what impact does setting have on your understanding of the central ideas or themes in the play? Edward Albee wrote the play Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf in 1962. The main features of the play setting include time of the events taking place and a social environment where characters are used in such way to allow for new development to occur. This has an impact on how two themes are conveyed: "Truth and illusion" and "dealing with barrenness" where George and Martha are set in an event imagining...

Thursday 21 April, Brave Movie IO by Morris The scene begins with the exposition that gives a summary of the life of Merida and where she lives and how her life is with the people around her. The viewer is shown Merida's life with her family and already introduces a issue which will be followed throughout the movie. The global issue I have chosen is "Pixar Movies has tried to show and break tradition and modernise current beliefs by portraying Merida as a woman who wants to write her own fate ...

"If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering". How has suffering been described in two works you have studied, and how could this be said to give meaning to life? Philip Pullman's book written of the original Grimm Brother tales is a selection of Pullman's favourite stories which have been refreshed to make even more interesting and engaging for readers all over the world. Suffering is commonly found throughout many poems and real life and is used in a structured...

For the first Vladimir Propp statement I believe that many of the poems found in the Grimm Tales book by Philip Pullman follow the second case. Philip Pullman has modified current fairytale stories which come from the Grimm brothers and modified them in his own way. Propp talks about it being an individual's work circulating as folklore. This links to Philip Pullman's stories as they are an alteration of the original Grimm Brother stories. He chose to make the stories more clear and allow them ...

Guiding question Explore how the writer uses sequences of images in tandem with the title in order to create meaning. Sylvia Plath uses sequences of images in tandem with the title in order to create meaning. Right from the start of the poem, it says “What a thrill -My thumb instead of an onion. The top quite gone Except for a sort of hinge Of skin, A flap like a hat,”. This already pictures the scene of her cutting herself as she compares her thumb to an onion saying her thumb instead of an ...

Paragraph: 1 When analysing "Balloons", At the start of the poem we see "Since Christmas they have lived with us" and then "Taking up half the space" This already show the opposition but also its effect on the writer in this case Sylvia Plath. This is followed through the text for example in the third paragraph "And these traveling Globes of thin air, red,green, Delighting" This refers to the Balloons as they fit the description given. The resolution does not fully end in this text but does st...

poem 1: Letter in November Love, the world Suddenly turns, turns color. The streetlight Splits through the rat's tail Pods of the laburnum at nine in the morning. It is the Arctic, This little black Circle, with its tawn silk grasses -- babies hair. There is a green in the air, Soft, delectable. It cushions me lovingly. I am flushed and warm. I think I may be enormous, I am so stupidly happy, My Wellingtons Squelching and squelching through the beautiful red. This is my property. Two times a ...

At the start of watching Sylvia Plath I thought it wouldn't be an interesting as I am usually not a fan of the movie genre Drama. Throughout the movie all the elements such as the sound and camera angles made the movie very interesting. It changed my perspective on Drama movies. The movie is about Sylvia Plath an American poet who dreams of becoming a famous poet like the guy she falls in love will called Ted Hughes who is a English poet who writes a famous poem. They both go to Cambridge in Eng...

Questions and answers to guide you to that conclusion This article has been written by Glenn Greenwald. He has specifically chosen to convince his audience that Edward Snowden is not the bad guy but the government is. He asks the reader questions to doubt their belief and try to move their stand point on Edward Snowden. The article talks about how Edward Snowden is being charged for espionage even though that he exposed and told the America's innocent people that they were being espionaged on....

Planning: "Edward Snowden's worst fear has not been realised-thankfully" Gleen greenwald the guardian question: What is the effect of the writer's use of tone(and changes in tone) on the reader? Introduction: .Summary of article .talk about the date, author and who what why and where. .The article is writen by Glenn Greenwald about Edward Snowden and talks about his own opinion and also not. 1st paragraph: talk about register ...

Peter could have been more responsive and active int he talks as he was not answering or asking question. At the end I think peter could have been more involved in the discusion or share his point or opinion. Peter later responded to a few question and did this very well. ...

Frances Haugen has left her job at facebook and has decided to take Facebook to court as she has collected lots of data proving that Facebook chooses profit over the public good. She states that Facebook chooses to increase the amount of Negative and misinformed feed on Facebook and Instagram. This is due to making you angry keeps you using Facebook longer allowing more money to be made. Facebook has stated that it has a algorithm to combat this but Frances Haugen has copied lots of data showi...