Prompt #2: Within Rita Dove’s poem “Daystar‚” there is a mother who feels helpless to the limitations of motherhood. In the poem‚ the mother is the poet‚ who describes her experiences of being a stay at home mother. Rita feels as if she has no privacy and her responsibilities as a mother are never ending “she wanted a little room for thinking: but she saw diapers steaming on the line.” Because of this‚ Rita feels as if she is unable to progress in her life “where she was nothing‚ pure nothing‚ in
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Educating Rita An exploration through a variety of texts that deal with ‘aspects of growing up and transitions into new phrases of an individual’s life’. This question in the HSC is usually a common question that invites the student to apply their text and individual other related material to the question. As such it is much easier to plan‚ organise and prepare a response. Students MUST remember that the question/task will be about ‘Into the World’‚ not Educating Rita! Any response requires
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Educating Rita Educating Rita by Willy Russell follows the protagonist‚ Rita’s‚ attempts to break away from her mundane and meaningless working class existence by gaining a University education. Through the help from her reluctant tutor‚ Frank‚ Rita attempts to overcome the social constraints that prevent an individual from transferring between different social classes and solidify her position in the educated middle class. As both Frank and Rita attempt to escape the worlds that they belong to
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and reads the inscription aloud; Frank: I’m gonna be dead clever ear and say ‘Education is not the filling of a bucket‚ but the lighting of a fire.’ W B Yeats. You lit my fire Frank. Maybe you’ll understand this now... Rita Frank: W B Yeats‚ Thanks for reminding me Rita ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ springs to mind again! The musings of a middle aged man like myself. I lost the appetite for being a poet long ago and now all I have left is nothing except the acrid taste of whisky in my mouth.
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Road to Redemption “There is a way to be good again” (2) is not only a relapsed statement in Khaled Hosseini’s first novel‚ The Kite Runner‚ but also a reoccurring theme in his second novel‚ A Thousand Splendid Suns. Through the comparison of his two novels‚ the characters ultimately struggle to find their personal road to redemption. The protagonist of The Kite Runner‚ Amir returns to Afghanistan to redeem himself of a memory that has been haunting him for the past twenty-six years by saving his
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imitation of inferior people’’. How far do you think that this applies to the character of Rita in the play ‘Educating Rita’? Educating Rita is a play that uses the colloquialism of the main protagonist‚ Rita‚ to create the comedy element for the audience when she is being tutored by Frank‚ an untypical university lecturer who works in the setting of 1980’s northern England. In interpreting the characteristics of Rita‚ it can be identified that comedy is indeed an imitation of inferior people as highlighted
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The Story of Redemption and Regeneration There is no greater story that parallels salvation and redemption like the Exodus account. According to the Miriam dictionary‚ redeem is defined as “to make (something that is bad‚ unpleasant‚ etc.) better or more acceptable; to exchange (something‚ such as a coupon or lottery ticket) for money‚ an award‚ etc.; to buy back (something‚ such as a stock or bond).” The story of the great “exodus” we can see this definition in its fullest come to life. Over the
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Educating Rita – work undertaken by students –how growth and change (and obstacles to these) are explored in Act 1 Scene 1: * Door- ‘Stuck in a rut’. A barrier making a struggle to start a new beginning and put a divide between her old world and new world. ‘ Open one door‚ close another’. The door is a sign for Rita to re-think whether she really does want a change in her life and whether she really is ready to make a change. * Language- Dialogue revealing the different classes between
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Throughout St. Rita of Cascia’s life‚ she suffered through excruciating pain and conquered many trials. Even during her toughest times‚ she still stuck by God’s side and allowed him to play out his plan. Until the time of her death‚ St. Rita fought to please others till she finally reached her goal. St. Rita has become a prime example of a strong woman just by her life teachings and extraordinary actions. St. Rita of Cascia was born in 1381 in Roccaporena‚ Italy and she was considered to be a miracle
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Islamic Azad University - Takestan Branch English Language Department Master ’s Research Proposal Entitled: The effect of Task-based Instruction and Content-based Instruction On the comprehension and Production of Existential Constructions by Iranian EFL Learners February 2012 Introduction The acquisition and appropriate use of grammatical constructions have always been one of the significant dimensions of foreign language teaching. They have always been at the center of attention in
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