Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Practise Intro
How would you feel if you didn’t have a voice? If u wanted to say what u want but didn’t out of fear of the other sex? These were the feelings women experienced only for many years up to just a few decades ago. It was a frustrating time for them. Being owned, being silenced,…
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English Media Study – Overcoming Adversity
ENGLISH THEME STUDY OVERCOMING ADVERSITY The theme that I studied is about Overcoming Adversity. I decided to look at medias that involved people overcoming some sort of obstacle to gain some happiness or closure. I know that the topic is very broad so for some of the medias I looked at specific areas of…
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Taming of the Shrew – Plot and Notes
Taming of the shrew is a famous Shakespeare comedy. It is set in the olden days of Padua, Italy. The play is mainly about the treatment of women in those times. It is centred around two characters, Petruchio and Katherina. Petruchio is a wealthy ‘playa’. He has all the money and all the goods. All…
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Katharina vs Petruchio – Taming of the Shrew
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Insults in Taming of the Shrew
This is an extract from the Taming of the Shrew. In these following lines Petruchio insults his servants because he’s trying to show how Shrew-like Katharina is. There is a big similarity between his insults and our modern day ‘cusses’. In the scene, Petruchio uses such profane language to express his distain at the service that…
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This is Your Online Domain
Hello and welcome to your personal online journal. This platform has been created to enhance and enrich your learning at the London Nautical School. Its purpose is to provide you with an audience for your work (or work-in-progress) and you have the choice (by altering the ‘visibility’ of your posts) of whether your work…
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How did the Great Depression in 1930 come about?
The Great Depression of the United States in 1929 was a decade long, worldwide depression where the stock market was at an all time low. The Great Depression was caused by many things. The most known and notable cause of it was the Wall Street Crash. The Wall Street crash was a crash in the…
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Welcome, Remi!
Welcome to your new English Journal. This site has been created for you to allow a more modern and dynamic way for you to approach your work in English. It is set to “Private” so the only people who have the ability to read what you write here are you, me (Mr Waugh, your teacher) and…
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