Author: Kai

Are teenagers lazy slobs?

March 26, 2015 / / 8 Comments

Teenagers are just misunderstood. This essay is going to tell you that actually we are very active.

A lot of us are interested in exercise and the majority of us take part in it. So it is unfair to label us as lazy when we are actually sporty. Many teenagers are in teams, but even if they are not in a team many teenagers still do sports. Whether it’s joining clubs after school or just on the weekend for fun.

We are still growing up, so we are not adults yet. So we have a lot of good potential because we still have a lot ahead of us, which means that when we are adults we could be a really nice person because we would have grown up.

We will have mood swings which means we won’t be happy all the time. We can’t control how we feel quite a lot of the time because of hormones.

We have odd sleep patterns which sometimes causes us to be in a bad mood. We have a lot of pressure on us because when you are a teenager you have high expectations from teachers, parents and peers. We can be stressed out quite a lot of time because a lot of things are troubling us; like high expectations, tests, homework  and many other things. When you were a teenager what were you like? When everybody gives you high expectations and it’s hard to fulfill them. We need more sleep than adults and babies but we can’t because our sleeping patterns are messed up. That is why we are always so tired. How would you like the system to work for teenagers?

I think schools should acknowledge this and make school opening times a bit later so that we can come into school more awake and ready for school, which means that students will be able to do more work and will be able to concentrate and behave well.

Schools need to know how we think things would work better for us, because if the system is better our education will be better because we will be getting more done in class and can contribute in class better. If the schools listen to us then it will benefit our education.

The point of school is so we can get an education, we can get a good job, have a good future and also there is a social aspect to school as well.

People think that we are lazy  but I think that we are not. As teenager my self I think we are just tired rather than lazy because I know being a teenager is quite tiring. When you were a teenager was life tiring for you?

As I said, we have weird sleeping patterns, this is the reason for teenagers being tired and this has been scientifically proven.

All adults have been teenagers and they need to remember what it was like from a teenagers point of view. So I think we should have a say in today’s society and then people would see a different point of view of teenagers.

We have a lot of stress, when we use our phone or play Xbox our parents think we are wasting our lives and they always say “you will not have a bright future wasting your life on games consoles.” We are relaxing! We have actually been studying in school for hours.

If the education system works to fit us then they can learn more and behave better.

If people ignored the stereotypes and allowed the system work for us then people will realise that we aren’t horrible or lazy; we are just misunderstood. We are decent people like everyone else.

How does the writer use figurative language to present young people

March 17, 2015 / / 2 Comments

The writer uses words and phrases that associate young people with negative things e.g. Violence and vandalism.

There is a metaphor that says ” Beirut of the North” and Beirut is associated with violence and war which is suggesting that what they are saying is that young people are making it that kind of environment.

The writer says flood when talking about complaints to the police. Flood has connotation of everything happening once. So what the writer is saying is that all of these incidents and all of the complaints happened at once.

The writer says yobs when he talks about young people. So yobs has connotation of a negative point of view on teenagers.

School satire speech

March 4, 2015 / / 0 Comments

I am the head master of LNS where your hopes won’t collapse, but the building will. I am the best headmaster in London, in my opinion. I am very proud of this school because we get good reports from offsted, that’s mainly  because the students only behave well when offsted are here.

The students of LNS enjoy their time here, that’s probably because they can see their friends not because the lessons are good. Also the hygiene standards are high, if you compare it to a bin.

The classes get on with their work very well, when the majority of the class has been removed. The classrooms are presented very well, if you think that a rubbish dump is presented well. After a series of detentions, the students do their homework.

Our equipment is top of the range, we get it from poundland . Students get ill quite a lot, the reason is because when they don’t feel well teachers just say you will be fine. If you compare our progress to a nursery, it’s good.

Fate notes (Essay)

February 6, 2015 / / 0 Comments

fate – pre determined

– written in the stars map of the gods

– always going to happen

– destined

-inevitable

Shakespeare punishes characters that try to take control of fate

Metaphor – stars – fate

far away, gods, looking up, maps-pathway

Caeser gets punished for not believing in fate

Anthony- Caeser’s hubris

– bigger than fate

I am as constant as the northern star- always – does not stop

Greek mythology three goddesses of fate

Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos

The skies are painted with unnumbered Sparks

stars-fate

unnumbered- too many, many, innummerable, countless

Sparks- burn bright, became dim, burn out, fade out

How does Shakespeare present fate in Julius Caesar (essay)

January 28, 2015 / / 1 Comment

In the play Julius Caesar whether you’ve read it or watched it you can tell that Shakespeare has made fate one of the most important parts of the play e.g. One really important parts of the play is when the soothsayer says “Beware the ides of March!” This quotation portrays fate in the play. Throughout the play you will hear talk about fate pop-up when people are having a discussion. You will notice fate has a big part to play in Julius Caesar. In Julius Caesar fate is mostly portrayed as inevitable.

In act 5 scene 1 Cassius and Brutus are having a conversation just before they go to battle. When they are talking they refer to fate they are saying things like ” the gods today stand friendly, that we may, lovers in peace, lead on to our days to age!”. In this conversation Brutus says “The ides of March have begun.” He is saying they have begun and cannot be prevented. I think that the figurative language is connotation because Cassius is saying that god is associated with deciding your fate.

In the play Julius Caesar the characters refer to fate at many points. In act 3 scene 1 just before Caesar gets murdered there is figurative language when Caesar says “I’m as constant as the Northern star.” The type of figurative language that is used in this quote is a simile because he is using ‘as’ so he is comparing himself to the northern star. The northern star is important and stands out and Caesar is trying to say that he is as important as the northern star and that his fate is that he will remain that important.

My opinion of fate in the play Julius Caesar is that it is vital for the play, because quite a lot of the play revolves around fate. In the play, fate is used often but sometimes it might not be so clear because quite a lot of the time fate is portrayed in figurative language e.g. Similes, metaphors, personification, connotation and other forms of figurative language.

Fate is portrayed to be pre-determined. In the play characters can get punished for either believing in fate or not believing in fate. An example of a character being punished for not believing in fate is when Caesars wife tries to convince Caesar to not go to the senate because she had a dream that Caesar would get killed. Her dream was that a statue of Caesar had blood coming out of it and that people were bathing in but eventually Caesar ignored her dream which was a vision of Caesars fate and when Caesar got to the senate he was punished for not believing in fate by being killed by the conspirators. When Caesar says that he is as constant as the northern star he is saying that he is bigger than fate and is immovable and that Caesar thinks that fate cannot determine his future and that only he can control what he does and what happens to him.

What is being showed here is that if a character believes that he is bigger than fate and that he controls what his future is and what can happen is punished for believing that. The clear example of that was when Caesar said that he was as “Constant as the northern star.” He got punished for it.

 

Satire

January 16, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Satire- The use of humour, irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and criticize peoples stupidity or vices, particularly in the context contemporary politics and other topical issues.