I'm doing crime fiction as well and I think context is very important. Crime fiction is effectively moulded by the context - you use context to say how the ideas presented in the texts have come about, why certain conventions have been retained, altered or even subverted and other things like...
Hmm but it's still true to a degree for modern crime fiction as well!! :D The inaccurate portrayal of the hostile society (this was emphasised by our teacher - name serial killers that have appeared in australia the last 5 years! Not a big number, really..) and whatnot... there's also the...
I'd say it was limited in the degree of accuracy of its portrayal of real life events eg. I doubt the isolated manor whodunnit stories occur frequently in real life :D
And the genre definitions just got sketchier.. life writing?!?!
but yes, romanticism FTW.
Other than that, they got rid of Frontline? That was gold :( and Emma/clueless as well (AS IF!)
And they only get rid of the Tempest after I finish the HSC...
It turns out that my class has watched the wrong version of The Big Sleep, and so now we've got the proper DVD and everything, but does anyone know how to access the director's cut version on the DVD? In the DVD case it says there's a "side b" to the dvd - but we can't find it anywhere!! (this...
In the "Discuss the BCS theory" dotpoint, is it necessary to talk about phonons as well as Cooper pairs? It's been mentioned in a few textbooks and ignored in others - some textbooks just explain the theory in terms of Cooper pairs and the temporary positive charge that is caused by the inward...
yeah (it was wednesday) i did but there was some mix up with mine and i ended up getting a yr 12 answer sheet instead. grr.
there's also the maths competition this thursday. right on my day off as well.
did some stupid mistakes in my half yearlies...so painful! damn me and my mental blanks...
thunderpants. never ever watch it - i only watched it because it was the last day of school and the whole class demanded to watch a movie. what a mistake that was.
matrix 2 and 3. the first one was good. the ones after that were a huge let down.
seconded!
frank woodley has caused damage to my facial muscles from all that laughter...humping the guys leg!! XD
and akhmal was hilarious as well...."you melt it and then insert it into your eyeballs" (or something like that)
anime:
fruits basket
ouran koukou host club - don't watch while drinking pepsi. half of it came out my nose
bleach
manga:
fruits basket
bleach
shinshi doumei cross