Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Touching the void – Chapter 11 (A land without pity) Summary
Joe wakes up and hears a voice pushing him on even when he is about to give up due to the long miles of snow before him. He has by this point gone 2 days and 3 nights without any food or drink to get him through. He keeps on trying to get back to…
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Performance Deferred
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to defer the external performance of your “Oh What a Lovely War!” piece until Tuesday 19th of June (a one week deferral). You will now be timetabled in lessons as normal tomorrow. Our apologies for the lateness of this notice.
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Drama GCSE – Oh what a lovely war (Working Record – Part 2) Number 5
Intention of the drama/design/script with any relevant background information The intention of the performance is to convey how people can be easily swayed by money and risk the lives of many in the process. It is also to show the subject of war profiteering as the general ends up earning 10 million pounds whilst my…
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Drama GCSE – Oh what a lovely war (Working Record – Individual contribution to the chosen brief)
For the performance I did a lot of preparation in my research of propaganda and profiteering at war so my performance had more background to it and I could improve the way that I would act in a war like environment. I also contributed the ending of myself pulling out a gun and the lights…
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Drama GCSE – Oh what a lovely war (Working Record – Planning)
We have planned by talking amongst each other and doing different parts of our performance to see how they work and if they should be kept or not in the final piece. We will have a dress and technical performance to make sure that we are ready for the examination on Tuesday morning. I have…
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Drama GCSE – Oh what a lovely war (Working Record – Developments – Part 2) Number 3
As a group, we continued to develop a performance by adding and getting rid of certain ideas that we initially had. One aspect of the performance we are getting rid of is the funeral scene at the end where we thought that the use of the dead body would be too distracting to an everyday…
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Drama GCSE – “Oh What A Lovely War” (First Developements) Number 2
Group: Lethaniel, Daniel, Harry and Dillon Type of Work: Devised Piece First Stages: In our group we decided on an initial performance plot line which basically entails a millionaire (Harry) coming to an army base and offering the general of the army (Daniel) money to bribe him to lose the battle. The General thinks about…
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Drama GCSE – “Oh What A Lovely War” (Reflection So far) – (Group – Dillon, Daniel and Harry) Number 4
So far in preparation for the Drama performance, we have done a variety of Improvisation activities. One, in particular, was where we sat on a box and made a script on the basis of the profiting off war and the death of innocent people, this was with very little to no acting so that the…
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Bare Vexed – (A response to the article: Twerking, selfie and unlike? Young people don’t speak like that – I should know by Ms Isabelle Kerr) – (Complete)
I recently read an article by Isabelle Kerr, which was very ironically entitled “Twerking, selfie and unlike? Young people don’t speak like that – I should know”. I agree with Kerr, being a proud 20-year old who is part of the younger generation she so profusely despises, she should know. Why then, in her article,…
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Drama GCSE – Oh what a lovely war (Working Record – (Initial thoughts and research) Number 1
Media Outlook Reality – During the years 1914 – 1918, the first world war took place. Above are the realities of war compared to how the media viewed them and pictured a completely different vision of war entirely to get men to sign up and fight for their country. Over the 4 years, it believed…
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