knowledge and skills demonstrated. 1 Imagine you are Aunt Pegg. After one week of looking after the children‚ you write a letter to their parents in which you: • give your impressions of the children; • give an account of your progress with them so far; • tell your plans for the next week. Write your letter. Base it on what you have read in Passage A. You should write between 1½ and 2 sides‚ allowing for the size of your handwriting. For this question‚ 15 marks are allocated
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2012 Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers This poem portrays a main character‚ Aunt Jennifer‚ as a humble docile woman; smothered by her marriage and the norms she feels she must meet to please society. Adrienne Rich cleverly names the poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” because of the importance of the role the tigers play in her life. With a husband who dominates her in all respects‚ she must find her own freedom in her life by knitting in her free time. Aunt Jennifer‚ a woman on the backside of
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played a major role in supporting feudalism‚ especially when it came to the Great Chain of Being. The Great Chain of Being held a lot of power over people in the manor. The Great Chain of Being states that there is relative proportion of spirit to an object or anything at all (Melani). Meaning one matter may hold more spirituality than another. People on the manor strongly believed that God supported The Great Chain of Being‚ they thought he chose their parts in it (Lenehan 2). Which gave them a lot
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ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929) Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room Trying to talk with a Man Aoife O’Driscoll 2010 www.aoifesnotes.com Page 1 of 13 Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen‚ Bright topaz denizens of a world of green. They do not fear the men beneath the tree; They pace in sleek chivalric certainty. Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool Find even the ivory needle hard to pull. The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding
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and at that moment in the play‚ the audience would expect that a child of Eva’s age would be scared about leaving their family behind. The stage directions in this scene describe the emotion of Eva as being terrified and scared. This scene also shows what the Nazi supporters thought of the Jews as being scum as the officer takes Eva’s luggage and dumps it all on the train floor and draws a huge Star of David on her label. He also throws a sweet for Eva on the floor showing that he thinks he is of a
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The Great Chain of Being was an ideology that said that everyone and everything had a hierarchical place in the world (Melani). The basic law is that the more spirit and less matter something had‚ the higher it was on this hierarchy (Melani). The order of the Great Chain of Being is this: inanimate objects‚ plants‚ animals‚ humans‚ angels‚ and God (Melani). In each “class”‚ there was a separate hierarchy‚ ranking each separate type (Melani). The Chain of Being also helped keep people
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appearance whereas being beautiful is a lustrous characteristic not merely reliant on one’s genes. Also‚ a bland or discourteous personality may override any physical appeal a woman may have. Likewise‚ a devoted‚ passionate and respectful personality can compensate for the lack of ‘perfect’ features of a woman. However‚ people see beauty differently and completely relies on their individual interests. The physical appearance of a ‘hot’ woman and the personality of a ‘beautiful’ woman can’t be compared
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Aunt Jennifers Tigers Poem Summary by Admin on November 11‚ 2012 in English Aunt Jennifer’s tigers is a poem by Adrienne Rich illustrating her feminist concerns. In the male dominant world‚ a women of her time was only supposed to be a dutiful homemaker. This poem through the world of Aunty Jennifer‚ tells us about her inner desire to free herself from the clutches of abusive marriage and patriarchal society. Poem Summary The first stanza opens with Aunt Jennifer’s visual tapestry of tigers who
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The Great Chain of Being was created after the fall of Rome similar to feudalism and coincidentally held feudalism together. The Great Chain of Being was a system of rankings that formed after the decline of the Roman Empire. Churches having power and wealth would try to help with the chaos and European life overall‚ and thus the concept of the Great Chain of Being came to life (Richardson). However‚ the concept of the Great Chain of Being wasn’t just thought of and created right away‚ but formed
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very young age is the result of the woman throwing away her values‚ throwing away her place in the home and throwing away her dignity. Our mothers and grandmothers and the ones before them did not have all the problems we have nowadays. Gone are the days when a woman was a woman. Its a shame today‚ women are becoming girls - who don’t know where they belong anymore. Before‚ nakedness was a taboo. Now its fashion. When I see such immodestly dressed women‚ what crosses my mind is the word "prostitute"
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