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 Please, carry out a web search on  MARCH FOR OUR LIVES , a movement that can be regarded as a counter-power opposed to the gun lobby in the USA. You may access their  Website  where you will find out more about this movement. View the various videos and study the photographs and accompanying text. Then, please write a few lines about their  mission statement  (= aims and values) and  mottos  (= slogans) and insert  ONE picture  (with caption, date and  brief description + interpretation ) that might be your individual document for the Baccalauréat oral exam next June. First of all, March For Our Lives is a movement that started after numerous school shootings in the USA. Students want laws on guns to decrease violence. About 40 000 Amercians die every year because of suicide with a gun. The reason for this is the easy access to weapons.  One of their mottos is "We are the revolution". This shows that m...

ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE DOCUMENT : YOUTUBE VIDEO  Alaskan Bush People: Season One DVD Trailer, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9q5rDLXrhI This document is a trailer from the american reality show Alaskan Bush People. As the title says, it shows a family who lives in the woods of Alaska, as independently as possible from civilisation.  First of all, in this trailer, we learn from their lifestyle : hunting, working on their family village, preparing for winter... The video says they are going have to move places. This means they live like nomads. They don't have a home, they just get installed wherever they like and build a little house there.  Furthermore, the family is composed of eight members. Each one of them has their own skill relevant to surviving in nature. For example, Noah has a talent to invent useful objects, Bear is a master at climbing trees and Bam - Bam always make sure his brothers are acting logically.  Noah inventing a mol...

POST 1 : THE MYTH OF THE NOBLE/GOOD SAVAGE 1) This myth is commonly attributed to the 18th century philosopher Rousseau. He believed that the orginal man was free from sin, and the concept of "right" and "wrong". These men called savages were viewed as noble, from the philosopher's point of view. This appeared during the Indigenous lands invasion. Invaders would write how happier the Natives were, than the Europeans. Some colonists stayed with the tribes. The Natives didn't understand the concepts of materialism and heritage. They explained the foreigners that they didn't feel the need to exchange material with other states. They were happy with what they had in their territory.  2)  Bug-Jargal (1826) A detail from  Benjamin West 's heroic,  neoclassical   history painting ,  The Death of General Wolfe  (1771), depicting an idealized  Native American . 3) We can find the myth of the noble savage in the Disney movie Po...