Choose one word, and then describe a person walking like that word without using the actual word: Pulchritudinous: used of persons only; having great/heart-breaking/breath-taking physical beauty Her stride was breathtaking in every right. Each step that she took had a good dose of breathtaking pride, a dose enough to knock fifty men cold. Her chin raised […]
Buses Smoke Lots of People Tall Buildings Bustling Bright Tall Glass Enchanting Attactive Sweet Fresh Rich Fluffy Warm Cake Lightly browned Dinner Plate Sized Next to Other Cakes On the Table Being cut up by baker. Bounces like wobbly jelly. Almost ombré, the top is more brown than the sides. […]
Create a paragraph describing a scene using a preposition at the start of every sentence. On a rocky island just a mile or so away from the country’s capital, the island town flourished. Upon the hill sat a hundred colourful stone buildings, crammed together like sardines in a can. Under the crisp, clear waters […]
In this challenge, I was not allowed to use any of the following words generated by our class to describe night time: Monster, Mischief, Sunset, Cat, Woke, Netflix, Black, Stars, Warmth, Wolf, Lamp-Post/Street-Lamp, Sleep, Moon, Silhouette, Nightmare, Night, Bedtime, Cold, Dark, Sky, Owl, Quiet, Pillow, Scary, Blue, and Homework. It was silent. Silent like […]
Ollie Blyth – Essay – Two-Thousand and Eighteen Word Count: 1388 Explain the extent to which you agree with the following statement: “Romeo is the perfect example of a traditional tragic hero.” In one of William Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies, Romeo and Juliet, (1594) one of the leading characters, Romeo, has been labelled as the story’s tragic […]
To say that a woman’s place is in the kitchen is a statement that forces the progress that we have made as a society towards woman’s rights far backwards. It enforces the stereotypical 60’s housewife that we are working so hard to force apart from our common day perception of modern life. This idea that […]
“Is love an invention created by humans?” Hmmmmmmmmmm… **Brain-Fart Incoming** Definitions of Invention: Something (a process or object) created that has not been created before. Creative ability (ie. the powers of his invention were limited). Used as a title for a certain type of baroque music (ie. Bach’s two part inventions.) Definitions […]
Tragic heroes are elements of dramatic pieces of literature which have been around for many centuries. One of the first appearances of the idea was from the Greek philosopher, Aristotle who wrote about several features that defined a tragic hero. Five of these main traits included: A flaw in judgement (hamartia). A change in fortune […]
Recently, I completed a short play script based on the first act of Romeo & Juliet, here is my reflection… What did you enjoy about the process of writing and designing a short play like this? I enjoyed being able to take a much loved story, in particular the part not so familiar to […]
“Is a white sheet of paper more blank than a black sheet of paper?” At first glance, the obvious answer that comes to mind is, “no, of course not!” But that’s boring! There must be a great deal more variables to consider than first glance. It must depend on a good deal other things […]