Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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10 Year Old Girl Hacks the Pentagon
Today the C.I.A. Announced that the network problems with the Pentagon’s database was caused by a “Hacker” that is aged ten. The C.I.A. managed to find a Trojan type virus which disguises itself something else, searching through confidential documents and then within five minutes they traced it back to the Shetland Islands, Scotland and to find that…
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Primary Source Practice
Question : Why was the Pentagon built ? I wanted to know why the U.S built one of the largest military office in the world so I went searching and I came across this website http://pentagontours.osd.mil/index.html and found out that in the summer of 1941 in Washington D.C that the work force was at 24,000 …
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Romeo and Juliet Project: Assessment
Over-All grade: INCOMPLETE: 6C Film: Not yet submitted Timeline: Not yet submitted Presentation to class: 7C – Very confident and well-prepared presentation and very strong fluency with subject material Essay: Reading Grade: 6A – Very sophisticated appreciation of the lingustic, stylistic, generic and historical context of the play Writing Grade: 5A – Well structured, with…
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Need ideas for Class Activity
Please could you help me mr Waugh with some ideas I could teach to the class about the Language. Thanks
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Analytic Essay Romeo + Juliet.
Romeo + Juliet In this essay I will answering the question How does Baz Luhrmann keep the spirit of Elizabethan theater alive in his Film Interpretation, Romeo + Juliet and i’m going to go about this in four stages (not including the conclusion). The main points of Elizabethan play that I will be talking about is how Luhrmann brings…
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Romeo and Juliet Essay Plan
The Question I will be doing is: How does Baz Luhrmann keep the spirit of Elizabethan theater alive in his Film Interpretation, Romeo + Juliet The Introduction. In the Introduction I will be stating the question that I will be hopefully answering and a summary of how i’m going to go about this. Paragraph 1.…
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Metaphor Analysis
Romeo:From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death! Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark! Here’s to…
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Metaphor Analysis
Your task is to identify the metaphor present in the following excerpt and then write a paragraph that explains the metaphor and its effect on the meaning of the passage it is embedded in. From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of…
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EBA Awards
To follow are the official results of the EBA Awards for December 2012. Invented by Gabriel, these awards are designed to celebrate excellence, creativity and innovation in Year 8 Blogging. Voted for by the students themselves, everyone gets one watchmark for every vote they receive, and the winners of each category get 5 watchmarks.…
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Romeo + Juliet project
Film a scene from Romeo + Juliet Design and build a prop for a scene Run a class activity
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