Advanced English - Essay Explore How ’The Queen’ & Two Other Related Texts Of Your Own Choosing Represent History & Memory In Unique & Evocative Ways History consists of what is known‚ remembered and recorded about the past in as objective a way as possible. Memory can be a fragmented yet still valid perspective on the past which enables History to fill in the gaps. The concepts of History & Memory are featured in the texts‚ ’The Queen’‚ a film directed by Stephen Frears‚ ’Kurt Cobain’s Suicide Letter’
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Elective 2: History and Memory (20 marks) Analyse the ways history and memory generate compelling and unexpected insights. In your response‚ make detailed reference to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing. History and memory both provide adequate insights into the past‚ but it is through the consideration and combination of the two that compelling and unexpected insights are generated. After having analysed and studied a selection of poems from Denise
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what extent has textual form shaped your understanding of history and memory? In your response‚ make detailed reference to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text. The textual form of the poetry of Denise Levertov and the recount Pure Torture by Tom Moe has shaped the reader’s understanding of history and memory to a great extent. While history is represented generally as objective‚ impersonal‚ factual and static‚ memory is represented as subjective‚ personal‚ fragmented and fluid
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in the poem “History” initially conveys an objective tone that shifts to a playfully mischievous tone which then transitions to a morbidly depressing tone. In the beginning of the poem‚ the speaker describes Grandma with eyes that are “small with sleep” and how she crushes chiles with a “stone brought from Guadalajara.” The way the speaker depicts Grandma’s eyes can be described as neutral and factual. The Guadalajaran stone represents Grandma’s past history‚ hence the title of the poem. Despite
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Memory and history share a unique dependent relationship with one another‚ and through the study of Mark Bakers’ The Fiftieth Gate along with Christopher Koch’s Highways to a War it becomes evident that the combination of history and memory brings meaning of past events to the present. French historian Pierre Nora once said that ’history is a representation of the past; memory is a perpetually actual phenomenon‚ a bond tying us to the eternal present’‚ therefore implying history is a record of
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Essay History and memory are both needed to uncover human experiences. We are already aware‚ from ourselves‚ that memory can be defined as recalling or recognising ones past and previous experiences and events; however memory is dependent on one’s involvement and personal perception of their past. History is the meaning of documented records of past events‚ usually written as a chronological account. Both history and memory share a deep relation to the truth‚ however‚ also give separate meanings
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sTrial Examination History and Memory Essay Stephen Frears 2006 Film The Queen and Tanka Luckins novel The Gates of Memory consciously represent aspects of history and memory to give the responder a deeper understanding of the events in the texts. The events being the death of Princess Diana in 1997 and the 75th anniversary of the end of the Great War in 1993. Both composers had a purpose of their texts in which they wanted to portray to their audiences. Stephen Frears being to give audiences
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novel‚ The Holocaust: History and Memory. Black is a Professor of history with a Ph.D. from the University of Durham who teaches at Exeter University. In The Holocaust: History and Memory‚ Black investigates the Holocaust that took place during World War II and how it has been commemorated as well as disregarded from the public’s eye. Furthermore‚ he explores the idea of German awareness and knowledge of the Holocaust during the Third Reich. The Holocaust: History and Memory are separated into 7
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your response to the poem. Suggest one or two activities that you might ask form 5 Malysian students to do in connection with the poem. The poem is about the persona is reminiscing her childhood memories. It describes the persona’s “Peranakan” household during the monsoon season. In the “Monsoon History”‚ the lines are arranged in a particular way to create effect and the choice of words that the poet is focused on engaging the audience to interact with the poem.
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