There has been constant debate on weather leaders are born or are they made. There are leadership theories to support this statement or to disprove this statement. This idea is backed up by the trait theory which says that all good leaders are born with special traits that helps them become a good leader‚ and people with out those traits will not be able to become good leaders. However with the behavioral theories‚ things are focused on what a good leader actually does compared to only focusing on
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How has the study of the connection between your set texts shaped your understanding of context and values? The exploration of William Shakespeare’s play ‘King Richard III’ and Al Pacino’s 1996 doco-drama film ‘Looking for Richard’ reveals the explicit relationships between each text and their respective audience. The Elizabethan and twentieth century contexts in each of these texts are important as it demonstrates the value of each text and enables the understanding of how the film enriches the
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In the poem he’s looking back at a moment of choice‚ and reflecting on how‚ at that moment in the past‚ not knowing where the chosen path would lead‚ he looked forward to the future‚ knowing that at some point in the future he would look back with knowledge of what had ensued‚ and would wonder what might have happened had he made the opposite choice. The phrase "with a sigh" is deliberately ambiguous as to it being a positive or negative judgement‚ because his past self‚ looking forward to the sigh
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In the film ‘Looking For Alibrandi’‚ Josie must learn to deal with a whole range of issue. How and why does Josie change? ‘Looking For Alibrandi’ is a film about growing-up which shows us Josie’s journey in searching for her identity and her sense of belonging. This movie is directed by Kate Woods and based on the book which has the same name. In the film‚ Josie has learnt to deal with a range of issue which helps her find out who is she. Her attitude to Michael (her Dad) had changed very clearly
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PERSONAL RESPONSE TO LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI The novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta (1993)‚ is about a young 16 year old girl named Josephine Alibrandi trying to find herself in her final year of high school. It shows high and lows throughout the novel with Josie finding her father and starting a relationship with him‚ to losing her close friend John Barton from suicide. There are many themes in the novel such as Family‚ Relationships‚ Search for identity and MULTICULTURALISM. The narrative
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EN 1011 Academic Writing 8-10-2013 Orestis F. Tutor: Petros Z. “Looking at Women” Analysis Essay (Final Draft) The term “Gaze” was first introduced by Jacques Lacan and it describes the nervousness that someone feels when he realizes that he is being viewed. In the second rise of feminism in the 60’s one of the many topics that had been discussed among the social scientist and people all over the world for many years was the male gaze. Some people
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"Time to get up!" "Okay!" I answer back‚ while rolling out of bed‚ and standing up. I look at myself in the mirror a girl who has wavy‚ curly brown hair looking back. I have blue eyes‚ the colour of faded dark denim. I sighed. ’Yep‚ that’s me’ I thought. I sighed again‚ and got ready for school. My name is Adriana McPherson. I am 15½ years old. I live with my mum‚ dad‚ and my two older brothers. I am in Year 10 at Angel’s Catholic Secondary School‚ a co-ed school in which Years 9-12 attend. I am
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The title of Wallace Stevens poem‚ "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird‚" is misleading‚ because he does not only offer thirteen ways of looking at blackbird‚ but the poem offers us many insights on how humans think. "Blackbird"‚ written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon‚ has many similarities with "Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Blackbird" other than just their titles. They use many poetic conventions to explain their poem ’s ideas‚ both writers use a blackbird to compare to humans and human
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Good morning/afternoon Throughout my comparative study of texts and context‚ I have explored various connections shared between William Shakespeare’s ‘Richard the 3rd’ and Al Pacino’s ‘Looking for Richard’. As both of these items are based on the same character‚ King Richard the 3rd‚ they share a lot in common. The connection that I have chosen to concentrate on though is the idea of power‚ and how both texts explore this theme. William Shakespeare is an extremely famous English
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Chapter 6 of Hirshfield’s Nine Gates entitled “Two Secrets: On Poetry’s Inward and Outward Looking” talks of the subjective‚ reflective‚ and objective modes of poetry. Hirshfield provides examples of all three modes and the risks that they carry‚ such as a subjective poem: “The lapse into solipsism‚ pitfall of the worst Romantic poems‚ continues to throw a sentimental fog over many people’s idea of what poetry is." Hirshfield envisions a hierarchy‚ with the subjective voice being more immature and
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