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"I, too, sing America": 5 Significant Michelle Obama Speeches
As the Obama era comes to a close in the United States, much has been made - and rightly so - about his abilities as an orator. Websites and newspapers are ranking his top speeches, comparing them to...
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2016 P2 SL (Hedda Gabler and Master Harold and the Boys)
Question number one from the May 2016 Paper 2 exam is a tough one: “Identify some of the forms intolerance can take, and discuss how its effects on both the victims and the intolerant are presented in...
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WT SL (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
This Written Task is based on a literary option, in this instance, George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, studied by this student in Part 4 of his course. On the InThinking Language and Literature...
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Have Your Say – Sports Columns and Mass Communication
Love him or hate him, the sports columnist Rick Reilly has had a prolific career. He wrote the “Life of Reilly” column—appearing on the back page of Sports Illustrated from 1997-2007—and then continued...
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Comparative Commentaries to Go: HIV/AIDS
In 1992, talking openly about HIV and AIDS was groundbreaking; to do it on live television was even more unheard of at the time. Mary Fisher’s speech “A Whisper of AIDS” ushered in a new era of political...
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2016 P2 SL (Persepolis and A View from the Bridge)
This is the second response to the May 2016, Paper 2 question, ‘Identify some of the forms intolerance can take, and discuss how its effects on both the victims and the intolerant are presented in at...
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Paper 2: Writing Effective Introductory Paragraphs
I have read thousands of essays written by high school and undergraduate students. And, I have written a few essays myself. Of those that I have read, I have witnessed the sacred and the profane, the...
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Best Books of 2016 Free
The past six months have reminded me why I love stories so much: they’ve been a great escape from real life. With the U.S. presidential election dominating almost everything - my posts here at InThinking,...
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WT2 Q6 (Little Red Cap - 1)
The following Written Task 2 (HL) Critical Response addresses the prompt ‘how does the text conform to, or deviate from, the conventions of a particular genre, and for what purpose’? The question comes...
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WT2 Q6 (Little Red Cap - 2)
Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife is an excellent collection of poems to include in an English A: Language and Literature course. The title of the collection plays on the aphorism ‘the world and his...