Moira Donegan and Margaret Atwood are both very critical women. They have well established views and make their voices heard through they’re chosen form of writing. In The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood makes various issues very clear to the reader. Same goes for Donegan. Most of the issues raised in both of these works are related …
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Column Articles
As is expected by the IB curriculum English Language students are required to study literary and non-literary works. We looked at political cartoon first and now began studying column articles. We looked particularly into a female columnist, Moira Donegan. Moira is an American columnist for The Guardian. She is a very established feminist and stands …
Abortion debate connection to The Handmaid’s Tale
One of the biggest topics that aroused from our debate on abortions when both sides expressed their opinions was male dominance and control over women. This was brought up when speaking about abortions because of legislations and the justice system, which are two major government organs that ultimately make decisions over people lives, rights and …
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Literary Circle- Clarification of reading from chapter 26-40
The section we read that spans from chapter 26 to chapter 40 was one of the most information and event packed ones yet. We learnt much more about the characters and there was a quick change in from one event to another. We get a deeper look into the relationship between the Commander and Offred …
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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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