Lanark: Prose Commentary 1 Lanark Prose Commentary Retno Widyanti This extract from Lanark ‚written by Alasdair Gray‚ is a highly evocative piece of narrative prose. Set within a church in Lenzies‚ Glasgow‚ the excerpt illustrates the loss of love and theloss of self-belief which are inextricably intertwined for the character Duncan Thaw. Writtenin a post-modern style‚ it is also representative of the subjectivity of perception and its abilityto change with the passage of time. Duncan is forced
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and Prejudice • Hamlet What will the extract be like? • Length: 25 – 40 lines o Lines will be numbered (5‚ 10‚ 15‚ etc.) • No page numbers or book titles • No author listed (you should know this) • Will be accompanied by two guiding questions (GQ) o One GQ relates to content o One GQ relates to technique o You are not required to answer the GQ‚ but they could be helpful How long will I have for the IOC? • Preparation time – 20 minutes
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2013 Written Commentary 6: Venice by Jan Morris The author’s purpose is to describe the setting by contrasting her culture to Venice and by using irony to display the people‚ surroundings and daily life. A mother who just started living in Venice is telling us about the setting and her life in Venice. She uses irony‚ humor and contrast to build the imagery of the city and people. Throughout the passage the author uses irony to convey the surroundings and the image that the city is not somewhere
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includes underlying life lessons. According to Foster’s article‚ Every Trip Is A Quest‚ a quest narrative contains questers‚ a place to go‚ challenges and trials‚ a stated reason to go‚ and a real reason‚ self-knowledge. The video game‚ Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons‚ succeeds in using the quest narrative by implementing subconscious life lessons with every challenge that the brothers encounter in order to achieve the ultimate goal. Video games with quest narrative have become very popular because they
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Economics Commentary U.S. Employers slashed jobs for the third straight month in March and unemployment rose to a nearly three-year high‚ offering the latest signs that the economy has fallen into a recession. The Labor Department’s much anticipated report‚ released Friday the 4th of April‚ showed a net loss of 80‚000 jobs last month. That marks the third straight month that jobs have fallen - the longest period of decline since early 2003. Now having acknowledged that the US is in a recession
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In the passage two amazing tales memory MR:S memory affect his life by rember people places in court‚remembering a paragraph of a book it ‚and remembering all of the things about a person. Mr:S needed to defend himself in court.he picture the court of before he got to court in his mind.however when he got into the courtroom he was wrong the judge was on the left not the right‚and the courtroom look different then he picture in his mind.He end up losing the minor case.Incidents like this mess
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This one portrays two people in front of the confederate flag. On the left side there is a police officer pointing a gun at an african american child while wearing a Ku Klux Klan hoodie. The boy is holding sweeties and looking up at the officer in way that makes it look
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Form “Fire and Ice” follows an invented form‚ irregularly interweaving three rhymes and two line lengths into a poem of nine lines. Each line ends either with an -ire‚ -ice‚ or -ate rhyme. Each line contains either four or eight syllables. Each line can be read naturally as iambic‚ although this is not strictly necessary for several lines. Frost employs strong enjambment in line 7to great effect. Commentary An extremely compact little lyric‚ “Fire and Ice” combines humor‚ fury‚ detachment‚ forthrightness
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Comparative Commentary The two texts ‘Daddy‚ what did you do in the war against pollution?’ (text 2a‚ written in 1995) and ‘Stay Cool’ (text 2b‚ also written in 1995) are both dealing with the problem of global warming. While text 2a is an advertisement and text 2b is an excerpt from an editorial in the magazine ‘The Economist’‚ the texts are both for mass communication; the texts are available for everyone. I will analyse these two pieces in terms of content‚ point of view‚ structure and imagery
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Emily G September 6‚ 2013 The Chesapeake and New England: A Tale of Two Colonies England was late to the colonizing game‚ lagging behind both France and Spain. But when England did set foot in the New World it left its mark. The early English colonization of what is now America can be broken down into two main settlements‚ the Chesapeake colony and the New England colony. The Chesapeake colony‚ which originated as the Jamestown colony in Virginia‚ was settled in 1607. The Chesapeake colony
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