal growth in the stages of his academic career. By reflecting on his personal experiences and how those gave him the tools applicable to his daily life, he emphasizes why education should never be overlooked. Rose’s use of referencing relatable experiences in a logical manner makes his argument persuasive to the readers and he succeeds in making the readers reconsider why education matters to them. Mike Rose’s Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us effectively persuades his audience of the importance of education beyond the classroom, which proves true in our everyday lives because the essential aspect of education is what we do with it and how it helps develop one’s personal growth.

The eighteenth century revolutions predate the Marxist framework which would ultimately changed the way in which revolutions are understood; as highly participatory mass-moments which sought to change some kind of social order. Gordon Wood acknowledges this as he states; “The social distinctions and economic deprivations that we today think of as the consequences of class divisions…were in the eighteenth century usually thought to be caused by abuses in government.” Skocpol also acknowledges the difference between modern and what the “liberal revolutions” of the eighteenth century. She writes that all revolutions that occur within the modern capitalist systems accomplish nothing but a more concentrated and centralized state bureaucracy. However Skocpol’s analysis takes a retrospective structuralist approach to understanding these eighteenth century social revolutions. Her analysis does not rely on the deprivation hypothesis nor any kind of ideology, but instead highlights the importance of the “revolutionary moment” where elites and peasants unite (through an “equal powers” negotiation) against the state (Stevens 10/16/17). By applying Skocpol’s model to the French, Haitian, and American Revolutions, we can see how well it holds up when applied to these various intertwined 18th century revolutions despite their drastically different outcomes.

acques LeCoq, a French practitioner and Augusto Boal, a Brazilian practitioner both aim to take their actors and the audience on a journey of discovery. Both Practitioners believed in ‘Freeing’ the body and making it ‘De-mechanicalized’ to enable full interpretation. LeCoq and Boal both use emotion, imagination, extensive body movement, playfulness and political matters to create their methods of theatrical practice.

Task: Describe the variations in the levels of literacy in Old Regime France and trace these variations over time. Analyze the factors that promoted or discouraged the spread of literacy.

During the 1800s it was no longer acceptable to teach religion in any schools, in France. In order to continue spreading their knowledge and beliefs many Eudist Fathers such as Alphonse Parker, Jean-Marie Gay and the Archbishop Cornelius O’Brien immigrated to places like Canada where they could continue their teachings. They found the community of Clare and decided to settle down there. One priest, Père Jean Mandé Sigogne was a man who strongly advocated for Acadians to be able to attend institutions for higher education. Because of this he decided to create a secondary school in the French community of Clare (The founding and the Eudist Fathers, n.d.) This was the Université Sainte-Anne, the first and only French post secondary school in

During the reign of King Louis XVI, France was going through severe economic crisis. France was in debt from war and helping America in the American Revolution, and poor harvests inflated the prices of bread, causing poor people to starve. Most importantly, the unfair tax system forced the lower class to pay all of the taxes. On June 20, 1789, powerful men from the third estate walked out of a meeting with the Estates General and vowed to create a new constitution (BE). Many people, like the nobility, Catholic Church, conservative, and foreign monarchs, disliked the reforms. To deal with the opposition, the French Revolution made a radical turn under the control of Maximillian Robespierre. Robespierre was the chief prosecutor who got Louis

This passage takes place when the school in Cange is built. The school gave a lot of the Haitians hope for a better future for their children and the entire country. The passage shows that even the Haitians themselves acknowledged the fact that an education could have had a great impact on them and allowed them to escape poverty. This is an especially impactful point in the book because the quote came directly from a woman who knows first hand about Haiti’s poverty. The author makes it clear that the school will not only educate Haiti’s youth, but also lower hunger among Haitian children. The author also mentions dignity when discussing malnourishment, which can be a huge obstacle when trying to fight world issues like hunger. The end is the

Just as the daily task of writing an AP French practice essay became fairly monotonous, my teacher decided to switch things up and have us peer edit them. I was paired with a native French speaker who had recently moved to the U.S. from Cameroon. Our practice essay that day had been about rites of passage in our lives, for me that was graduating high school and going to college. For Orlyne, it was female circumcision. Her powerful essay opened my eyes to the atrocities that are routinely committed around the world. When we wrote essays about healthcare, her’s depicted the insufficient access to healthcare and the effects those had on her community. As someone very passionate about the medical field and community service, Orlyne’s essays changed

Another comparison and contrast between Charles Dickens, Alexis De Tocqueville, and Fanny Trollope is how they managed and experienced life within the newly found Americas. Charles Dickens, Alexis De Tocqueville, and Fanny Trollope traveled to the United States to experience what America had to offer and they all experienced something different and new. America is well known for its immigrants and migration to America, this dates all the way back to the 1820’s throughout the Nineteenth Century. Alexis De Tocqueville and his traveling companion Beaumont traveled for nine months by steamboat, by stagecoach, on horseback and in canoes, visiting America’s penitentiaries and experiencing the newly found Americas. Tocqueville spent time interviewing

There were many early expeditions from Europe to North America, most in search of a

When analyzing the French Revolution, the idea of political transformation and citizen involvement play a huge role in actually understanding how the revolution altered from enlightened conversations in salons to its completion, resulting from the French “voice” uniting to halt The Terror that Paris had become. Reflecting back on this event, historians still debate on the specific moment this aristocratic revolution of 1789 turned into the blood-bath radical revolution due to the momentum and contingency that each event has on the overall Revolution. The two authors, Jeremy Popkin, and Timothy Tackett, explain their historical opinion on this period of French history, in which both share a similar

Jaeden Liebeher plays the role of Oliver in the movie just a young boy trying to adjust to his new school and environment where he lives in. Things take a sudden change when he attends a Catholic school and he gets picked on by kids attending the same school as him.

Montaigne’s essay “On the Education of Children” brings to light a new way at looking at the way one would educate a child. Yet, the question still stands; has today’s modern style of educating children changed for the better since Montaigne was alive? During Montaigne’s day education focused heavily on rhetoric, on learning to speak a certain or remember a fact only to be able to show off that you remembered it. For example Montaigne says “not in the fashion of our French nobles, simply to report on the length of the Pantheon, or the sumptuousness of Signora Livia’s drawers” (Frampton pg. 138). He talks about how in his day teachers just talk students to remember facts and numbers to remember and not the morals behind them. Montaigne’s idea of education though was that everything the student learns should be used to help the child form a judgement. Those lessons should focus on a moral understanding, then just the facts. As a student myself, I have to agree with parts of Montaigne’s idea. I’ve always felt that the purpose of education was to inspire a child to want to learn. To take what they learn and use it to help people. I have seen this myself with every child that comes out on a Safari tour at Busch Gardens. There is this reaction that look of awe when they feed a Giraffe or see a Rhino for that first time. I believe that Montaigne would agree with this too, that education is supposed to inspire children to learn. Then take what they have learned and be able to