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Archived Discussion => 2009 => End-of-year exams => Exam Discussion => Victoria => English => Topic started by: pip on October 30, 2009, 07:42:43 pm

Title: woe is me- encountering conflict
Post by: pip on October 30, 2009, 07:42:43 pm
i am interested to know.. did people from other schools find the prompt went nowhere?
could be just us..lol could be just me, but i had not even looked at victims... grrr so much work, so little opportunity to apply it
Title: Re: woe is me- encountering conflict
Post by: GerrySly on October 30, 2009, 07:44:53 pm
I did The Crucible, The Secret River and war torn countries. I found I had so damn much to write on, just didn't have the time to write it
Title: Re: woe is me- encountering conflict
Post by: wth.. on October 30, 2009, 07:59:20 pm
Using the Secret river and the Crucible I wrote on how the victims of conflict themselves can represent the mistakes of the past and can ultimately lead to a better understanding of how to approach conflicts ect. Also that victims in conflict can reveal certain attitudes and ways of dealing with conflict that result in positive outcomes..

I dont know.. I'm hoping its relevant.
Title: Re: woe is me- encountering conflict
Post by: almostatrap on October 30, 2009, 08:10:53 pm
Using the Secret river and the Crucible I wrote on how the victims of conflict themselves can represent the mistakes of the past and can ultimately lead to a better understanding of how to approach conflicts ect. Also that victims in conflict can reveal certain attitudes and ways of dealing with conflict that result in positive outcomes..

I dont know.. I'm hoping its relevant.

yeah i pretty much did that. also talked about perpetrators as opposed to victims, and how they shed light on human nature and motivations.
Title: Re: woe is me- encountering conflict
Post by: taylor tay bags on October 30, 2009, 08:14:21 pm
I wrote on intrapersonal victims of conflict, and personal conflicts such as abigale and elizibeth..
Title: Re: woe is me- encountering conflict
Post by: phanphy on October 30, 2009, 09:35:20 pm
Crucible:
extrapersonal conflict between theocracy and individuals
inner conflict of consicence - hale & proctor
interpersonal - abigail, Putnam, Danforth

Prompt was alright..
Title: Re: woe is me- encountering conflict
Post by: sophx on October 30, 2009, 09:41:22 pm
nup im with you pip , it was shit
haha
Title: Re: woe is me- encountering conflict
Post by: benbatt17 on October 30, 2009, 10:39:37 pm
But Abigail was not a real victim in my opinion... i did letters to Abigail from members of Salem like John Proctor, Mary Warren and Rebecca Nurse showing what they got out of the hurt Abigail caused so for John Proctor being on death row i spoke about how he learnt to be a noble and honest man telling the truth which in turn landed him where he is and with Rebecca Nurse i spoke about how she never once doubted herself and her beliefs which is what puritanism is all about and she hoped people of Salem would learn from her death.. etc
Title: Re: woe is me- encountering conflict
Post by: rajah21 on October 30, 2009, 10:47:56 pm
I wrote a speech for Remembrance Day where I commemorated not only the heroes of war but also the victims whose plight reminds us to never lose sight of the liberties we seek to uphold in conflict...at least that was the idea. The finished product was shit :S
Title: Re: woe is me- encountering conflict
Post by: Dark Templar on October 30, 2009, 11:20:16 pm
I was so happy with the prompt, out of all of them it was amongst the top two or three that suited all the work and study I had put in for it.

Very lucky. The original poster got the short end of the stick here...
Title: Re: woe is me- encountering conflict
Post by: maine on October 31, 2009, 03:14:12 pm
Secret river, i got my chardonay socialist on and spoke about how the pursuit of money and material good's is not waht truly matter's it is respect fro each other and the land that does
Title: Re: woe is me- encountering conflict
Post by: rlobo1 on November 02, 2009, 12:43:09 pm
I did The Crucible, The Secret River and war torn countries. I found I had so damn much to write on, just didn't have the time to write it

you got 28 in religion...spare.
Title: Re: woe is me- encountering conflict
Post by: GerrySly on November 02, 2009, 12:49:59 pm
you got 28 in religion...spare.
Your point? I never said it was great writing, I just had a lot of ideas...