Affectation de l'histoire: Une affiche dans une rue ou dans une usine à Berlin? (document en anglais).

History Assignment: Poster in a street or factory in Berlin

We are the workers who live underground, who dig up coal all day and all year, only to get nothing in return. We are the one's who have families and who try to keep them alive. We have no food, no shelter but one another. We live in the permanent presents of smoke and ashes. We are the working classes and we represent more then 50% of Berlin’s society. Together, we work to drive our country's industry forward. "We" are the crowds. Whether we work in a factory or a coal mine, we are in constant need of other peoples help. It is a necessity.

There is one man, Gustave LeBon, who despises crowds. He interprets a crowd as being primitive and irrational. That a crowd is good for nothing but destruction, "When the structure of a civilization is rotten, it is always masses that bring about its downfalls." What Gustave LeBon does not understand is that, a crowd makes his cloths and every day objects. Piled up in a dark alley of a factory or 800 meters deep inside a coalmine, we work as a crowd, a group of men, struggling to survive together. The job isn't easy as a lonely man. Being part of a group makes you feel, as if you have family and friends, always there to help you in time of distress.

If I, personally, were to work alone in a coal mine, with no one else by my side there to comfort me in depressing times and help me when I am to tired to accomplish my task. I would feel like a lost soul, I would feel as if there was too much space to occupy by myself. Only together can we survive, people as a community help each other.

An only man does not make a difference; a single man does not change the way society works or does not change the governments mind about a law. In history a crowd always led the greatest events. The "Prise de la Bastille" in France for example. This act was a revolting act led by a crowd with a year of accumulating anger inside of them, which burst. If there were to be only one man, taking down the Bastille, he would have been stopped and put in jail therefor failing his task. When you act out as a crowd, the impact is more violent but also more influential. The crowds that would like to make a change in the way the government is ruled or society, share the same principles, the same point a view and this is what allows them to work together to obtain what they want from a society.

Us, as human beings we are nothing, just the boring workers, lonely, hungry, poor. Alone, nobody cares about use; we are animals to him or her. Together, we are fierce and powerful.

Tired of being an only man, feeling excluded and helpless, earn your freedom and join the crowd, the ones who help you survive during harshest of times.

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