Lady Macbeth throughout her scenes is deceived as this evil, cold-hearted woman and is very easy for the audience to only think of her like this, but I think she has a more complex character. From the beginning, she has been a strong figure that shows determination and even some cruelty. She pushed Macbeth to […]
Category: English
Reflection: Writers fortnight 2019
“Our student-writers rose to the challenge, producing authentic, responsible and powerful pieces.” How far does this describe your experience? Consider the insights [to journalistic storytelling, to our community] that you gained and the personal rewards and challenges of the process. This experience has quite a challenge for me, but very eye-opening is a sense of […]
Writers Fortnight: Are we living among Monsters?
Are we living among Monsters? The word monster is associated with evil. When we hear the word monster we traditionally think of the big, red eyes beast that lives under our beds or the lone black figure lurking in the darkness instead of ourselves, but when it comes to ‘the bad guy’ most […]
ENG writers fortnight: Mission to save endangered wildlife.
I have heard a lot about the environment and animals and what we can do to save them so I thought this talk was going to be about the same things that we have seen many times before. This talk, however, was different. The speaker talked about her passion towards what she does and how […]
ENG writers fortnight: fostering children, when it doesn’t work out
Going into this talk I didn’t know what to expect. I had heard about fostering children before, but not in this much detail. Taking in a troubled child expecting to make a better life for them in a short period of time that you have them isn’t a reality. The speaker that came in didn’t have […]
ENG writers fortnight: My life as a criminal Phychologist
I was very taken aback by this speaker because he was talking about the subject criminal psychology that I had never talked or heard about before. The speaker told us about what he experienced when working with clients and who they and different, but still just like you and me. Before I thought that there was […]
ENG writers Fortnight: Refugee Story
Coming into this interview, I was expecting a visitor coming into the school to tell us about there journey like talks we have heard, but instead, Joy Haugen for the UWC service department talk about her experience when she was younger. I used to think that refugees seem like they were all from another part on […]