Complete the following exercises in your English blog: Analyse the writers’ use of passive verb construction and repetition in the following examples (italics mine): 1A) We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 77 1B) They sailed and trailed and flew and raced and crawled and walked and were carried, finally, home. John Knowles, Indian Summer, 4 2) Analyse the speaker’s use of parallelism and sentence length in the following example: All th...

How have you changed or grown personally this year? This year has been a challenging but successful year. In 2021; I learned a lot of personal growth and growing mentally. An important thing I achieved this year is wanting to always do something that will help in the future, examples of this are; investing in the stock market, reading more books about people who are successful and how they became so successful, such as Elon Musk. I am very appreciative that my 2021 was a year of self-reflectio...

Manga The chosen text is from a Manga, a series that is called ‘Tokyo Ghoul,’ the author of this specific series is Sui Ishida and the publisher of this source is Shueisha. The date of publication of the first volume was published on the 8th of september in 2011, and the last volume was published on september 18th 2014. Conicky was the protagonist and had been kidnapped while being tortured by Yamuri. Yamouri is interested to see if he is special in any way, and In the series, conicky is shown...

gender (psychological analysis) hypermasculinity how does the portrayal of Henry's character express hyper-masculinity within the scope of dialogue? what do linguistics look for when studying character? ...

Interesting ideas: Alain, is a lawyer and that has a huge impact on the way he acts. He seems very calm but when the conversation starts ti get overwhelming he starts to get annoyed. Alain also is very focussed on his job and he won't let anything interfere with it. Alain is very truth-full since he wants there to be some sort of agreement between both sets of parents. Alain's use of language is fitting to his lawyer personalities. Annette, has a very bright and always excited personality, sh...

DICTION This is earthquake Weather! Honor and Hunger Walk lean Together Langston Hughes, "Today" What does 'lean' mean in this context? Lean means inclining for support as well as containing very little fat within a human body. In this context, lean seems to have a reference to inclining for support. Anything to do together has a reference to support and togetherness, having a direct connection sympathy or feeling homely, since home is a place where families are generally together...

What caught your attention this year? What are you interested in at the moment? This can be a story, an event, a hobby, skill, relationship...anything. Focus on one thing only and try to write as clearly and concisely as possible. During my summer holiday, I went on a trip to the South of France where I visited several small towns and cities such as St. Tropez, Lion, Monte Carlo, St. Paul de Vence, Gorges du Verdon, Nice, and more. I was very attracted to the abstract art in these cities, they ...

Text 1: Carol Ann Duffy poem Text 2: Grimm tales Little red riding hood has a story that contains both the werewolf and the little girl. Although the poem that Carol Ann Duffy has written is more based upon the werewolf, on the other hand, the story from the Grimm tales book is based upon the personality of the werewolf as well as the grandmother having a character in the story. The story from the book can be compared to what is written in the poem since a lot of it is similar, only the chara...

Tara introduces her willingness to leave on page 191 "I just need sleep," this is a clear indication of how she is mentally exhausted of almost everything, earlier in that part of the book, she also had broken her toe, putting her into some physical pain as well and since her parents didn't believe in hospitals, she was carrying her pain. In this case, this shows projection, this is because Tara is denying her feeling and putting something else infront of her primary thoughts. Tara is very overw...