“Discuss how those in power in society maintain their dominant position in one text in your comparative course. Develop your response with reference to the text. The text I have studied is Sive by John B. Keane. Characters in this text maintain their power and dominant position through manipulation, fear and threats. Mena is a Read More …
Mena emerges from the room in hysterics, shouting that Sive is gone. “There’s a bundle of clothes under the quilt where she should be lying. She’s after stealing away on us!” She tells them that she has taken nothing, not even shoes for her feet. They go to check Nanna’s room to see if she Read More …
Mena arrives with her hands full, with Sive following, wearing new clothes and high heels. Mike and Thomasheen go out and bring in the rest of the shopping. They bring in a crate of stout and open a bottle each. Sive is clearly conscious of her new clothes and is happy to swap her high Read More …
Later that night, Sive is doing her schoolwork in the house, while Mena is washing a shirt and Mike is stitching. There is a knock on the door and we see that Thomasheen and Sean Dota have come to visit. The stage directions tell us that Sean Dota, ‘looks for a moment gloatingly at Sive,’ Read More …
After Mena and Mike leave the stage in a hurry, Nanna is seen on stage alone, smoking her pipe, which she has to hide from Mena. While alone, a man named Liam Scuab enters. He is described as ‘good looking and manly.’ He tells us that he saw Thomasheen running away from the house and Read More …
Mike enters and tells Mena about the good day he had at the fair and we can see that their fortunes have improved in recent times and that business is good. However, when Mike says, ‘money is the best friend a man ever had, ‘ the audience would be aware of the danger of the Read More …
In TEXT 1, Jeanette Winterson extols the virtues of the arts, arguing that artistic activities are beneficial both for individuals and for society in general. She also gives her views on the relationship between art and money. Write an opinion piece, suitable for publication in a broadsheet newspaper, in which you extol the varied virtues Read More …
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, My name is Eoin O’Driscoll and this evening, I am here to talk to you about our new campaign to eradicate stereotyping from our society. Throughout this speech, I will give you, the audience, examples of stereotyping within our society and more importantly, the dangers of stereotyping. Let me first Read More …
“You are a candidate in the next election for the presidency of Ireland. Write a speech to bedelivered during the election campaign, in which you outline the social and cultural values youwould promote if elected and explain the perception of Ireland you would cultivate abroad,given the opportunity to do so.” Ladies and gentlemen, my name Read More …
A lot of the features of argument are similar to the language of persuasion but with one difference; the language of argument appeals to a person’s sense of logic as opposed to their emotion. The language of argument will attempt to use statistics and facts instead of emotion. Rhetorical Questions: Rhetorical questions force the reader Read More …
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