...to learn about all these people? All these languages? Yet we learn nothing about ourselves. | “[We’re] told nothing of ourselves…nothing about us at all”Lines 12-13 | Tone | The speaker is angry. She’s angry about the fact that her mind and her thoughts are filled by these people with “northern pale eyes” and not one space is free in her mind to think about her background. | “How those pale northern eyes and aristocratic whispers once erased us…debased us”Lines 14-17 | Mood | The speaker’s mood is a very serious one. She doesn’t know why her people have been rejected and so has she. She searches for something, anything that can reassure her of herself. She looks but she finds nothing. | “Feeling nothing about ourselves…nothing about is at all”Lines 33-34 | Structure | Stanza one (1) is an 11 lined introduction to the poem. It forms a solid baseline on which the rest of the poem will be built. This stanza points to evidence of unnatural skin lightening or “bleaching”, getting rid of “kinky” hair in favor of straight, European hair and being forced to learn from a European syllabus.Stanza two (2) is a couplet, consisting of two lines, divulges deeper into the girls’ mind. They were taught nothing of their African background, nothing of their slavery roots. Instead, they were immersed in a culture where having a European knowledge and attributes was highly sought after.Stanza three (3) is a quatrain and has 4 lines. The speaker talks about being “debased”, reduced to something...
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...GCSE English Literature Specimen Assessment Materials 1 For assessment from 2013 GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE SPECIMEN ASSESSMENT MATERIALS GCSE English Literature Specimen Assessment Materials 3 Contents Page Question Papers English Literature Unit 1 (H.T.) English Literature Unit 2 a and b (H.T.) English Literature Unit 1 (F.T.) English Literature Unit 2 a and b (F.T.) 5 Mark Schemes English Literature Unit 1 (H.T.) English Literature Unit 2 a and b (H.T.) English Literature Unit 1 (F.T.) English Literature Unit 2 a and b (F.T.) 93 GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE Higher Tier UNIT 1 Specimen Assessment Materials 2 hours SECTION A Question 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Of Mice and Men Anita and Me To Kill a Mockingbird I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Chanda’s Secrets SECTION B 6. Poetry 12 Pages 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10 - 11 ADDITIONAL MATERIALS Twelve page answer booklet. INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Answer both Section A and Section B. Answer one question in Section A and the question in Section B. INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES The number of marks is given in brackets after each question or part-question. You are reminded that assessment will take into account the quality of written communication used in your answers. JD*(S-2011 Higher) Turn over. 2 SECTION A 1. Of Mice and Men Answer part (a) and either part (b) or part (c). You are advised to spend about 20 minutes on part (a), and about 40 minutes on part (b) or part (c). (a) Read the extract on the opposite...
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...Have you ever dreamed of reading a thrilling book about awesome characters and a devious plan involving death? Then “Much Ado About Nothing” by Shakespeare is the perfect book for you. In the enthralling play, there contain multiple couples. One is based solely on looks, one denies their love for each other, and one simply got together for the sake of a devious scheme. It also involves a plot that a kind character look scandalous, when really, they’re not. It’s a great story about love, evil, and forgiveness. In the play “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare, Beatrice and Hero are foils of each other because of their interactions with others, how others feel about them, and their personality traits. Beatrice and Hero are major character foils in the play “Much Ado About Nothing” because of their...
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...CHAPTER TWO Ecclesiastes 1:4 "Everything an Indian does is in a circle," said Black Elk, the Sioux religious leader. "Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood...." You would think Black Elk had been studying the first chapter of Ecclesiastes, except for one fact: for centuries, wise men and women in different nations and cultures have been pondering the mysteries of the "circles" of human life. Whenever you use phrases like "life cycle," or "the wheel of fortune," or "come full circle," you are joining Solomon and Black Elk and a host of others in taking a cyclical view of life and nature. Ecclesiastes 1:6 You would think Black Elk had been studying the first chapter of Ecclesiastes, except for one fact: for centuries, wise men and women in different nations and cultures have been pondering the mysteries of the "circles" of human life. Whenever you use phrases like "life cycle," or "the wheel of fortune," or "come full circle," you are joining Solomon and Black Elk and a host of others in taking a cyclical view of life and nature. (from The Bible Exposition Commentary: Old Testament © 2001-2004 by Warren W. Wiersbe. All rights reserved.) But this "cyclical" view of life was a burden to Solomon. For if life is only part of a great cycle over which we have no control, is life worth living? If this cycle is repeated season after season, century after century...
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...Shelley) I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert… Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: ”My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. Analysis of Ozymandias "Ozymandias" is a fourteen-line, iambic pentameter sonnet. It is not a traditional one, however. Although it is neither a Petrarchan sonnet nor a Shakespearean sonnet, the rhyming scheme and style resemble a Petrarchan sonnet more, particularly with its 8-6 structure rather than 4-4-4-2. Here we have a speaker learning from a traveler about a giant, ruined statue that lay broken and eroded in the desert. The title of the poem informs the reader that the subject is the 13th-century B.C. Egyptian King Ramses II, whom the Greeks called “Ozymandias.” The traveler describes the great work of the sculptor, who was able to capture the king’s “passions” and give meaningful expression to the stone, an otherwise “lifeless thing.” The “mocking hand” in line 8 is that of the sculptor, who had the artistic ability...
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...I’ve been out of the war for a numerous amount of years now so basically there’s nothing more for me to do. Question 2: A typical day for me consists of not that much excitement as I said since I’ve been out of the war. Yeah I still spend time with my family and go out grocery shopping with my wife and all but that’s just a life of a regular dad. Sometimes I see some of my old soldiers and I see some old friends from school. Question 3: I have yet to leave my house and find another occupation. I feel like that was my only job, the only thing I was good at so now that I’m done I also feel like I need as much rest as I can get because I’m TIRED! Question 4: I say one thing that is difficult for me every day is the sense of urgency or drive to get up and do something. Like I understand I was in the war for a long time and fought for my country, but since that’s been over this rest has been very essential to me in various ways. Question 5: Other people treat me the same way they been treating me. Nothing has changed really maybe a few renovations here and there but nothing really major has changed. Question 6: A few questions come up like “How was the war?” or “What are you going to do now that you’ve retired?” to be honest with you the second question I really can’t answer for the people and that is the only question I cannot find an answer to. Question 7: My favorite thing to do is sit around and do absolutely nothing. Until someone decides to tell me to get up and do something...
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...wasn’t so bad then, but when her mother passed everything changed. Her life now felt incomplete and forced. She thought of her life as difficult even though she was over nineteen she had a lot of pressure on her. She worked at the store and also at home, her earned money went to her father costs and left her with nothing. She believes that its not her home anymore, its just somewhere that she lives. There is so much about her home that she wonders about and doesn’t have answers to. The family has distanced them self away since her mother and brother passed away. Before brother Ernest died and brother Harry started working a lot they would protect her from their father, now that they’re gone she has no one to protect her. Her life was constantly threated by her father’s violence “She knew it was that that had given her the palpitations”(4). All she wants is to have happiness and want to feel important. She just wanted to live freely and have a very supple life. Eveline made the right decision to reject franks proposal because of the promise to her mother, her elderly father, and her confusion towards frank. Eveline met a guy named Frank who she calls her boyfriend. He was very kind and open hearted. She looked at him as a savior figure because he would save her, give her life, and love. “It was hard work - a hard life – but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life”(4). He’s inciting her to come and live life with him to escape her own. Frank...
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...A LOVE STORY: LOVE FOR GOD & LOVE FOR YOUR FELLOW MAN!!!! The Bible tells us that ‘God is love’. (1 John 4:16). So it is fair to read that great passage in 1 Corinthians 13 in the light of how God’s love is expressed to us. 1 Cor 13:4-8 ‘ God’s love is patient, God’s love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, God’s love keeps no record of wrongs. God’s love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. God’s love never fails. Now, why is this all so important? Well, it’s because our understanding and experience of God’s love plays a huge part in our love, acceptance, and relationships with other people. For we tend to treat others as we think God treats us. So understanding God’s love for you is not an end in and of itself. The end is that you may share that love with others. Paul tells us what he was trying to achieve through his teaching in 1 Tim 1:5 ‘But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart.’ But how does this come about? We love, John tells us, because He loved us first. (1 John 4:19) And it can also be said that we tend to love in proportion to the love we have experienced from God. So while these points are probably not new, allow God to speak them to your heart once again. God’s love acts! Rom 5:8 ‘But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners...
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...These mountains are the sources of water for most of the world. The water that begins in their peaks has a very powerful current as it flows in a downward motion to the rest of the world. At first in mighty rivers that are so strong they have washed out smaller mountains in their path, they have toppled water reservoir towers and engulfed lakes and eventually come together into just one mega river that reaches entirely around the world. This river then branches out into all reaches of all the lands so that there are very few places to get water other than from this mega river. Now imagine that the people of this land no longer think much about seeking water from digging wells or other such places, but instead they build irrigation systems to help distribute the mega river's waters to farther and farther reaches of the land. The water is in every way integrated into almost every aspect of their lives. Now substitute the word mountain for corporation, nation or...
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...greatest is know recognized only as a war-stricken country with no hope. When the Darfur conflict began, it was the world’s top priority. The U.N was sending help, supplies, and medicine but now the problem has faded away from people’s minds and not many think it is still on going but it is and the southern civilians and the millions who are displaced and being killed need help. Since January 1, 1956 Sudan has had no stability. Many governments have tried to stabilize the country but warlords and army generals trying to gain power have overthrown the governments and by doing this have intensified clan rivalries and tensions between the indigenous and Christian south and power greedy and Islamic north. A look into Sudan’s history can hopefully reveal the truth behind the problem and a way to solve it. According to the DOS, Sudan was formed from a collection of small African kingdoms overlooked by Egypt and other nearby Islamic states but never forced them to do any thing. It had its own government and a good economy that was based on their sale of metals such as copper, iron, gold, and other industrial metals. Other exports included cotton, peanuts, sugarcane, and other agricultural products. (DOS 3) In 1881, a religious leader named Mohamed Ibn Abdulla brought the country together into what is now known as Sudan. He established order with the feuding clans from all corners of the country. Sudan lived in peace and prosperity. Mohamed became king at a very old age and died soon after...
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...on What is the Relation between Science and Religion William Lane Craig Examines several ways in which science and theology relate to each other. Back in 1896 the president of Cornell University Andrew Dickson White published a book entitled A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. Under White’s influence, the metaphor of “warfare” to describe the relations between science and the Christian faith became very widespread during the first half of the 20th century. The culturally dominant view in the West—even among Christians—came to be that science and Christianity are not allies in the search for truth, but adversaries. To illustrate, several years ago I had a debate with a philosopher of science at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver , Canada, on the question “Are Science and Religion Mutually Irrelevant?” When I walked onto the campus, I saw that the Christian students sponsoring the debate had advertised it with large banners and posters proclaiming “Science vs. Christianity.” The students were perpetuating the same sort of warfare mentality that Andrew Dickson White proclaimed over a hundred years ago. What has happened, however, in the second half of this century is that historians and philosophers of science have come to realize that this supposed history of warfare is a myth. As Thaxton and Pearcey point out in their recent book The Soul of Science, for over 300 years between the rise of modern science in the 1500’s and the late 1800s the relationship...
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...© 2007-2008 Richard E Murphy Even Swaps - Shouldice Hospital 18 November 2007 1. How Successful is Shouldice Hospital? Shouldice Hospital is a highly successful business that maintains a focused service delivery system due to the success rate of its surgeries, its low employee turnover, its ability to maintain high quality standards, its ability to keep costs low and to remain profitable, and most especially the positive evaluations of its patients. Its strengths can be attributed to stringent policies of staff training in the Shouldice surgical method; the preservation of a communal atmosphere amongst both the staff and with the patients; the implementation of efficient and cost-effective facility operations; and high demand for operations. Its less successful aspects include: an inability to serve a considerable unsatisfied demand, as it is operating at near-full-capacity in its present facility; limited marketing; and an inability to prevent proliferation of its surgical techniques. 2. What Accounts for Shouldice’s Performance? a. Unique Operating Techniques Shouldice has vertically integrated nearly all operational functions in an effort to tightly control its distinctive techniques for performing hernia operations, as well as for pre- and post-operative patient care. The hospital has been remarkably successful in its ability to provide its patients with a quick, quality, low cost surgery in a comfortable environment, and has enjoyed an...
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...after his transformation in Jesus Christ; his conversion to Christianity on his way to Damascus (Acts 9:1-19). Paul’s focus throughout Romans is “the righteousness of God” (Romans 1:16-17). Focusing on chapters one through eight of Romans, it will take me through the elemental and “structural” illumination of the Christian faith. The chapters will reflect on the “plan of Him who works out….everything to His will” (Ephesians 1: 11). These are the Biblical instructions on the responding to human relationships, treatment of the universe and environment, and religious issues. Paul (1 Corinthians 2: 1) (2 Corinthians 10:10) like Moses (Exodus 4:10) was not an eloquent speaker, but they spoke volumes for the kingdom of God. By having a grasp, foundation, for my views I can state my convictions to others (1 Peter 3:15) with certainty and in love (Ephesians 4: 15). The Natural World Paul expounds on components and truths of the Biblical Worldview as it relates to the natural world. He is adamant in his teaching that the general revelation of the natural world is foundational in God. He wants all to believe in the Biblical fact that God is the Creator (Roman 1:22) of the world and all the “fruits” it contains. Paul relates his teachings to God’s creations (Genesis 1:1-2:3), but there were some rules or expectations that were required. God’s request was forsaken, so there were consequences...
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...Wendy Maltos Period 4 Creation Story A long long time ago the word was made of stone, nothing grew, nothing lived, there was absolutely nothing, the galaxy that we now know didn’t exist, not even a sun or a moon. There was only one thing that existed and that was a God named Oro, and he had the power to do and make whatever he wanted. He had lived for many years and eventually grew tired of seeing nothing but a big chunk of stone so he decided to make something out of it. First he created animals, but he realized the animals had nothing to eat, so he then made plants which all the animals were to eat from. For many years that was all there was just animals and plants but some of the animals started to die because it was to cold and the plants wouldn’t grow so the animals couldn’t eat, so he made the sun to keep the plants warm and so the animals wouldn’t freeze to death. Later he was thinking of another creation he should make and he accidentally made a creature that could walk on two legs, he named them humans, they were supposed to keep the plants growing and get along with all the animals. A few months later the humans began to kill the animals, at first it was for food but later on they would just kill the animals for sport, the God became very upset about this and he started to cry, his tears were so big that when they fell onto the earth they made huge dents on the land and his tears filled them up with water. When the God realized what he had created he became very...
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...and however still getting stuck and all the more being put together. The human beings are now the tools of their tools as remarked by Henry David Thoreau. But, now the age of consumerism has to stop, the advertisement has to dim and the publicity has to pause and say – Dasvidaniya! Now, it’s time for less. Less clutter, less stuffs, less interruptions, less wasting time on the job we don’t like, less junk foods, less necessity, less talk, less hustle & bustle and a lot of life! This is a less collection of what life can be when we adopt less and discard more! It’s not more pages, it’s least of what I would like to convey! No extra word! It’s a less-adopted-life in few pages to adieu bid the rushing world and hurling chase! Let’s pause and read few pages. Less…! 4|P a ge Breathe…! Stop wherever you are and breathe! Breathe in and breathe out. Running after what you don’t intend to do will stop now, for a moment, with the power of breathing and with less time. After few minutes of breathing, ask yourself – Do you still want to do what you’re doing? If answer is no, go home and do what you think meaningful! If the answer is yes, go for what you’re going to do! Now, what you did is you paused, you breathed and you rewind your lifestirring-question once again. These three things we have already forgotten to do! To be able to practice less, we would require these three things – To pause now! To breathe! To ask life-revolving question! 5|P a ge...
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