Steps to Complete Essay with Unseen Question: Year 12 English Preparing for an essay with an unseen question requires some very careful and strategic preparation to be successful. To succeed‚ you need the following: 1. Thorough knowledge of characters‚ themes and images/symbols 2. Strong familiarity with the playtext‚ with well-chosen brief tags inserted 3. Good knowledge of essay structure/expectations 4. Practice with managing an unseen question prior to the exam 1. KNOWLEDGE OF PLAY
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The timeless Swan Lake is today prized as one of the world’s greatest and most renowned classical ballets to ever exist. For over one hundred years Swan Lake has been performed‚ adapted and rewritten innumerable times to enthrall a wide range of audiences all across the world. Whilst the foundation of how Swan Lake began and came to be is still‚ to some extent‚ unknown‚ it is widely believed that the production was originally choreographed by Julius Reisinger with the accompaniment of celebrated
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In both “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare‚ and Tears of a Tiger‚ by Sharon Draper‚ both of the protagonists commit actions that would result in them both being placed in the Hall of Shame. The protagonist in Tears of a Tiger is Andy‚ a Junior in High School. After one of his high school basketball games‚ he is driving under the influence of alcohol with his three friends and crashes his car‚ resulting in his best friend’s death. This story is about the recovery process Andy takes to overcome
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Missing Modesty As we were told when we were young children‚ too much of a good thing is not a good thing. The same phrase can apply to aspects in lives now. Literature shows how pride can be a good thing‚ but too much of it is not. In fact‚ the opposite of pride‚ humility‚ is an extremely important value. The Bible and Edith Hamilton’s Mythology both show how a lack of the value humility will result in consequence through characterization and plot. Within Greek mythology‚ the Gods constantly
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In the book “Lord of The Flies”‚ by William Golding‚ the children that are stuck on the island‚ keep to their own age groups and do different things around the island. Some of them help out‚ others not so much. The older boys‚ like Ralph‚ Jack‚ Roger‚ Simon‚ Piggy‚ and some of the hunter that Jack finds. These boys act as the “adults” of the island‚ they start by building a fire on top of the mountain to use as a smoke signal to flag down ships passing by. They also‚ (with the idea from Piggy yelling)
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It is widely known that the United States was founded by descendants of Europeans that were seeking religious refuge and freedom. However‚ to the lay-historian‚ the labels “Puritan” and “Pilgrim” are often used interchangeably in reference to the English colonists of the New World. This is an honest mistake; there is much ambiguity even in historical texts regarding the differences between Puritans and Pilgrims. The most erroneous assumption seems to be that the Pilgrims of Plymouth colony were Puritan
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Milkweed‚ “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books‚” and “ The Guard. This is all about children experiencing life during the Holocaust. These passage have a lot of difference and similarity about life during the holocaust. Some similars and reason are that both of text 1 and 3 both don’t like the Nazis. Some evidence to support that they both don’t like the nazis is‚ “I hated having to hide and listen to them search for us. It would scare me to death. Another piece of evidence
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Popular culture is defined as all of the ideas‚ knowledge‚ information‚ creative works and principles expressed or enjoyed by a majority of a population at a given time. Representations of Jazz‚ in the 1920s‚ brought assort open-minded relationships in this era; it also influenced women to break from previous social standards and become more ‘equal’ to men. Two texts‚ which are associated with this topic‚ are an advertisement for ‘Lucky Strike Cigarettes’ and the novel The Great Gatsby. Both texts
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Film noir is a genre of cinematic film marked by a menacing‚ fatalistic tone that is achieved through characteristics such as infinite‚ unbroken darkness. Cyberpunk‚ conversely‚ is a genre of science fiction‚ set in a society that is tyrannised by the advancement of computer technology. Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner‚ a film adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s original science fiction novel‚ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? combines certain cyberpunk and film noir conventions to achieve a metropolis
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INDIAN SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIES V/S CHINA SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIES Summary India and China both are Asian countries and are neighbors. Both has the population over billions and are suffering with more or less the same problems related to social‚ political or economic issues. Both have the capability to become the superpower and both the countries want to become the dear one in the eye of the western countries. With all these and many more similarities there is one more truth which is not
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