This poem explores how a woman's hometown and past experiences have shaped her identity and left a lasting imprint. The woman's skin is described as a "map" covered with reminders of her life in the form of a birthmark and tattoo. No matter how much she tries to cover or change her skin, she cannot escape where she came from and the memories embedded there. In the end, she sheds her skin completely, realizing her true home is not defined by geography but where she feels most like herself.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley presents a controlling, over-processed, anti-social world which creates a faulty version of perfection when trying to obtain it.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R L Stevenson Vipul Dabhi
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Othello by William Shakespeare, Notes, Quotes and Analysis by T. ScarsbrookTanyeliScarsbrook
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I used this slide for my A level in English Language and Literature. It helped me a lot as I got an A as a result. I have analysed each act and scene, as well as Key notes and analysis of quotes. This took me a few months to make so I hope it helps some of you.
This presentation provides an in-depth exploration of Samuel Beckett's iconic play, 'Waiting for Godot.' Through a series of thought-provoking slides, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the play's key themes, symbols, including the futility of human existence and the search for meaning in an absurd world. This presentation offers a fresh perspective on one of the most important plays of the 20th century. This presentation also discuss about various interpretation of the play including psychological interpretation.
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Textual Analysis of The Dumb Waiter, Symbols of it, Pinter's language, Theatre of The Absurd, The similarities between The Dumb Waiter and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.
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I used this slide for my A level in English Language and Literature. It helped me a lot as I got an A as a result. I have analysed each act and scene, as well as Key notes and analysis of quotes. This took me a few months to make so I hope it helps some of you.
This presentation provides an in-depth exploration of Samuel Beckett's iconic play, 'Waiting for Godot.' Through a series of thought-provoking slides, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the play's key themes, symbols, including the futility of human existence and the search for meaning in an absurd world. This presentation offers a fresh perspective on one of the most important plays of the 20th century. This presentation also discuss about various interpretation of the play including psychological interpretation.
Textual Analysis of The Dumb Waiter - Harold Pintercircewine
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Textual Analysis of The Dumb Waiter, Symbols of it, Pinter's language, Theatre of The Absurd, The similarities between The Dumb Waiter and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.
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1.1 Connecting: Entering Into a Literary Experience
When you allow reading to unlock your imagination, your connection also sets the stage for intellectual engagement. It allows the experience of reading literature to include the pursuit of ideas and knowledge. Your literary experienceâas the title of this book suggestsâcan become a personal journey, a quest for meaning. But connections to literature don't have to begin with deep intellectual quests. The stories themselves, those that strike a human chord, provide the greatest opportunity for connection.
From ancient times, in every culture, humans have told stories to explain their world, to honor people, to celebrate achievements, and to communicate human values. Stories are still essential in our lives: We share them with our children, look to them for entertainment, and read them because at the core of our being there's a powerful curiosity about human relationships and how to cope in the world in which we find ourselves.
This means you are already wired to explore literature. And the most immediate connection is through story. Allowing yourself to be drawn into a storyâwhether it's told by someone, printed in a book, or performedâunlocks your innate abilities to empathize, to laugh, to inquire, to learn, to wonder. Connecting with literature also allows you to reflect on the significance of common human experiences in your life.
For example, if you know what it's like to send your child off to school for the first time and remember how you felt when this happened, your connection to the emotions that Rachel Hadas, poet and former professor at Rutgers University, packs into "The Red Hat" will be instantaneous. Her poem captures the anxiety and disequilibrium parents feel when watching their young children drawn away from them to enter school and a world away from home. When the watching parent is described in the poem as one whose "heart stretches, elastic in its love and fear," you can feel those emotions because you have experienced them. And no one has to explain what "wavering in the eddies of change" meansâyou've lived through that uncomfortable experience when home seems strangely empty, routine is broken, and you are forced to accept that your child will not always be with you.
The Inclusion of "The Red Hat"
Wayne Clugston, author of Journey Into Literature, discusses his reasons for including "The Red Hat" in this textbook.
Critical Thinking Questions
¡ What are the underlying emotions present in "The Red Hat"?
¡ How do these emotions allow you to connect with the parents in the story? Do the emotions connect in any way to your own life and experiences?
The Red Hat
Rachel Hadas (1994)
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It started before Christmas. Now our son
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Semi-alone, it's accurate to say:
I or his father track him on the way.
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This is our seventh issue, Emergence! While contemplating the theme, we came across Emergence, as a nod to the changing normality of our culture and sense of self. Having spent the better part of the past two years on our own during this pandemic, we wanted to center on the act of self-reflection. It is the exploration of the many facets of our identities, how they merge together to form a complex and wonderful person, and the ways in which we strive to understand ourselves and each other.Â
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This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
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Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
The Indian economy is classified into different sectors to simplify the analysis and understanding of economic activities. For Class 10, it's essential to grasp the sectors of the Indian economy, understand their characteristics, and recognize their importance. This guide will provide detailed notes on the Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10, using specific long-tail keywords to enhance comprehension.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasnât one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
2. DAME CAROL ANNE DUFFY
⢠Carol Ann Duffy was born 23 December 1955 in Glasgow, though
moved to and was raised in Stafford, England.
⢠She is a Scottish poet and playwright and is the Professor of
Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University.
⢠She was appointed Britain's Poet Laureate in May 2009 and is the first
woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBT person to hold this
position.
⢠She was a passionate reader from an early age, and always wanted
to be a writer, producing poems from the age of 11.
3. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND COMMON TOPICS
⢠Her collections include:
⢠Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award;
⢠Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award;
⢠Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award;
⢠Rapture (2005), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize.
⢠Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence,
in accessible language which has made them popular in schools.
"I'm not interested, as a poet, in words like 'plash'âSeamus Heaney words,
interesting words. I like to use simple words, but in a complicated wayâ
⢠Duffy's work explores both out everyday experiences as well as the
rich fantasy life of others and herself. In many of her works she
dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence, and adult life in
attempt to convey commonly shared moments of love, memory,
and language.
4. OTHER WORKS
Originally
We came from our own country in a red room
which fell through the fields, our mother singing
our fatherâs name to the turn of the wheels.
My brothers cried, one of them bawling, Home,
Home, as the miles rushed back to the city,
the street, the house, the vacant rooms
where we didnât live any more. I stared
at the eyes of a blind toy, holding its paw.
All childhood is an emigration. Some are slow,
leaving you standing, resigned, up an avenue
where no one you know stays. Others are sudden.
Your accent wrong. Corners, which seem familiar,
leading to unimagined pebble-dashed estates, big boys
eating worms and shouting words you donât understand.
My parentsâ anxiety stirred like a loose tooth
in my head. I want our own country, I said.
But then you forget, or donât recall, or change,
and, seeing your brother swallow a slug, feel only
a skelf of shame. I remember my tongue
shedding its skin like a snake, my voice
in the classroom sounding just like the rest. Do I only think
I lost a river, culture, speech, sense of first space
and the right place? Now, Where do you come from?
strangers ask. Originally? And I hesitate.
⢠As an example of Duffyâs style,
the poem Originally is based
on her familyâs move to
England and the feelings of
being out of place, and
conforming to a different
culture; a feeling that many of
todays children will be able to
identify with.
5. THEMES IN MAP WOMAN
⢠This poem is part of a collection of poems in âFeminine Gospelsâ
which are all about the experiences of women- ranging from the
historical to the imagined.
⢠Duffy hauntingly illustrates that your hometown will never leave you.
She explores whether not being able to escape the past is something
of a burden â something negative, or something positive; it helps you
identify yourself as a person.
⢠However, Duffy points out that itâs about finding your own skin that
youâre comfortable with â quite literally.
6. ANALYSIS
⢠There is a constant metaphor throughout the poem that a womanâs
skin is a map of her own experiences , emotions and surroundings.
⢠âShe covered it up with⌠and finger tip sleevedâ â the array of
clothing listed begins with general items, however as the list
progresses, it becomes increasingly apparent that concealment of
this woman's skin is vital. This sense of desire for concealment through
excessive measures has us, as an audience, sympathize with this
woman, whoâs skin evidently bears a heavy weight upon.
⢠The words âbirth markâ and âtattooâ provoke connotations of
permanence â she cant, no matter how hard she may ever try,
escape from the grasps of her marked skin.
⢠The suggestion of her skin being an âA-Z mapâ that âgrewâ indicates
that she is not simply a representation of the present, but also the
past and the future. The dash between A and Z is used to illustrate
the past and the present being linked together â displays that you
cant ever escape the past, for both your present and future
existence is dependent on past experiences. â this is a major theme
in the poem.
7. ANALYSIS
⢠The phrase â a precise second skinâ implies that this women, who is
clearly shaped by her past experiences, has attempted to combat
her present issues with the âskinâ sheâs woven out of past events. This
displays that although we may not hold the past in high regard, we
learn from it how not to make the same mistake in future
circumstances.
⢠The line following the above, âbroad if she binged, thin when she
slimmedâ, could show this womanâs confidence in the face of matters
sheâs experienced before, which sheâs able to combat with her
âsecond skinâ, however, in the face of matters sheâs less familiar with,
sheâs depicted as helpless and confused due to her hapless inability
to deal with them in a manner known to her - This evokes a sense of
sympathy toward the woman.
⢠The references to 'birthmark, tattoo', images denoting permanence,
are juxtaposed with a string of verbs with connotations of growth and
change: 'grew', 'binged', 'slimmed' and 'begin'.
8. ANALYSIS
⢠Use of the word ânibâ â the tip of a pen â suggests that the town is a
focal point in her life, and that she can almost never escape both
the town itself and the things sheâs experienced within it as they
define her being â synonyms.
⢠The reference to specific places in the town throughout the poem,
âSt Maryâs churchâ, âMarket squareâ, âJunction 13â, highlights just how
attached this woman is to the town and itâs going-ons.
⢠The use of the word âanchoredâ in stanza 6 indicates that this
woman's life is firmly attached to the town, and that no matter how
hard she may try; âshe sponged, soaped scrubbedâ, she can never
rid her self of that fact.
⢠In stanza 7 she once again covers up her skin, with âher chiffon veil, a
delicate brailleâ. This suggests that she might be trying to hide her
past or make herself âharder to readâ â this builds up to the poemâs
climax where she sheds her skin in itâs entirety rather than having to
cover it up.
9. ANALYSIS
⢠Use of the words âloopedâ and ârepeatedlyâ in stanza 8 displays the
cyclical structure of this womanâs life, emotions and experiences. It
also links with the escapist intentions that this woman harbors. The
phrase in stanza 1 â a precis of where to end or go back or beginâ
also suggests this cyclical structure, and also that no matter how she
may physically alter in size, the map she bears upon her skin never
fades nor changes â her past can never escape her. She also visit
and flees the town a number of times in the duration of the poem
⢠In stanza 3, the narrator describes âyour tiny face trapped in the
windows bottle thick glass like a flyâ- this indicates that this woman
feels caught in the towns nauseating societal web and cannot seem
to break free. The suggestion of being âtinyâ illustrates how
insignificant she feels, which could explain why she seeks her own
respite, and not instead to gain help of others.
10. ANALYSIS
⢠However, despite the narrators seemingly negative outlook on to the
effect her past has had on her mind and body, she emanates a
nostalgic sense through her recollection of her past â âYou could sit
on a wooden bench as a wedding pair ran, ringed, from the church,
confetti skittering over the marble stonesâ â thereâs a strong sense of
beauty and happiness in some of her memories â despite the weight
her past bears on her, it still holds a cherished place of joy within her.
⢠In the third last stanza Duffy writes that âsomething was wrong ⌠in
streets with new namesâ indicating that her hometown has changed,
that the places the âknew like that back of her handâ, âwhat was
familiar was only a facadeâ. She then sleeps and sheds her skin,
symbolising her becoming herself and finding her own sense of
locality and individuality; âwhat was she looking for?â she then
realises that this place was not her home â âshe ate up the miles. Her
skin itched ... Hunting for homeâ; her home is not simply where she
grew up but where she consolidated herself as a woman.
11. IMAGERY
⢠Serpentine imagery; âartery snakingâ, âlike a snakesâ, âthe skin of her
legs like stockingsâ, âsilveryâ â links to a transformation and emotional
evolution.
⢠The listing of female apparel, 'mitts or a muff, with leggings, trousers or
jeans' includes both old-fashioned items, 'shawl' or 'muff', and
modern ones, 'leggings' and 'jeans', suggesting that the woman's
experience transcends time.
⢠Her body being depicted as the town; âcrossed the bridge at her
nippleâ, âbreast was the heart of the townâ, âwhen she showered, the
map gleamed on her skinâ â suggests that the town she was born and
raised has left almost a physical imprint on her body â corresponds
with the suggestion that your past defines you, and stands for more
than just affecting her physical being.