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[bostonxbelle]

Pride Month Mini Task

[lielorn]

I cook surprisingly well (most of the time).

Being an only child brought up in a (usually) nuclear home, I am oftentimes left alone and is expected to learn how to do things on my own. Very young children typically start cooking instant food, and it was the same for me. Then, my mother would season different ingredients and let the actual cooking to me and eventually, I learned how to season dishes on my own. I think food is an important part of life; it is both an art and science, and gives people happiness. It’s much like music, which I enjoy, as it also connects people all over the world. Cooking is a skill that I still want to hone and hopefully do it for more people.

[erica-raimondi-blog]

Hero’s minitask

My hero that has passed away is Saint Teresa of Calcutta, she’s my hero because she devoted her life to caring for the sick and poor. She received the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work and also created miracles by healing people with illnesses. She died in September 1997

My hero that’s still alive is Oprah Winfrey because she came from a small farm in Mississippi. There, she lived with her grandmother while her unwed teenage mother desperately searched for a job to support her family. Oprah was also raped by a relative when she was only 9 years old. She’s my hero because she managed to leave the bad life she lived to become the first black woman billionaire in the world. She really is an inspiration to us all.

Finally my hero that’s in my family is my older sister called Shara. She’s my hero as she’s been through a lot at such a young age and had to help look after and provide for the rest of her siblings including me. Ever since my mother passed my sister has helped me through all my problems and supported not only me but also the whole family. She will always be my hero.

[erica-raimondi-blog]

You can see the expressions on the protesters’ faces that they’re very passionate with what they’re protesting about. Their body language shows that they’re becoming aggressive towards the police, the raising of their hands shows that they’re trying to catch attention.

[erica-raimondi-blog]

You can see that the police are being very aggressive towards the protesters. This would make the viewer feel very uncomfortable as its shows physical abuse towards another person. This could also connote that the protester was being violent so the police has to restrain them.

[erica-raimondi-blog]

The expressions of the protesters’ faces show that they really believe and support their protest about work pay. These people seem very angry with how the government works and demand change. The man in the front looks like he’s shouting in anger to get everybody’s attention.

[erica-raimondi-blog]

I find this piece very powerful as it shows how this person has no money. The empty wallet states that they have nothing left not even a penny. This makes the viewers sympathise with the person as it makes them imagine what it would be like to have literally nothing.

[gracebirch]

Sonnet 116

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 116 has been regaled by many as one of the greatest love poems in history, it is a poem that stands so steadfast in its conviction that true love never waivers, never changes, never fails. If you fall out of love with that person then Shakespeare states that you never loved them in the first place, as true love is unshakeable. 

The first two lines ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ Admit impediments’ are probably the most famous opening lines in the history of poetry. The poem uses pairs of repeated words like ‘love is not love’ and ‘remover to remove’, the mirroring of words suggests a loving couple, and adds to the romance of the poem, even the words can’t be without each other. 

In the third quatrain Shakespeare says, “Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks/Within his bending sickle’s compass come…” Notice the capitalization of the word “Time.” He is personifying time, and actually he’s personifying time as Death. He is saying that Death will come, that is inevitable, but that it will not stop true love.

The whole poem is just literally a reinforcement of how strongly he believes in the concept of true love, this is reinforced by his statement in lines 13-14, the final couplet of the poem, he writes, “If this be error and upon me proved/I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”

This poem is significant in the timeline of Shakespeare’s life as he was very unhappily married to Anne Hathaway and this was exaggerating his desire to feel true love.

This is a poem which has always been a favourite of mine since I did it at school and it is what I first thought of when we were given this brief of analysing poetry, and as someone who loved English and loves to write I am really enjoying this brief so far.