Famed English novelist, George Orwell wrote “Nineteen Eighty-Four” in 1948, thirteen years after his former french teacher Aldous Huxley wrote his most influential novel, “Brave New World”. While both of these books focus on a dystopian class-based future, ruled over by a vast and seemingly all-powerful government, influencing and controlling how it’s citizens live their […]
When you think of the democratic people’s republic of North Korea, what comes to mind? Unfortunately, when most people think of this isolated, and vastly unexplored country, they think of a dictatorship, with starving peasants, and ridiculous laws. But what if I was to tell you that all of this was a lie, fed to […]
The false information is delivered to the people of Oceania through various forms including loudspeakers, newspapers, and even through the party’s own stripped-down version of English, called newspeak. Parallels between 1984 and our world today – what warnings can be found in the novel. Mass influence of people, manipulating their opinions One warning that appears […]
Hypocritical stance of teachers: Having beards but saying that we can’t Saying that we are young adults, yet not treating us as such Welcome to the senior school Kiar ora and welcome to Mt Aspiring College (MAC), consistently voted the best college in Wanaka since 2006. This informative and easy to understand article has been […]
Ideas: Roadworks, something to do with current nz events
Ben Boyd 2.4 English Portfolio Question: How do language techniques help the reader understand a main theme or issue. In Wilfred Owen’s poems, Exposure and Dulce et decorum, he strategically uses various language techniques in order to convey to the reader the various main themes and ideas within each. In Exposure, he uses these techniques […]
“People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me, it’s quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, […]
The Great Gatsby, by author F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a 1925 fictional novel, that has been called “the greatest novel of the 20th century”. The book follows a young WW1 veteran named Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story, who has recently moved to New York, more specifically the fictional village of West Egg, to […]
The Gift of the Magi is a short story first published in 1905, by the famous American writer O.Henry (real name William Porter). In the over 100 years since it first came out, it has become one of the most popular and influential short stories of all time, being adapted into numerous school plays, movies, […]