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So yeah, should you get a job, should you study, should you get married, go on a holi... but wait you just came back from one. Stop, no more sabbaticals from life for you.<br />
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Trying to decide whether to go to college or not has never been this. Here is how you can make it harder, or as a wise person once told me. "The more confused you are, at first, means the more certain you become of your final decision"<br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">say what now- <a href="https://www.blogger.com/Debt%20Dodgers:%20Meet%20the%20Americans%20Who%20Moved%20to%20Europe%20and%20Went%20AWOL%20on%20Their%20Student%20Loans">The Vice</a>. This gets harder and harder. Did I mention CRAZIER?! </span></div>
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So betrayed, not you too <a href="https://www.blogger.com/Debt%20Dodgers:%20Meet%20the%20Americans%20Who%20Moved%20to%20Europe%20and%20Went%20AWOL%20on%20Their%20Student%20Loans">Thought Catalog</a> . Wait what? I think now I am beginning to brainwash myself, like self- inflicted torture. </div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">So when a cartographer designs a map, he/she puts a fake place in it, a place that does not real exist. I mean we could have a philosophical discussion about it but for now this place usually doesn't exist. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">An example quoted in the book was a place called Agloe in New York. I tried to find other more interesting ones. Here is a list for you: </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Reach a conclusion (<b>How far/To what extent</b>)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Set the scene. </span></div>
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</div>Kiwi Ivashkovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185971883673297235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039860868844765084.post-90846180424121953562012-06-01T02:09:00.006-07:002012-06-01T02:14:13.314-07:00The impact of the First World War<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This post covers the time between 1914-1919.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>The economic consequences of World War 1 on America..</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I used a <a href="http://www.historynetwork.co.uk/historynetwork/A2_Lesson_-_Shell_Shock.html">series of videos</a> to help me get a better picture of the time period back then. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are 3 videos, which together make up one episode of a show (which I'm guessing) is called America's Time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Its not all that informative, but it helps you get a fairly clear picture of the war and it consequence on the people involved. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">These are some bullet points of the idea and events covered in each video</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>Video#1</u></b></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">May 1915,Lusitania sets sail and is caught in a cross-fire between Germany and Britain</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Assassination of the Archduke of Austria in Sarajevo</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">American economy in Boom with new technology, advanced transport system, immigrant labor force and huge corporations.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cinema and cars rapidly gaining popularity in America.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">America giving out loans and war supplies to European countries involved in war.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Meanwhile, war is progressing from bad to worse.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">War of Partition on the Western Front between France and Germany (trenches starting from the English Channel and ending near Switzerland!)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">War got from worse to terrible, outcome looking bleak with the loss of millions of lives.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A War Industry erupted in America, maintaining its prosperity.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Humanity faced its first ever chemical warfare which had fatal consequence and scared the soldiers.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Russia on the home front is in a disastrous situation, they sent the Kaiser to exile and set up a Provisional Government, which fought the war despite the shortages and desperate situations. Enter Bolsheviks who sparked a communist takeover and pulled out of war! </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">America was horrified by these turn of events.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Woodrow Wilson, President of America, tried his very best to retain their neutral stand and ensure peace until in April 1917 he joined the war in order to protect his interests- democracy and its wealth. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Americans went into war "badly armed, poorly trained and unprepared!"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">War finally ended a year after the Americans came in 1918, November- an exhausted Germany surrendered. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Treaty of Versailles in Paris June 1919</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Democracy- Wilson symbolized peace at the conference as opposed to the Britons and French who wanted retribution. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Finally, against most of Wilson's wished, they settled for a harsh treaty which crippled Germany and created resentment which later became a contributing factor in the next war!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">War had shown the dark side of technology</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So into an <b>essay format...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To what extent did war affect the American economy?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Decide to what extent. I would say large. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Followed by a brief discussion about American prosperity before war- </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Main features of a prospering American economy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">New technology and developments- Andrew Carnegie, J.P Morgan, Henry Ford, etc </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Immigration brought in more laborers to fill up the factories</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Transport- a very advanced system which improved communication and movement of goods and services</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Growth of corporation like Standard Oil, United States Oil Corporation etc, which reaped profits but at the same time got involved in unethical practices. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The war affected each of these factors to different extents. At first it integrated the above to make profits. But after the war it all came to a temporary halt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">New technology meant improved and efficient production lines. This was soon turned into war effort. The creation of a War Industry. It helped maintain prosperity by making money off selling war supplies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But the downside, the Americans were supplying loans to European nation to buy these war supplies from America. So in the long run, when Europeans runs out of loan money and the war had crippled them so they are slow to repay and America that has run short of money! (Do you get what I mean?) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Immigration: This kept the labor force filled up with workers to provide for the war. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But when war got over and soldier returned home, there was overcrowding= unemployment. Since the nation had made-do without them using immigrants, the native soldiers had no jobs to fill up! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Transport- this was a helped keep the industries efficient.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But fell into decline when the end of war brought about a general decline. This appears to be least affected. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Growth of Corporation- made them more powerful since they had controlled most of the important supplies of the nation such as electricity, oil and steel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But after the war, they was a decline in demand, so they went into slump as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The war also meant the agriculture sector went into decline. They had stock pile of supply which people couldn't afford to buy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;">3. Conclusion:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> All sectors and factors of earlier prosperity had been influenced to a considerable extent. The preparedness and isolationist policy of America prevented the economy from going under, unlike other European countries that had suffered worse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">America was able to reap profits from the war but with a price which was duly paid. The war had short -term economic consequences which the successive government could fix. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So that was my attempt to put the impact of war 1914-1917 into an essay. This not only helps develop essay skill but also serves as good revision of this period.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Note: This is only a prologue to the chose topic, since the period of study is 1917-154. But its always good to have a background before we dived into the depths of the topic. </span></div>
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</div>Kiwi Ivashkovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185971883673297235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039860868844765084.post-24407202109108665482012-05-31T13:50:00.000-07:002012-06-25T10:52:58.708-07:00United Stated 1917-54: Boom, Bust and Recovery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is my Unit 3 topic for Edexcel History. Its option code C2. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So um..I basically self studied the entire syllabus. I used a variety of fairly reliable sources to device a plan to approach the topic. Since I was short on time and it was a crash course, I started with understanding what the examiners expect and how to answer the papers, its structure etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am using this book as a textbook, mostly like a guide/timeline sort of thing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The back of this book, pages (167-174) has a really good revision checklist and a "<b>How-to</b>" address questions in the paper. I will briefly attempt to explain it here..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Its basically </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">appropriate material from the sources and your own knowledge</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u>Some pointers:</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Evaluate source</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Understand its perspective and assess the value of this perspective/interpretation of events</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Argue your case using the above as evidence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Relevance, ensure all your points and observations are relevant to the question.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Structure- a logical and clear cut structure. It is important and makes it easier to organize if you start by examining the premise of the question. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For e.g. "To what extent was the slump and depression a product of government policies?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In this question the premise is the government policy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Introduction- Clearly outline your argument and how it will be developed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Main body- series of paragraph, each making a point directly linking to the question. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Conclusion- pulls your case together. So you give a summary of your argument and come to a reason judgement addressing the question. Returning to the example, you assess to 'what extent' and back it up with your argument and evidence! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Revision Checklist is text heavy. So instead I will give you the table of content, which is more or less the basic outline of the checklist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1. The USA in the early 20th century</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2. <a href="http://allthingsvampireacademy.blogspot.in/2012/06/impact-of-ww1-on-america-1914-1919.html">The impact of the First World War</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3. The years of prosperity- 1919-1929</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. Political and Social tension- 1919-1929</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5. Controversy: The coming of the slump and depression-1929-1933</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6. Controversy: The New Deal and its impact</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">7. Opposition to Roosevelt and the New Deal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">8. The Second World War and its aftermath to 1954</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Chapters 1-4 and 7 & 8 are likely to be Section A questions and both the controversy chapters would be Section B topics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I used the the <a href="http://www.edexcel.com/migrationdocuments/GCE%20New%20GCE/GCE-History-Schemes-of-work-for-Unit-3.pdf">Schemes of Work</a> provided by the Edexcel website to outline my own (crash) course.</span><br />
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<br /></div>Kiwi Ivashkovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185971883673297235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039860868844765084.post-55028690370602622392012-05-22T09:12:00.000-07:002012-05-22T09:12:18.178-07:00Pronouns in Spanish (Lesson#1)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So this is a quick lesson on pronouns in Spanish. Its quite tricky compared to English, because English is not as gender and noun specific Spanish. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Basically pronouns serve as substitutes for a noun in a sentence or phrase (just like English). The noun that is replaces is referred to as the antecedent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cathy loves chocolate. She also loves tacos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In this case Cathy is the antecedent of "she". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Its sort of weird that I am explaining Spanish pronoun concepts in English. It can cause complications, so I am going to switch to Spanish now. I will try to translate, but I am guessing your level is good enough to comprehend Spanish if your learning the pronoun concept. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Hay 6 tipos de pronombres</b></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Demonstrative</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Posesivo </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Relativo</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Interogativo</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Indefinido</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>1.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hay 4 grupos de pronombres personales:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>1. sujeto </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>2.objeto </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>3.disyuntivo </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>4 reflexivo</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>1. Sujeto</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Normalmente no usamos en espa<span style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: inherit;">ñol, es solo para enfatir o dar claridad. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Yo- I nosotros/as- we (masculine feminine plural)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: inherit;"> T</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">ú- You vosotros/as- you (masculine/feminine plural)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Usted- You (formal) ustedes- you (plural and formal)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">él- him ellos- him (plural)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ella-her ellas- her (plural)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>2. Objeto</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Usamos los pronombres para que no es necesario que repita el objeto muchas veces. En vez decimos 'lo, la...etc' (como him, her, in english)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Hay dos tipos de 'objeto'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><u>Objeto directo</u> y <u>objeto indirecto</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Este es un <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_2053899070"><span style="color: #0b5394;">pag</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=why%20do%20we%20use%20objeto%20indirecto&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CFcQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyfair3.schoolwires.net%2F195520511193514127%2Flib%2F195520511193514127%2FOBJECT_PRONOUNS%2C_SUBJUNCTIVE_WITH_UNKNOWN_AND_FEELINGS.ppt&ei=-Aq2T9WIN9DJrAezsNTxBw&usg=AFQjCNFtTtVvl5M-0VEknuGn0hpatXV64w"><span style="color: #0b5394;">ína de web</span></a> que tiene un superbuena presentacion de power points sobre objeto directo y indirecto</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">La presentacion incluye otras temas tambien, puedas ignorar si quieres. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>3. Disyuntivo </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Usamos despu<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">és de los preposciones o enfatir. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;"> mí- me</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; text-decoration: inherit;"> nosotros/as- we (masculine feminine plural)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> tí- you </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> vosotros/as- you (masculine/feminine plural)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> usted- You (formal) ustedes- you (plural and formal)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">él- him ellos- him (plural)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ella-her ellas- her (plural)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u>por ejemplo:</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Entr</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">é despu</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">és de ella. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">* Cuando combinamos 'con':</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">con+ mi= conmigo </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">con+ ti= contigo</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">¿</span><span style="line-height: 18px;">Va tu amigo contigo a Benidorm?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">estos son forman una parte de los verbos reflexivos y se refieren a los sujetos de la frase. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">te- you os- you (plural)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">se- he/she (singular) se- he/she (plural)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">los verbos con reflexivo: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><i>levantarse, ducharse, lavarse, unirse...</i>etc</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Se levanta todos los d</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ías a la misma hora.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She is brilliant and she makes SO much sense!!<br />From organizing to revising to what to do in a paper to what to take to an exam, for an exam, before and exam..Good stuff. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She talks like crazy load, but its totally worth it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Brain overload. Need a break. Saw the mangoes on the table, while taking a stroll about my house. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 mangoes+ half a cup of milk+ 4 scoops of vanilla ice cream in a blender. You can add sugar if it isn't sweet enough for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So I pulled out a glass,dolloped 2 more scoops of vanilla into it and poured the Mango Smoothie over it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For best effect, use a straw to sip out the vanilla and smoothie together, and use a spoon to scoop out just smoothie in between the sipping! :D</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So I decided to do some extra reading for my Unit 3 Lit paper. It can earn you brownie points, in case you never thought of that. Also it gets you more prepared for the Unseen Poetry bit in Section A.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is Carol Ann Duffy</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">56 years old</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">was born on 23rd Decremented, 1955</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is a modern/contemporary poet</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">writes about contemporary issues, such as</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Social Inequality</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Alienation</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gender Oppression</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Construction of self."</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">was appointed Britain Poet laureate in May 2009.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">admired by Ted Hughes.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You can go here for <a href="http://literature.britishcouncil.org/carol-ann-duffy">more (in detail) on her.</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">His wife piqued my interest, I haven't read her works yet.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">was born on October 27th, 1932</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">wrote the Bell Jar.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">wrote plays and poems as well.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">was suicidal and depressed.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">stuck her head in an oven and died at the age of 30. </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">was married to Ted Hughes.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">became the first poet to win the Pulitzer prize, in 1982, for her book of poems.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">lent her name to a form of illness associated with poets- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath_effect"><u>Sylvia</u> Plath effect</a>.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I found this web page dedicated to her called </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">they made a movie on her called <a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5706">Sylvia</a>.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Soo I did some more Spanish today. Actually some Lit coursework as well. The entire morning I spent doing coursework, got grumpy it was afternoon. To get my mind off being grumpy I watched a Spanish movie; which is part of my "syllabus". (Notice how I don't waste time. Haha)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My Unit 4, A Level Spanish paper has a research based essay in Section C. You can choose from 5 options in advance what essay topic you want to do.Its like coursework except you present you final in a time paper.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I chose Literature and Arts. I didn't think about the implications in terms of language when I did that. Hehe..I was just excited about doing a novel or a film. I chose Como agua para chocolate, but after reading it for my diploma course, I decided not too! It is a very hard to read novel because of all it Mexican terms, it complicates the whole thing a 100 times more. Sooo I chose a movie by Pedro <em style="font-style: normal;">Almodóvar called</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><em style="font-style: normal;"><br />
</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><em style="font-style: normal;"><b>VOLVER</b></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The movie features the infamous and super pretty actress Penelope Cruz, her sister <em style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">Lola Dueñas, Yohanna Cobo as her daughter, Carmen Maura as her mother and Blanca Portillo as </em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">neighbour in her village home. </span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/ABSvppyQGdE?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am too tired and lazy to do a review right now. So I am putting a brief post together. Maybe I shall add to it later. The movie is very colorful and the directing is amazing! The movie has suggestive content..lol. If you get it that is. Otherwise its a everyone who speaks Spanish or can <strike>download</strike> get a version with subtitles. If you do, and you like colors and interesting story then you totally must.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It got people at home and in school, who don't speak Spanish, hooked!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So its a you-should-definitely watch it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img alt="Tumblr_lher4o31wj1qg8qoro1_500_large" height="209" src="http://data.whicdn.com/images/7794731/tumblr_lher4o31wj1qg8qoro1_500_large.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="320" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you, just like me are watching this for your A level exam paper.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here is a very VERY VERY useful link for you. Its a guide designed for A level students to use for studying for the paper. Its a series of pretty worksheets made by a Uni professor.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.spanport.ucsb.edu/languageprogram/volver.pdf">Its a guide!</a> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">An <a href="http://www.sonyclassics.com/volver/">interesting webpage</a>.Be warned you need Flash Player 7 to actually access the cooler site. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The movie has a beautiful Flamenco sound Penelope Cruz lip syncs too! :D</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Its beautiful, according to some brisk Googling the singer is Estrella Morente.<br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">P.S. Have you noticed how extremely pretty and hot Penelope a.k.a Raimunda is in the movie!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Her wardrobe= bright colors and floral prints</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img height="240" src="http://reelstyle.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/volver1.jpg?w=500" width="320" /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Her footwear= pretty jute high platforms</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img height="212" src="http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/images/Volver-Tamariu-shoes-1.jpg" width="320" /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img height="192" src="http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/images/Fullscreen-capture-3112011-102921-AM.jpg" width="320" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Make up= so pretty, her eyes and pink lips! <3</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img height="300" src="http://www.zastavki.com/pictures/1280x1024/2008/Movies_Movies_V_VOLVER_010709_.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="400" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Her hair-do= <3</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Her jewelery= Gold and the same throughout!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="Tumblr_lhepv8cmfb1qg8qoro1_500_large" height="270" src="http://data.whicdn.com/images/7794705/tumblr_lhepv8CmfB1qg8qoro1_500_large.jpg" width="400" /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div></div>Kiwi Ivashkovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185971883673297235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039860868844765084.post-52640841304523831212012-03-20T12:03:00.000-07:002012-03-20T12:03:03.237-07:00¿Como nos comunicamos? A Brief Lesson on Spanish Grammar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Some Spanish Grammar concepts I've been studying over the past two days...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>Uses of Subjunctive</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Verbs of "mental activity" such as creer, pensar, considerar are followed by an indicative when used affirmatively.</span></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Creer/ Pensar/ Considerar + que+ Indicative</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ejemplos (examples): <span style="color: #bf9000;">Creo que <b>debes</b> comes mas chocolate.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <i> (I think you should eat more chocolate.)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <span style="color: #bf9000;">Pensamos que <b>vuelas</b> a Italia. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <i>(We think you should fly to Italy.)</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">However when used in the negative form, subjunctive must be used in the following subordinate clause.</span></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">No + Creer/ Pensar/ Considerar + que+ Subjunctive</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ejemplos (examples):<span style="color: #bf9000;">No creo que <b>comas</b> mas chocolate.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <i> (I don't think you should eat more chocolate.)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <span style="color: #bf9000;"> No pensamos que <b>vueles</b> a Italia. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <i>(We don't think you should fly to Italy.)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>Reflexive Verbs</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In sentence containing reflexive verbs , the subject and object of the verb are the same person. In Spanish reflexive verbs are always accompanied by a reflexive pronoun.</span></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ejemplos: </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Divertirse </span>(<i>to amuse oneself</i>)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Me Diverto</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Te Divertes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Se Diverte</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Nos Divertimos</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Os D<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">ivertís</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Se Diverten</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">*When you translate a reflexive to English, it often doesn't have a reflexive pronoun or the reflexive is "understood" i.e <span style="color: #bf9000;">Lavarse</span>- to wash (<i>to wash oneself</i>)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ejemplos (examples) :</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ducharse </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(to shower)</i></span><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Vesitirse </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(to dress)</i></span><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Hacerse </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(to become)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Peinarse </span><i>(to comb)</i><span style="color: #bf9000;"> Ponerse </span><i>(to put)</i><span style="color: #bf9000;"> Darse </span><i>(to give)</i> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>Uses of sunbjunctive</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Como si <i>(as if</i>) + subjuntive</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Subjunctive is always used after "Como si " </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ana me miró como si estuviera loco. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(Ana looked at me as if I was mad.)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>How to express "for" with a period of time.</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For actions referring to an action which began in the past and is still/ was going on, maybe expressed in the following ways:</span></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lleva + Gerundio</span><b> =</b><span style="color: #bf9000;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Lleva esperando media hora</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(I've been waiting for an hour)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Desde Hace + Tiempo </span>= </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Espero desde hace media hora</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(I have been waiting since two hours)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Desde* + Fecha</span> = </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Espero desde 1998.</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(I have waited since 1998)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hace + Tiempo + que</span> = </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Hace media hora que espero.</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(Its been half and hour since I've been waiting)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">[ * Desde = since ]</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"For" referring to the duration of a time period is conveyed through </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"</span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">por</b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">" or "</span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">durante</b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"</span></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Por</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Voy a comer por 2 horas. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(I am going to eat for two hours) </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Durante</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Romeo buscó para Julieta durante el anos de guerra. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(Romeo searched for Juliet during the years of the war.)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>Lo + adjective</u></b> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Lo" is often followed by an adjective in the masculine singular form creating an abstract noun. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">English</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> = "the (adjective) thing</span></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ejemplo: </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lo bonito es que el novio esperó para su amor. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(The beauty is that the boyfriend waited for his love.)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>Uses of subjunctive</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Subjunctive is used with the following expression to make value </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">judgments and are usually impersonal.</span></li>
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A mí me parece bien/mal Vale la pena Es imprescindible</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Es normal Hace falta Es necesario </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sería mejor Es importante Más vale</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">These expressions are usually followed by the infinitive.</span></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sería mejor reducir el uso de los moviles. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(Its better to reduce the use of mobiles.)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">However when the subject changes:</span></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Expression + que + subjunctive</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Es importante que el cuerpo tenga suficiente agua en esto clima calor. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(Its important that the body had enough water in this hot weather)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">*dusts chalk of fingers*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hope you had a good class! :)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 39px;">♪</span>Edward Maya ft Vika Jigulin Desert Rose</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Sources:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Info: Edexcel Spanish for A Level (Chapter 7, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">pages -131,133,135,137,141 & 143)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://dynamic-learning.co.uk/Product.aspx?pid=24"><img src="http://cache1.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/medium/9780/3409/9780340968895.jpg" /></a> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Photos: <a href="http://weheartit.com/">WeHeartit </a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div></div>Kiwi Ivashkovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185971883673297235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039860868844765084.post-44963869456206312172012-03-18T08:45:00.000-07:002012-03-18T08:45:23.987-07:00Assonance, Consonance & Dissonance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Tumblr_m0v9fvxoj91qkxh1mo1_500_large" height="211" src="http://data.whicdn.com/images/25082448/tumblr_m0v9fvXOj91qkxh1mo1_500_large.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="320" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Assonance: </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is the repetition of identical or similar vowels. This occurs especially in stressed syllables</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Examples:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Thou still unravished br<b>i</b>de of qu<b>i</b>etness,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thou foster child of s<b>i</b>lence and slow t<b>i</b>me...."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Po<b>o</b>h, said to y<b>o</b>u</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">'I l<b>o</b>ve y<b>o</b>u h<b>o</b>ney'</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Hehe I made that one up!)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tumblr_lz8ke0fzud1qzltqao1_500_large" height="320" src="http://data.whicdn.com/images/25073519/tumblr_lz8ke0fZud1qzltqao1_500_large.jpg" width="240" /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Consonance: </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is the repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the intervening vowel. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Example:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">from W.H.Auden's poem 'O where are you going?'</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Out of this house"-said <b>r</b>ider to <b>r</b>eader,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Yours never will"-said<b> f</b>arer to <b>f</b>earer,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"They're looking for you"-said <b>h</b>earer to <b>h</b>orror,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As he left them there, as he left them there."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(And this..)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"<b>M</b>oney <b>m</b>inded <b>m</b>iser"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tumblr_m0qqswvxuw1qay5ego1_500_large" height="267" src="http://data.whicdn.com/images/25082392/tumblr_m0qqswvXUW1qay5ego1_500_large.jpg" width="400" /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Dissonance:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is the opposite of assonance. It occurs when sounds are so different they clash* with each other.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Example:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">from Ted Hughes' Wind</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"The wind flung a magpie away and a black-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Back gull bent like an iron bar slowly"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(this one too!)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"A white flag waves distracted by the wind,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that breaks its peace and harmony!"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><b>*the difficult sequence of sounds in the lines(above) prevent the verse flowing smoothly, reflecting the gull's hard struggle against the wind. (have attempted to create similar effect in my own example!)</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzvzpftjrr1qiba8io1_500.jpg" width="267" /> <span style="color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><b><br />
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</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Now you try?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tumblr_m12xl86kdj1r3p8vzo1_500_large" height="400" src="http://data.whicdn.com/images/25082735/tumblr_m12xl86KdJ1r3p8vzo1_500_large.jpg" width="299" /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><u><b>Sources:</b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Information</b>:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A Handbook of Literary Terms by M.H.Abrams & Geoffrey Galt Harphaim. Cengage Learning (page 19)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A Level Study Guide English Language & Literature by Alan Gardiner, Revision Express (Page 71)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Photo credits</b>: </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://weheartit.com/Kiwee">WeHeartit</a> It &<a href="http://tinywhitedaisies.tumblr.com/post/19409052169"> tinywhitedaisies</a></span></div></div>Kiwi Ivashkovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185971883673297235noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039860868844765084.post-72945405797424975542012-03-17T23:34:00.003-07:002012-03-20T12:09:57.511-07:00Progress Check<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tumblr_lzfynxvrgp1r1azb0o1_500_large" height="240" src="http://data.whicdn.com/images/25061900/tumblr_lzfynxVrGp1r1azb0o1_500_large.jpg" width="320" /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So this one post a day is not working out. Lol. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This probably means I have been slacking off.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">*sigh* I posted my previous post (<a href="http://allthingsvampireacademy.blogspot.in/2012/03/assonance-consonance-dissonance.html">dissonance!</a>) 4 days ago! Let me quickly log what I did in those 4 days.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-<b>Thursday</b>:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">did some Spanish exercises- 6 out of 19! (Bad!)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tumblr_m0on0spv1r1qzviiro1_500_large" height="214" src="http://data.whicdn.com/images/24641670/tumblr_m0on0spv1r1qzviiro1_500_large.png" width="320" /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-<b>Friday</b> was not productive enough:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I did half and essay on the abuse of performance-enhancing drugs for General Studies (which was 3 and a half pages long, and I still got more body and a conclusion to finish up the essay!)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- I also stayed up all of late Friday night and very early Friday morning to do my Lit Coursework on Women and Magic Realism. It was exhausting re-looking up those sources and incorporating them in my essay piece!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tumblr_lnxk8grjnr1qaprupo1_500_large" height="320" src="http://data.whicdn.com/images/13918358/tumblr_lnxk8grJNR1qaprupo1_500_large.jpg" width="320" /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>-Saturday</b>:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I got my results for Spanish exam. Result: not disclosing numbers, it was Good, can do better. Honestly it was an improvement. Just silly grammar and more specifically syntax rules I need more revision with. The entire day was mostly a waste, because I was rejoicing the mini-success of my incomplete but so-far-so-good essay.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Download_6380367066091128845_large" height="165" src="http://data.whicdn.com/images/25024241/download_6380367066091128845_large.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="200" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-Oh, I also did a minuscule amount of research for my History coursework. I took a poll on whether to pursue Stalin or Lenin. And the winner is/was: Joseph Stalin! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Make posts on:</span></div><br />
<ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strike><a href="http://allthingsvampireacademy.blogspot.in/2012/03/assonance-consonance-dissonance.html">Dissonance</a></strike></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Links and essay tips for performance-enhancing drugs killing sports</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Women and Magic Realism- a little revelation</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strike>Spanish (silly) grammer and syntax rules</strike></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ahh maybe Jospeh Stalin and Russia!</span></li>
</ol><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Until next time!</span></div><div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This was previously a blog page dedicated to all things VA (as the link says). But I had a change of mind and switched to a cross between a blog and a diary counting down my days to my A level finals!</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am awfully disorganized, so the plan is to do to one post a day about my miserable study routine.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It will:</span><br />
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<ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">cheer me up!</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Help collate all my info</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Get me organized</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(hopefully) Help fellow miserable students wandering around the blogosphere!</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.......</span></li>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <img alt="Tumblr_lp8am4bfag1qgr7g2o1_500_large" height="266" src="http://data.whicdn.com/images/19632309/tumblr_lp8am4BfAg1qgr7g2o1_500_large.jpg" width="400" /></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The idea, originally, was to make a blog cataloging all my history resources, because my work</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">relies heavily on the internet for that particular subject. But I decided to make it more general and include all subjects.</span><br />
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<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Spanish</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">English Literature</span></li>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So Hello to All!</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My apologies to my followers who were following it when it was a VA blog. Feel free to un-follow!</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A brief outline of what this blog will include:</span><br />
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<ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My ramble about the dilemmas I face as a 12th grader.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Some </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">references</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and sources of my information.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Random jabber and school talk.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mostly school related images and info!</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and other surprises.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Feel free to contribute via comment, leave me a line in the comment form if you want to contribute a post of help or resource or info!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Until then</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Chao! </span><br />
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<img alt="Tumblr_ly23hhfgqs1r2d8eso1_500_large" height="303" src="http://data.whicdn.com/images/21392788/tumblr_ly23hhfGQs1r2d8eso1_500_large.jpg" width="400" /> </div>Kiwi Ivashkovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185971883673297235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039860868844765084.post-20783355375275563912011-03-24T09:51:00.000-07:002011-03-24T09:53:42.356-07:00Team Adrian!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I was shocked to not find one of these already made online, so i decided to make one of my own!!<br />
<div>Grab it if your on the team!:D (do link it to this post so everyone else can find it!)</div><div><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Nu2YjQktrAk/TYt2M1GlZNI/AAAAAAAAARQ/ITaqr1996kY/s1600/adrian_ivashkov_by_xxsweetsurrenderxx.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Nu2YjQktrAk/TYt2M1GlZNI/AAAAAAAAARQ/ITaqr1996kY/s320/adrian_ivashkov_by_xxsweetsurrenderxx.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><div><br />
</div><div>I didn't know how to make it a button!<br />
So its just an image..you can work something out with copy-paste!!:D</div></div>Kiwi Ivashkovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185971883673297235noreply@blogger.com5