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Hi Beth
My homework for this week.
Why we should stop ruining our planet
Why are we wasting our world? What did it do to us? Besides, most of the natural disasters happening now are mostly our fault as the clearer space from chopped trees provides space for tornadoes to form. Climate change is one of the main problems, certain cultures right now depend on rainy seasons to help their crops grow, if the global warming causes a heatwave or drought the plants will wither and die and the whole civillisation will disappear.
The supermarket freezers and heaters use a lot of electricity and release a huge load of carbon-dioxide while the plastic and paper packaging litter the pavement outside. An easier solution is that you could change every supermarket or superstore into a warehouse without any packaging and drive a electric eco van to each home and dump them off fresh. There is going to be less pollution and junk.
Furthermore, the heat pushes the dangerous animals towards our area as the mosqitoes do this too, they also carry various diseases such as malaria and other horrible sicknesses. Also, most of the costal cities will become flooded of the melting icebergs and exploring the north and south poles will become more dangerous as the polar bears will become more hungry as they can’t hunt on a larger range of ice.
Finally, the toxic waste that pollute the oceans can also kill us. Pesticides, for example kill bugs but also kill humans in large doses. Mercury causes madness, loss of teeth and cancer while Lead can poison you badly. Oil refinery waste is just as bad as the chemicals inside a broken phone. One of the worst is Plutonium which has a chance of killing you. Do you feel pity for earth and animals now?
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Hi Beth
This is my homework for this week.
Why we should prevent space travel, I have several reasons suggesting this. Firstly, it is too costly, did you know that the famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong, paid a whopping twenty million dollars to spend just a week in space? Also, the price of fuel to power the rocket is one million for every kilogram, imagine the cost of all the fuel!
Secondly, it is dangerous, anything could happen on the rocket or the planet. The estimated death rate of astronauts is 2.96 per cent! so it’s not entirely safe. Radiation on planets could harm you a lot as much as the spacecraft crash-landing even highly complicated computers and software could cause electric shocks or could malfunction, causing the spaceship to plummet to its demise.
Finally, my last reason is that it is not worthwhile being up there, I can say the first trip to the moon taught us a lot of science and astrology but after that, all the previous missions barely taught us anything, now we are just wasting our money to hit the same goal we hit around 1969. I hope this has changed your mind about what we are carelessly doing to our lives.
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Hi Beth
This is last week’s writing that I missed.
I hope you like it.
Diamond dewdrops speckled the spring grass, poking out of the pure-white ice shelf, sailing across the vast expanse of water. barnacle-studded humpback whales curved gracefully into the misty, frozen air in a perfect, shining arch before the colossal tail collided with the sea and sunk into the abyss. Orcas and Hourglass dolphins flipped into the air flashing their Musou-black stripes and twirling their LIT features. Rippling the perfect grey.
Polar bears with their blank camouflage lie in wait for unsuspecting prey. Seals and sea lions flash through the water, chasing their dinner through the massive blue pools. flashing and dazzling white Snow Petrels dart around the sky, seeking the perfect place to roost. wandering Albatrosses roost on rocky ledges for a mate.
Mini Tsunamis, frozen in motion, houses the Leopard seal resting on the chilly shelf, safe from predators. Icicles dangled from the peak of the crystallised wave, shards of purified Opal, dripping in the golden sunset of the year.
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Hi Beth
This is my homework. Ryan.
I had a choice: to be forced to break the law or drowned in a public pit. ‘I never even wanted to apply for the bet, but they forced me to’. Obviously, I choose to do the first one because I didn’t want to die. Then again, I have always taught and lectured people not to break the rules or law. So with a heavy heart and sweat trickling down my face, I chose the most sinful one.
Rough hands gripped me as the words escaped from my mouth, a short and stubbly thug grumbled, mainly because he already filled the pit with water and was expecting me to choose the second one. My amber-orange eyes gleamed. This was my fate. I knew I wouldn’t be able to make it, they already told me that I was going to steal from the bank so there was no easy option left. Did they think that I was a criminal mastermind?
I was ushered into a deep, soggy basement armed with only a stick of dynamite. “I think you can manage” he growled. And pushed me in. The bank storage room was dark, and so were the thugs who made me do this, so I continued, using the lighter they handed me, I lit up the room and slowly walked towards the padlocked, wooden door. I couldn’t get through it. So to be wise I burned the door instead of blowing it up.
The alarms blared and all the lights turned on, blinding me temporarily as a police constable grasped me by the shoulders and carried me out. The thugs sniggered as I pretended to be wounded by the fire. But when the constable found the stick of false dynamite and the lighter, the game was up, my reputation ruined and my life wrecked. A trio of emergency services rushed to the scene, flashy fire engines, sleek police cars and speedy ambulances all appeared there in a blink of an eye, the warden came and pulled me into a rickety van. When it was speeding away to court I quickly stole a glance at one of the rusty bars on the window and hastily pieced together a plan for revenge against those thugs who nearly ruined my life. I only knew I had one strength and that: was that I was smarter than them.
It was speeding down the smooth tarmac now, towards Eastcliff’s court centre as I made my escape (and mistake). I had secretly chiselled away at the rusty bars and broken them off when we arrived at the gates. And so I jumped, the car was still going as I did so, and as a result of this, my face slammed on the tarmac and I nearly passed out. When I finally struggled to my feet I realised that I had broken my nose and blood was streaming out of it, like lava out of a volcano so I hastily grabbed a tissue out of my pocket and clotted the blood flow. Within minutes I had walked towards the city seeking my main rivals for revenge.
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Dear Beth,
Thank you for the lesson, here is the link to my writing:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PaYs9PRjxdBaeFXpBVJRNSWyMOEiLZGsaXYKzP86ZTA/edit?usp=sharing
Thank you 😀 😀
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Question B:
Great Expectations is written in the past tense and first person so Pip can now ridicule himself juvenile self and express his thoughts on what he did or his wrong opinions, as characters come out wiser at the end of bildungsroman books (“I often wondered… conceived the old idea of his ineptitude… perhaps the ineptitude had never been in him at all but had been in me”). During his life, Pip undergoes a gargantuan change in personality, like from naiveness in his childhood, to pride and haughtiness as a gentleman, to self-realisation when he matures.
If it were written in the present tense, the reader would find many more thoughts in the present that display his current feelings, like when he: fails to manage his finance; is disgusted when he finds out Magwitch is his benefactor, or when he is shocked to find out Estella is Magwitch’s daughter. The reader would be limited to what young Pip thought or felt, rather than the whole picture. The audience would also sympathise with him more because they can understand how Pip was feeling at the time, leading to how he reacted.
Like all present tense novels, it will make the story feel more active, so the reader feels that the events are happening in real-time. Consequently, they will picture the scene better and feel more like they are in the action. Pip would become a more undependable narrator for information, since he makes several mistakes in assumptions, such as who his benefactor was (Magwitch, not Miss Havisham, who he thought was his benefactor), misleading the reader.
In conclusion, if Great Expectations was written in the present tense, it would mostly mean the audience’s knowledge of situations would be confined to his understandings – or misunderstandings – and thoughts. This would make it impossible for ‘omniscient readers.’
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