Yes, yes you can. One example, which has dawned on poor students for decades now and I think personally should stopped. It can only happen in one class... English.
This rant has come up because at the moment I am preparing for a controlled assessment on Romeo and Juliet (not coursework at home, but in class. Thank you education system...) and thanks to English I actually can't stand books/plays anymore.
Decent books which have been murdered:
To kill a Mockingbird (aka tequila mockingbird)
Frankenstein
Of Mice and Men
Romeo and Juliet
All the great books I have studied over years and have been destroyed over the over analysing of books. I personally strongly dislike English i.e I hate it so much. If you can speak it, you can do english. That is my theory. But no. You have to be able to explain the different language used and what effect it has on this character... blah blah blah
This is especially horrible when having to describe just a certain theme within a certain part of that certain book/play.... erghhh
" The bedroom was blue"- This conveys that the bedroom was a pure place which had a bright side to it no matter the darkness outside...
I'm sure whilst play writers and authors were writing it they weren't thinking of some hidden meaning for English teachers to torture students with and make them hate it for the rest of their lives.
Repeat that statement about 100 times and explain it in more detail. Put it in a page long paragraph and there, you know how to pass your English GCSE. IT MEANS IT'S BLUE!!
I'm sure if you are someone like me who hates writing essays and just rambles on for pages and pages until you have run out of things to talk about, you don't check. I never check my essays.. Yeah that is like the worst thing ever but the thing is I can't actually read my hadnwriting...
I have been moaned at by my english teachers since I was in year 3 about how illegable it is. And also I found out that it is 5% of your written assessment grade.. haha.. crying..... haha... I'm gonna lose that 5%.
Like I said at the beginning I stopped preparing for an exam to write this because I am so angry about it, and the rant is over so I must get back to the "star crossed lovers" or are they?
In response to : http://thenobodyguide.blogspot.co.uk
Sunday 10 February 2013
Monday 4 February 2013
The Great Britain
“If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.”- Eddie Izzard
If you haven't guessed by now, my fellow Internet friends, I am from the greatest of Britain. I would just like to say how little I actually knew about Britain. For example who knew someone from Britain was called a 'Briton'? I mean its always been ' A British person'. Also Big Ben is not a clock???? Only joking, I'm not that stupid. I guess I do know a few things, but I'm sure there are lots of details that I am missing out on. So I decided to do some research on FUN FACTS ABOUT BRITAIN. Here are my top 10 facts ( not in chronological order):
1. It is an offence to impersonate a Chelsea Pensioner
2. It is an executable offence to allow your pet to mate with a pet of the royal house without permission.
3. It is legal for a male to urinate in public, as long it is on the rear wheel of his motor vehicle and his right hand is on the vehicle.
4.Dying is illegal in the Houses of Parliaments.
5.There are more chickens than humans in England.- Wheres my chicken?
6. Winston Churchill was born in the ladies toilet during a dance.
7.Buckingham Palace was built on the site of a notorious brothel.
8.The British love donkeys! In 2006 the British public gave a total of 20m to a donkey sanctuary.
9.Placing a postage stamp bearing the monarch’s head upside down on an envelope is considered as act of treason.
10. If you find a Cab-driver in London not carrying a bale of hay overboard, he is breaking the law.
You learn something new everyday, in this case 10 things. I think those are some very interesting facts which will complete your everyday life. Who knew that if I died in the Houses of Parliament, I would be arrested and that the royal dogs need permission to go and make little puppies with a commoner?
One thing I do know is that our sense of humour can beat any country a million times over. WE laugh at every one and everything, especially our failure. But we all find the weirdest of things funny.
“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”- Charlie Chaplin
I think he agrees with my idea..
“I am an evil giraffe, and I shall eat more leaves from this tree then perhaps I should, so that other giraffes may die”- Eddie Izzard
I have no idea how this is funny.. but its funny. Its probably the randomness of it and how irrelevant it is to everything.
Somehow we end up laughing at ourselves and I don't care because it is funny and I am a Briton.
If you haven't guessed by now, my fellow Internet friends, I am from the greatest of Britain. I would just like to say how little I actually knew about Britain. For example who knew someone from Britain was called a 'Briton'? I mean its always been ' A British person'. Also Big Ben is not a clock???? Only joking, I'm not that stupid. I guess I do know a few things, but I'm sure there are lots of details that I am missing out on. So I decided to do some research on FUN FACTS ABOUT BRITAIN. Here are my top 10 facts ( not in chronological order):
1. It is an offence to impersonate a Chelsea Pensioner
2. It is an executable offence to allow your pet to mate with a pet of the royal house without permission.
3. It is legal for a male to urinate in public, as long it is on the rear wheel of his motor vehicle and his right hand is on the vehicle.
4.Dying is illegal in the Houses of Parliaments.
5.There are more chickens than humans in England.- Wheres my chicken?
6. Winston Churchill was born in the ladies toilet during a dance.
7.Buckingham Palace was built on the site of a notorious brothel.
8.The British love donkeys! In 2006 the British public gave a total of 20m to a donkey sanctuary.
9.Placing a postage stamp bearing the monarch’s head upside down on an envelope is considered as act of treason.
10. If you find a Cab-driver in London not carrying a bale of hay overboard, he is breaking the law.
You learn something new everyday, in this case 10 things. I think those are some very interesting facts which will complete your everyday life. Who knew that if I died in the Houses of Parliament, I would be arrested and that the royal dogs need permission to go and make little puppies with a commoner?
One thing I do know is that our sense of humour can beat any country a million times over. WE laugh at every one and everything, especially our failure. But we all find the weirdest of things funny.
“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”- Charlie Chaplin
I think he agrees with my idea..
“I am an evil giraffe, and I shall eat more leaves from this tree then perhaps I should, so that other giraffes may die”- Eddie Izzard
I have no idea how this is funny.. but its funny. Its probably the randomness of it and how irrelevant it is to everything.
Somehow we end up laughing at ourselves and I don't care because it is funny and I am a Briton.
Friday 1 February 2013
You can't get away
Everyone knows what they are....
As soon as you set your eyes on it, they never leave...
There is no escape to...
The world of the Social Network.
Facebook, Twitter.. Tumbler are all websites which the majority of the world has heard of, unless you live in a country which has no Internet. The extent to which Facebook, Twitter, and other social platforms have taken over people’s lives, people live life glued to screens. I am one of those victims who spend every waking moment on facebook, looking at pictures, making statuses and liking. I can't actually remember a time when I didn't used to come home and turn on my laptop and go on facebook. Yes does sound bad, but does it also have its advantages?
I mean you get to talk to your friends for free. You can talk to people from all over the world without going through the hassle of skyping or phoning lots of different numbers. Also helps us reconnect with old friends from childhood. Is that not a good thing?
The use of social networking sites allows us to be updated with the latest news and events going on; breaking news always get sent sites like a house on fire and millions of people can see it within a few minutes.
However, the things we do on these websites, especially teenage girls, just make me think what is our generation doing in life?
I think girls have been the most affected by facebook, especially on the comments of photos. First of all there are the photos, and yes I may be being a bit hypercritical as I do, do the 'selfie'. The picture which takes days to prepare for. You need the perfect background, make-up, hair, clothes.... and don't forget effects. The process to make one picture, which ends up looking nothing like you, it astonishes me.After the photo is taken there are the comments from the other girls. Even if you are an arch enemy of her you are obliged to like the photo and comment 'OMG you're such a stunner xxxxx'. You honestly can't get more two-faced than that. Then there's always those comments such as 'so beautiful <3'..' Go get ugly xx' and your like what do I reply.... The same response is always, 'So do you xx' and inside you're thinking what else am I supposed to say?.
Unlike girls, boys are very upfront with their emotions and comment going 'That's cool' or ' you are so gay' and boys don't take offence. Girls would get really insecure about comments so we need to be complimented.
I have much more to say about the work of social networking sites, some good, some bad. Well best be going of to take a selfie now.
As soon as you set your eyes on it, they never leave...
There is no escape to...
The world of the Social Network.
Facebook, Twitter.. Tumbler are all websites which the majority of the world has heard of, unless you live in a country which has no Internet. The extent to which Facebook, Twitter, and other social platforms have taken over people’s lives, people live life glued to screens. I am one of those victims who spend every waking moment on facebook, looking at pictures, making statuses and liking. I can't actually remember a time when I didn't used to come home and turn on my laptop and go on facebook. Yes does sound bad, but does it also have its advantages?
I mean you get to talk to your friends for free. You can talk to people from all over the world without going through the hassle of skyping or phoning lots of different numbers. Also helps us reconnect with old friends from childhood. Is that not a good thing?
The use of social networking sites allows us to be updated with the latest news and events going on; breaking news always get sent sites like a house on fire and millions of people can see it within a few minutes.
However, the things we do on these websites, especially teenage girls, just make me think what is our generation doing in life?
I think girls have been the most affected by facebook, especially on the comments of photos. First of all there are the photos, and yes I may be being a bit hypercritical as I do, do the 'selfie'. The picture which takes days to prepare for. You need the perfect background, make-up, hair, clothes.... and don't forget effects. The process to make one picture, which ends up looking nothing like you, it astonishes me.After the photo is taken there are the comments from the other girls. Even if you are an arch enemy of her you are obliged to like the photo and comment 'OMG you're such a stunner xxxxx'. You honestly can't get more two-faced than that. Then there's always those comments such as 'so beautiful <3'..' Go get ugly xx' and your like what do I reply.... The same response is always, 'So do you xx' and inside you're thinking what else am I supposed to say?.
Unlike girls, boys are very upfront with their emotions and comment going 'That's cool' or ' you are so gay' and boys don't take offence. Girls would get really insecure about comments so we need to be complimented.
I have much more to say about the work of social networking sites, some good, some bad. Well best be going of to take a selfie now.
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