Dear Mademoiselle Reisz, I hope you are well. I am too. I have arrived in Mexico City. Although I left fairly abruptly there was a reason for this. I do not owe an explanation to anyone but I believe and trust that you should be one of the few who knows. Over the past few …
Category Archives: Creativity
Creative Nonfiction Writing- Campus Closure
The Angolan government is putting its best efforts into containing the new virus, COVID-19, and remaining one of the few countries without a confirmed positive case. This has led to various drastic measures including the cancellation of all flights in and out of the country and the closure of all international airports, as well as …
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Practice IO Preparation
The global issues present in The Handmaids Tale and the articles written by Moira Donegan are very similar. They both portray the disadvantages of being a woman within society, though one is non-fiction and the other is fiction, the systematic and institutionalised oppression of women and the subconscious acceptance or blind eye towards male superiority …
Internal Oral connections to Debate on Abortions
We were asked to, in groups, prepare a debate speech that either opposed or enforced a certain idea, regardless of our own personal opinions. Two topics were discussed: is abortion morally wrong? and do fetuses have rights? Because we didn’t get to choose which side we were on and what we defended these debates brought …
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The Handmaid’s Tale- Individual Oral Preparation
From the group discussions we had in our small literary circles many different topics were mentioned and discussed as we tried to make sense of the novel and the different events that were taking part as the plot went along. We came to realise from these conversations that the reality experienced by the people of …
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Political Cartoons
Over the past week we have been looking at political cartoons by different cartoon artists. These cartoons are similar in the fact that they all protest against sexual assault and violence towards women. Many of the cartoons we looked at involved US President Donald Trump, unfortunately not to reference him as an advocate of this …
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