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Ways of Thinking: After the Bomb!
elysepopplewell:
HELLO!
This here is a thread to discuss all things After the Bomb!
Here is a link to a top band After the Bomb Essay!
Here is a link to a guide on how to write a ways of thinking essay - with After the Bomb examples!
arleee:
Hey,
After recently completing Trials, one of my English tutors just told me that I can't actually use one of my related texts because it's from the wrong time period!
With just over 30 days till the HSC starts I really need a new related text. I was hoping someone could suggest a text that looks at minorities and their misrepresentations.
Any help would be amazing!
ssarahj:
--- Quote from: arleee on September 10, 2016, 02:03:14 pm ---Hey,
After recently completing Trials, one of my English tutors just told me that I can't actually use one of my related texts because it's from the wrong time period!
With just over 30 days till the HSC starts I really need a new related text. I was hoping someone could suggest a text that looks at minorities and their misrepresentations.
Any help would be amazing!
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Hey arleee, I can't help with After the Bomb specifically but here's a link to an article that Elyse wrote about choosing a ATB related text: http://atarnotes.com/other-related-texts-after-the-bomb/
If you're looking to see if a text fits your thesis it might be worth just doing a quick Google and reading summaries etc. Good luck :)
elysepopplewell:
--- Quote from: arleee on September 10, 2016, 02:03:14 pm ---Hey,
After recently completing Trials, one of my English tutors just told me that I can't actually use one of my related texts because it's from the wrong time period!
With just over 30 days till the HSC starts I really need a new related text. I was hoping someone could suggest a text that looks at minorities and their misrepresentations.
Any help would be amazing!
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Ouch! Tough gig! I'm curious, what was your related text?
Would the plight of women work for your argument? Not necessarily a minority seeing as they make half of the population, but definitely in this time period they were represented poorly. I studied Sylvia Plath's poems as my prescribed text, and the Kitchen Debate between Khruschev and Nixon related to that. But there are tonnes and tonnes of feminine texts. Consider, Enter Helen by Brooke Hauser (it's long, and a biography), Perfect Wives and Ideal Homes, The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, or Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown.
Otherwise, perhaps you could look at the (mis)representation of communists in Western media and texts?
Another great text that springs to mind is Milk - a film (which is amazing, you'll love it), and it's about the first openly gay politician in San Francisco. And it definitely involves themes of the civil rights movement at the same time, so it offers a lot in terms of minorities and their representation. Milk is a reasonably well known movie so it shouldn't be too hard to get your hands on. This seems to be the one that would suit your purposes most!
Good luck!
arleee:
Thanks for all your suggestions! My teacher has recommended that I look at the misrepresentation (or lack of representation) of women in the media and popular fiction throughout the era, so The Kitchen Debate looks really good for that.
My previous related text was The Hollow Men by T.S.Elliot, which looks really nicely at the philosophical paradigm, but unfortunately its written 20 years too early.
Quickly, do you have any tips on how to get better at essay writing for After the Bomb? In my Trials, I got a nice 22/25 for my creative, but only 18/25 for my essay, which I'm hoping to improve.
Thanks!
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