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Final Project Week Reflection

This is my second and final reflection on project week. This reflection is addressing Learning Outcome 3: Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience, as well as Learning Outcome 7: Recognise and consider the ethics of choices and… Continue Reading →

Project Week Initial Reflection

Here is my initial Project Week reflection. This reflection is addressing Learning Outcome 3: Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

Pages 29-31 “Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream—making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity,… Continue Reading →

Heart of Darkness – Page 14

“The edge of a colossal jungle, so dark-green as to be almost black, fringed with white surf, ran straight like a ruled line, far, far along a blue sea whose glitter was blurred by a creeping mist.” – Page 14… Continue Reading →

English Paper 1 Feedback – An Overview

What I think I did well: One positive aspect of my writing was that I was able to create a solid plan before beginning the writing process. Of course, time management during the test is extremely important and sometimes an… Continue Reading →

La Belle Dame Sans Merci – Negative Capability

John Keats’ poem, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, depicts a knight loitering on a hill having imagined an encounter with a beautiful woman.  The knight has a vivid dream with the woman of pale kings, princes, and warriors who all… Continue Reading →

The Great Gatsby – Part 2

Gatsby and Daisy’s inevitable encounter had been built up for a long time throughout the book, though it is not until page 83 do we, the reader, actually see them finally meet – almost halfway through the book. Gatsby’s smooth-talking… Continue Reading →

The Great Gatsby – Cynical or Romantic

The Great Gatsby is often regarded as a book that cynically deconstructs and conveys the American dream, centred around wealth and money, exposing how the whole ideology breeds a generation of greed. However, this is contrasted by its romanticised aspects. Nick’s… Continue Reading →

Earnest Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”

Today in class, having read some Hemingway short stories, it was interesting to contrast his writing to Fitzgerald, a writer we are also reading right now. I read “hills like white elephants” which is a story that ‘literally’ depicts a… Continue Reading →

What we talk about when we talk about love – Raymond Carver

In today’s class, we looked into the short story “what we talk about when we talk about love.” The book details two couples afternoon, drinking and talking about their thoughts on the concept of love. The text is narrated in… Continue Reading →

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