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Literacy in Schools
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Rachel Ray Vs. Paula Dean
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How effective are the strategies employed by Save the Children to make this brochure a successful marketing tool?
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Commentary for AS level English Language
English Language-'The War on Emo' commentary 'The War on Emo' piece was written for an audience of teenagers, most likely between the ages of 15-19, and was a direct response to an article featured in the Daily Mail about the 'dangers' of emo. The author of this particular article wrote about the recent resurgence in the 'emo' movement and the dangers it poses to teenagers, particularly young, teenage girls. Style models such as articles from the music magazine 'the NME,' and the newspaper 'The Guardian' were used. There were various notable features used in each of these style models which I have tried to emulate in my piece, for instance the use of subtle humour and obviously persuasive techniques. The purpose of the text was primarily to persuade, yet the secondary purpose was intended to argue. I aimed for my text to be of a suitable style in order to be published in a music magazine such as Kerrang! or the NME, where the readership is similar to that of my intended audience. When writing this article, I encountered a few problems, mainly the difficulty in trying to get my point across without going on a rant and attacking the author of the piece in the Daily Mail. I wanted my text to be based on fact rather than opinion, while simultaneously criticizing Ms. Sands article. I attempted to expose the flaws in her writing, yet I found it difficult to do this subtly. I
Honesty - creative writing.
Honesty There once was a dank little village, with a great tree in the middle. Orbiting the tree like a host of tiny planets were children, playing, skipping and generally frolicking. The village was set on an inordinately steep hill. It had a maze of roads spiralling off to various different districts. There were two major sections in the village: the rich part and the poor part. The poor part was a huddle of terraced houses packed with families of troglodytes, each house with a pinhead of grass to call its own. Windows were boarded over, gates were rusted and broken and, as for cars, there weren't any because the ignoramus children had poached them all. But in the posh part of town the houses were giant, with huge forests in their back garden and huge expensive gleaming cars smothering the driveway. And in this part of the village lived Tom. Tom was privately educated, 15 year old boy who lived in the posh part of town. By every definition of the word he was posh. But Tom was desperately grasping for acceptance among the poor people. He was two faced; he even puts on a fake common accent to sound "normal" although he actually sounded like a brainless imbecile. He lied about where he lived and said he was brought up in the ghettos of the East End, raised by a family of gangsters. But when he spoke to his family, he spoke clearly and concisely and his etiquette was
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Original Writing Coursework: Final Draft The cathedral towered over the tiny town like an elephant over an ant. The weeping woman
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McFly Radio:ACTIVE Music Review
Release date: 22nd September 2008 Over the past 5 years in the spotlight, McFly have constantly been chucked back and forth between critics like a piece of bait between angry dogs - being criticized for being too pop or trying to be too rock, for being young and for being tied together with the name "boyband". And what do they have to say back to this continuous battle to win over the charts and the crowds? This album. Filled with provocative lyrics and catchy tunes to fight back to the critics and put them in the top spot after scoring sixteen singles in the top 10, seven of which fought to number one. Originally released for free in The Mail On Sunday newspaper on 20th July 2008, the band planned a rerelease of the album featuring four extra tracks and a DVD of the recording of the album in Australia. The newspaper's normal circulation went up by 300,000 when the album was released as fans sold out shops to get their hands on the exclusive paperback album. An astounding 2.5 million copies were given away in total while the recent rereleased deluxe version peaking at number 8 in the UK album chart and also had success in other worldwide: Japan, Europe and South America to name a few. Singer and guitarist Tom Fletcher revealed, "We get to put it into almost three million homes, which is an incredible opportunity for us. Hopefully the three million people will all enjoy the
