How the 3 documents depict the impulse of mankind to break away from bonds and explore new territories
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Voyages, territoires et frontieres.
How the 3 documents depict the impulse of mankind to break away from bonds and explore new territories
Intro :
Since the first times of humanity, human beings have always felt this natural need to move, to travel, to explore and break the limits of distance. Factly, at the beginning, scientist prove that the all first human on earth was nomad, it's only a lot of years later that we became sedentary, with that fact in our minds it's already clearer to understand why we have the natural need to explore and travel, to move our homes, to travel the oceans to go to a city that we have already see one hundred pictures … We will push the development further and study this subject in depth with three documents. The first is about Mike Horn, an explorer who has achieved many feats and overcome many challenges during his career, The second is an excerpt from the book Robinson Crusoe, written by Daniel Dafoe in 1719. The third is a picture of a family migrating to find a place to live in 1866 during the Great Western Migration.
1: The need, to survive, or for the gain
A: First humans was nomadic to survive
B: Analyze of the western picture ( their rich peoples moving for the gain and probably for gold or some business what was a really common thing at this times )
2: Need new horizons ,break the routine, need to explore and discover things.
A: “I would be satisfied with nothing but the sea” big contrast between his cityzen life and a seaman life
B: Western families move their home to see new horizons, cause factly we are not sure that they move for money. Maybe I'm wrong, we can't know we can't really ask them if there are many ways to see a picture.
C: “Try something out of the ordinary” “he became ski instructor, but quickly tired of it”
something he wants to do it
3 : The taste of challenge, push the limits away, we are never satisfied, we need always more
A: all the times mike horn almost died “ we all have resilience … you’ve got to make it grow “
B: Doc B and Doc C about peoples with stable situation who moves or want to move ot for their feels and passion or for the gain, but in all the cases they moves from a stable situation
4 optionnal but interesting : the spirit of contradiction, break the laws, be free
A: “I would be satisfied with nothing but the sea”
B: “attempt his first expedition aged eight, when, winsouth telling anyone …”
optional C, am not sure about it and his link to the subject but by the way i talk about that i don't know if i had it : I could also talk about the dysfunctional education system based on the obligation ( you have to do math, you have to practice
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