Written in 2006 for a writing class, a short biography of my favourite author. Roald Dahl became my favourite author as a child as I very quickly became affiliated with his varying works. I had read his stories in school and my parents had bought me some of his classics to read at home. Dahl [...]
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Written 2005 about screenwriting techniques With regard to the text, The Tools of Screenwriting, what techniques must the screenwriter employ to create a compelling, successful screenplay? Tips: refer to the range of techniques available, address the question of what creates successful drama. Refer to successful films described in final chapters in additions to techniques [...]
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Essay on Wilfred Owen’s poetry ‘’The Dominant tone is not anger, nor protest, but elegiac. Suffering is ultimately aestheticized; the hideous is expressed in the language of beauty.’’ To what extent do you agree with this view of Owen’s poetry? This view of Owen’s poetry is arguably correct. Owen, like many other soldiers [...]
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Essay on the book ‘Is There Life After Film School’ and discussing the people interviewed. ‘Is There Life After Film School?’ Essay With regard to the text, Is There Life After Film School? Discuss the various methods used by interviewees to overcome adversity and achieve success. Include comparison of descriptions by interviewees of those [...]
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A creative writing technique – get someone to pick 10 items (or pick them yourself) and write a story about them. The example below is about a person, written in class circa 2005. 1. A lava lamp 2. An abstract painting 3. A pipe 4. A digital camera 5. A book about Pandas 6. [...]
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Writing Assignment for Writing for Film and Media university module, 2005 Mike is staring at Julian. Julian is wearing a coat, the coat. Mike: What are you doing with my coat? Julian: Wearing it. Mike: Why? Julian: Because I want to. Mike: Well it’s mine, [...]
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University poetry essay on ‘My Picture Left in Scotland’, 2004. The poem ‘My Picture Left in Scotland’ is by Ben Jonson and is from the Renaissance period. In the poem the speaker (Jonson) states that he believes love is deaf, and not blind, and then begins to describe to the audience why. In the first [...]
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My favourite quotes. If there are any errors, or if anyone knows the authors of quotes I have not attributed, please let me know. ”All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men do nothing.” Edmund Burke ”Write hard and clear about what hurts.” – Ernest Hemingway. ”If you are going [...]
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Review January 2005. Published in 1996, Stephen Knight’s Dream City Cinema is a very interesting collection of poetry. The book follows Knight’s previous works, Flowering Limbs (Bloodaxe, 1993) and The Sandfields Baudelaire (Smith/Doorstop Books, 1996).The book consists of 37 poems spanning 64 pages, and although the poems are in no particular order they are almost [...]
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Written in May 2005 for a Creative Writing class. Int. council house. We are in a small, cosy lounge with the curtains drawn. A man in his late sixties/early seventies is sitting in an armchair, dressed warmly, deep in thought. FRED: Miserable weather again today. I was going to go out to the corner [...]
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