Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Monday, 1 February 2010
4 pieces Basti. V
Screenplay- extremely loud and incredibly close as a screenplay
Pastiche- One flew over the cuckoo’s nest in the style of HHGTTG
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Editorial- Daily Mail Copenhagen
Pastiche- One flew over the cuckoo’s nest in the style of HHGTTG
Greenpeace Advertisement
Editorial- Daily Mail Copenhagen
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Monday, 2 November 2009
Reconciliation Siegfreid Sassoon
Reconciliation
When you are standing at your hero’s grave,
Or near some homeless village where he died,
Remember, through your heart’s rekindling pride,
The German soldiers who were loyal and brave.
Men fought like brutes; and hideous things were done;
And you have nourished hatred, harsh and blind.
But in that Golgotha perhaps you’ll find
The mothers of the men who killed your son.
elegy/ ode
When you are standing at your hero’s grave,
Or near some homeless village where he died,
Remember, through your heart’s rekindling pride,
The German soldiers who were loyal and brave.
Men fought like brutes; and hideous things were done;
And you have nourished hatred, harsh and blind.
But in that Golgotha perhaps you’ll find
The mothers of the men who killed your son.
elegy/ ode
Thursday, 24 September 2009
p. 146- 147 BV
Mc Murphy talks with the lifeguard p.146- 147
Context:
Mc Murphy has resumed power in the ward he believes the nurse isn’t tough enough to handle him. The patients go to the swimming pool.
Themes
• Control and manipulation - Nurse decides what is done and when the patients can leave, do what they are asked to do, play after the nurses rules- the nurse plays a fixed game
Characters
• Lifeguard- a victim of the nurses manipulation and control
• Chief- tends to see things in terms of literal metaphors
• Mc Murphy- tries to upset the routine- the black boys are intimidated by him- he never plays a game he knows he cannot win. He is trying to run the ward vs. the nurse
Symbols
• Cast on lifeguard: control of nurse and mental manipulation
Motifs (reoccurring symbols)
• Brainwashing
• Being committed
Paradoxes (seems impossible but is possible)
• Lifeguard was picked up for being drunk and disorderly - has been there for over eight years
Synecdoche
• Lifeguard stands for all patients - control of nurse, brainwashing
What drives the passage?
• Language- drugged gorilla- shows how the lifeguard is controlled by the nurse- the nurse runs a fixed game
• Imagery- the life guard doesn’t actually have a cast- he is so manipulated by the nurse
• Structure- one person talking and there is a new paragraph- the chief has switched from his life before the ward to observing mc Murphy-
Context:
Mc Murphy has resumed power in the ward he believes the nurse isn’t tough enough to handle him. The patients go to the swimming pool.
Themes
• Control and manipulation - Nurse decides what is done and when the patients can leave, do what they are asked to do, play after the nurses rules- the nurse plays a fixed game
Characters
• Lifeguard- a victim of the nurses manipulation and control
• Chief- tends to see things in terms of literal metaphors
• Mc Murphy- tries to upset the routine- the black boys are intimidated by him- he never plays a game he knows he cannot win. He is trying to run the ward vs. the nurse
Symbols
• Cast on lifeguard: control of nurse and mental manipulation
Motifs (reoccurring symbols)
• Brainwashing
• Being committed
Paradoxes (seems impossible but is possible)
• Lifeguard was picked up for being drunk and disorderly - has been there for over eight years
Synecdoche
• Lifeguard stands for all patients - control of nurse, brainwashing
What drives the passage?
• Language- drugged gorilla- shows how the lifeguard is controlled by the nurse- the nurse runs a fixed game
• Imagery- the life guard doesn’t actually have a cast- he is so manipulated by the nurse
• Structure- one person talking and there is a new paragraph- the chief has switched from his life before the ward to observing mc Murphy-
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Modest proposal
Modest Proposal
Ever since the 1980’s technology has become a major aid by western society to developing countries around the world. Governments have provided these developing nation with medium or high technological tools which should benefit there society and create work for the people.
When developing nations receive low technological tools such as saws and shovels they are able to use and maintain these tools over a long time period. More jobs will be created in these developing countries as more people begin to use the low technology tools provided by the west.
The highly advanced technological tools which our modern society is providing Africa with are one of the main reasons why these developing nations are struggling to flourish. These tools such as chainsaws, often take away jobs as they require less labor and more capital. Furthermore the high technology capital provided by the west requires money to maintain which developing nations obviously don’t have.
Developing countries such as those in Africa have been creating burdens for the westerners which they do not wish to carry anymore. The west is fed up of dealing with issues such as illegal immigration, disease spreading and costs due to economic and social aid.
The hope is that the weapons will be miss- used by the government leaders in Africa, and due to their race to control the continent with weapons they will use these weapons against each other.
The soldiers receiving these weapons from the government will be unable to operate the high technology which will lead to further accidental killings and destruction of the continent.
The only effective solution to this is to send technologically highly advanced weapons to Africa. The result of this will be that the African nations “eradicate” each other, leaving only the strongest leaders and their armies to control Africa.
Although this process may take a few years the benefits will outweigh the costs of this “project”.
Once the African nations have “finished each other off”, western corporations will move in and drain the remaining resources in Africa, not only will there be a large decrease in the people living below the poverty line, so, less than a dollar a day, but there will be a large decrease in the world’s population.
After the west has robbed the rest of Africa’s resources they will be able to re grow resources and other necessary commodities that were not affordable before due to the costs created by Africa. Governments in Europe will be able to earn charity money as government revenue and will further exploit Africa.
Africa will be the setting of a new capital intensive workplace. Nations from across the world will be able to open factories etc. and create more jobs for people in their nations: this will hugely decrease poverty
Due to the Location of Africa, just south of Europe, it will be easy and cheap to transport capital and labor from Western Europe all across Africa.
Obviously high technology has the opposite effect on developing nations than it should. Instead of creating jobs and helping the economy, it puts inexperienced workers in danger and takes a way jobs that people could be doing.
My plan is to exploit the lack of knowledge these developing nations have about this high technology and use it against them. By sending them weapons the western society will be digging a grave for the entire African continent.
Ever since the 1980’s technology has become a major aid by western society to developing countries around the world. Governments have provided these developing nation with medium or high technological tools which should benefit there society and create work for the people.
When developing nations receive low technological tools such as saws and shovels they are able to use and maintain these tools over a long time period. More jobs will be created in these developing countries as more people begin to use the low technology tools provided by the west.
The highly advanced technological tools which our modern society is providing Africa with are one of the main reasons why these developing nations are struggling to flourish. These tools such as chainsaws, often take away jobs as they require less labor and more capital. Furthermore the high technology capital provided by the west requires money to maintain which developing nations obviously don’t have.
Developing countries such as those in Africa have been creating burdens for the westerners which they do not wish to carry anymore. The west is fed up of dealing with issues such as illegal immigration, disease spreading and costs due to economic and social aid.
The hope is that the weapons will be miss- used by the government leaders in Africa, and due to their race to control the continent with weapons they will use these weapons against each other.
The soldiers receiving these weapons from the government will be unable to operate the high technology which will lead to further accidental killings and destruction of the continent.
The only effective solution to this is to send technologically highly advanced weapons to Africa. The result of this will be that the African nations “eradicate” each other, leaving only the strongest leaders and their armies to control Africa.
Although this process may take a few years the benefits will outweigh the costs of this “project”.
Once the African nations have “finished each other off”, western corporations will move in and drain the remaining resources in Africa, not only will there be a large decrease in the people living below the poverty line, so, less than a dollar a day, but there will be a large decrease in the world’s population.
After the west has robbed the rest of Africa’s resources they will be able to re grow resources and other necessary commodities that were not affordable before due to the costs created by Africa. Governments in Europe will be able to earn charity money as government revenue and will further exploit Africa.
Africa will be the setting of a new capital intensive workplace. Nations from across the world will be able to open factories etc. and create more jobs for people in their nations: this will hugely decrease poverty
Due to the Location of Africa, just south of Europe, it will be easy and cheap to transport capital and labor from Western Europe all across Africa.
Obviously high technology has the opposite effect on developing nations than it should. Instead of creating jobs and helping the economy, it puts inexperienced workers in danger and takes a way jobs that people could be doing.
My plan is to exploit the lack of knowledge these developing nations have about this high technology and use it against them. By sending them weapons the western society will be digging a grave for the entire African continent.
Monday, 25 May 2009
precis 3 - General Suharto
General Suharto has been a corrupt dictator for the past thirty years. Indonesia “achieved substantial economic growth”, however there is no mention of the incidents in 1965, “the massacre of large numbers of working class Indonesians “. The victims of the massacre were from the oldest communist party in Asia the PKI. There were over three million members of this party in 1965, due to political tension General Suharto, directly aided by the U.S over one million of these PKI party members were murdered.
The US played a key role in the mass killings as they trained and armed Suharto’s troops. The regime that so greatly aided the west was based on these mass killings; the remainders of the PKI party members and their friends and relatives were blacklisted. At the time of the genocide the U.S governments attitude was “no body cared as long as they were Communists that they were being butchered, a statement that pretty much speaks for itself as an indictment of the genocide carried out in Indonesia in 1965”.
Even today this genocide is not spoken about in Indonesia; the western capitalist media called it huge “economic growth”, and blamed the mass killings on the PKI. The U.S claims that they are building their government towards aiding Indonesia on an “anti imperialist basis”.
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