Anglais, notion of creation

The discussed notion is a vision for the future from creation to adaptation.

In order to preserve the world, with all its myriad communities, the notions of creation and adaptation play an important role for a better future through the adopting existing models of societies or the creation of new ones.

We will explore how people from different backgrounds have sought methods or messages to make the world better and therefore our future.

To illustrate the notion of creation, I have chosen Nelson Mandela who was the creator and founder of the new South African Republic. To illustrate the notion of adaptation, I have chosen the author Carl Honore who wrote the book “in praise of slow” which focused on the topic of a slower life.

Carl Honore grow up in a middle-class family contrary to Nelson Mandela who began his life with very little. Despite their differences, their will to improve the society in which we live linked them.

On one side Carl Honore’s famous book “Praise of slow” celebrates slowing down and taking time in life to appreciate it. He explains in his book that we live in a world where nobody has time and in which everyone is confused. Furthermore, he underlines the fact that we are all wired up to our communications tools but in reality, people have never felt so alone.

Slow living is compatible with modern life. It’s possible, we have to choose if we want a slow or fast life.

He highlights the fact that when we live calmly people are usually happier and more dynamic and we have better relationships.

Trough the creation of a slow movement, Carl Honore offers an alternative way in the modern world.

On the other side, Nelson Mandela had to adapt himself to a profoundly racist political system before changing it and giving back to every South African its freedom. Who had been a victim of injustice and inequality, excluded from society as black persons in South Africa.

Furthermore, he spent his life fight apartheid and its laws separating the blacks and the whites. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison to have been the leader of many protests against white domination.

After his release from prison, Mandela continued fighting for having been for justice, freedoms, equality without ever abandoning by thinking of the future. As a result, he succeeded and becoming the first black president of South Africa in 1994.

This victory for all Africans people allows the young blacks to have a future.

To conclude he adapted himself without ever lowering the head and at the end he created the principle of the equality and the justice by founding a real community. To my mind, he will always be the father of the new South African Republic.

Carl Honore and Nelson Mandela were thus very different but everything them two tried to return the life and the better world.

With this in mind, personally I know one to lebanon refugee who is an engineer and who excelled at his country of origin. Upon his arrival in France everything was very complicated to find an employment and adapt himself to the French system. Furthermore, he told me a day when engineer's job in France isn’t at all the same that in the Lebanon. The values and the principles were not the same. He began a lot of time to adapt himself but his main objective was made a success: make his wife come and her children by providing them to be comfortably accommodated and fed. He always thought about the future.

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