Write a 500-750 word Modern Love essay from the P.O.V. of a mythic or folkloric character. Bonus if you can illustrate it in the style of Brian Rea. Title : I didn’t mean to say I love you. I told you I was mute. You stood up and walked away. I thought you left me but […]
Month: May 2021
Medusa
I find the poem Medusa one of my favourite poetry done by Carol Ann Duffy. I think it might be because I found her powers well in this case curse to turn living things to stone cool. However when reading it, I felt a bit of sympathy towards her. Having done some prior research, Medusa […]
Mrs Aespo
Analysing the poem!! in this link
When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist
This text is not organized AT ALL like any fiction or non-fiction you have been taught to do for the IGCSE or other school tasks. Mark it into three sections (Beginning, Middle, & End). Does it have a thesis —a guiding idea— that the anecdotes and details support or prove or give nuance for? If […]
Aunt Julia and Chuck Close self portrait
2 portraits and how it connects to the global issue – Art, Creativity, and Imagination The 2 portraits Chuck Close self-portrait in 1968 Aunt Julia (love story/ writing) self-portrait in Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter Chuck Close His looks more realistic – just enlarging his face – not changing anything the “truth” just looks bigger […]
New words
caricature description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect enjambment the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza caesura pause in the middle on the line (coma/ full stop) lineation how lines […]
Transformation
Transformation is kind of like rewriting/ viewing a story in a different way. Such as the 3 little pigs – piglets were the victims and the wolf was evil however there is another version where the wolf was the victim being attacked by the piglets. What happens when a face is rendered at 9 times […]
Reflection on the writing
Based on the feedback, I’ve learned that I have a decent introduction and my paragraphs have been commenting on what I am reading from the text. What I need to do is analyze the text instead of just copying and pasting what is in front of me. I need to connect the extract with the […]
Parks and Ali
How is Parks shaping our understanding of his subject?” What aspects of Ali’s character are emphasized by Parks’ photography? How does Parks follow —and subvert (authority)— conventional sports portraiture, and popular expectations of black men or fighters? Boxing is a very intense sport and can cause injuries. The physical impact of boxing on Ali is […]
The Dress Promised Me Something the Doctors Couldn’t
It was about this girl who had an illness that the doctors were not able to identify or cure. They just had check-ups over and over again. It gave her no hope. She wasn’t sure if this was going to continue or if she was going to die the next day. The only thing that […]