Journeys End coursework
How does Sherriff's presentation of Stanhope convey the playwright's anti-war message? "Journey's End" was written by R.C.Sherriff, and was based on his experiences serving with the East Surrey Regiment during the First World War. The First World War ran from 1914 - 1918. The main sides in this conflict were the Allies and the Germans. On the Western Front, the Germans tried to break through the Allied lines using brute force. When this tactic failed, both sides were stuck in stalemate. This war was mainly fought using trench warfare tactics, whereby both sides were entrenched, and about 60 metres of "no mans land" existed between each sides' trenches. For many young soldiers, this experience in the trenches damaged them both physically and emotionally for life. This is because each soldier had to combat many different perils, as life in the trenches was simply a horror. Each day, the soldiers had to face disease, enemy fire, long periods of silence and boredom, which often lead to fear of when the next big attack would come, loss of comrades and friends, and most of all, on a day to day basis, each and every soldier had to face the mud of the trenches. This mud carried with it disease, lice, rats, and trench foot. These conditions are made even more vivid in "Journey's End" due to Sherriff's experiencing all of these horrors while serving in the war. Robert Cedric
Le Petit Prince
Quels sont les thèmes principaux du livre "Le Petit Prince" ? Comment les personnages représentent-ils ces thèmes ? Le Petit Prince est un roman classique et le raison pour son succès est simple ; c'est un livre pour chacun. Il y a une grande gamme des thèmes qui sont relèvent dans notre propre vies, pour les enfants et pour les adultes, chacun peut apprendre quelque chose du Petit Prince. L'amour est un thème très prévalent ainsi que les autres relations importants dans notre vie. La relation entre la fleur et le Petit Prince est particulièrement poignant ; leur amour inconditionnel est très recherché dans notre réalité. Après avoir lu sur les obstacles dans l'amour entre le Prince et la rose, je peux voir bien qu'il y a un niveau haut de divorces, il est primordial on apprécie l'amour. Comme le Prince dit "mais à seule elle [la rose] est plus important que vous toutes...puisque c'est ma rose". En plus c'est n'est pas seulement la relation avec la rose c'est important, mais aussi le renard et le narrateur qui sont apprivoisé par le Petit Prince. Le renard qui supplie le Prince pour son amitié, raconte un secret "On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux". La signifiance du renard est que l'amitié est essentiel, on a besoin d'amitié, que vous soyez un adulte ou enfant, pour que on puisse offre et prendre conseils. Aussi
Learning Theory of attachment
An attachment is a close emotional bond with another person, a close fondness or love for that person and a desire to spend time with that person. One prominent theory of attachment in the study of human attachment is the learning theory, put forward by behavioural psychologists such as Ivan Pavlov. Learning theory and the psychodynamic approach are called the 'cupboard love' theories of attachment in psychology. The basic principle of the learning theory is that all behaviour is learned as a result of either classical or operant conditioning. Classical conditioning, developed by Ivan Pavlov, suggests that there is always an innate reflex to an external stimulus. Pavlov studied classical conditioning in dogs by carrying out an experiment where a bell was sounded in the presence of dogs just before food was presented. This was done so that the dogs would associate the sound of the bell with the presentation of food. After this had been carried out several times, the dogs began to salivate in response to the bell alone, suggesting that classical conditioning had taken place. This theory can be applied to humans as the person providing the food for a baby or infant becomes associated with food in the same way that Pavlov's dogs associated the sound of the bell with food. Also, the stimulus of food produces a pleasurable response of the infant, because its needs are
Light Intensity and Photosynthesis.
Light Intensity and Photosynthesis Biology Coursework Aim The aim of my experiment was to determine whether or not the intensity of light would affect the rate of photosynthesis in a plant. To do this, I placed a piece of Canadian pondweed in varying light intensities, and observed the amount of oxygen being given off. I used Canadian pondweed because of its unusual quality of giving off bubbles of gas from a cut end, when placed in water. Introduction Photosynthesis occurs only in the presence of light, and takes place in the chloroplasts of green plant cells. Photosynthesis can be defined as the production of simple sugars from carbon dioxide and water causing the release of sugar and oxygen. The chemical equation for photosynthesis can be expressed as: (light) 6CO2 + 6H2O À C6H12O6 + 6O2 (in the presence of chlorophyll) The fact that all plants need light in order to photosynthesise has been proven many times in experiments, and so it is possible to say that without light, the plant would die. The reason that light intensity does affect the rate of photosynthesis is because as light, and therefore energy, falls on the chloroplasts in a leaf, it is trapped by the chlorophyll, which then makes the energy available for chemical reactions in the plant. Thus, as the amount of sunlight, or in this case light from a bulb, falls on the plant, more energy is absorbed, so
Ma Famille
Ma Famille Je me présente. Je m'appelle Jaime et j'ai quatorze ans. Mon anniversaire le 7 juillet parce que c'est en été. Le rouge est ma couleur favôrite car je trouve que c'est beau. J'adore le sport car à mon avis c'est bon pour le santé et amusant. Cependant ma copine, Amy, déteste le sport parce qu'elle croit que c'est difficile. Amy ne fait jamais du sport. J'habite à une maison avec ma mère, depuis 7ans, j'habite à Washington dans le nord-est d'Angleterre. Je n'aime pas ma maison car je n'aime pas le région. Aussi ma mère déteste Washington car elle pense qu'il ya trop de pollution. Ma mère s'appelle Collette. Elle a trente six ans. Son anniversaire est le 14 mars. Elle a les cheveux blonds et les yeux bleus. Je ressemble plutôt à ma mère qu a mon père car j'ai cheveux blonds et yeux bleus. Je m'entends vraiment bien avec ma mère parce que je la trouve sérceuec et sympa ! Elle travaille à son compte, elle travaille partout, elle pense que c'est très difficile et assez passionnant. Je suis très fière d'elle ! Mon père qui s'appelle Mark, a quarante deux ans. Son anniversaire est le 27 septembre. Physiquement, il est assez grand, brun et yeux bruns. Je m'entends assez bien avec mon père car de temps en temps je le trouve généreux et rigols. Il est maçon, il travaille sur un chantier. Il croit que c'est bien payé et très fatigant. Mes
'The best holiday I ever had'
'The best holiday I ever had' The best holiday I ever had was when I went to Florida with my family. When my Dad told me I was very excited because it was going to be my first time in the 'sun shine state of America'. I asked my dad when where we going and he said 'we are going on the 26TH July and coming home on the9th August' but the bad thing was I had to wait two months to go. Time flew by and the next thing I knew I was packing my suitcase, I packed in lots of t-shirts and shorts. My mum packed in lots of bottles of sun cream because she is the one who goes on and on saying 'be careful in the sun'. After all the bags were packed into the boot we all were on our way to fourteen days of sunshine. When we got to the airport we left our luggage with the airport staff to put it on to the plane. A message came up on the T.V screen saying that our flight had been delayed for 8 hours. After we knew about the delay we had spare time to fill our tummies because they were rumbling. After 7 hours a message said 'could passengers going to Orlando Florida make their way to gate 17' everyone cheered and we all made our way to the plane. It took 10 hours to get to Orlando but it was well worth it. When we arrived it was 4.00am in the morning and the hard part was to find our hotel, and on our way we got lost in a place called 'Boggy Creek' and my family blamed it on my Dad
The Biological Importance of Water.
The Biological Importance of Water Hyung-woo (Shane) Cho, L6GW What are the physical and chemical properties of water that make it so unique and necessary for living things? When you look at water, taste and smell it - well, what could be more boring? Pure water is virtually colorless and has no taste or smell. But the hidden qualities of water make it a most interesting subject. Most people will see water and think that it is very ordinary, as we are able to find water everywhere. It is written as H2O in chemistry, tasteless, transparent, liquid in room temperature, and made of hydrogen and oxygen. Water usually forms between 70~95% of the mass of the cell, and 75% of the earth is covered with water. Even though it seems to be the simplest and ordinary thing on the earth, it is also the most important and remarkable substance around us. Thinking about the importance of water becomes much easier when we imagine the life without water. Every life, cannot survive without it. This is because the scientists and spacemen are desperate to investigate if there is water on Mars, as it is the possibility of presence of life on Mars. Water does not only keep us to live and present, but it also helps very much in our life, and it is actually a very interesting substance to have a research about. Water is a liquid at room temperature; water dissolves more substances than any other
The Biological Importance of Water
The Biological Importance of Water Water is by far one of the most important substances found on earth; it is vital for living organisms to survive and its structure plays a critical role in this. The most important factor in the structure of a water molecule is its polarity. This occurs because the oxygen atom is larger and therefore of a higher electronegativity (3.44) than hydrogen atoms (2.2). The electronegativity or tendency to pull electrons closer towards itself, determines the polarity of an atom or molecule. For example, a water molecule consists of one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms. The high electronegativity of the oxygen atom gives it a slight negative charge (shown by δ-) while the relatively low electronegativity and the consequent drawing away of electrons gives the hydrogen atoms a slight positive charge (shown by δ+). This means that each individual water molecule is dipolar, it has two separate and opposite charges within the same molecule. This is important because it allows a weak ‘hydrogen bond’ to be formed between water molecules, making it a generally cohesive substance. We can observe these electrostatic attractions when rainwater is beaded up on a leaf. It has formed droplets of many water molecules ‘stuck’ to each other through hydrogen bonding. If water did not have a dipole, then it would spread out over the leaf in a thin layer
The Development of Antiseptics.
The Development of Antiseptics The problem of infection in surgery The death rate of those having surgery in the mid 17th century was very high, almost half of all those having leg amputations died. This era of surgery was very unusual as although the development of anaesthetics was a massive step forward, the death rate soared. This was because surgeons began to undertake more complicated surgery and spend longer doing it, this meant there was a much greater risk of infection - especially when the instruments and operating theatres were rarely, if ever, cleaned. Infection was very high risk and not only because of the lack on cleanliness. When arteries were being tied off often nothing more than ordinary string and there was little chance of keeping germs from spreading in these theatres because that was what they were - theatres. Many students every day would come to them and watch and learn about surgery, with so many of them so near the operation they couldn't be a good thing - but no body knew this. Semmelweiss' ideas on cleanliness Ignaz Semmelweiss had noticed that there was an unusually high death rate amongst women after childbirth and realised that mothers whose children were delivered by a mid-wife usually survived unlike those who had there offspring delivered by medical students. Semmelweiss thought that if only the students washed their hands before entering
The development of scientific logic.
The Development of Scientific Logic The origins of science lie in the earliest civilizations, those of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India and Arabia. However, the school of thought which would undisputedly have the greatest influence on the development of modern science was that of Ancient Greece. The Greeks eventually broke with the mystical beliefs of their early development and came to focus on logic as the means of seeking truth. The theories of such great thinkers as Plato, Aristotle and Archimedes were to have enormous impact on the development of modern science. The earliest scientific theories were founded in philosophical and not empirical thought. In fact Plato, one of the most influential Greeks, asserted that the senses were deceitful and not to be trusted, and that only through pure reason could truths be uncovered. The modern scientific method was not to make its appearance for many centuries to come. The vast sources of Greek knowledge were preserved by the Romans when Greece fell to their rapidly expanding empire. Roman education was focused primarily on oratory, and politics, and less on the understanding of the natural world. Although the Romans made little contribution themselves, they produced Latin compilations of many Greek works, which the formed the sole source of knowledge for the scientists of the early Medieval Christian West. During the
