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    Good morning sir and fellow students. Significant events are pivotal in enriching ones understanding of their identity‚ which leads to an understanding of where they belong in the world. This is shown through our prescribed text “The Simple Gift” composed by Steven Herrick; as well as Tim Winton’s “The Turning”. | Steven Herrick’s free verse novel explores this value of events that shape a persons identity and hence their sense of belonging in their world.  The cause of his alienation appears to

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    Explore how Priestly presents and develops the relationship between Shelia and Mrs. Birling in ‘An Inspector Calls’. Priestly uses dialogue and stage directions to show a void between different generations. Although Mrs. Birling is Shelia’s mother she still refers to her as a ‘girl[s]’. The audience can sense Mrs. Birling’s condescending tone and how she still retains the view that Shelia is an immature and ignorant ‘girl[s]’ even though she is a fully grown adult who will soon be wed. This is ironic

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    In the play "No Sugar"‚ Jack Davis uses language effectively with the clever use of techniques. The language is used by Davis to construct the characters and present the issues regarding the discrimination of aborigines during the Great Depression. Davis uses a range of different types of languages techniques in the play "No Sugar"‚ which include the Nyoongah language‚ formal English‚ informal English‚ and tone to shape the readers response. The native Nyoongah language is used frequently throughout

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    Language Feature Definition General Effect Example Explanation of Example Metaphor Comparison of one thing to another. It says “that one thing IS another” Can visualise object clearly to comparison drawn “skull-like coconuts” “the sea is a hungry dog” Allows us to imagine the colour and shape and texture of the coconuts being deadly hard dented and discoloured like skulls. Personification Giving something human characteristics Bring the object to life The sea stretched

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    It is certainly true to say that belonging and not belonging is determined by the relationships a character has with others and the world. Being accepted and having shared experiences with others and having genuine connections with ones environment is crucial to feelings of belonging. This is clearly evident in the verse novel The Simple Gift‚ composed by Steven Herrick‚ and further demonstrated in Ania Walqicz’s “Australia”. These texts show that without relationships with others and the world‚

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    1. Functional Styles in Modern English The Notion of Functional Style. Functional style as “having social relevance‚ functionally determined‚ displaying inner coherence combination of ways of usage‚ choice and combination of means of speech communication in the domain of a certain national language‚ correlated with other ways of expression of the same type‚ which attain other aims and fulfill other functions in the social communicative experience of the people”\V.V.Vinogradov\. Functional

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    “Art for Heart’s Sake” “Art for Heart’s Sake” is a short story written by Reuben Lucius “Rube” Goldberg‚ an American cartoonist‚ sculptor‚ author‚ engineer‚ and inventor‚ who lived between 1883 and 1970. He is best known as a cartoonist and a founding member of America’s National Cartoonists Society. Collins P. Ellsworth is a wealthy 76-year-old businessman who is being treated for a form of compulsive buying disorder‚ otherwise known as oniomania: His uncontrollable buying habits—he can hardly

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    BRITISH SLANG AND ITS CLASSIFICATION The understanding of the native speakers’ language is the international problem for our people. Our secondary schools teach the students only the bases of the English language. Our universities do not prepare them to the British streets‚ accommodations‚ pubs where people use their own language‚ the language that differs from that of their parents. They use other words- they use slang. None of the most advanced and flexible ways of teaching English of any country

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    Jordan Brown Mr. Ramshaw English 061 Feburary 11‚ 2013 A Day In Kid Hell Have you ever been to Chuck E. Cheese and not have fun? Because the last time I went for my younger sister’s birthday party it was an absolute nightmare. I had never been to Chuck E. Cheese before and had no clue what I was getting myself into. It always looked like a fun place for kids to be nice and share games and be on good behavior but I was wrong. I didn’t expect to see a kids everywhere being bad; climbing on

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    The text presented for analysis is an extract from the story “One Stair Up” by Campbell Nairne‚ dealing with the everyday life of average working-class family. The extract gives the readers a dynamic episode of their day-to-day experiences‚ providing them with an opportunity to observe the relationships both between the members of the family and between them and the society. Throughout the whole story we perceive the characters mostly by means of their internal monologues – implicit characterization

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