GLOSSARY OF MEDIA TERMS This glossary is designed to give you technical terms to help you write in more detail about media texts. It includes many of the terms used in television‚ film‚ newspapers and marketing. |biased |One-sided rather than neutral or objective | |broadsheet newspaper |also sometimes called ‘the quality press’. | |
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The novela Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck focuses on the lives of several itinerant farmhand workers during the Great Depression on a ranch in Soledad‚ California. During this time period‚ there was still segregation between races‚ as well as very few support systems for people who were too old or who had a disability and could no longer work. Also‚ because of the Depression‚ many people were traveling across the country‚ looking for work. George and Lennie are two such people who work on ranches
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the other hand the gun is sensitive and fragile. Some descriptions are hard to interpret and are ambiguous. The revolver is mainly reflected positively and as though hypnotic to believe it’s positive. In addition to these descriptions‚ the characters within the novel have very strong views. Einar for example describes a gun as a “princess’s jewels in a case” this means that the gun is very valuable and is his pride. Einar loves guns and adores them and is his priced procession. On the other
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Langston Hughes once said‚ “Hold fast to dreams‚ for if dreams die‚ life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly”(qtd. In “Langston Hughes Quotes.”). In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men‚ two men named George and Lennie travel and work together to survive and they try to save enough money to achieve their dream of buying a ranch. Lennie is a big farmworker who has the personality of a little kid. He is very innocent and has no ability to comprehend unfamiliar things. He is very loyal to George
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Juxtaposition * Lenie and Curley‚ Lennie and Crooks‚ George and Lennie‚ and Lennie and Curley’s Wife Lennie and Curley = Lennie‚ being big and gentle‚ is juxtaposed with Curley‚ being small and mean and nasty‚ to show how these two clash because of their differences. With Curley being the mean guy in the book it makes Lennie look more innocent than he already is. For example when Curley was beating up Lennie‚ your anger towards Curley and your sympathy for Lennie both increased. Why?
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CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education MARK SCHEME for the October/November 2012 series 0500 FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH 0500/23 Paper 2 (Reading Passages – Extended)‚ maximum raw mark 50 This mark scheme is published as an aid to teachers and candidates‚ to indicate the requirements of the examination. It shows the basis on which Examiners were instructed to award marks. It does not indicate the details of the discussions that took
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Alicea 1 All you need is love An analysis of “Of Mice and Men” In the novel Of Mice and Men‚ John Steinbeck does an exceptional job of showcasing the different ways loneliness and companionship affect a man. He presents why having a friend is a prime source of motivation and pursuing the American dream and how loneliness deters that. Although George would constantly say that without Lennie
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will use data collected from our Environmental Quality Survey and our Traffic count. To carry out this study‚ we visited both Bourton-on-the-water and Charlbury. I went round in a group of four people and we all came to an appropriate final conclusion on each of the questions/observations asked of us. However due to any inaccuracies‚ we will be given a set of results that are most correct in future‚ to help us analyse the data as accurately as possible. The reason behind using Bourton-on-the-water
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techniques. Try to use at least one different persuasive technique in each body paragraph (2-4 sentences) L – Link the idea presented in this paragraph to your main contention (1 sentence) The same structure for body paragraph two and three. Conclusion: Re-iterate: Re-iterate your main contention. Try to use different words to portray the same meaning (1 sentence) Re-state: Re-state your three main arguments from your body paragraph‚ including how they prove your main contention to be accurate
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Of Mice & Men Chapter Questions Chapter 1 1) Look at the way both Lennie and George are first described. How is this initial description fitting when we find out more about each man? 2) Is the relationship between George and Lennie one of friendship‚ or does George only feel obligated to take care of Lennie? What evidence can you find to support either conclusion? 3) Why does Lennie have the dead mouse? Why does George take it away? 4) What happened at the last place where Lennie and
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