I just watched a Ted Talk that explains the effects of stress and how different mindsets can affect your life. Generally, people see stress as a bad thing which can affect you in multiple different ways like increased heart rate and blood pressure. However, if people can see stress as a good thing by thinking […]
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Concepts (TOK reflection)
In the first unit of TOK, it was on concepts, in this unit I really understood the importance of understanding and opinions. It is very important to analyze and understand certain concepts to not reach certain assumptions about people and what they do. It is also important to look at different scenarios in different perspectives […]
ADH Essay-Reflection
The following are 2 things about my essay writing that I am proud of my use of a variety of devices and my understanding of the themes in the play. Through practice, I’ve learned that I’m really good at understanding underlying themes and using the right devices for certain quotes because I’ve demonstrated that I […]
Ibsens quotes
In this quote ” If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug. HENRIK IBSEN, letter to Björnstjerne Björnson, Sept. 12, 1865″ This shows that he feels that it is very important that we can express ourselves in the way we feel. He clearly felt that […]
19th Century Norway
1.) It has recently gone into independence 2.) the economy was booming 3.) The amount of upper-middle-class people were increasing so income disparity was decreasing because before with very little people in the middle-class most of the people who are middle class now are considered rich back then. So they had a lot of power […]
Are Henrik Ibsen’s words true today?
I feel that Ibsen’s words are true today. Not as bad as it was back in the 19th century however it still exists. There are a lot of examples. I feel that in some governments the majority of the people working in the government are men. For example, in the United States Of America, the […]
Shangyu Foundational Story
Shangyu did the foundational story Journey To The West. The Journey To The West story is about a person called Tan Sanzang who travels to reach the west. He and his 4 disciples have to go through 81 trials and a lot of suffering. There has been a lot of adaptations of this story like . […]
Personal Statement 2018
This year has been a great as I have made a lot of progress with my academics and other aspects of my education. Before the obvious I also want to take about mentor time which has been nice. Mentor time is a time where we get some music and we just relax and do our […]
Which lessons from ‘gaming culture’ could be used in a Global Perspectives unit?
The blue idea really shows that in this even though a lot of people talk about how girls have it hard as they are all shown as perfect but also men are shown perfect in video games. I was wondering is there a way to change this without affecting the game in a bad way?
Macbeth Act 1 Summary
Shakespear uses a lot of dramatic techniques in his writing. He uses dramatic irony a lot and also uses juxtaposition, aside, metaphor soliloquy etc. Shakespear also 2 ways to talk about Macbeth. Direct and indirect characterisation. An example with indirect characterisation is when in Act 1 Scene 2 where the captain talks very highly about […]