prescribed text will be Educating Rita by Willy Russel while my three related texts that I have chosen area film called the secret life of Walter Mitty‚ a poem Listening to Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney and last is Another loser has-been fades
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http://books.google.com.au/books?id=FGA72pS2dhkC&pg=PA96&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false Witness by Peter Weir This unit was prepared by Peter Yorke‚ St Marys Senior High School. About the film and director Film genre Story and plot Characters Setting Issues and themes Film techniques in Witness Camera placement Editing Close study of two important sequences Other techniques Writing tasks References About the film and director Witness is an
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Educating Rita – work undertaken by students –how growth and change (and obstacles to these) are explored in Act 1 Scene 1: * Door- ‘Stuck in a rut’. A barrier making a struggle to start a new beginning and put a divide between her old world and new world. ‘ Open one door‚ close another’. The door is a sign for Rita to re-think whether she really does want a change in her life and whether she really is ready to make a change. * Language- Dialogue revealing the different classes between
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and reads the inscription aloud; Frank: I’m gonna be dead clever ear and say ‘Education is not the filling of a bucket‚ but the lighting of a fire.’ W B Yeats. You lit my fire Frank. Maybe you’ll understand this now... Rita Frank: W B Yeats‚ Thanks for reminding me Rita ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ springs to mind again! The musings of a middle aged man like myself. I lost the appetite for being a poet long ago and now all I have left is nothing except the acrid taste of whisky in my mouth.
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Evaluating Educating Rita Educating Rita tells a story of a 26-year-old married hairdresser‚ Rita‚ who decided to get education by taking a course in English literature from the Open University. Through the development of the relationship between Rita and her alcoholic and cynical tutor‚ Frank‚ this story brings up many concepts in adult development and education. After watching the movie‚ I have a further understanding of the concepts of changes‚ motivation to learn‚ freedom‚ and stability. Rita is a
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Educating Rita Question: How is the concept of belonging presented in Educating Rita? Extract One: Act 1 Scene 1 Willy Russell explores the concept of belonging in the first scene of Educating Rita through language and dramatic techniques. It is evident from the moment that Frank and Rita meet that their perceptions of belonging are vastly different. Rita’s entrance‚ "I’m comin’ in‚ aren’t I? It’s that stupid bleedin’ handle on the door. You wanna get it fixed!" shocks both Frank and the audience
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Belonging implies change‚ and change rarely comes without consequence. The progression to belong into a now culture or place may be physical‚ emotional or mental. Rita‚ driven by feeling inadequate is the main character in Willy Russell’s play‚ Educating Rita. She achieves a successful move into her new world. However‚ she must overcome change which will come at a personal cost. Throughout the play Willy Russell depicts many themes; these include relationships‚ choice and consequence‚ social class
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Stephanie Haberer Voces Latinas Rita Moreno On December 11‚ 1931‚ I was born in Humacao‚ Puerto Rico as Rosa Dolores Alverio. Rosa Maria‚ my mother and hardworking seamstress saved up every penny for us to move after her and my father divorced. At five years old‚ my mother and I moved to the next chapter in our lives in New York City. As coming into the United States‚ my mother changed my last name to Moreno after my stepfather. One day while I was dancing to a record in my living room
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through experience and general reading. Formal education includes the open university (OU). In some cases there are people who for various reasons can not complete their studies at college‚ in such cases they attend this institutions to finish them. Rita‚ for example‚ was a young woman who wanted to continue her studies and aquire greater knowledge and culture to enrolled. This type of education show us the importance of continue our studies or complete them‚ and show us eldery people who discover
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Comic conventions in ’Educating Rita’ The 1980’s play Educating Rita by Willy Russel shows many of the main features of comedy. It involves two different societies clashing‚ for example. Rita‚ a hairdresser who comes from a working class family and is married to Denny whose aim in life is to have a baby‚ wants to get educated. She meets Frank‚ her tutor in the open University who comes from an upper class family. In the beginning‚ Rita appears to be the typical working class women. She is
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