Mills and Boon "Romance" (erotic) novel

The female gender is represented as clearly a stereotypical cliche of erotic novels although this isnt always seen as a sexist trend as its a womans erotic novel it's aimed at those with a certain influence of  dominating fetish not so much a social stamp of the worlds views of woman. This is clearly demonstrated by the use of actor and affected, the actor (male) doing to which he pleases the woman (affected) to give the image of control firmly fixated on the males part and the vunerable damsel in distress on the woman for example "they stared deep into her soul" shows the hierachy of power in terms of gender with the male clearly leaving the woman vunerable. This is peculiar as its accompanied by modern manipulation of roles, where as before these books would see a sucsessful man with a less so woman, the herorine in this extract is made out of a doctor- breaking free of previous cliches and shifting the balancing scales of representation of gender to  better women.

History Of The Internet

In 1969- 'CompuServe' was the first major internet service.
In 1971, the first e-mail was sent.
In 1978 the bulletin board system was invented and people sent messages over the internet.
In 1984 the Prodigy online service was introduced and allowed dial-up connections
In 1985 the AOL was created
In 1992 'Tripod' was opened for college students
In 1994 the BHI allowed people to create their own websites
In 1997 blogging began, the web had over a million sites and AOL started an instant messager chat
In 1998 'Google' became a major search engine
In 2003 Apple created iTunes and mySpace was created as a social networking site
In 2004 FaceBook was created for students at Harvard College, and mySpace was becoming the most popular social networking site
In 2005 YouTube was created for sharing videos, and FaceBook was introduced to different countries
In 2006 FaceBook overtook mySpace as most popular social networking site, and Google was the most used search engine
In 2007 Apple introduced the iPhone and microsoft bought a stake in FaceBook
In 2012 FaceBook had a billion users

Alliteration:

“Let us go forth to lead the land we love…”

“Pay any price, bear any burden…”

“its writ may run”

Anaphora:

“Let both sides…”

“To those old allies… To those new states... To those people…”

Anastrophe:

“Ask not”

“Dare not”

Antithesis:

“Ask not what you country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

“Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.”

“We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom...”

“not because… not because… but because…”

“Not as a call to bear arms… not as a call to battle.., but a call to bear the

burden…””

Assonance:

“…the steady spread of the deadly atom.”

Consonance:

“whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall…”

Metaphor:

―And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion…‖

“the bonds of mass misery”

“the chains of poverty”

Parellelism:

Prepared by the Department of Education and Public Programs, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

“United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided

there is little we can do…”

Paradox:

“Only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt

that they will never be employed.”

Repetition:

“For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human

poverty and all forms of human life.”

Using Emotion-Arousing Words

freedom, liberty

Using Fear

“For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human

poverty and all forms of human life.”

“…its hour of maximum danger.”

Using References to the Past

“I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears

prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.”

Reflection

Restuarant Review
The Restuarnt Review task allowed me to write incredbly opinionated influenced by A.A. Gill, It also allowed me to be original and mould a typical review into an extended metaphore (The Wizard of Oz). However i did find the review in itself quite tedious to write, consantly having writers block and not being enjoyable to write under the restraints of the tickboxes of a review.

A Day In The Life
The Day in the Life task i found to be the least enjoyable to write as i dont know anyone that considerably interesting to write about in bulk, as a result of this i found it a struggle to write the amount necessary. As my natural writing style is quite creative i found it hard not to vere off into a story, i didnt like the restrictions that came with such a style of writing.

Creative Writing
This task was the most enjoyable, i liked the freedom to write anything and go anywhere with the story, the style also came more naturally to me than the restrictions of a review or day in the life, that felt more like an essay than a piece of original writing.

Coursework

Bridget Jones's Diary Extract:

Bridget first meeting Mark Darcy

By Helen Fielding

 

Question 3: Language and Power

This leaflet was writen by Bishops Waltham Action Group (BWAG) for the residence of Bishops Waltham. As the obvious purpose of this text is to influence the reader to write a letter of apposal (of a new store) to the City Council, the presence of imperatives are prominent, "write a letter today" is an instruction which stresses the importance of the matter as they are given no other option, accompanying this is the lack of politeness markers which creates the sense of comand making the text have propaganda like essences throughout. The adverb "today" after the imperatives screams urgancy, this being a title stuns the reader by first glance into the thought chain what's so important i have to write a letter today? Not only does this cast the readers attension into the depths of the writing itself, but it makes the reader delve into another purpose of the text, the informing of issues in Bishop Waltham. By informing the reader it gives them the illusion of a sense of power of knowledge, by giving them this they feel they have the power to change the problem adressed in the text and are more likely to write the letter described. Next to this bold enlarged title designed to cling and draw in the readers focus, is a red clock. Pragmatically the colour red has connotations of danger this then attatches itself semantically into the readers memory of Bishops Walthams (BW) pending Sainsbury's, tagging itself to the connotation, so whenever the reader thinks Sainsburys in turn will think... danger! This use of semantics is designed to linger in the readers head, to slowly influence and indoctrinate them to think negatively and be more inclined to write a lettle of dissporoval.

Below is text adressed to the residence of BW, including clever choices of lexis "the real battle"  not only is this clever as BW is a place of medival battles and is tied securaly to the residence sentamental emotions the word "battle" has stong connortaitons of destruction and grave loss, this isnt just a fight its a battle which is thought of as long tiresome and to no good comes out. This influences the reader to do the right thing they have been conditioned into as a human that such a cause of destruction is wrong, making them more likely to write a letter of apposal. Such uses of desfimism is cut with a short utterance breaking all rythem, "Our community has a voice." the use of persuasive pronoun "our" makes the BWAG appeal as a single person that each resident can create a relationship with instead of an organisation that appeals as cold which cant be seen as one of us. The use of Short utterance breaks all flow of the text, this perhaps could be a symbol of the destruction that would be caused by introducing a major brand into a delicate  town such as BW, clearly residence wouldnt want such a tragedy and would do anything in there power to change it, influencing them to use their own power to gain what they want.

Naturally our eye is then drawn to the bold  interrogative sentence below. "Is this a chance worth taking?"  No doteful resident wants their towns livelyhood up to "chance", a word with uncertain unreliable outcomes, mainly assosiated with gambling which creates a villan for the residence to direct their disgust at which happens to be Sainsburys, this use of a scapegoat like character can be used as a reason for the residence to be scared, and tpyically BWAG is portrayed as the hero which residence turn to, and in tern are influenced to vote from the people with the answers.

Initiation-response-feedback (IRF)

Initiation-response-feedback, or IRF, is a pattern of discussion between the teacher and learner. The teacher initiates, the learner responds, the teacher gives feedback. This approach to the exchange of information in the classroom has been criticized as being more about the learner saying what the teacher wants to hear than really communicating.
      Example: The teacher asks a learner for rules about use of the present perfect, the learner gives an answer, and the teacher says whether that is correct or not.
In the classroom
     Although this approach has been criticized, it can provide a useful framework for developing meaningful communication in a controlled form. For example, there is room for authentic input in an IRF dialogue such as:

- How many brothers have you got?

- Three!

- Oh so you've got three brothers! That's a big family! Etc

    A factor is the size and ability of the class, as well as the type of lesson being taught. If the subject is more discussion oriented, or the class is smaller or of a higher ability, feedback may be less frquent or perhaps not occur at all, with multiple responses occuring instead to suit a more intellectual discussion as opposed to a strict question-answer structure typical of the model.