Category: Communication

  • Sonnet

    Please please go away and never come back I am not ready to leave the earth now I might just be able to stay on track I can not go i need to be about Lord guide me I can’t do without that now I need your Guidance the main key to life I’ve come…

  • Hotel Rwanda Scene Notes

  • Allegory practise

    The bell had just rung. Children started swarming out of the school gates and the two known best friends walked out together as usual. They stopped at the corner shop as usual and then walked to the bus stop in no particulla hurry. A short while later the bus came and as they walked onto…

  • Why has George Orwell chose talking animals as to normal human characters ?

    There could be a number of reasons for this. One that comes to mind is that the story has a lot of qualities of the fable which usually uses animals with human qualities to make a point. Anthropomorphism or personification is any attribution of human characteristics (Or characteristics assumed to belong to humans) to other…

  • Planning for project

    For the two extra activities I have to do I am going to do a presentation on Shakespeare’s life because we have not really looked into it. Also i think it will be interesting for everyone to know what kind of background he had grew up from, what kind of education he had and facts…

  • Essay Structure

    For the Romeo and Juliet project: Select one question Write an essay response of 800-1000 words Make extensive reference to the texts, Shakespeare’s time and use detailed examples

  • Romeo and Juliet project

    Shakespeare’s ideas and intentions are effectively interpreted by Baz Luhrmann in his film Romeo and Juliet by modernising and changing some scenes. For example when Mercutio dies and there is lightening just as he cursed the Montague and Capulet household. This is not in the play. He used thunder to create a dramatic effect and…

  • Romeo and Juliet project

    For this project i have decided to do the Analytic Essay, Lecture to class and run a class activity. This is because i think i will do the best in these tasks. For the lecture to the class i will make a powerpoint presentation on  Shakespeare’s life, family and how he became a well known…

  • Practise Question 2

    Baz Luhrmann cleverly interpreted many of Shakespeare’s devices modernising it. For example instead of Juliet stabbing herself she shot herself. There would not have been guns at that time which makes it modernised as guns are a lot more common these days.

  • Metaphors

    “Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, which is as thin of substance as the air”. Shakespeare does this to compare a fantasy to air.  Mercutio is trying to tell Romeo to stop trying to trusting in his fantasy and to start to make sense and think realistically.  Shakespeare uses many more examples of metaphors.