Grade 12 Experiences: Topic: Intrigue into Watchmaking Watchmaking is a topic of great interest to me, specifically as it connects to my primary academic interest of aerospace engineering. Over the course of the past year, I have become enthralled in the world of horology, having purchased a selection of vintage watches I am in the process of repairing. My favourite type of watches to repair are vintage dive watches; dive watches, due to their robust nature, are generally found on better condi...

Paper 2 Practice - Paragraph Rewriting: Rewriting Paragraph 2: Throughout Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, strangeness ...

How composure leads to a higher respectability throughout the play. Quotation (P. 23): Alain Ah, toilet fittings. Now we're talking. That's really interesting. Annette Alain. Alain It's really interesting. I'm interested in toilet fittings. Michel Why wouldn't you be? Alain How many types are there. Analysis: I feel in this section, you can almost hear the tension present in the space. This since Alain is clearly mocking Michel by going into a conversation about a specific section Michel's j...

Opinion on Boghossian: I must say that Peter Boghossian brings forth a good argument with regards to the opinionation and political affiliations existent within the academic culture in universities. Specifically, he stipulates how this attitude has impacted his teaching liberty and how it almost is similar to the media censorship which used to be existent in the former Soviet Union. ...

Text Studied: Chief Red Jacket Rejects a Change of Religion by Chief Red Jacket (Pg. 70) Text: Brother, continue to listen. You say that you are sent to instruct us on how to worship the Great Spirit agreeably to his mind; and, if we do not take hold of the religion which you white people teach, we shall be unhappy hereafter. You say that you are right and we are lost. How do we know this to be true? 1. The words you say are repeated several times in the sentence. What is the repetition's fu...

Text Studied: Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger (Pg. 39) Text: She was wearing her usual at-home vesture... It consisted mostly of a hoary midnight-blue Japanese kimono. Se almost invariably wore it through the apartment during the day. With its many occultish-looking folds, it also served s the repository for the paraphernalia of a very heavy cigarette smoker and an amateur handyman; two oversized pockets had been added at the hips, and they usually contained two or three packs of cigarettes,...

English Summer Reflection I found myself looking at dolphins, leaping majestically out of the water, from the helm of a 425hp monster of a boat. I have been lucky enough to be able to spend most of my time on holiday in Spain for the past year. This, since my parents own property on the famed Costa Del Sol, translating roughly to "Sunshine Coast", aptly named to attract as many European travellers as is possible. Living there, you get accustomed to experiencing the sea from the vast coastline,...

On November the 12th, 2010, "The Chronicle" published an article, or more correctly, an essay, written by an anonymous person going by the pseudonym "Ed Dante". Ed Dante describes his job as a "Shadow Scholar" - which coincidentally is also the essay title - and provides an insight into the dark truth of plagiarism in the modern world and the ease wherewith this occurs undetected. He himself is a "Shadow Scholar" meaning he writes scholarly papers for students around the world on a commission ba...

I believe that, through the reading of the numerous adaptations of Little Red Riding Hood, it is possible to establish a common storyline by focusing on the different parts of the story as told by the different narrators. First, it is important to focus on the introduction and setting created at the genesis of the story, the usual inception we remember is that Little Red Riding Hood (the character, not the book) is at her mother's house and she has been tasked to bring something (generally a f...

Throughout chapter 22, we are shown the sheer violence of the attacks on Tara. Shawn jabs her in the ribs, knocks her down on the floor and puts pressure on her windpipe, which is a deadly move. In addition to this, in Chapter 22, Shaun also brags about his possession of weapons which, to an American audience, may seem relatively normal, but to a European audience, sounds absolutely mad due to the general absence of guns and weapons in Europe. Apart from having the means of killing a human, Sh...

Hello, this is my first note for the Standard Notes application. ...