Society has Changed Oh so Much!

Written by Jean-Sébastien Lalonde

Presented to Ms. Douglas

ENG4U

October 8th 2009

Colonel By Secondary School

It really is evident. Just look at those faces! Look how serious most are; check out their posture and position of hands. Nowadays, you’d believe it to be some divine school, at the exception of a female abecedary! This picture, handed to me by my father, is a class picture of my father’s sixth grade class. Observing this picture, a couple aspects stand out. First of all, they are all well dressed Caucasian male children in an obviously religious school. Most have serious faces, and they all have their hands together as if they were praying. The atmosphere of the picture seems very serious, as if they’re at school for one and only purpose: to learn; not to play, nor to have fun. Contrasting today’s society, this picture goes to show how many differences lie from the past to the present, whether it concern race, religion or even perspective.

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This picture contrasts today’s school atmosphere and society in multiple ways. When I see this, I imagine life almost as a misery. Thinking of how I live today and how school is for me, I can’t imagine being in such a school where discipline and rules are enforced in such a way to wipe the smile off most faces. Nowadays, when you walk in a school, you can observe many differences. The first: there are females! Imagine that, intermixed gendered students in classes! This aspect of our modern world goes to show how our perspective has changed of intermixed gendered ...

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