Looking back at my mock experience of paper 1, I realise that I turned a blind eye to the basic features such as the specific word choice and the use of colour which are essential features of the writer’s craft. Although I had a thesis statement, my line of argument is not immersed throughout my […]
English Language and Literature HL
Human Acts – Han Kang
The title “Human Acts” intrigued me as it is not a direct translation, yet it speaks volumes. Whilst the novel is centered around the atrocities during and after the Gwangju Uprising of 1980 in South Korea, it also shows a great deal of compassion expressed by human beings to one another through devastating times. One […]
My IO Global Issue
Global Issue: Power and authority allows for marginalisation and scapegoating of a common enemy. The idea of a common enemy is often created by institutes of power and their authority enables them to persuade and even coerce people to also form an alliance against these enemies. Although the people are deceived, they tend to play […]
Black Mirror
Season 3 Episode 3 – Shut Up And Dance Targetted people who were guilty and who THEY believed should be punished and outed to the world. (infidels, paedophiles, racists etc) The tasks they were given had no purpose for the anonymous threatener, it was more like a day of torture before the inevitable leak of […]
Hanna Alkaf – Diversity
Here’s my video reflection on the talk given by Hanna Alkaf. https://drive.google.com/file/d/18ZDro5imFplGOjGMQ4fBXjzbsRNNUG15/view?usp=sharing
REPRESENTING PEOPLE
Key Concepts that shaped my thinking: When we started this unit, misrepresentation of people was not a topic I had previously pondered upon thoroughly. Exploring stereotypes and authenticity of representing people and cultures have been very thought provoking through the works and issues we have explored in […]
Journalism
If the job of a journalist is meant to report news in the most objective and unbiased way possible, what pressures are on journalists which might make this difficult to achieve? Journalists are constantly exposed to new information and perspectives that the public is yet to find out about and this places a lot of […]