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An ordinary joe who is easily impressionable. Possesses average-to-below-average intelligence, is easily gullible, can be absent-minded, and may or may not actually be fugly. Usually works either a blue-collar job or a low-paying white-collar job, drives an inexpensive car, and lives in suburbia in a house that looks pretty much identical to the ones next to it.
On my way to work I almost crashed into some Mr. Fugly who was driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
The last time I went to Target, this one Mr. Fugly tried selling me a flat-screen TV. I'd only gone to get Shampoo, so I didn't want to waste my time listening to him blabber on and on about something that I wasn't going to buy.
When someone enrolls at one college for the sole purpose of transferring into another college the very next year. This is often done because they can't get into their first pick when they first apply because their high school grades aren't good enough to get them into there, so they enroll at another college that they did get accepted into, get better grades at that college, then apply to their first pick again as a transfer student.
"Bailey's transferring to another college next year."
"Did he change his major or something?"
"Nah, that college was his first pick in high school, but he didn't get in at first."
"So he's springboarding."
A brutal form of academic torture in which a student is forced to read an impossibly hard historical primary source. They are asked unanswerable questions in the second person, are triggered by rude historical quotes, and a few pages in are referred to a figure at the back of the reading, all while screaming and crying. This torture is inescapable and will almost always result in a tremendous headache unless you are a fucking whale who makes her idiot boyfriend go through it instead.
Then, read Wiesner-Hanks: "A Day in the French Revolution: July 14, 1789" and answer the following questions:
1. Why would the Bastille be a place crowds would naturally gather? What evidence do the documents give to answer this question?
2. How did the layout of Paris help or hinder large protests? How did Parisian architecture help unhappy residents join a political cause? What evidence do the documents give to answer this question?
3. How did news of action on the streets spread around Paris? How would that help or hinder protestors and, on the other hand, the government in controlling protests? What evidence do the documents give to answer this question?
4. How did the price of wheat affect every citizen? Consider the impact of high prices on each socioeconomic group in your answer. What evidence do the documents give to answer this question?
5. How did a person's socioeconomic status impact their willingness to either join the protest or support the government (and status quo)? What evidence do the documents give to answer this question?
6. If you were in the working class living in Paris in 1789, do you think you would have joined the protests? Why or why not? Use specific evidence from the documents in the Wiesner-Hanks packet to support your answer.