How much does the French Revolution embody the ideals of the Enlightenment?

     The French Revolution does exercise the enlightenment ideals a lot as it is the first time in History that the enlightenment ideas are put in action. The biggest enlightenment ideal I saw within the french revolution was questioning the established order. As the third estate seizes power with the fall of King Louis the 16th they overcome the government recreating one of their own. They also achieved equality with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. By applying influence from the enlightenment ideas to solve their real-world problems it is definitely embodied in the French Revolution. It is also shown through orators such as Maximilien Robespierre as he gained influence from enlightenment thinkers and incorporated it into his debates and such. However, some people may disagree that the enlightenment was not embodied that much because of the results from the French Revolution. I think they are misleading as the enlightenment ideals are put into play its just that it happened to end badly.

#14 Is the Third Estate something that should be feared?

Is the Third Estate something that should be feared?

      Is the third estate something that should be feared? As always, there are many answers to that question but my opinion falls on the yes side. Why? Simply because they have the most power. As the largest estate, they have the potential to do anything they can think of with the very value of teamwork. The third estate definitely becomes something to be feared because with a group with so much power comes responsibility. As you can see in the picture, the higher estates are shocked of the third estate that is breaking free. Why might they be shocked? Because they are afraid of the third estate that they now see has more power than them. This happens when they are not responsible with what they were given and in this case, the third estate. This comes back to my answer of the original question: Yes, the third estate should be feared as it is the biggest estate with most power and comes with the price of huge responsibility.

"Awakening of the Third Estate." Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New 
     Media. Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, n.d. Web. 25 
     Feb. 2013. <http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/157/>. 

Is the road to destruction paved with good intentions?

Is the road to destruction paved with good intentions? I would answer yes. Why? I think we all know its true. Based on my own experience of aiming too high or just wanting to have fun, sometmes it doesn't end quite the way we planned it to. For an example, when i aim too high to improve on my grades and I just have so much to do, often times it will make me angry and I end up doing something worse than I planned to. I feel like when things just don't go the way we planned to we get very upset that its not exactly what we thought it would be resulting in chaos. Those are just my thoughts - it could depend on each person!

Enlightened Notables Then

        The role of Jean-Jacques Rousseau throughout the enlightenment period has made an impact on society today. By changing the perspective of the way we think in how we treat other really opened peoples eyes. The swiss philosopher was able to inspire people to be "noble savages" and practice necessity. Rousseau may not have had much of a big impact on government but he was able to change the way people thought. By doing so, it could have inspired governors to apply Rousseau's thinking into their work. However, Rousseau really did look into the social contract in terms of government. The philosophers throughout did shape government by the spreading of their beliefs & ideas. Rousseau was one of the enlightenment philosophers which contributed to the shaping of government.

What do we value at SFS?

        This is a picture of the Seoul Foreign Korean Highschool Korean gate. It has many traditional korean features on the building and is an important landmark of Seoul Foreign School. This gate shows how much we value Korea's traditional culture here at SFS. It also shows how we value worth of it. The construction of the Korean gate took a lot of patience and long time before it came to what it is today. The art intricately painted on the gate took clearly shows how much dedication has been put into this gate. This shows how much Seoul Foreign School values its traditional Korean gate as well as other elements that are valued.

Coin Study

        The first thing i noticed when i picked up the coin was that many of them had Queen Elizabeth the 2nd on them. It told me that they really signified their queen. Then i found out it was Australian as it says on the coin. However, i did not need to read that to know. A few of the other coins had imprints of national animals in Australia signifying their wildlife. I inspected beautiful imprints with kangaroos, platypuses, and ostriches. There was also a sign that they valued their heritage and culture as an aboriginal man was on the coin. The last thing i noticed was that they showed the countries seal as well as an outline of its country with a star. Inspecting coins tell us a lot about the country as it portrays it in a unique way.

Seoul Foreign Boarding School of Montesquieu

Seoul Foreign Boarding School of Montesquieu

• How is order maintained?
• There would be three branches (executive, legislative, judicial) to balance the power. Each group will be able to maintain each other
• Who has power?
• The power is split between executive(Principal), legislative(Teachers and Student Council), and judicial(Vice Principal)
• How did they get that power?
• Whoever is verified to qualify to be in the branch, have an election by students and teachers. The principal should be someone who can overlook the environment, and moderate and initiate social interactions. The vice principal should be someone who is strict in enforcing the rules.
• Where did the rules come from?
• The rules would be suggested by the legislative branch and approved by the principal.
• How are these rules enforced?
• The Vice Principal oversees that the rules are upheld and when rules are broken, he punishes “rulebreakers” accordingly.
• What is the role of students?
• The roles of students would be suggested by the teachers and then approved by the principal. The legislative group will include a number of students enforcing the branch. However, most of the students would be considered as the citizens.
• How would an outsider “know”?
• balance will be maintained, there would be three buildings of equal size and color on equal ground representing the legislative, executive, and judicial branch
• Students would have uniforms to show that nobody has more power than the other
• there would be an equal amount of girls/boys in school and in the classroom
• Each student would receive the same lunch and attend the same classes
• students have identical dorms
• no makeup or jewelry
• all students will have the same haircut