similarities to his life; for example both he and Rita were female hairdressers and were under-educated at school. The play is written as a comedy and shows the change in character and personality of a young woman‚ Rita‚ through her education at an Open University and also her effect on her tutor Frank. Russell creates humour through the class difference between her and Frank‚ developing their relationship throughout the play through the time they spend together and the change they act on each other. This
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break away from this lower class/restricting stereotype to blossoming and finding herself in the world of education. The opening scene portrays to us the two completely different worlds in which Rita and Frank live. Rita has enrolled in an Open University course as she sees education as a way of moving out of her world; she feels out of step with her working class background and wants to discover herself first before having a baby and tying herself down for life. Rita’s constant desire to ‘know
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Literacy rates of 15-24 years old‚ both sexes‚ percentage Year | Value | 1991 | 61.9 | 2001 | 76.4 | 2007 | 82.1 | Literacy rates of 15-24 years old‚ men‚ percentage Year | Value | 1991 | 73.5 | 2001 | 84.2 | 2007 | 86.7 | Literacy rates of 15-24 years old‚ women‚ percentage Year | Value | 1991 | 49.3 | 2001 | 67.7 | 2007 | 77.1 | Literacy Rate in India - To know development in a society‚ Literacy is another proper indicator of economic development. For purpose of census
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Explore the way Rita is presented in the play ‘Educating Rita’ At the beginning of the play Rita decides to sign up for Open University course. She is bored with her job as a hairdresser and is in an unhappy marriage. Rita feels held back by her local community and believes that the only way to improve her life is through education. To begin with Rita believes that she needs to know “everything”. She tells Frank‚ her only tutor‚ that she does not visit the theatre or opera because she does not
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TMA02 Example: Theory of mind Block 2‚ Unit 1 – Psychology I have chosen to write my essay on theory of mind‚ because I found it interesting to see how a mind of a child develops an understanding of other peoples emotions and train of thought. My second topic is role play as this shows how a child builds relationships with family and friends. (Wimmer and Perner‚ 1983) carried out a classic psychological study. The experiment involved the use of two dolls‚ one called Sally and the other called
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status. As Rita continued into the world of education‚ there was friction in her marriage with her husband; Denny about her ongoing studies. Despite that Rita is expected to settling down and having a baby‚ she chooses to seek an education in the Open University‚ Denny wonders “where the girl he married has gone to”. Another occasion where Denny cannot figure out what Rita is planning is when she talks to him about having ‘choice’ in the course her life will take‚ “he thinks we’ve got choice because we
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second language (L2) teachers. This study examined the teachers’ and learners’ perceptions of listening skills in non-classroom learning situations. Five (n = 5) study skills teachers and 19 former learners in a distance study skills course at the University of the South Pacific (USP) were interviewed for this study. The interviews with the study skills teachers sought their expectations of their learners’ listening strategies‚ their views about the learners they taught‚ and the skills their learners
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difficulties of being working class and I am aware of the challenges people with this social background may endure. Similarly to Rita I also dreamed of better things‚ and returned to further education as a mature student attending evening classes at university‚ immersing in the delights of English literature. Host: Your mentor for Rita is Frank a flawed professor‚ why did you create such a complex mentor for Rita? W.R: Frank is perfect for Rita in his ‘imperfections’ as a real studious‚ pedantic
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In United Kingdom and Europe‚ the adults and volunteers working around the school‚ paid or not‚ have various names: learning support assistant‚ classroom assistant‚ special needs assistant‚ but the most common term is the one of teaching assistant. The teaching assistants are very important in primary schools‚ so much that at the moment it is nearly impossible to imagine things running as efficiently as they do‚ without the help of the teaching assistants. In the present there is a big deficit in
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TMA02 notes Transcribe the extract from CD-ROM Band 6:’Kitchen Floor’. Using this data and relevant theorists from E301‚ discuss the extent to which language creativity can be identified in everyday conversation in English. Language creativity can be identified in everyday conversations. Some theorists argue that some uses of spoken language do not just convey information but give a performance‚ indicating creativity. Utterances and patterning‚ which can be argued are an element of language creativity
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