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TE jezza425
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Shadow Eagle
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TER for us.
Haven't got our results yet. I'm not holding my breath.
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| Thu Dec 18, 2008 1:24 pm |
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TE jezza425
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| Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:58 pm |
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Shadow Eagle
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We get ours on the 23rd, I believe.
Bet you's would never realise that I almost didn't pass english. How ridiculous.
The education system (particularly english) is flawed.
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| Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:44 am |
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TE jezza425
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| Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:50 am |
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Shadow Eagle
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Mixed. I'll post a sample of my work for english, and you's can see what you think.
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Shadow Eagle
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For this piece of work I got 50% 
Apparently it didn't conform to the question. Even though they marked it according to the wrong question, so no kidding.
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A lovely young woman is made the beloved prisoner of a loathsome male creature. He has wealth, power, a beautiful home. He offers her everything her heart desires, if only she will accept him as husband. Yet she fears his beastial nature, and though she comes to understand him, she remains distanced from him. This seems like the typical narrative, most commonly known by the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast, but the discovery of a diary has shown that reality can be much like a story.
How in modern days can a man-beast (here an uncouth socially inept working class man) have power to possess the perfect women (beautiful, educated, artistic and personable female)? The power comes from wealth, the possession from kidnapping her. As in the old tale, the creature’s motives are high-minded. The problem is that man cannot trick a woman into genuine affection by displays of wealth or subservience, nor will an intelligent woman confuse pity and mature love. Mutual respect is essential, and this is incompatible with excessive power (and social retardation) on the one hand and a high degree of giftedness (combined with complete humiliating powerlessness) on the other. The girl may attempt to reform him, but unless he gives up his power and accepts her as an equal it will not succeed. As a result determinism wins. The beast remains the same and the beauty dies.
Determinism is the name usually applied to the notion that people are controlled by their upbringing and circumstances. The beast, known to us as Ferdinand Clegg (sometimes as Caliban, which is assumed to be a reference to The Tempest) is a pathetic victim of an arid childhood, member of a powerless lower class. He has no future, except in his absurd imagination – which involves the kidnapping of the true victim, Miranda. Miranda had a good childhood. But suddenly she is trapped by a crazed person, and pines away, hidden from the world, until her unfortunate death at the age of twenty. She is a victim of chance, and as unfree as her tormentor, though for different reasons. As described in her diary, there are many instances in which she could take the opportunity to be ignorant towards her opinionated nature and succumb to her captor’s whim. However, by doing this, she is allowing her grasp on morality to become non-existent. She could despair, but decides against it, enriching her mind, living in her recollections, clinging onto hope, until the very end.
An odd feature of the diary is the discussion about Clegg’s complete lack of understanding to everything that has importance in Miranda’s life. He has a naïve view of art and class; he pays a lot of money for trendy furnishings and quality books, buys Mozart records and expensive champagne, and hopes that that makes him more of a gentleman. It of course wouldn’t. The trappings are vulgar, he doesn’t understand the art or the music; true sophistication is something that he cannot comprehend. The relationship that he has with Miranda is entirely on the surface. He prizes her as a thing of beauty. It is neither her personality nor her interests that attracted him to her, but his objective view. Even though he sees Miranda as a thing of beauty, he is reluctant to be involved in any sexual contact with her because of his ambivalent attitude towards sex. Clegg can be described as being emotionally undeveloped. The ‘normal’ course, by which children learn love and confidence from their parents, is missing in Clegg due to his previously mentioned partial childhood. He ‘respects’ Miranda too much to want to ‘take advantage’ of her, he sees her almost as both a mother figure and idealised lover.
Up to this point, Clegg seems cast in the obvious role of villain, complete with a lovely, blameless victim who dies a foul death. Yet we keep seeing glimpses of something else in him, a terrible innocence of spirit in which he doesn’t even see that what he is doing is wrong. Miranda uses his weak mind to gradually create more control of him, taking advantage and demanding items with no issue of price (and no objection from Clegg), as well as attempting to escape on a regular basis, through different methods, such as playing on his emotions (which seems pointless) and pretending to be ill, both failing. It is this fear and ignorance from Clegg that is the undoing in the end.
Given that we are trapped within a universe that we cannot control, what do we do? Do we believe in God, or hope that we will magically escape our fate? Do we give up and wait to die? Or do we face the truth of our predicament, and find meaning in spite of it, affirming our individuality, and therefore in a sense our freedom? The last is what Miranda does – yet in the end, it made no difference.
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TE jezza425
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Shadow Eagle
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It was the sort of piece that implied the use of brackets.
Yes, we had to read the book "The Collector" and then had a choice of three essay questions.
Other than that, what do you think?
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TE jezza425
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TE Wolf Fang
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It was to long for my attention span to read...
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Shadow Eagle
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Well in my TER English exam I wrote an essay arguing for violence in video games. I'll be interested to see what I get for it.
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TE Wolf Fang
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I still havn't got my results for this year back 
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That's very suprising about your English results... I remember that piece you sent me, very good I thought.. Still suprised you only received 50% for it.  Silly teachers
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TE jezza425
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Yeah, there was a question that asked you to write about the superficial handling of current affairs in the media. So I talked about violence in video games. I knew I had plenty to write about and a good understanding + relevant examples.
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TE jezza425
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TE Icarus
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oh god im gonna have to actually do stuff next year...
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