IOP - Pride & Prejudice

IOP Good afternoon. My individual oral presentation is based on the book Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen in the year of 1813. Today, I will examine the character of William Collins, by analyzing his marriage proposal to Elizabeth Bennet in Chapter 19. I believe that this passage contains great importance in the understanding of Jane Austen's character, Mr. Collins. Mr. Collins is a clergyman and an extremely comical character because of his mix of adulation and pride. He is fond of making long and silly speeches and stating formalities which have absolutely no meaning in themselves. For Mr. Collins, speech is not a means to communicate truth but a means to say what he thinks the people around him want to hear or what will make the people around him think well of him. He is first in line to inherit Mr. Bennet's estate, and wishes to marry one of the Bennet sisters to lessen the burden of entailment. I have begun my key-passage analysis from the line "The idea of Mr. Collins, with all his solemn composure, being run away with by his feelings, made Elizabeth so near laughing that she could not use the short pause he allowed in any attempt to stop him further, and he continued:"... From this excerpt, we can see that Jane Austen has used the term 'solemn composure' to exhibit Mr. Collins' seriousness and sincere poise. We may also observe the attention that Mr.

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  • Level: International Baccalaureate
  • Subject: Languages
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Enter without So Much as Knocking Commentary

Bruce Dawe is a contemporary Australian poet who in interviews has stated that he is very interested in placing ordinary things alongside extraordinary things. As an example, in one of his poems he places the word, cornflakes, alongside a serious matter of death. Strategically, Dawe chose the medium of poetry within which to write as it is the best medium through which to convey emotions, feelings, and thoughts. Poetry, by definition, employs many devices such as rhythm and rhymes which apart from diction; give readers a feel for what the poem is all about. This poem "Enter without So Much as Knocking" is structured with 9 stanzas with one epigraph on top. Each stanza consist different number of lines, except for last two stanzas having a single line. There is no rhyming scheme throughout the whole poem. Bruce Dawe structured out this poem with each stanza representing each stages of human life; starting with birth, toddler, young boy, teenager, adult, car accident and death. There are differences between the subject and the theme of the poem. In the poem 'Enter Without So Much as Knocking', Bruce Dawe brings up the subject of life throughout the poem. However, his theme is different to the subject. Throughout this poem, Dawe brings up themes such as; the human condition, no significances of life and death and adult's ignorance and their selfishness. Dawe criticises the

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  • Subject: Languages
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World Assignment 2

WORLD ASSIGNMENT 2 English A1 / Higher Level FATHERS AND SONS By: Ivan Turgenev 0 years have passed... By: Mohammad Asad Date: 01/30/2008 Word Count: 1,537 Candidate Number: 001109-018 Statement of Intent Ten years have passed since the brothers last met. It was then when in the small parish church, two weddings had taken place quietly and almost without witnesses: Arkady's wedding to Katya and that of Nikolai Petrovich to Fenichka; and on that same day, Nikolai Petrovich was giving a farewell dinner for his brother, who was going away to Moscow on some business. I have decided to continue and add to the novel Fathers and Sons ever since I finished reading it. I always wondered where each character would be after a certain period of time. And now I will remind you of the characters, and where we last left them with Turgenev, so we can carry on from there: The Kirsanovs, father and son, had settled at Maryino. Arkady was passionately engrossed in the management of the estate and the farm was yielding a fairly substantial income. Nikolai Petrovich became an arbitrator in the land reforms and was putting all of his energy into the work. Katya had given birth to a son, little Nikolai, while Mitya (Fenichka's son) scampered all over the place. Pavel Petrovich had gone from Moscow abroad for the sake of his health and then stayed in Dresden, where he associated chiefly

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  • Subject: Languages
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How did the pigs abuse language to maintain their position of power in Animal Farm?

How did the pigs abuse language to maintain their position of power? In "Animal Farm", there are 4 pigs, Major, Snowball, Napoleon and Squealer, that are very important to the story, and they use various ways to abuse language, they include rhetorical questions, assertion, lying, songs and slogans, adding condition and smearing the enemy. The pigs abuse language to achieve different goals, yet all of them end up help maintain pigs' position of power. Major through abusing language, started the motion for a revolution. As he sparks this idea in the beginning, he puts the pigs into the leading position of the revolution, which allows the chance for the pigs to gain the position of power which has been held by human if revolution does succeed. Snowball leads the animals into the early stages of revolution. During the first doubt about the new "farm", fundamental question about how the system is going to work, Snowball started the tradition of pigs making the decision to questions like problems with "sugar" and "ribbon". He abused language to encourage animals' enthusiasm towards animalism under the pigs. Napoleon with the help of Squealer also abuse language a lot to maintain pigs' rule. While Napoleon is the one who is making decisions, Squealer is the one who tries to "justify" and "promote" Napoleon's decisions through abuse of language, and to make sure the animals at

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  • Subject: Languages
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Loss of Hope

Loss of Hope By Rushad Heerjee How does it feel to be oppressed and lose all hope? The House of Bernarda Alba written by Federico Lorca is a theatrical tragedy which portrays Bernarda as a harsh and cruel woman who believe in oppressing others as well as upholding ancient family traditions. Her domineering nature keeps her five daughters and three servants in check as she rules the household with an iron fist. Bernarda is an eccentric character as she not only acts rashly but also uses physical and verbal abuse to make herself look better than others. In the play The House of Bernarda Alba, Lorca, using Bernarda's relationship with other characters highlights the central theme of oppression of women in Spanish society during the 1900's. Bernarda has repressed everyone in the household to the point that they are all afraid of her. From the start of the play the audience's image of Bernarda is somewhat similar to that of a totalitarian dictator. Poncia and the maid are discussing her character and Poncia says "She could sit on your heart and watch you die for a whole year without talking that cold smile of her damn face" (1, 194). This line projects an image of relentless cruelty and shows Bernarda's true character. Furthermore when we first see Bernarda, her first words are "Silence" (1, 199). This word shows Bernarda as an authoritarian who has total control of everything

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  • Subject: Languages
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Judith Wright Poems Analysis

English Assignment 1 by Arjun Sharma Analysing Judith Wright Poem's: Turning Fifty Imagery: Sight:- "Sun to rise" "still, as the sun comes up" "to all I've seen and known to this new sun" " outside the green birds come" "Their wings wait for the sun" "dark, clean" " Though we've polluted even this air I breathe" Sound: "the day will quiet" Taste: " I drink my coffee and wait" "I taste my fifty years her in the cup" " for bread and water" " bitter" Touch: " I raise my cup" Sound/Rhyme/Rhythm: * There is no rhyming scheme in the poem. * Alliteration, consistent use of oxymoron's and a lot of nature based imagery add to the flow of the poem Mood/tone: * The tone of the poem is very key, for most of the poem the narrators tone is dark and ironic, however in the later stanzas it switches over to a more happier and hopeful tone. * The mood of the narrator for key stages of the poem is very reminiscent, regretful and nostalgic as the narrator is reminiscing her past experiences and regretting what she has seen. Voice/Persona: * It has been narrated a point of view of a person who is turning fifty. * Talking to the reader a lot throughout the poem, for example in stanza 4 the narrator is telling the reader that he/she has a played major in the pollution of earth. * Negative for a major part of the poem, this is evident through the various dark images

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How is society portrayed in both the kite runner and 1984?

How is society portrayed in both the kite runner and 1984? Firstly I'll introduce the two novels as I know that some of you haven't read both of them, 1984 was written in 1948 so it is meant to be a dystopian future, a dystopia being the opposite of a utopia. It focuses on the life of Winston who is trying to rebel against the totalitarian society he lives in. He thinks that there must be a better way to live as he thinks for himself, unlike most of the party. The Kite runner is about Amir and his life journey as he tries to right the wrongs of his past, but it also about Afghanistan and its culture and some of its history, this gives us, the western world a great insight into a country that we would normally immediately think of badly. What is a society? Well there are several definitions of a society, one definition that I found is "mankind considered as a whole", whilst another definition was "the rich, privileged and fashionable social class" I think that a society is a mix of these things, it's the world we live in and the ideas and culture we have as a country. The kite runner and 1984 are both about society, it is a pivotal theme in the books, helping to set the scene for us and give us an inside view on an alien world as it were. Well in 1984 you could say that the society is defined as my second definition, the fashionable elite, these being the party and big

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binh giai doan trich cua so

Bình giai doan trích Cua sô cua Pham Thi Hoài Bài làm: Pham Thi Hoài là mot trong nhung cây bút rât thành công cua nên van hoc hien dai. Bà thuong viêt vê thê gioi noi tâm thâm kín cua con nguoi. Thiên su (1990) là tác phâm cung khai thác dê tài này. Ðoan trích ngan Cua sô nói vê nhung suy tu, tình cam cua mot cô gái dôi voi thê gioi bên ngoài can phong mình qua ô cua sô. Nó cung nói lên su không hoa dông và nôi cô don mà nguoi con gái này dang phai chiu. Nhiêu ý tuong trong truyen rât truu tuong, nhung bang nhiêu tu ngu goi hình và lôi diên ta sac sao, nhung suy nghi dó dã hien lên mot cách rõ ràng. Có thê nói cô gái trong doan trích là mot nguoi la doi. Cô còn tre, nhung lai dành hâu hêt thoi gian ranh giam mình trong can phòng chat hep, chi có muoi sáu mét vuông cua mình. Cô tu nhan mình là mot nguoi nhàm chán. Cô ghét lãng man và cung không có trí tò mò. Nêu là mot nguoi con gái khác trac tuôi cô mà phai sông nhu thê này thì chac se không chiu duoc. Còn dôi voi cô thì dây là viec rât bình thuong. Có le cung dã có thoi cô có nhung cam giác nhu nhung nguoi khác nhung chac vì cô dã quá quen voi cuoc sông này nên cô dã không còn thây nó khác thuong. Cô có thê tìm thây su thích thú o nhung thu rât tâm thuong. Ô cua sô là

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Outsider Story

My name is Pablo i come from Mexico and my dad Works on some Multinational company so each 3 years i need to move to another country. This time i am moving to Brazil because my father got promoted again. Its the worst thing that can happen to you in your life,You get adapted to some kind of place and when you just feel comfortable in the place you are, you move again to another place, its horrible! I only know how to speak Spanish and English but not Portuguese, it is going to be really hard for me to adapt in Brasilia. I have gone to Canada, Chile, panama and Mexico and with only 11 years old. When i got to Brasilia I thought it was a tough modern city, that had all the last technology in the world it had big buildings about 2 times the biggest in Cancun. The people there were really nice well that was what i was thinking because i couldn't understand what they were saying to me but i supposed they were nice to me. When i got to my first day of school it was awful, i was wearing a uniform from another school and my dad had bought it from the school that is the main rival in soccer so obviously i got bothered by almost everyone, until one of my classmates explained me why they were bothering me. The next day was much better well almost nobody bothered me because of the uniform they only welcomed me to the class and they all promised that they where going to bring a

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Passage of Time in HOS and OHYS

PASSAGE OF TIME AND WINDS OF CHANGE Charles Darwin once said, 'It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.' This quotation fits in perfectly, as only in one line, it describes the cause that led to the downfall of the Buendias and the Truebas in the novels 'One hundred Years of Solitude' and 'The House of the Spirits' respectively. In both the novels, the winds of change blow throughout passages of time. However, since the characters fail to accept this change in the best spirit, time for them moves in a circle, as history repeats itself-again and again. One of the main themes in both these novels of magic realism is the role that fate plays in the progression of events and during the lifetimes of both the Buendias and the Truebas. And it is precisely this fate that interweaves the concepts of the passage of time and the winds of change in both the works. Although there are lots of opportunities for the characters in the novels to change and grow, these characters always show a strong resistance against this change, against science and technology and thus, they are all entangled in a web of relationships that remain severed and time that moves very slowly indeed. The march of progress is most often deemed as positive and inevitable. However, in these two novels, change and progress are depicted as

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  • Subject: Languages
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