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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pre-Columbian era was like any other culture because power had man. The woman lacked rights‚ was sometimes treated as an object. For example‚ in one of the most developed pre-Columbian civilizations‚ the Aztecs‚ a situation occurred with the rights of women with the Malinche. She was a girl of the Aztec culture‚ who after a clash between tribes was ceded as a slave‚ because that was the tradition of those times. Later‚ Malinche was again ceded as a slave‚ but this time to Hernan Cortes by the cacique
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texts explore the differences in human nature; such as revenge and discrimination in the form of gender inequality and racial prejudice and this can be seen as a reflection it its context. Since these ideas are constant throughout both texts a comparative analysis would indicate the differing values of the society of each text. Shakespeare’s Othello has been crafted for an Elizabethan audience‚ thus he’s given importance to a higher supernatural figure as that was the belief of their time. In comparison
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I have been given the task of comparing three stories of suspense in three different styles of writing. During this essay I will discuss the way each story is written‚ how and why certain effects are achieved and what elements contribute to the mood and suspense of the story. Finally‚ I will conclude as to which story I have found the most successful. An important thing to look at when studying a story‚ in my opinion‚ is the title. Titles of some stories give away the plots or endings‚ where others
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Witness 1- Aztec merchant‚ Pochteca‚ Ollin Cuatl Witness 2- Spanish soldier‚ Aaron Vann Introduction- Lawyer- For the start I would like to thank your honour and members of the Jury‚ taking up your valuable time. My name is Alice Shiaw and as a lawyer‚ I am here to argue Hernan Cortez was guilty of the crime of destroying the indigenous culture of the Aztecs and I will be defending the Aztecs. I will prove his guilt by providing evidence that the Aztec economy was well organized and the Aztec empire
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Of Mice and Men- Essay ‘Of Mice and Men’ is fictional novella written by Nobel laureate John Steinbeck. This book explores the social ideology at the time of the 1930’s Great Depression. The book also discusses various hierarchies‚ and how power is used and misused. It also talks about life in the ranch in that era. Steinbeck has shown that the characters in the book all have dreams and how they overcome various challenges to fulfill them. The characters and events make the book a social commentary
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Mesa Verde or Machu Picchu Did the Mesa Verde or Machu Picchu have better civilization? The Mesa Verde had cliff dwellings‚ dams‚ and farming terraces and the Machu Picchu had a best preserved city. The two civilizations‚ Mesa Verde and Machu Picchu had good cliff dwellings‚ transportation‚ food‚ and resources. Mesa Verde has better cliff dwellings‚ an agricultural lifestyle‚ and baskets. The Mesa Verde people used sandals woven from yucca fiber. In the text‚ “ Artifact Gallery” it states
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Before the conquistadors arrived in the Aztec empire‚ the city Tenochtitlan had some unusual‚ natural disaster in which between the years of 1517 and 1519‚ the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan had an earthquake‚ then Lake Texcoco had flooded the capital city. The Aztecs believed these disasters warned of the fall of their empire and the return of their god. In 1519‚ the Spanish explorer‚ Hernan Cortes arrived on the east coast of Mexico and to make sure his men cooperated with him marching across the jungle
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Africa by Maya Angelou describes the country Africa from the point of view of African Americans. In the first stanza Angelou uses the geographical make up of the land to give humanizing features to the continetnt. She describes the mountains of Africa as her breast and her hair is the deserts. Line six‚ "two Niles her tears" describes the Nile river as flowing tears and reflects her pain. "Thus she has lain" in this stanza describes an African American woman’s struggle in Africa. This phrase is mentioned
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September 27‚ 2011 Comparative Critique Draft of “My Problem with Her Anger” and “The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be. How It Was” In the articles “My Problem with Her Anger” and The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be. How It Was‚” authors Eric Bartels‚ feature writer for the Portland Tribune in Portland‚ Oregon‚ and Hope Edelman‚ nonfictional writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times‚ Chicago Tribune‚ and Seventeen magazine‚ discuss the roles they play
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