I agree with the motion “This house believes that extreme views should be given a public platform”. I think that everyone should be entitled to speak aloud their views and opinions. If not then what people would like to say aloud becomes bottled up inside of them. Until all of the anger of not being able to express themselves suddenly explodes. Do you really think that big abolishments such slavery could have occurred if people were not later given public platforms? peoples thoughts are something that they personally think and believe in and once telling and also restricting boundaries of what they think is right they feel as if being pressurized to think certain things and ways, to suppress and please others on what they view. These are a few of the reasons why I strongly agree with the motion.
Month: June 2015
Analysis of “Poppies”
Poppies is a poem written by Jane Weir. Armistice Sunday is a tradition which marked the end of World War one in 1918. It was set up to remember the thousands of men that died in the fighting, even though their names will still be lost. So the period which the poem was written was the early 1900’s during the time of the First World War. Jane Wier was born in 1963, and grew up in Italy and Northern England. She owned a textile business which influenced some of her language in the poem. Even though the story is based on the First World War, it was influenced by her experience of soldiers dying in Iraq and Afghanistan in more recent times.
The poem is about a mother expressing the feelings of her son in different moments in time, such as when the child is young, when the son leaves to go to war and finally the death of her son. The emotions that are given of by the poem are sadness and melancholy. The poem is written about topics that trigger these emotions such as the mother talking to her son in a way that shifts through time from when the child was young to where the man dies. The mother expresses her grief through out the poem which is another emotion the poem is based on, which creates a sorrow atmosphere as she grieves the death of her child.
The structure of the poem is organised as it is set out into four stanzas. But the way it is read out sounds like thoughts as there are a lot of commas, which created pauses in the poem. This suggests that the narrator is trying to remain calm and peaceful but there are bursts of sadness that leak out which are the breaks caused by the punctuation such as the full stops and commas. It appears as it is more the mothers thoughts than ordinary speech. Unlike most poems it does not include rhyme and when read out it doesn’t appear to have a rhythm. She uses words like “blockade,spasm and bandage” The words are connotations of war and violence. It the imagery portrays to the audience the mothers thoughts, and it appears to be fragments of her memory of her sons violent death. Jane Weir uses a lot of language that refers to materials and textile such as “felt, stitch, pleats and gloves”. This creates a semantic field of clothing which she weaves in and out of her poem. By doing this she adds texture to her poem and different levels of meaning such as
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I disagree with the statement “This house believes that space exploration is a waste of time and money”.World wide there are people suffering due to a lack of money which is the basis of buying materials and a daily meal etc. which may not be easy to change as it happens throughout the world however it can change slowly step by step.also advancements in the national health service and hospital research requires a large amount of money which could easily be funded from a single piece of say a space suit or rocket…machines that could be spent saving billions of lives for people who fight against such common diseases like cancer which has been killing many of people which like the lack of money will happen slowly over a period of time.time is also of the essence as producing something the size of multiple buses takes possibly years .
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