ENG1511/501/3/2013 Tutorial letter 501/3/2013 English Proficiency for University Studies ENG1511 Semesters 1 & 2 Department of English Studies IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This tutorial letter contains important information about your module. ENG1511/501 CONTENTS Page 1 2 3 4 5 Preface .......................................................................................................................................... iii UNIT 1: Critical thinking .............................................
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Comparison of characters from ’The Poisonwood Bible’ and ’The Mosquito Coast ’The Mosquito Coast’‚ directed by Peter Weir‚ is a movie quite similar in many aspects to the book ’The Poisonwood Bible’‚ written by Barbara Kingsolver‚ one of those aspects being the similarities between the setting and the characters. In both books‚ the figure-head of the family‚ Allie Fox (in ’The Mosquito Coast’) and Nathan Price (from ’The Poisonwood Bible’) both have similar characteristics‚ however‚ different approaches
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English 201 28 September 2012 Work Hard; Play Hard Work hard. Play hard. Two completely different things but they should coincide. So many people these days get by with the smallest amount of effort‚ and so many people play too much. An equal balance of the two makes for a high-quality pleasurable life. The harder you work the more you deserve to play‚ and trust me; you’ll feel better about it. Hard workers in this day and age can sometimes be very hard to come around. There are so many younger
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In Dickens’s Hard Times‚ there are many symbols that run through the novel. These symbols stand for much more than just word you would come across multiple times as you read. Each symbol can mean something about human nature‚ human relationships‚ morality‚ and even about our society. Each symbol can have a different meaning to all of us. The symbols that came up frequently and that stood out to me as I read were staircase‚ Pegasus‚ smoke serpents‚ and fire. The first symbol that stood out to me
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Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is a modernist novel‚ which shows new techniques to express a different point of view with regard to the notion of time. It is not without importance to note that the novel has no chapter headings. Nevertheless it is immediately obvious that the interest of the novel is not only in the form but also in the content. The action takes place in a single day of June in 1923 and what is interesting in the structure of the book is that simultaneously with the story of this
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English 1A 23 October 2012 Word Hard‚ Play Hard Low paid workers and farmers losing everything‚ sounds like complete madness. In the book Stuffed and Starved by author Raj Patel‚ as well as the book Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser show similarities between how workers are paid low also working in bad conditions‚ and to carry along how farmers have become nothing more then people in debt and losing their land‚ and lastly how the NAFTA agreement between Canada‚ the U.S.‚ and Mexico has played
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Analyse Dickens presentation of the conflict between fact and fancy in ‘Hard Times’ The novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens epitomises the social‚ political and economic values of Victorian England. Dickens attacks the conditions and exploitation of the workers by the factory owners‚ the social class divisions that favour dishonesty over honesty depending on the hierarchy of class status. He finds the utilitarian (fact) school of thought where facts and statistic’s are emphasised at the expense
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advocating for throughout Hard Times. In regards to Sissy Jupe‚ Dickens utilizes allusion a little differently than he does throughout the rest of the book when describing various characters and situations. Previously‚ Dickens used allusion to emphasize negative aspects of characters and utilitarianism. But with Sissy‚ he uses allusion to support virtuous behavior and to emphasize the goodness of love‚ altruism‚ and the use of imagination; none of which are recognized within the Gradgrindian School
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Gradgrind is a man bereft of any imagination or fancy‚ and perhaps that is why he is a staunch believer in the practicality of the education system. He discards wonderment and regards facts and figures as the ultimate path to learning. In the novel Hard Times‚ the author Charles Dickens has shown Gradgrind as an educationist‚ and hence has portrayed him implementing his views on both his pupils in the school‚ as well as on his family. He expects his students to engage in nothing but factual education;
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Plains‚ no wonder Stephen Long of 1821 concluded that the American West was “almost wholly unfit for cultivation‚ and of course uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence.”1 It seems that Timothy Egan’s book‚ The Worst Hard Times‚ hit the nail right on the head as to the cause of the worst natural disaster that the United States has ever experienced. The great dusters of the Dirty Thirties occurred because of the United States Government’s encouragement to over-farm the
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