'Evaluate how the Box Hill area is influenced by human activity'.

The title for this piece of coursework is 'Evaluate how the Box Hill area is influenced by human activity'. The 'influence by human activity' reflects the way that humans utilise the Box Hill area and the effect that leisure and tourism have on the surrounding environment. Location Map: Box Hill is located in Dorking, Surrey, England. OS map showing route and reference points Scarp slope path: Dip slope path: _________________________________________________________________ . 225 MY : Weathering and erosion of very old folded rocks on an area of land. _________________________________________________________________ 2. 175 MY : Continued weathering and erosion on land in the north; deposition of weathered rock in the sea covering the area to the south. ________________________________________________________________ 3. 120 MY : Continued erosion of the land as it is slowly uplifted and deposition in the sea as the basin gradually deepens. The size of the weathered rock fragments has varied- clay or sand at different times. _________________________________________________________________ 4. 50 MY: Deposition over the whole of this area, which has become submerged under water- including the deposition of chalk. _________________________________________________________________ 5. 25 MY: Alpine earth movements (Orogeny). The movement of the earth 's crust, which

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The King of the Castle Character Assessment Joseph Hooper.

29th September 2002 H/W The King of the Castle Character Assessment Joseph Hooper Joseph Hooper is a man of his own and he thinks that he is a great man of status; because of this he is very selfish, and he only cares about himself. 'I will not live here again, until it belongs to me.' He was a very self-centred man because his father had suffered from a second stroke and he didn't want to look after him or live there unless the house was his. Joseph Hooper was master in his own house, but his son Edmund should have been the master because he's hardly there. He is very controlling and domineering and it is ironic what he says. He finds it hard to cope as a single parent, so the father and son relationship becomes cold, clinical and distant and they don't have a good respectable attitude towards one another. Joseph wants to try and get his son a friend and someone to look after them in their home, so they can have some company and not be alone. He is also very sensitive and overprotected about his son going into the Red Room. This was because it belonged to his father and he wanted it to be left the way it was, so they could have something to remember him by. Joseph is very soft and weak with his son and he listens to him and does what he says. The father is thinking about one thing and his son is doing another, so Edmund is not the son he thinks he is. Edmund says that his

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Based on the novel by Susan Hill. A young lawyer is sent to wind up the affairs of a deceased woman. He begins to put two and two together about her strange life, alone in a big mysterious house.

Based on the novel by Susan Hill. A young lawyer is sent to wind up the affairs of a deceased woman. He begins to put two and two together about her strange life, alone in a big mysterious house. Years later, he recounts his experiences in hopes of exorcising the ghosts of the past. A brilliantly effective spine-chiller - it plays on all our Primal Fears As a play, it binds the audience in its tightly-knitted plot which unravels an incredible sequence of events and as a theatrical experience, a poignant one that is never to be forgotten. IMAGINATIVE AND HIDEOUSLY REAL An elderly lawyer hires the services of a young actor to re-enact the experiences of his youth in an attempt to exorcise a ghost which has been haunting him. Their rehearsals conjure up a world of dark, secluded houses, petrified locals and a story which is both tragic and terrifying. With just two actors and minimal props, the atmosphere is ingeniously evoked through simple light and sound effects. In doing this, it proves that there's nothing more terrifying than your own imagination. These things that go bump in the night could be cliches if they weren't so devestatingly well delivered. There is no explicit violence or gore, but the suspense is enough to give the hardiest person the exciting chill of real fear. This production will have you on the edge of your seat (if not under it). The several

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How does Susan Hill evoke feelings of anxiety and fear in the reader?

How does Susan Hill evoke feelings of anxiety and fear in the reader? Ghost stories have been part of our lives for many centuries now. They bring us excitement, fear, tension, anxiety and curiosity. Susan Hill wrote the novel in the 1970's, the date set for the novel was the 1930's just before the Second World War. We can tell this as she describes old cars and the use of gas lamps. The story revolves around a junior solicitor named Arthur Kipps, who is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the owner of Eel Marsh House but unaware to him that she and her house had many secrets and when he sees The Woman in Black, the feeling of unease and eeriness takes hold him. Susan Hill used a variety of Ghost stories from the Victorian Period to bring her novel together. It is a tradition of ghost stories that they are told or narrated by someone. But Susan Hill decided to use a narrator. Ghost stories have been told many times and have changed to become myths and legends. The Victorians enjoyed a good Ghost story; Susan Hill has used many of the Victorian traditions of Ghost stories for example the title "The woman in black" is a echo of Willkie Collins "The Woman in White". This novel is about a beautiful, mysterious lady who haunts the narrator by re-enacting her past life of being persuaded by evil men. She has also used names from the novelist Charles Dickens e.g.

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Looking in detail at ‘The Woman in Black’explore how Susan Hill builds and sustains tension.

Looking in detail at 'The Woman in Black' explore how Susan Hill builds and sustains tension. Susan Hill's tragic Novel 'The Women in Black is a story about horror and mystery. The story starts when Mr Kipps is sent to settle the estate of the late Mrs Drablow. He meets people who tend not to talk about Mrs Drablow. He is left to think and solve this mystery for himself. In doing so this changes Mr Kipps life forever. Susan Hill uses different techniques to build and sustain tension. She also uses different techniques to create different effects. For example the pace and length of sentences and missing information which can build tension and description so that the reader can picture clearly what's happening through the book. The first episode in the novel 'The Women in Black' is called 'Christmas Eve.' Susan Hill gives us some clues on what might happen later on in the novel. In the first paragraph of 'Christmas Eve' Susan Hill focuses our attention on Mr Kipps. She writes about general things such as what the time is, where the main character is and what his stepchildren are doing. At the end of the paragraph she writes about him leaving the house and going outside. "Went to the front door, opened it and stepped outside." At the moment there is no sign of tension levels rising. The next two paragraphs are written about the weather. The first paragraph, out of the two,

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Discussing Robert Cormiers' Heroes.

Heroes Robert Cormier is a famous and highly successful author who wrote books such as: 'Heroes', The chocolate war', 'Beyond the chocolate war', 'Fade', 'Tenderness', 'After the first death', 'I am the cheese', 'The rag and bone shop', 'The bumblebee flies anyway', 'Summer in Frenchtown', 'We all fall down', 'Tunes for bears to dance to' and 'In the middle of the night'. Cormier was born in 1925 in French hill, a French-Canadian neighbourhood of Leominster, Massachusetts. Bought up in a busy household of seven brothers and sisters, he attended a catholic grammar school- some nuns gave him a terrible time there but one read an early poem of his and claimed 'you're a writer!' He married in 1948 and he and his wife had four children- all four were sent to local catholic schools. Robert Cormier was a controversial author, and semi-autobiographical accounts appear in all his books. Cormier believed people should 'tell it like it is' (quoted from an interview) and that teenagers should learn the truth. This may be why he writes in such a frank style with gory details. E.g. 'my legs are gone... No more dancing for me... No more sweet young things... No more anything' He thinks children shouldn't be patronised and that happy endings aren't always the case, so children should be shown the reality of life. Most books he's written are in the first person and the main character is

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Can Hooper be seen as anything other than Evil? A comparative Essay on 'I'm king of the castle'.

Can Hooper be seen as anything other than Evil? A comparative Essay on 'I'm king of the castle' In this essay I will be attempting to find out if Hooper is anything but evil, I believe that Hopper is not evil but just unloved. I believe this because Mr Hooper thinks that he cannot show the love that his late wife could of and so he does not try to show him any love. But there have been occasions that Hooper has shown evil for example when Kingshaw and Mrs Helena Kingshaw first arrived at The Warings, Hopper wrote on a piece of paper 'I didn't want you to come here' This note is thrown down to Kingshaw on the day that he and his mother arrive. This is Hooper's first demonstration on how evil he can be along with how possessive of his property he can be. I think that evil is just a metaphor on how people can act when they are intimidated or being defensive of something of theirs or something that they feel very strong about. This book 'I'm King of the Castle' has been written by Susan Hill and was written in 1969 in a small farm cottage in a remote corner of Dorset. I believe that Susan Hill wrote this book in hope that people would comprehend some of the pressures that children are under today with school, friends, and family problems. Also I believe that she wanted parents to realise how life is for children as for adults it is so long ago and they cannot remember what

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How does Susan Hill use Gothic techniques to create tension and horror in the chapter In the Nursery in The Woman in Black?

'How does Susan Hill use Gothic techniques to create tension and horror in the chapter 'In the Nursery' in The Woman in Black?' The Woman in Black is a piece of Gothic literature, which attempts to both horrify and enthral the reader through the use of gothic techniques. The story centres on a young solicitor named Arthur Kipps, who is summoned to the small market town of Crythin Gifford, to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow. Furthermore, the man has been instructed to manage the legal documents of the late widow. Whilst doing this, he stays in what was the woman's residence, Eel Marsh House. However, the property is only accessible by pony and trap, due to the fact it is situated on Nine Lives Causeway. At high tide, the house is completely cut off from the mainland, with only the surrounding marshland and sea frets for company. Confined to the house, Arthur Kipps endures an increasingly terrifying sequence of unexplained noises, chilling events and hauntings, which appear to be connected to a mysterious woman he notices at the funeral. In the chapter, 'In the Nursery,' various traditional gothic conventions are used, in order to establish a sense of fear and insecurity. The author, Susan Hill, attempts to balance gothic ideas, like pathetic fallacy and ominous connotations, with gothic literary devices, such as short sentences and repetition. Incorporating both

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How Well Is The Past Interpreted At The Blists Hill Museum?

How Well Is The Past Interpreted At The Blists Hill Museum? Blists Hill open air museum covers about 50 acres and consists of buildings that have been there since the 19th Century and some buildings that have been saved from other places and re-erected on the site. Most exhibits are designed to recreate a late Victorian town and the museum has staff dressed in the appropriate costume explaining and demonstrating the historical sites. Blists Hill demonstrates a limited understanding of what coal mining was like in the Victorian era. There are a couple examples of both the drift mine and the bell pit but there was not much detail and they were all closed off. This was really disappointing, as I could not gather much information about mining in the era from Blists Hill alone. I would need to gain extra information if I was going to get enough information. There was however, some information and it was represented correctly. It would have been better if it was working and people were telling you what would actually happen. Overall it was a poor showing. The Drift mine is dug into the side of a hill and the earth above the coal seam is supported by wooden posts. It had tracks leading out of it which would have probably been used by the coal carts to get to the incline where the coal would be loaded onto barges. The mine was locked up which meant people weren't allowed

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'The Go-Between' by L.P.Hartley - "It did not occur to me that they had treated me badly" - What Sympathy do you have for Leo in the Go-Between?

'The Go-Between' by L.P.Hartley "It did not occur to me that they had treated me badly" What Sympathy do you have for Leo in the Go-Between? This essay is to assess how much sympathy is deserving of the young and naïve Leo Colston after being permanently emotionally damaged from a visit to a school friend in the country in the summer of 1900. The prologue acts as the introduction to the elder character of Leo Colston, a man in his sixties, and it is here that we are presented with the impact of his summer visit to Brandham Hall, over fifty years before. From the opening of the novel with "the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there", the reader is immediately made aware of the themes of past and of memory. Although these themes are initially conjured up, from the tone of narration, there is a much greater sense of distance and of being wistful. Not only is this sense of distance represented by the narrator talking in the past, but by the choice of grammar, "they" instead of "we" and "do" instead of "did", suggesting that the past could be of a foreign nature, causing the reader to believe that memories have become foreign due to their burial deep in his mind from many years ago. From this opening line, there is a distinct suggestion of an alienation of events that have occurred in the past, which have greatly affected Leo, and consequently he has

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