Assessment analysing + commentary
GCSE Drama Coursework - Monday 14th July On Monday 14th July, during the course of our first examination session, we explored different perspectives of gender. As a warm up, several diverse occupations were listed to us whilst we created an individual freeze frame (within a time limit of five seconds) expressing the posture and facial expressions we thought a typical employee of that particular job would hold. Some of these professions included a ballerina, hairdresser, nurse, lorry driver and a builder. For a ballerina, I created a frame of a female with a smart posture, posing the Demi Plie (a ballet stance). I ensured that my facial expression corresponded to the confidence and elegance that I aimed to be perceived. Opposing this posture was classically a lorry driver. I held broad yet hunched shoulders, with a sitting stance and facial expressions that were stern and stiff, which emitted a sense of boredom. We were able to conclude that the majority of us posed in a similar way for particular professions during the course of the warm up, we were also able to safely say that for the ballerina, hairdresser and nurse we portrayed females, and for the lorry driver and builder we represented males. This was a stereotypical way of approaching the task in groups we made 4 different freeze frames, two of which were to show a female in a stereotypical male occupation and vice
This essay will mainly be about the drug D-lysergic Acid Diethylamide, or for short LSD
LDC Thesis/Introduction This essay will mainly be about the drug D-lysergic Acid Diethylamide, or for short LSD. It has always been a center of controversy in American society, but little is known about it in Sweden. Research chemist Albert Hoffman first discovered the psychological effects of LSD on April 19th 1943 when he accidentally dipped his fingers in a solution containing the LSD-25 molecule. What I will try doing in this essay is to answer some questions about LSD. What are the effects on your body and most importantly your mind? I will explain what ¡§ego loss¡¨ is and why LSD is a ¡§set & setting¡¨ drug. The final question that I will try to answer is if LSD has any medical properties? ¡§I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain in relief; they assumed unusual dimensions; and colors became more glowing. Even self-perception and the sense of time were changed. When the eyes were closed, colored pictures flashed past in a quickly changing kaleidoscope. After a few hours, the not unpleasant inebriation, which had been experienced whilst I was fully conscious, disappeared. What had caused this condition?¡¨ - Albert Hofmann - Laboratory Notes (1943) The History of LSD The LSD molecule was discovered and synthesized by the chemist Albert Hofmann. The work of unraveling this
Drama Evaulation
Sex Education Evaluation My group . The overall intention of our sex education piece was to inform year nines about different types of STIs. Including how they are transferred, visible symptoms and how they are treated. 2. We tried to achieve the intentions of our piece by having four naturalistic characters that all caught an STI. We showed all characters at present day so the symptoms were visible, and then used numerous flashbacks to the doctors so that we could explain how they were transferred and how they can be treated. 3. We devised the work in this way so that there was a clear divide between the comedy of the piece and the vital information that needed to be conveyed. We chose to use humour with both comical characters and accents, (both common and stereotypical blondes) when acting in the present day. So that when the flashbacks occurred, and we played more realistic characters the audience would understand that a serious approach to the content would be used here. Since we felt that this may be more engaging and memorable for our audience. 4. I played two characters throughout the piece, one being a middle aged female doctor and the other a sixteen year old chav-style girl. The fact that I played two characters may have increased the overall intention of the piece when it came to contrasting the serious approach to the more comical. Because my characters
In What Ways Are The Stories "Your Shoes" and "Flight" Said To Be Similar.
In What Ways Are The Stories "Your Shoes" and "Flight" Said To Be Similar "Flight" and "Your Shoes" are both similar in their own ways. The authors Doris Lessing (from Flight) and Michele Roberts (from Your Shoes) both try to express the idea of the older person seeking to restrain the younger one. It explores the feelings and actions of these people and how they cope with their sorrows. "Your Shoes" is about a mother whose fifteen-year-old daughter has just run away after an argument. "Flight" is about a grandfather who lives alone and is loosing all his grandchildren to their husbands. They both express themselves with things that they find important in their lives. For "Your Shoes" - a pair of shoes, and for "Flight"- a bird. The Grandfather in "Flight" is quite selfish, by not wanting his Granddaughter Alice to get married to her boyfriend. I have evidence supporting this, and you can tell when he says, mourning, " She's the last, can't we keep her a bit longer?" This is quoted from line 90 when he's speaking of his granddaughter to his daughter as if she is some sort of pet or toy. There is selfishness in "Your Shoes" too but interpreted in a different way. The mother in the story talks mostly of the bad childhood she had with her mother instead of worrying about her daughter, e.g., "She loved you more than she loved me. It isn't fair." and "My mother was like you,
This essay will be analyzing and discussing the story "Flight" by Dorris Lessing and "Your Shoes" By Michele Roberts. In answering the question I will talk about some of the similarities and differences between the two stories.
Comparing and contrasting two short stories. This essay will be analyzing and discussing the story "Flight" by Dorris Lessing and "Your Shoes" By Michele Roberts. In answering the question I will talk about some of the similarities and differences between the two stories. "Flight" is about the relationship between the grandfather and his granddaughter, and the love and passion he has for her, how he finds it hard to let her go and accept her as a woman. "Your Shoes" is about a mother whose daughter has run away from home and she is talking as if her daughter was there, explaining how she feels and how hurt she is. Both of the stories are focused on the actions of a younger person and how what they do affect the older persons feelings and actions. In "Flight" we have the granddaughter introducing the idea of her boyfriend Steven to her grandfather. He is not happy with the idea and resents the fact she is so happy. He doesn't understand why she is so in love and thinks he knows more about love and life then her. " 'But its not like that at all,' he muttered miserably. 'It's not like that. Why can't you see? Running and giggling, and kissing and kissing. You'll come to something quite different." This quote clearly suggesting he think his granddaughter is too young to be in love. That he doesn't want her to be so happy. His granddaughter's actions annoy him quite a lot, he
Please do not laugh at me...... Hi my name is Bhavesh Tapariya, brother of Priya and Priti Tapariya, son of Kalyanbhai and Nanuben
Please do not laugh at me...... Hi my name is Bhavesh Tapariya, brother of Priya and Priti Tapariya, son of Kalyanbhai and Nanuben Tapariya and grandson of Kurjibhai and Amarben Tapariya. Taking the role of being in the committee is an important and vital role if the school is to run in a co-operative manner. I did think about going for the committee in previous years but felt that I was too little and that people would walk all over me... but now I am 2 whole mm taller and I think I can find myself sitting in the committee meetings able to see over the tables. People may think being in the committee is another badge, but for me it's about helping the school. If I wanted the badge I would just take my sisters, but I want to see the school succeed in each step it takes and I want to be there when these steps are taken. There are people here standing against me asking you for their vote, but are they doing it for themselves or for the benefit of the school... YOUR school. They are standing here giving you lists and lists of what they have to offer I know I can't offer anything, unless I am given the chance, but at the end of the day there is only one person that has the power to change things in this school.... And that is Mr Barnes but.... I will help him support the school. I will come up with good ideas, and if I cant I'll just ask my sisters. Sorry if I bored
Reflective Statement - Service Learning Project
Antonia Vassileva Quest for Meaning Prof. Tom Oberhofer Reflective Statement Our group chose to volunteer at the Pier Aquarium for our service learning project. Our main task was to design the Aquarium's brochures, so that they become more competitive with the brochures, which other tourist places offer. In addition, we helped with setting up for the Fish Head Ball, which was a charity event held by the Aquarium to raise funds. I had an amazing experience, while doing the project, because I discovered that it can be very rewarding to volunteer, especially if you like the people you are working with. The Service Learning Project was the first volunteer work that I have done in my life, so initially I was not really sure of what to expect from the experience. When my group members and I headed over to the Volunteer fair a couple of months ago, none of us knew what we wanted to do for sure. We were open for pretty much anything, but still it had to be something that would grab the interest of all of us. As we entered the crowded Fox Hall, we saw many stands cluttered next to each other, each with a person behind them hoping to recruit some volunteers. We wandered around for a bit looking for something to catch our attention. We saw the Pier Aquarium stand where Karen (our future supervisor) was smiling at us and inviting us to learn more about the aquarium. I have always
Desire for Individuality.
\ Desire for Individuality Different. That's what individuality is. A person trying to distinguish himself from others that's what individuality is all about. In the excerpt "Black Boy" by Richard Wright and "Coming of Age in Mississippi" by Anne Moody, Wright and Moody tried very hard to achieve individuality. Wright and Moody both had personal experience with people trying to deprive them of their freedom to be themselves and say what they wanted to say or act the way they wanted. Both writers had to deal with racial issues, negative families and their communities trying to deprive them creating an individualistic view for themselves by telling them to do things the way everyone else did without asking questions. Wright and Moody resist influences from authorities and family to achieve their goal of individuality. Both Moody and Wright wanted to be individualistic in their decision-making and attitude towards life. They both wanted to shape their thought processes without any external influence from parents. Let's take a look at how Wright trying to achieve individuality. He wanted to write but was criticized by his mum, uncle and grandmother. While he lived with his family, Wright wrote a story that was published in the papers. The editor of the paper was the only person who encouraged while his family questioned his judgment and criticized him for writing. Wright said,
Drama - Rebellion
21st December 2004. Drama - Rebellion. Angela Conway. We started our work on rebellion as a class by thinking of all the terms and groups of people associated with rebellion: we came up with terrorism, strikes, the French revolution, motorbikes, drugs, alcohol, anarchy, protests, sit-ins, rock music and teenagers along with others. My first improvised scene was in a group of three. I played a modern day teacher, who was trying to start a lesson, but the two students were being disruptive. When one pupil storms out of the lesson, and I bring him back in, the other is about to leave. We decided to use a dramatic technique and so put a freeze frame at this point, then a flashback to when I as the teacher was a teenager in the 1960's, in a protest against cutting down trees. This brought irony to the piece, as it showed the person who was against the rebellion was once a rebel herself. I think this piece went well, even thought we never performed it to the class, because when we were practicing the characters seemed real and not too 'over-the-top', we chose a good moment for the freeze frame as it was tense and emotive, and it did fit the rebellion criteria over two sets of generations. To have improved the piece even more, we could have made it a bit longer, and perhaps expanded our knowledge of the characters by spending more time considering exactly what they would do
Evaluation - Personal Performance
GCSE Drama 1699 - Paper 1 Unit 1 Portfolio A01 = 'EVALUATION' Evaluation of My Group Our improvisation was set on a cruise ship on Christmas Eve. It showed the contrast between the mother, who was a cabaret performer, and her teenage son, who was forced to live on the ship with her. It showed how the teenager thought that he was better than everyone around him although the adults didn't seem to think so. It also showed the troubles in relationships between mothers and their teenager children through how the mother had a sleazy reputation with lots of different men and how the son had to cope with it. Amongst this problem he had to cope with the normal teenage complications such as girls. This life through a teenager's eyes was made in the hope to make you laugh and feel for the son. It was told by the teenage boy, who was a narrator and in the scene, which he read from his diary. Natalie played the Narrator/Festus who was an intelligent, sarcastic and quick witted teenage boy who was not particularly good looking and was always competing against the adults who he thought so little of. Maise played Festus' mother who was a good looking cabaret performer whose ear piercing singing provided a constant embarrassment to Festus and endless amusement to the drunken men. Joe played a drunkenly boisterous man that Festus catches with his mother. He was an over the top man who