‘Delilah’ by Carol Ann Duffy
Thesis statement: In this poem, Duffy challenges Biblical depictions of Delilah through the expression of an intimate and loving relationship between Delilah and Samson which gives rise to the liberation of Samson from the burden of his alpha masculinity.
Reflection 3: Football
The football season is now coming to an end and it is safe to say that this year, my football experience has been drastically different to any previous year. I would have never guessed that I would be faced with a global pandemic, let alone have one affect my footballing life. It has been strange […]
Reflection 3: Yoga Therapy with Tampines MINDS
As of now, I am just over halfway through my service programme, Yoga Therapy with Tampines MINDS. We have recently been granted permission to physically meet our partners to teach them yoga at our school. We each have one partner to work with and stick with the same partner throughout the whole programme in order […]
Grade 11 April Paper 1: Notes
My Key Takeaways: Explore ideas in more detail – if the main focus of the advertisement is sustainability, expand on this If possible, include more information regarding the context of the text When/where was it published? What was happening in the world at this time that can be linked to the text? E.g 1947 – […]
Reflection 2: Football
I am around halfway through the football season and I have just about gotten used to the new rules and regulations regarding COVID. For the first time, we are not able to travel overseas or even compete against other schools in Singapore. At first, I saw this to be a major set back as I […]
Reflection 2: Pottery
When I first started pottery, I found it to be much more challenging than I had anticipated. Although I was aware that it would be completely new and different to anything I had done before, the amount of processes and skills involved it took me by surprise. It took me a few weeks to get […]
EE Reflection #1
The LGBT community has been a prevalent topic of discussion throughout the entirety of my high school education and has always been of interest to me. Thus, I was really keen to include it in my EE as I know I will enjoy researching about it. The rights and treatment of the LGBT community is […]
‘Thetis’ by Carol Ann Duffy
In what ways can Thetis be understood as a poem about transformation and power? In her poem “Thetis”, Carol Ann Duffy presents the concept of power by following the story of Greek Goddess Thetis and her struggle to escape her male pursuer, Peleus. In the poem, we see Thetis trapped in a continuous cycle of shapeshifting […]
Liza Donnelly: Drawing Upon Humour For Change
What does Donnelly have to say about cartoons effecting change? Through her humorous but meaningful cartoons, Liza Donnelly aims to draw attention to the “stupid rules” we all tend to follow as a society regarding gender stereotypes, specific to womanhood. According to Donnelly, these are a set of universal rules which we are imprinted […]