Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker "Our Country’s Good‚" a play by Timberlake Wertenbaker‚ is about a group of English convicts bound for Australia by sea in 1788. In the first scene‚ Sideways‚ a convict on board the ship‚ is being brutally whipped and we are introduced to the constant‚ overwhelming fear‚ hunger and despair that the convicts are going through. We are also introduced to all the officials on board. They are debating the punishment of hanging that three of the convicts
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thoughts and how he interprets the world. Haddon’s use of basic diagrams of emotions suggests Christopher’s lacking ability to understand and connect to the emotions shown by others‚ only being able to understand the basic emotions such as “happy” and “sad” “because people’s faces move very quickly”. Also‚ by using illustrations of maps throughout the novel‚ Haddon deepens into Christopher’s condition and exposes the readers to some of his “behavioural problems”‚ one of which being Christopher’s strong
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The sadness moment in life It all started two years ago‚ at the time of the Vietnamese New Year. I never knew that meeting this person that would change my life. From the moment I met him‚ he changed my whole world. We began dating and falling in love several months after we met. I never thought that I would date an older man like him; a man whom is very different in personality from me. Loving him changed my life because I have found out more characteristics in me that I never knew I had. I get
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Disorder (SAD)‚ is defined by the National Institute of Mental Health as the fear of being judged by others and feeling
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AUDIO Japanese Doll: Oh! Boxing Doll: What’s the matter? Japanese Doll: I’m awake! Boxing Doll: Of course‚ you’re awake! It’s midnight! Japanese Doll: Midnight! Boxing Doll: All dolls wake up at midnight! Japanese Doll: Do they? Boxing Doll: Everybody knows that! Japanese Doll: Will… will they wake up‚ too? Boxing Doll: Look. They are dolls aren’t they? And it is midnight‚ isn’t it? And I told you before – all dolls wake up at midnight! Japanese Doll: Oh! Thank you.
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Jethro and Mr Sommers We had to create a still image ‘statue’ of Jethro. Underneath the statue‚ I chose to show Jethro as being hopeful. I was on my knees but had my fist clenched and to the side of me‚ suggesting that there were still issues with the way that people were treated‚ the time that the statue was meant to be made was during the peak of slavery. The clenched fist representing that Jethro and his fellow people would fight towards freedom. Dan played Mr Sommers‚ he stood with folded arms
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The TV Drama Love Child produced for channel 9 in 2014 set in King’s Cross in the late 1960s and early 1970s follows the lives of the staff and residents at King’s Cross hospital and Stanton House. At a time where unwed mothers were frowned upon‚ freedom was golden‚ woman had little rights and society controlled everybody’s beliefs. It was the beginning of a social revolution. A great representation of the time is reflected in the Matron as well. A combination of narrative and visual conventions
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The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England‚ who speak the English language. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin‚ when they were known in Old English as the Angelcynn. England is one of the countries of the United Kingdom and English people in England are British citizens. Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles‚ Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain in the fifth century AD.[8] Historically‚ the English population is descended from several peoples — the
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THE SHAVIAN THEATRE OF IDEAS (MODERN DRAMA) The predominating influence in determining Shaw to turn to the drama was the example of Ibsen and equally prominent was his love of debating‚ in which he had shown how irresistible it was for him to counter his arguments himself if no one else would. These influential strains compelled him to choose the kind of play in which the characters undertake this dual task of proposer and opposer. In 1892‚ he made it into Widower’s Houses‚ and thereafter‚ for
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ANEST MAROLLI READING V 03/09/2015 SPRING TERM ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS A POWERFUL TOOL Nowadays the world is becoming smaller by globalization. It is becoming so not only for the fact that you can be transported easily‚ and in a few hours or days to the farthest location on Earth‚ but also for the incredible speed you can be deliver and receive information from anywhere in the world. But these new features that our global society is experiencing‚ need also a skilled and well approved language
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