Victorian Certificate of Education 2011 ENGLISH (ESL) Written examination Thursday 3 November 2011 Reading time: 9.00 am to 9.15 am (15 minutes) Writing time: 9.15 am to 12.15 pm (3 hours) TASK BOOK Section Number of questions A – Text response (Reading and responding) B – Writing in Context (Creating and presenting) C – nalysis of language use (Using language to A persuade) 20 4 2 Number of questions to be answered 1 1 2 Marks 40 30 30 Total
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Is Doctor Ben Carson the Reincarnate of King Arthur? Many speculations have been made trying to determine who is the modern day King Arthur‚ his reincarnate self. King Arthur‚ if he existed‚ was thought to be one of the greatest leaders of all time. There have been many legends about King Arthur‚ including that King Arthur would come back in the future during a dark era and bring the society back to the way it was. As for Doctor Ben Carson I believe that he is the reincarnate King Arthur. King Arthur
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post merger success. First‚ the two companies had great strengths that they combined together. BRL had raw materials‚ money‚ and leadership‚ while Hardy had great marketing skills‚ a well-known brand and knowledge on how to make wine. Christopher Carson also contributed to the success of the company. When the company was losing profits he was able to get the company back on its feet by cutting costs‚ and creating a number of policies. Management also played a role BRL’s success. The top management
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How do you account for BRL Hardy’s remarkable post-merger success? Prior to the BRL and Hardy merger both companies were rivals with diverse views of the wine industry. Due to the varying views both companies had different organizational structures and approaches. Hardy was a family owned business focused on producing great wine. In 1853 Thomas Hardy acquired land near‚ Adelaide which is in South Australia. Thomas used the land to plant vines‚ by 1857 he produced his first vintage‚ and two
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Rachel Carson – Review Silent Spring is a widely-read environmental book published on September 27‚ 1962‚ by Houghton Mifflin. Rachel Carson‚ a renowned environmentalist‚ wrote this book to express her concerns over the human abuse of the environment. In this work‚ Carson vividly expresses and documents how the use of pesticides in agriculture indiscriminately affects the natural environment. She primarily focuses on how the birds are influenced by the use of these hazardous chemicals. Carson strongly
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Professor Norford ENC 1101 3 March 2014 Word Count: 828 The Obligation to Endure Carson writes this essay informing us about pesticides and chemicals farmers use on their crops that can danger our echo system. The pollution man is creating “is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible.” (Carson 2) There are many different ways that pollution can harm the environment‚ from the
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comprehensible way is very difficult. Carson states that‚ “on a papyrus roll the text is written in columns‚ without word division‚ punctuation or lineation. To read such a text is hard even when it comes to us in its entirety and most papyri don’t” (Carson ix). Carson’s insertion of word division‚ punctuation and lineation into the English translation of Sappho’s poetry as a result‚ may‚ and probably did‚ change the meaning‚ underlying message‚ or understanding of her thoughts. Carson has “sometimes manipulated
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the author Rachel Carson believed that human kind should embrace nature’s and help preserve its beauty and life . In the passage from the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson‚ the author informs and persuades her audience against the dangers and misuse of pesticides. Rachel Carson is a renowned writer‚ ecologist‚ and scientist who dedicated her life to the conservation of the environment. Throughout her career as an editor in chief‚ marine biologist‚ and environmental activist‚ Carson continued to educate
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Pesticides Rachel Carson writes of how pesticides and human interferences with nature have changed the course of the human races future. Carson describes the drastic changes and mutations in nature that pesticides have introduced by the pesticides. She then goes on to describe the effects of the pesticides on people and the animals. Also Carson talks about the long term effects and how they will affect our descendants. Carson’s essay tells of the consequences and havoc that will occur. Carson describes
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Unit 1 Assignment Final Draft Victim of Love The writer of Short Talks (1992)‚ Anne Carson‚ is a Canadian poet‚ an essayist and a literary critic. She is erudite and innovative‚ having various fields of knowledge and writing with facetious languages and meaningful thought. Anne Carson would like to leave open mind for her readers as she said: ”I don’t know that we really think any thoughts. That’s where the mind moves‚ that’s what’s
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