Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Touching the Void: language ideas
Personification page108 1) ‘Sleep beckoned insistently’ This implies that sleep was calling him begging him to succumb to tiredness. This passage suggests that joe was really tired, but was unsure whether to fall asleep incase he was engulfed by the darkness around him, taken hostage by the shadows. This shows not only the fight with…
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Touching the Void – Court Room Drama
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Easter Practise Question
Sometimes difficult decisions have to be made. Describe a decision that you, or someone you know, had to make and explain the consequences. (16 marks) During the mid-summer of 2008 I had an annual sports day which was held in the park near my school, anyway this was my last sports day before leaving for…
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Taming of the shrew/ Sylvia Plath
Rhythm and sound are keys to identifying the emotions characters in these texts. ‘It can sew, it can cook, it can talk, talk, talk.’ This suggests that the writer is frustrated with the way in which she is or has been treated by other people most of all men. It shows that she is starting…
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Shakespeare and the Literary Heritage – Annotated Controlled Assessment
There are some good elements to this essay, while it was inconsistent, there were times when you made clear statements about women’s emotion and linked those statements to facts about the authors, observations about the characters and links to the text itself. Sometimes you explored the language of the texts to strengthen your points and…
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Controlled Assessment Prep 2
Quotes from the texts Sylvia Plath’s poems and The Taming of the Shrew ‘It can sow,it can cook,it can talk, talk, talk’. These are typical stereotypes of women in the 1960′s, considering that Sylvia Plath was a feminist she was obviously angry at these thoughts so therefore expressed her anger through her poem. (Poem Applicant)…
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Controlled Assessment Prep
Quotes from the texts Sylvia Plath’s poems and The Taming of the Shrew ‘It can sow,it can cook,it can talk, talk, talk’. These are typical stereotypes of women in the 1960’s, considering that Sylvia Plath was a feminist she was obviously angry at these thoughts so therefore expressed her anger through her poem. (Poem Applicant)…
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Film Review 1 ( The Matrix )
I did a review on a film called The Matrix. The film depicts a future in what is seen by most humans is actually a simulated reality or cyberspace created by sentient machines to pacify and subdue the human population, while their bodies’ heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. upon learning…
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William Shakespeare in life and death
William Shakespeare The birth date of William Shakespeare is not known but it is believed he was baptized on the 26th April 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon. He was the son of John and Mary Shakespeare he was the third child of eight and the eldest surviving son. He is known and remembered for his phenomenal playwriting the most…
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This is Your Online Domain
Hello and welcome to your personal online journal. This platform has been created to enhance and enrich your learning at the London Nautical School. Its purpose is to provide you with an audience for your work (or work-in-progress) and you have the choice (by altering the ‘visibility’ of your posts) of whether your work…
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