Paragraph Practice

 

 

In Henry James’ novel Washington Square, James uses run-on monologue, repetition of “you”, and stereotyping to expose Dr Sloper’s sexist point of view. First of all, in his conversation with Mrs Montgomery, Sloper hijacks the discussion and doesn’t give her the space to respond. James creates this effect by using run-on sentences which do not give Mrs Montgomery the opportunity to interrupt. He also employs many commas which create the feeling that Sloper always has something to add without questioning his perspective. The punctuation is declarative, primarily composed of periods and exclamation points, indicating that he is convinced he is right. Secondly, James has Dr Sloper repeatedly use the pronoun “you” in order to create a tone of judgement. Essentially, he accuses Mrs Montgomery of being a woman and uses “you” to blame her gender for making her a victim to Morris’ manipulation. For example, James writes: “You women are all the same! (…) you were made to be its handmaids and victims.” Here, Sloper generalizes Mrs Montgomery as a simple “woman.” His excessive use of “you” creates an incriminating image, it is meant to project

Quote Analysis warm-up

The Doctor eyed her a moment. “You women are all the same! But the type to which your brother belongs was made to be the ruin of you, and you were made to be its handmaids and victims. The sign of the type in question is the determination—sometimes terrible in its quiet intensity—to accept nothing of life but its pleasures, and to secure these pleasures chiefly by the aid of your complaisant sex. Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others, that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women. What our young friends chiefly insist upon is that someone else shall suffer for them; and women do that sort of thing, as you must know, wonderfully well.” The Doctor paused a moment, and then he added abruptly, “You have suffered immensely for your brother!”

History: Great Depression and Fragile Democracies – Totalitarian Regimes

Resources for the Great Depression and the New Deal

T°HG DNL Lesson One

Go to this site and scroll down for the video entitled STOCK MARKET CRASH 1929

https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/1929-stock-market-crash

The 1929 Stock Market Crash (9m):

 

The Great Depression Explained in 2 minutes:

 

The Dust Bowl and the Depression (3m41):

 

Hoovervilles:

 

The New Deal Explained:

Powerpoint on Dorothea Lange and her work during the Great Depression:

Dorothea Lange Photos

Friday 6th October cover lesson:

Grt Depression Exercises for homework

Criticisms of the New Deala

 

Rise of Totalitarian Regimes

Video used for class exercise:

 

A higher level English language vidio about totalitarian regimes and how they arose during the period of the Great Depression :

Fascism in the UK during the 1930s:

Link to an article about Harold Mosley:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/oswald-mosley

Mosley Overview

1930s fascism in the UK Mosley

Film footage from 1936 about The Battle of Cable Street when thousands of East Londoners stood in the way of a fascist march:

 

MOSLEY COMPREHENSION

History Theme: Great Britain in WW2

PPT on the Road to WW2:

 

Road-to-WW2 Euro

 

 

Hitler, Chamberlain, The Munich Agreement, 1938:

Chamberlain returns from Germany:

 

chamberlain resource pack

 

September 3rd 1939;

King George VI delivered this speech on radio on September 3rd, 1939 addressing Britain’s involvement in World War II. His Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue was in the room during this radio broadcast that offered a great solace to the British people during a terrifying time.

(Click on Regarder sur You Tube to activate the link):

Evacuation of Children in 1939:

CLASS EXERCISE / HOMEWORK ABOUT EVACUATION

DNL HG BAC STYLE QUESTION Evacuation

Dunkirk Evacuation: 26th May – 4th June 1940

More details here: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/dover-castle/history-and-stories/operation-dynamo-things-you-need-to-know/

Careless talk costs lives:

propaganda posters careless talk ww2

 

The Battle of Britain: late summer 1940:

More details here: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/8-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-battle-of-britain

 

British responses to Rocket Attacks:

ARP and the Blitz: analysis of an aerial photograph

 

Saturday 7th September, 1940: the Blitz begins:

Colour footage of the Blitz:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Simile Chart, The Handmaid’s Tale

SIMILE (quote + page number) ANALYSIS (what does it contribute to the reader’s understanding, what techniques/devices are used, what is revealed about character or theme) Student Name
“Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting to the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloudcover.”  p.201 Margaret Atwood uses antithesis to show the moon how bright it is during the night. Owen 
”buttered, I lie on my single bed, flat like a piece of toast”
” It makes the men look like dolls on which faces have not yet been painted, like scarecrows, which in à way is what they are, since they are meant to scare.” (p. 38) The objectification shows an important aspect of the book. It represents the position of those who don’t follow rules in society. If they don’t follow rules then they show the exemple as dolls that can be sacrificed when not conformed, manipulated till the beginning to the end. Used for one goal, maintain power in place.  Clément 
”Or I would help Rita, to make the bread, sinking my hands into that soft resistant warmth which is so much like flesh.“ p17 Offred doesn’t have any pleasure to help for the community tasks : she compares the texture she is touching (bread) to flesh which is a degrading comparaison.  Irénée  
 « It’s like a fart in church. » (p94) The situation is uncomfortable, Serena Joy doesn’t want to be heard crying and Offred is trying to stop herself from laughing just like a fart in church which you don’t want people to hear and for others that are trying to hold there laughter. Esther 
“I will  Offred  Victorious Victor
“I wait, washed, brushed like a prize pig” (p75)  This similie is very important as it shows how the handmaid’s, and particularly offered, feels about their place in the society. It is one of the first time that she clearly considers her placas as a very degrading state for a human being. But at the same time she is in the consideration of being a prize and is happy to be considered valuable. Q  Gatien
”I can see it as I go down the stairs, round, convex, a pier-glass, like the eye of a fish” (p15) Offred feels watched by an eye. The eye is the society. Everywhere she goes, everything she does, is controlled. She doesn’t have any liberty and private time, She is paranoid, she sees eyes everywhere and think that even walls are listening to her. Carla  
”like the eye of a fish, and myself in it like a distorted shadow, a parody of something, some fairytale figure…” (p15) Offred created a fictional world in which has full control of the plot in some part of her mind in order to maintain a good mental state and not a have a mental breakdown.
 “It’s like a party she couldn’t go to.” p141 Cora wants to be included and is feeling left out, because Martha’s aren’t allowed to go to the birthing ceremonies. The birthing ceremonies are of great importance showing of the Handmaid’s failed or not.  Melina 
”They pick him up and heave him into the back of the van like a sack of mail.” 

 (pg175)

Ever since Gilead became a reality people are treated more like objects rather than actual people. They do not care if they get hurt. Pablo 
It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit. Offref remembers when she and her family tried to escape across the Canadian border but were caught. She compare this moment of betrayal to the terror of being in an elevator whose cable has been cut at the top.  Mamadou 
Not all of you will make it through. Some of you will fall on dry ground or thorns. Some of you are shallow-rooted. . . think of yourselves as seeds. . . Offred talked about the comparison between the handmaid and the seed made by the aunts, which evokes the biblical simile of seed sowing and how these seeds grow in different soils. Lola  
”We are containers, it’s only the inside of our bodies that are important. The outside can become hard and wrinkled, for all they care, like the shell of a nut” (p.107) This quote shows how unimportant and non-essential the handmaid’s physical appearance and mental health is to the government of Gilead. It shows how the society of Gilead only cares about the handmaids’ ability to bear children, and how they are put aside and neglected, and treated like objects. Zara 
 ”Surprising how much like a small, begging child [Rita] makes me feel, simply by her scowl, her stolidity; how importunate and whiny.” (p. 214)  This simile illustrates how Offred is not free in her choices, how inferior she is to anyone from a hierarchical point of view. It takes her back to childhood, when she had to ask her mother to do or have something. She is not treated like a woman, but really like an irresponsible child.  Clémence  

 

T°Int Geography

Theme 3

Complex Dynamics:  The European Union & Globalization
France and the United States – Transborder Territories

•The opening chapter of Theme 3 explores the dynamics(forces, properties) that act upon and stimulate development & change in the European Union, particularly in regards to globalization.
•The theme concludes with case studies of the differing dynamics operating within French and USA cross border territories.
•French borders have been profoundly affected by the 1985 Schengen Agreement which today means 26 countries in Europe (but not all part of the EU) share open borders.
•The USA’s borders also been affected by two other agreements: the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed in 1994 and its successor the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) signed in 2018.
Chapter Resources are below:

The European Union – Key Points for Revision Purposes regarding integration into globalization and reducing territorial inequalities

General

  • ​28 member states.
  • The motto is ‘United in Diversity’.
  • Originally only contained 6 countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
  • The EU has a GDP of €13.5 trillion, whilst India only has a GDP of €1.4 trillion.
  • Core countries joined between 1952 and 1995. They have established economies, high levels of development, and sophisticated infrastructure and levels of service.
  • Peripheral countries joined between 2007-13. These are former Communist bloc countries with unstable economies, high levels of outmigration, weak economies, less developed infrastructure and lower level of service provision.
  • The EU also works on combating pollution and disease by providing cleaner water, more strict farming rules, and improving environmental conditions, among other methods.
  • The EU has also become a major trading power, providing 15% of global exports of goods and 20% of services. This is larger than the US (11% of goods and 18% of services).
  • The EU also provides over half of all development aid throughout the world

The Single Market

  • This is an EU policy which allows for the freedom of goods, people, capital and services throughout EU member countries.
  • It has led to significant reductions in prices of products and services, and migration throughout Europe.

‘Schengen’

  • No police or customs checks between EU countries at borders.
  • Police co-operation between countries.
  • Buy and bring back goods for personal use between EU countries.
  • International border control strengthened for inter-nation borders with non EU-members.

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

This was set up in 1962. Its basic aims were:

  • Create a single market in which agricultural products could move freely.
  • Make the EC (previous name) more self sufficient by giving preferences to EC products and restricting imports from elsewhere.
  • Giving financial support to EC farmers which included guaranteed prices (SUBSIDES) and therefore a guaranteed market.
  • Increase the average field size, farm size, and farmer’s income.
  • Taxes imposed on foreign imports so that prices cannot be undercut.

Supporters of the CAP say that it guarantees the survival of rural communities, where more than half of EU citizens live, and preserves the appearance of the countryside.
Critics say that as only 5% of EU citizens work in agriculture, which only generates 1.6% of GDP, the CAP costs too much.

Urban II Fund

  • Most Europeans live in urban areas because they are centres of economic activity and hold greater opportunities.
  • However, all cities have concentrations of social, environmental and economic problems.
  • Urban II Fund money comes from the European Regional Development Fund and it is for sustainable development in troubled districts of European cities.
  • It aims to provide economic and social regeneration.
  • Any successful idea in one city is shared with others to try and improve living conditions as widely as possible.
  • Social and economic regeneration includes:
    • Improving living conditions (e.g. renovating older buildings)
    • Creating new jobs in services that benefit the whole population
    • Integrating less favoured groups of people into education and training so that they can find satisfactory employment.
    • Developing environmentally friendly transport systems.
    • Making greater use of renewable energy.
    • Using the most up-to-date ICT systems to make work more efficient and to improve people’s skills and their job prospects.
  • For example: The town of Teruel in northern Spain has a new ring road, paid for by Urban II Funds. It will reduce traffic flows through the town by at least 20%, cutting congestion and improving travel times and air quality in the town. The new road also links previously isolated neighbourhoods. There are paths for cyclists and joggers. The project cost €16.6 million.