Sofia Baaima

How do the makers of firewatch satisfy the different male fantasies through their depictions of the female characters? The makers of Firewatch satisfy the different male fantasies through their depictions of the female characters through Delilah’s linguistic features, which contrasts to the descriptions of Julia, Henry’s wife. I will also be exploring how Julia- Delilah’s contrast attributes to the watchers adoration of Delilah. Delilah’s voice without a body to attach to allows the imagination...

20/10/2021 What techniques does Coates use to establish a tone of disappointment? This is an article written by Formula 1, titled: "100-time GP winner Hamilton insists Norris has ‘many wins ahead’ after McLaren man is denied maiden victory in Russia" , written in September 2021. It is an article about race car driving, more specifically about a race car driver being denied a win after unexpected rain. In my essay, I will first discuss how the author uses emotional diction throughout the text t...

I found the relationship development between Michel and Alain and Veronique and Annette very interesting, because you saw how throughout the play, the male characters and the female characters bonded over their gender stereotypes. You could see Michel and Alain bonded over Whisky, cigars and the mutual agreement that the children that the meeting started about were being 'men', and that this meeting between the two couples was not necessary. The women bond over how the men began to bond, and the...

15/09/2021 He states that they are 'a thousand slimy things' "Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another." The author implies that antidote means the medicine or agent that will allow us to restore our ability to feel for one another. The antidote is usually a medical term for a medicine that undoes the effect of another medicine, so what the author is implying is that under the conditions we live in, we often forget to fe...

Over the year, I have become very interested in learning about cultures that I previously did not know anything about. Although I am definitely not an uncultured person, having lived in 4 countries in my lifetime and having gone to international schools for almost 9+ years, I definitely know about other cultures and customs, and have grown to love learning about them over the year. This initially began in the beginning of the year, when I started learning about Jewish traditions and holidays t...

Thesis: The depiction of women in Grimm tales by Philip Pullman, seen in Cinderella and Snow White Intro: P1: Portrayal of the two types of women in Cinderella P2: The damsel in distress trope shown in Snow White P3: The importance of beauty in women shown in both texts Conclusion: Pages Cited ...

How Tara Westover symbolises selective memory and dissociation as a response to violence in her memoir, Educated. In this essay, I will be analysing the memoir by Tara Westover called Educated. Educated focuses heavily on religion, family, and most importantly, education. In this essay, I will predominantly be discussing how Tara Westover responds to violence over time though selective memory and memory repression. Selective amnesia- more commonly understood as selective memory, is understood ...

In this Essay I will be discussing a piece written by an anonymous writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education. The text is called The Shadow Scholar, it is a commentary on the Higher education system from a writer who is paid to write college essays for other students around the world. His targeted audience is higher education professors, as he is discrediting their work as many students still pay money because they either don't understand their course or don't want to. In this commentary I wi...

Today I will be analysing the classic Little Red Riding Hood in comparison to the adaptation of Carol Ann Duffy, Little Red-Cap. I will be comparing the character roles between the two texts, as well as analysing how these two contrast each other and how this creates a different message/conclusion. I will also be analysing the conventional characteristics of both texts, and how these affect the text. The conventional character roles are switched around in the two texts, giving Carol Ann Duffy’s...

Tara dissociates from herself to cope with the physical abuse from her brother Shawn. This is very clear when she writes in p194:" But I don't sound like myself. I'm listening to the sobs of another girl.". As she is on the ground, with Shawn pinning her arms up, she is begging to be let go. When she does this, she is crying but she doesn't register it as herself crying, but as someone else crying. This is a very common form of dissociation. She feels ashamed that this is happening to her, near...