Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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pedros
“Ade re” I called as I chucked a bucket of neró on the now cindered hospital. The leitourgía had gone awful and a plan that was meant to be ponirós, ended up with a hospital in flogés. The lack of security allowed the paketo to move out to the next enklimá and still have time…
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Line of Enquiry
Can Killing be Honourable? With this study I want to find out wether killing can be honourable in any situation. To do this I will focus on a war theme, I want to focus on this area bacause there is a large number of people fighting for one cause. Books I will read: I will…
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Throughout the play Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as a strong willed, manipulative and power-hungry woman. He uses emotive language, sentence structure, dramatic irony and the manipulation of Macbeth to construct a clear audience interpretation of Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth uses emotive language in Act 2 Scene 2 to try to manipulate Macbeth’s character into a…
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Book Review: Young Samurai The Way of the Dragon
Way of the Dragon is the third book in the Young Samurai series and in my opinion is so far the best one. The series is about a young English boy who sails to Japan with his father but is ambushed by a ninja called Dokugan Ryu(Dragon Eye). Now the lone survivor of his crew,…
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In what ways does Shakespeare control our impressions of LM?
The character of Lady Macbeth is highly developed and is intricate in the complexity of her personality. Shakespeare guides us very strongly about how to interpret Lady Macbeth as most people would have a similar if not the same impression of Lady Macbeth. The use of dramatic irony is very important and influential in the…
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Review on Life of PI
Life of Pi is about a teenager who finds himself shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal Tiger for company. Life of Pi starts of with a rather large introduction of Pi’s early life; talking about how he grew up and most of all his strange, but interesting outlook on faith. However other than…
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Survival story
I sighed. The arrow just missed my head, and as I turned to run I noticed the trees behind me were on fire. That vile light it produced sickened me, the only glow that does not feel cozy and warm. A burning glow that only causes harm and one, that brings a stream of memories…
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Petulantly sulky or ill tempered Disgruntled feeling or expressing discontent or anger Jubilant expressing joy Esoteric relating to a group known by a restricted group Innocuous having no adverse affect Timorously full of apprehensiveness Writhing to twist or struggle as in pain Comeuppance a punishment or retribution that one deserves Reverberating to have a prolonged…
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Chapter Five Squealers speech 1st Person: Napoleon
Mmm? I wonder wether he will stay loyal to me or if he will buckle under the pressure of lying to a large group of people. He usually struck me as being a loyal pig, but so did Snowball at the start. In fact we were pretty good friends at the start. It’s a shame…
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Homework five quotations
Young Samurai the way of the Samurai “They climbed into the boat which rowed them across” “This allowed him a clear view of the arena” “Masamoto and Godai finally came face to face” “Masamoto’s victory was clear and decisive” “The crowd dropped to their knees, bowing”
Got any book recommendations?