w w w e tr .X m eP e ap .c rs om IGCSE SYLLABUS 0476 IGCSE SYLLABUS 0486 O LEVEL SYLLABUS 2010 STORIES OF OURSELVES: THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH NOTES FOR TEACHERS on the short stories set for examination in June and November Years 2013‚ 2014‚ 2015 * © University of Cambridge International Examinations [ * NOTE: There are separate documents about the different selections of stories set for examination in years 2007- 2009
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Caribbean people are faced with daily. The stories that will be discussed in more detail include; Leaving this Island place‚ In foreign parts‚ Mammie’s form at the post office‚ My Brother’s keeper‚ This old men used to dance‚ and lastly To Da-Duh in Memoriam. In each of these short stories the main topic that will be focused on will be migration and immigration in and out of the Caribbean’s‚ and the struggles that the people faced. I also will include my end perception of the stories. Starting with
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to assert himself over the rest of the group‚ then when he knows he will be caught he exerts a lot of pressure onto Jared‚ asking him to lie to the police. There is very subtle peer pressure when the girls are trying top raise funds for a tree in memoriam of Tracy‚ and none of the boys will donate money in fear of ?being paid out on?. Peer pressure is evident when Jared doesn?t speak out about the rape‚ which he witnessed. Most of the adults that act as ?role models? are not treated as such by the
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The Victorian era‚ from the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837 until her death in 1901‚ was an era of several unsettling social developments that forced writers more than ever before to take positions on the immediate issues animating the rest of society. Thus‚ although romantic forms of expression in poetry and prose continued to dominate English literature throughout much of the century‚ the attention of many writers was directed‚ sometimes passionately‚ to such issues as the growth of English
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Looking for Alibrandi: “Looking for Alibrandi” was written by Melina Marchetta. The novel confronts many issues facing today’s society every day‚ it is especially focussing on a teenagers view of growing up and what they have to deal with. Josephine Alibrandi is the main character and throughout the novel she confronts many different issues which are very realistic in today’s society‚ this makes her very easy for the reader to relate to and makes Josie seem much more realistic. The reader is able
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On the 15th day of the Chinese Lunar Calendar‚ individuals of Chinese descent throughout the globe will be celebrating the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival‚ also known as the Mooncake Festival. It is the third major celebration on the Chinese lunisolar calendar which incorporates elements of both a lunar calendar and solar calendar‚ which is not uncommon among Asian cultures. This year‚ the Mid-Autumn Festival took place on the 29th of September. As it has always been in Malaysia‚ the festival was
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Alfred Tennyson‚ Matthew Arnold‚ and Robert Browning express their viewpoints through poetry. Alfred Lord Tennyson’s In memoriam AHH expresses the change of the seasons and the celebration of Christian feasts starting with despair and growing with hope. Tennyson was moved to write this long religious poem because of the death in 1833 of his friend Arthur Hallam. The poem opens
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Of White Hairs and Cricket Rohinton Mistry The subject of mortality and acceptance of the pure reality is explored in this passage through the innocence of the narrator and his growing acceptance. The story drops the reader into a scene where the boy is plucking his ageing father’s grey hairs. The tone in the first few paragraphs indicates the boy’s reluctance to do the task‚ which is antithetical to the end of the story where his enthusiasm sparks up due to his epiphany. The plucking of the
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With Campbell’s Soup Can (Tomato) Andy Warhol takes as his subject a ubiquitous staple food found in millions of American homes and turns it into high art. With the unique candor he displayed in the best of his early Pop art works he appropriates the curved lines and iconic graphic imagery of a tin of canned soup and re-examines them in the context of their pure visual qualities. Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans transformed him into an overnight sensation when they were first exhibited in Los
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and even though the process came to an end‚ it’s finality didn’t detract from its value. Love has the power to make someone and or even break someone; it has the power to enhance and develop someone’s life. The extract from Tennyson’s poem “ in Memoriam “ gives us the intense feeling of his love for his friend Hallam.
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