Text One: The China Coin. The China Coin is a short fiction novel for adolescents composed by Allan Baillie‚ released in 1991. The text explores the instinctive human need we feel to belong culturally‚ within our family and to belong to a peer group. Following the life of an Eurasian teenager named Leah and her mother‚ Joan‚ as they journey to China in search of the missing half of a broken coin‚ which Joan’s father sent her before he passed away. The coin is the only connection the women have
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URBAN COIN RESEARCH PAPER (NORTHERN IRELAND) Introduction Insurgency is one of the oldest as well as common ways of warfare. Statistics reveal that in the last 100 years‚ there has been an increase in the number and intensity of insurgencies‚ especially urban insurgency. In order to defeat the urban insurgency‚ it is vital for counter-insurgency forces to understand the dynamics of the urban environment in that rebel forces often hide in the shadows of the non-partisan civil population1. Special
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(1) I had no life earlier. I was a metal. Some more metals like silver‚ zinc etc.‚ were mixed and made into an alloy. The State mint gave me a shape‚ a life and a new name. I am a newly born one rupee coin and I joined the heap of my elder brothers minted earlier. Some more younger to me minted later joined me in the heap. All of us were glittering and shining‚ waiting without knowing our future. One day the Manager of the mint moved us to the weighing machine. Weighing thousands of us at a time
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Area of Study: Belonging AREA OF STUDY: * Explore and examine relationships between language and text and interrelationships among texts. * Synthesize ideas to clarify meaning and develop new meanings. * Take into account context‚ purpose and register‚ text structures‚ stylistic features‚ grammatical features and vocabulary. * Perceptions and ideas of belonging/not belonging. * Personal‚ historical‚ cultural and social contexts. * Connections made with people‚ places‚
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Viva coce ’belonging’ What does the concept of beloning mean to you on a personal level? Belonging to me on a personal level means to be appreciated‚ that your thoughts and veiws are regognised and respected. A sense of comfort in a place or people that you can tell them and they wont judge me. But really‚ to just have a place‚ a spot‚ in other peoples hearts. How may our sense of beloning make us feel accepted and deepen our relationships. Well personally from my own context‚ I understand belonging
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The Teaching of English as a Second Language (ESL) in Japan I first came to Japan in mid July 1999. I was selected‚ in Ireland‚ to be an instructor on the Japan English Teaching (JET) Programme. The JET Programme is a Japanese government scheme to promote the teaching of English in schools all over the country. How? Invite 3‚000 foreigners every year to help teach the language‚ about 50 of whom come from Ireland. Japan is a country where the same political party (the LDP) was in power for
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needed‚ if there is a lack of understanding then belonging within ceases to exist. Peter Skrzynecki‚ the poet of the anthology Immigrant Chronicle and Robert Zemeckis‚ director of academy award winning film Forrest Gump both look at addressing the importance of belonging and the need for understanding in order to belong. The poem 10 Mary Street by Peter Skrzynecki exemplifies the lack of understanding the persona conveys and the lack of belonging in which is caused through this. This is seen through
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Good morning‚ fellow students and teacher/adjudicators In my humble opinion‚ Belonging is the inherent nature of humans to connect with others. This statement means that we‚ -as humans- have an underlying need to belong‚ to feel safe and to feel wanted. On the other hand Google defines belonging in 2 ways. The first one: To be rightly placed in a specified area. This links belonging to a place‚ whether it be a physical location or a certain mindset. The second definition is: To be rightly classified
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To what extent is an individual’s sense of belonging determined by external forces? Support your response by close reference‚ to how ideas about belonging are represented in your prescribed text‚ and at least one other related text of your own choosing. As human we all desire the constant necessity to belong; to family‚ cultural and social groups and to places - in particular our homeland. This essential instinct humans hold to belong allows meaningful and enriching connections and relationships
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Essay “A sense of belonging requires an understanding of one’s past.” Although the main aspect of this quote is referring to the past; in other words time‚ it could also mean features of the past‚ such as people‚ places‚ past experience etc. These aspects of belonging are extensively shown within Peter Skrzynecki’s ‘Immigrant Chronicle’; in particular the poems ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’ and ‘in the folk museum’. Belonging and all of its aspects are also shown through the movie ‘Dead Poets society’ and
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