We are studying AQA English Literature!
You will take one exam dealing with the following:
- Prose - short stories (anthology) or 'Lord of the Flies' [NOT both!!!]
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| Lord of the Flies |
...OR...
- Poetry - Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage AND pre 1914
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| Literature poetry |
You will answer TWO questions - one for each section; both deal with reading skills (PEEL).
"A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph."
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Ps. I don't necessarily agree!
ReplyDeleteIs this what you wanted mum? Did you want me out here?
ReplyDeleteWell, I’m out here now.
How could you do this to me? I’m glad I’m gone. I couldn’t stand another minute in that hell hole of a house. Everyday you’d scream at me. You wonder why I turned to drugs. Maybe it was the relief I got. I finally was free from you. You never knew me, not even a little. If I cried you’d walk away, or tell me to grow up, or both. Now I’ve left home. Am I grown up enough for you?
The screaming. The shouting. I just couldn’t take it anymore. You just didn’t understand. Why did you never listen? I tried to tell you - when I was younger. You just pushed me further away every time I tried to get close. I loved you. But you never loved me back.
I was never loved.
I’m still not. I’m out here, alone, because of you. Dad wasn’t much help either. He usually stayed out of our disputes, would never question the loud sobs echoing from my room, or your stamping footsteps down the stairs, and your angry sighs. It was the same routine every time. Mum, you were destroying me. How could you not see it?
I remember my first party. Well, not so much a party. Drunken chaos is what it was. When me and Vanessa turned up, everyone was already drunk. Vanessa started downing drinks the second we walked in. She went to the ‘dance floor’ – the living room – and started rubbing against all these guys I hadn’t seen before. I found out they had left school. They drove here. A few drove back too. Out of their faces. One guy was persistent with me. He kept coming up to me, bringing me drinks. He brought one, as I started to feel dizzy. He kissed me, roughly. Then I can’t remember anything. Not until the morning after. I woke up in a bed I’d never seen before. Vanessa had woke me up. She had a devilish smile on her lips. “So, how was your first time?” she sneered. She looked so smug.
I was so ashamed. But now I’d started, nothing was special. What worse could happen?
That’s when everything else began. It became a regular thing. You must’ve known. My clothes came home, smelling of god knows what. A mixture of everything. My hair wasn’t long enough to hide the hickys on my neck. You must’ve seen them. But not a word. Not a single word.
Then the guy I was with, he brought me home one night. He must’ve thought I was older, that he could come in. Boy did Dad show him. And then me. He snapped, and flipped. You didn’t step in, of course you didn’t. I could practically see you cheering him on. I was finally getting ‘what I deserved’.
And is this what I deserve? I bet your so happy. Swimming in tears of joy. Your perfect world. So perfect without your dirty slut of a daughter.
Well. I’m never coming back.
Ever.
Wow! That's all I can say right now! Not often I'm speechless!!! Mrs J x
ReplyDeleteCannibalism
ReplyDeleteCannibalism, the Spanish name for the Carob people, it is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh of other human beings. A person who practices cannibalism is called a cannibal.
While the expression "cannibalism" has origins in the act of humans eating other humans, it has extended into zoology to mean the act of any animal consuming members of its own type or kind, including the consumption of mates.
A related word, "cannibalize" (from which is derived "cannibalization"), has several meanings which are metaphorically derived from cannibalism and originally referred to the reuse of military parts. In manufacturing, it can refer to reuse of salvageable parts. In marketing, it may refer to the loss of a product's market share to another product from the same company. In publishing, it can mean drawing on material from another source.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=youtube+lord+of+the+flies&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari
ReplyDeleteMy homework to you!!! Thank me in the morning! This will save you watching the black and white version, if the link won't work just search for Lord of the flies on YouTube, Mrs J x
Cannibalism
ReplyDeleteCannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh of other human beings. It is also called anthropophagy. A person who practices cannibalism is called a cannibal.
While the expression "cannibalism" has origins in the act of humans eating other humans, it has extended into zoology to mean the act of any animal consuming members of its own type or kind, including the consumption of mates.
Cannibalism has recently been both practiced and fiercely condemned in several wars, especially in Liberia and Congo. Today, the Korowai are one of very few tribes still believed to eat human flesh as a cultural practice. It is also still known to be practiced as a ritual and in war in various Melaesian tribes.
Lovely Danielle, thanks for humoring me!!! Mrs J x
ReplyDeleteGravy, do you want a fact about Cannablism or how it was founded etc ? x
ReplyDeleteLiam- thanks muchly, how is akon relevant though?
ReplyDeleteJosh- whatever cannibalism stuff grabs you! X
ReplyDeleteTHE hakka, new zealand rugby dance things comes from the warriors of a country who used to do the dance before they fought. meant that they would do the worst thing possible to their enemies; turn them into human faeces. and also eating humans makes you go insane; there is a debate about what causes it. eating another human or chemicals in the body or diseases etc. Scientists say its a prion which is like a bacteria and virus but not the same as either; mad cow disease was a prion also.
ReplyDeleteRighto Ill get right on it. X
ReplyDeletecannibal's used to be head their victim's, remove the skull and shrink their heads and keep them as trophies. ewww!!!- quoted from dad lol
ReplyDeleteThanks Jess! I will not ask why your Dad knew that! Thanks Mr Paisley! Mrs J x
ReplyDeleteAnthropologists divide anthropophagy into two broad categories, based on its context. One is learned cannibalism, also called customary anthropophagy. The other broad classification, survival cannibalism, is perhaps the most disturbing. Survival cannibalism isn't learned, it appears to be innate. It's also the one most easily forgiven in the minds of Westerners. And it's happened more commonly than civilized society would feel comfortable admitting.
ReplyDeleteThe Donner Party is one striking example. In 1846, a group of Westward expansionists set out for California from the Iowa territory. A group of 89 settlers broke off from the original party, taking a shortcut through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Stranded in the mountains by a harsh winter and faced with starvation, the group splintered again. As the weather grew worse, the original and expedition sections of the Donner Party depleted their food, their animals and eventually turned to cannibalism to survive.
Fourty years later, four men on a yacht named the Mignonette sailing from England to Australia were stranded in a lifeboat after the yacht sank in the Atlantic. They remained adrift for more than two months and exhausted the meat of a sea turtle they'd captured. One of the men -- a sailor named Richard Parker -- drank seawater out of desperate thirst. As his health declined, his shipmates opted to kill and eat him rather than wait for the young man to die naturally. In an excruciating twist of irony, a sailor named Richard Parker was eaten by his fellow castaways after they'd eaten a tortoise in a 1838 Edgar Allen Poe short story, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" [source: The New York Times].
In 1972, a group of 16 people, including members of a Uruguayan rugby team, faced a similar situation when a plane crash stranded them in the Andes Mountains in Chile. During their 70 days in the mountains, the surviving members of the team ate the flesh of others who died in the plane crash [source: Simpson].
Survival cannibalism has happened enough that by the 19th century, it was an unspoken fact of life in the event of a shipwreck. This, the custom of the sea, included general guidelines. Drawing lots (straws) was the traditional method of deciding who would be killed and eaten and who would carry out the killing. Usually, the person with the shortest straw died and the person with the next shortest straw was the killer [source: Salon].
Survival cannibalism is a last resort. In the case of one group adrift in a lifeboat, 116 days passed without food before the party turned to eating human flesh. In most cases, anything even remotely resembling food was first eaten. Dogs, candles, leather, shoes and blankets are all consumed first before cannibalism becomes the only recourse for survival.
Under these terrible circumstances, cannibalism seems like a logical step. It appears in Looney Tunes cartoons when characters find themselves in some other life-threatening situation. Suddenly, Bugs Bunny or Elmer Fudd notices a companion looks an awful lot like a nice, perfectly cooked porterhouse steak. As terrible as the thought is, it just makes sense. But Western society's willingness to forgive its members' consumption of human flesh in the direst of circumstances is in stark contrast to how the West views learned cannibalism.
The survivors of the sinking of the French ship Medusa in 1816 resorted to cannibalism after four days adrift on a raft and their plight was made famous by Théodore Géricault's painting Raft of the Medusa.
ReplyDeleteMust be a winner ?!?!?! x
ReplyDeleteMany instances of cannibalism by necessity were recorded during World War II. For example, following the Soviet victory at Stalingrad in February of 1943, roughly 100,000 German soldiers were taken Prisoner of War (POW). Almost all of them were sent to POW camps in Siberia or Central Asia where, due to being chronically underfed by their Soviet captors, many apparently resorted to cannibalism. Fewer than 5,000 of the prisoners taken at Stalingrad would survive captivity. During the 872-day Siege of Leningrad, reports of cannibalism began to appear in the winter of 1941-1942, after all birds, rats and pets were eaten by survivors. Leningrad police even formed a special division to combat cannibalism.
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because i want to eat him and the song was about sex and maybe a bit of "EATS" Shoots and leaves johno :D and how dare you delete my comment... the rest was very relevant xx
ReplyDeleteSorry Liam! Thought it was an accident!!!! OOOppppss! See your point! Next time - EXPLAIN!!!! Mrs J x
ReplyDeleteAlbert Fish, who has been called America's Bogeyman, raped, murdered and ate a number of children during the 1920s. He claimed to have experienced immense sexual pleasure as a result.
ReplyDeleteFish kidnapped, murdered, and consumed a 10 year old girl from Manhattan. Six years later Fish taunted the innocent girl’s family by sending a letter to them graphically detailing his crime and the pleasure he received committing it.
Also, to lighten the mood...
Two cannibals eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does this taste funny to you?"
Nice touch Jen! Mrs J x
ReplyDeleteCannibalism was the term coined by the Spanish when they encountered the Carib Indians who ate ate human flesh. But it wasn't until Cortes encountered the Aztecs that the Spanish saw cannibalism on an industrial scale. The Aztecs were most infamous for taking human captives for sacrifice to their gods and then eating the corpse.
ReplyDeleteNow some dodgy cannabilism jokes:
When do cannibals leave the table?
When everyone's eaten.
What is a cannibal's favorite game?
Swallow the leader.
By Luke
Ingredients:
ReplyDelete4 human legs, preferably off short and stocky people for most meat and flavour.
4 cup white wine
12 chopped carrots
4 diced white onions
2 Bay leaves
1/2 cup butter
salt and pepper to taste
grated Parmesan cheese
Directions:
Combine half of the wine, bay leaves, 2 of the onions, and salt and pepper to taste. Slice the leg into pieces the width of a normal steak. Place in glass cake pan and cover with marinade. Refrigerate, covered, for 36 - 48 hours, turning the meat occasionally.
In a large skillet melt butter and add meat. Fry until the meat is golden brown on both sides. Remove meat from the pan and add the remaining onions and carrots and wine. Simmer until vegetables are soft.
Pour vegetables and meat back into cake pan and bake for 2 hours at 375. Serve topped with grated parmesan cheese, salad and wine. Feeds 4-6 people.
is it cannibalistic to eat the foetus goop that happens after birth cause quite a few people do? more knowledge for you miss! x
ReplyDeleteHhhhhmmm..... Not given that much thought Liam! I'm not sure you could, they're not dead! Instead they are eating a product of the human body, like drinking wee I suppose (not speaking from experience!) apparently that's healthy but not cannibalism!!! Thanks for making me think through this 'wonderful' argument! Mrs J x
ReplyDeleteyeah but you're still eating human... never said they had to be dead to be cannibals.... and piss and shit, well that's a waste product so it's not that same in my mind..
ReplyDeleteSo..Mine and Jenny's way of convincing her mum to let us have a sleepover. Our inspiration to write a letter came from your brilliant teaching. Of course...
ReplyDeleteBlessed Mother,
We would kindly like to request the consent in which is necessary to undergo a social gathering within the premises which you live. It is to our concern that you would be negative towards this request, although we kindly ask for you to consider allowing us such opportunity, enabling us to mingle with our peers. The time in which is most reasonable for us would be from the 29th January to the 30th, and we would like access to all amenities within your residence, such as food, drink and your living room.
Our plans regarding who is attending are as follows:
• Rebecclebert McJayne Hubblestein
• Robertio Clarkeingson
• Jacclebert Maddenthinkston
Unfortunately as my birthday passed, I was not able to arrange such celebratory occasion, and was therefore restricted from spending time with my associates. Now, as this available time to do such revelry is upon us, I would kindly wish for your approval.
Hope to hear from you very soon.
Best wishes,
Jemmy Sladington
Thought you might like to see it. Also, I had to make up for not doing a single piece of homework :)
I love it! Nice to see that my teaching provides you with advantages in the world! Plus... all is forgiven on the homework front! And that is because you are my A*, you followed me AND you are doing soooo much better in art! Mrs J x
ReplyDeleteMiss if you could help me analyse this be pretty good, I think it's quite good but I'll tell you what I think of it next time I see you. x -
ReplyDeleteLouise played by the river like any other day. Down amongst the reeds with her shoes slung on the bank paddling. It was like the air was scented with rose-like perfumes. Her father unusually busy at work; more customers than he had ever seen before in all his years. He just put it down to the new villages popping out all around him. THEY had offered to buy his stretch of river; all he had was a little wooden shack, his business, and his daughter. he who finds peace in his own home is happiest he said; that’s why he wouldn’t sell his river. They could run her dry he said but they couldn’t stop him from smiling. That’s one thing they can’t control. A man’s smile; a symbol of hope. They can take away everything good he knows but there’s always something made of nothing there. 26 years she had been beside him, beside those reeds. They belonged to each other.
They have places for people who mourn this much whilst smiling. When man discovers the meaning of life; he will either discover an unknowing truth or that the meaning of life [is]; has to be given a meaning because it doesn’t have one.
A masters in Physic & Construction. An odd choice for any candidate. He wanted to know how things worked. 26 years old and they finally understood how it worked. They saw what could stop that smile. She was slowly getting dirtier and dirtier with the village, now city, filth. They corrupted her beauty; surrounding her from all sides in a dark alley with only one exit. This lowered his mood more and more every few weeks but he kept appearances up; what would the neighbours think, if we had any neighbours, by now they had all left, the attractive prices they offered.
If we had just stayed a little tighter together we might’ve been able to hold them off. At the end, when you shoot a man through the heart, he won’t get up from that. God graced him with a spare eye, but only one heart. He could struggle as much as he wants for her. In the end he will lose her.