Part A: Survey
Part B: La Sagouine
When I learned that we would have to see THE Sagouine, I was suspicious, and not for nothing. This character is a proud hero of the Acadian nation. Acadie is a nation that is tore between their own French language and English. How can we be proud of the transformation of La Sagouine, a play that defends the survival of French in Acadie in THE Sagouine, an assimilated hero, a dead warior that lost his battle and the battle of his nation. La Sagouine presents a character who talks like an old acadian woman talks. That what makes that play a good play. The Sagouine presents a character talking in English like any other French would talk in English after being assimilated. So, where is the good part in this play? I think it has been deported.
At our arriving at the Cégep, we discovered that there were students coming from many different places. We started to think about the differences in the mentalities of people coming from city and people coming from suburbs. We thought that this subject would be interesting because we didn’t know what people studying in a city were thinking about the place they live.
ReplyDeleteTo be inform about our subject, we had to look for interesting facts about cities and suburbs. First, we concentrated our research on Montreal and the metropolitan area around. In 1986, the population of Montreal was about 1.7 million of inhabitants, in 1991, it was around 1.77 million and recently, in 2006, it turned around 1.85 million of persons. The expansion of the population in the suburban areas is bigger. In 1991, the count of citizen was around 3.12 millions, and in 2006, it was around 3.63 millions. Second, in 2006, 80% of the population was living in urban areas. Two third of Canadians were living in a metropolitan area and the proportion of people having a higher education such as university degree is superior. This may be according to the fact that the highly skilled and paid job available are in citie’s centers. It is also important to know that 32% of violent crimes and 44% of crimes against goods and property in Montreal are commited by people living in suburbs such as Longueuil, Laval, Terrebone, etc.
Then, we asked ourselves if, in ten years, people coming from cities would want to stay in cities and people coming from suburbs would wish to live in suburbs. Our hypothesis was that people who have been raised in suburbs are more inclined to raise their own children in suburbs and people who have been raised in cities are more inclined to raise their children in cities. The services are different from cities to suburbs. We thought that living with some services makes people living in a way that they need these services. Also, there is sometimes an attachment with our native place. Living near forest can make you love the nature, and living downtown can make you love the noise of the city.
In the same idea, we decide to separate our group of research to put, on one side, people living in the city and on the other side, people living in suburbs. To get to this, we ask 20 persons living in surburban area (Longueuil and Laval) to answer to our survey and 20 persons living in Montreal to do the same. The range of person we sent our survey to are boys and girls between 17 and 19 years old (living in Quebec of course). Aferwards, with the 40 results we had from our friends, we collected and analysed every answer to compare the mentally and the opinion of them about the ‘’war’’ between cities and suburbs.
ReplyDeleteDespite the fact that we chose twenty persons who are now living in cities and also twenty persons living in suburbs, 65% of the whole group has been raised in suburbs. But, the results were interesting because 60% of their parents have been raised in cities. That means that before our generation, there were more people living in cities who decided to raise their children in suburbs. About the services, we asked them 3 advantages that they had in their environment. In Montreal, the most commons were the accessibility to the services, living near the subway and living near the school. For the suburbs, it was the quietness of the neighbourhood, the houses at a cheaper price and the lower population.
Finally, let say that the survey was a success, even if our hypothesis occurred to be false, because we had, to our questionnement, a real answer based on a tangible study. We came to the conslusion that 71% of Montreal inhabitants wants to stay there and raise their children in the city. Furthermore, 66% of people living in the suburban area around Montreal want to leave their actual environnement to move in the city. Our survey proved that the rural exodus is still a current phenomenon.
The next time we make a research, we could go further. We could compare our results with the reality of people living in other regions, like Abitibi, Outaouais or Gaspésie. It would have been interesting to see if they also want to move in the cities, or if they want to stay in regions. There is more in Quebec than Montreal, Laval and Longueil!
752 words
P1: 12, 12, 9,
P2: 12, 9, 13, 11, 14, 12, 14, 12, 14,
P3: 6, 12, 12, 9,
P4: 9, 12, 12, 14, 14, 6
P5: 12, 12, 14,
P6: 9, 12, 14,
P7: 6,
Contents, organization, development 15 / 20
Grammar, vocabulary, punctuation 14 / 20
Total 29 /40
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ReplyDeleteA critical view indeed. Some grammar issues. 7/10