Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Visualisation of “Come On Come Back” by Stevie Smith
Alex: Visual presentation of “Come On, Come Back” by Stevie Smith from Edutronic.net on Vimeo.
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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…
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Transcript of Alex, Soren, Kamrul and Mark’s conversation.
Transcript of our conversation Mark : Ahhh Alex: You know how awkward it is talking to a camera? Kamrul: Yeah, coz they don’t talk back, do they? Alex: Yeah, it’s bare rude of them, innit? Kamrul: Uuuh yeah. Mark: Yeah, like it seems so forced. There’s no point in doing it. You don’t get anything…
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Hahaha the new ipads have arrived!!!!! Currently exploring them and posting this.
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How do spoken language and text language influence each other?
Text language and spoken language influence each other in different ways Firstly, the paralinguistic features used in spoken language can be conveyed in text language. This can be done via the use of two asterisks to recreate a physical gesture, an example being that if a person considered what they have said to be wrong,…
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