Author: theamazingkeith
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Of mice and men -notes
Discrimination: -Disrespect of women-treated as sexual objects, and didn’t have the same rights as men, for example we are not given a name for Curly’s wife, she is just called ‘Curly’s Wife’, showing that at the time women were thought ‘unworthy’ of having names. It also isolates her from all of the other characters, showing…
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Notable themes to look for in ‘Of Mice and Men’
Friendship/the value of friendship The effect of isolation Presentation of characters
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Salinas river area
“Agriculture dominates the economy of the valley. Promoters call the Salinas Valley “the Salad Bowl of the World”for the production of lettuce, broccoli, peppers and numerous other crops. The climate is also ideal for the floral industry and grape vineyards planted by world-famous vintners. In particular, a large majority of the salad greens consumed in…
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Futility by Wilfred Owen – analysis
Wilfred Owen’s poem is questioning the hopelessness of war – what is the purpose of mankind if we are only going to destroy ourselves? The poem also questions god; why did god create us, and if he is omnipotent and benevolent, then why does he let war happen? Throughout the poem, the author uses the…
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‘Come on, Come back’ by Stevie Smith – poem story
Vaudevue, a female soldier is fleeing for her life across the feilds of Austerlitz after escaping ‘ML5’, possibly a form of extermination gas. Despite escaping, she is not entirely sane. She sits on the ground on a rock, on a hummock, and taps the ground. She flees across rutted meadows to a lake, where she…
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Come on, come back – information, ideas and understanding it
INFORMATION ‘Austerlitz’: the poet imagines a future battle on an old battleground. Austerlitz is now in the Czech Republic, but in 1805 it was in Austria. It was here that Napoleon and his French troops defeated the armies of Russia and Austria.. ‘Memel’: the German name for a coastal town in Lithuania. Stevie Smith imagines…
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Poetic device featuring in the poem ‘9/11: Out of the Blue’ by Simon Armatige
The author has used future tense interrogatives to create a pathos of sheer hopelessness, due to the fact that the reader or listener already has a foresight into the fate of the character. For instance the line “So when will you come?” creates an air of desperation and franticness . The line is made even more…
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Spoken Language Study assessment 2012 FINAL PIECE.
Assessment The English language is an enormous, flowing language, with all sorts of creative aspects and devices. Creativity in the English language is evident through use of text speech, occurring due to the lack of paralinguistic features in addition to the mere selection of the 136 available characters, and shown by the nuances and idioms…
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GCSE assessment October 2012 day 2
Assessment The English language is an enormous, flowing language, with all sorts of creative aspects and devices. Creativity in the English language is evident through use of text speech, occurring due to the lack of paralinguistic features in addition to the mere selection of the 136 available characters, and shown by the nuances and idioms…
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GCSE assessment day 1
Assessment The English language is an enormous, flowing language, with all sorts of creative aspects and devices. Creativity in the English language is evident through use of text speech, occurring due to the lack of paralinguistic features in addition to the mere selection of the 136 available characters, and shown by the nuances and idioms…