Step One: Identify the Different Tasks The Different Types of Task One in the IELTS Writing Exam Task one of the IELTS writing exam can be separated into two key types. Static tasks, which are tasks that have only one time period; and change over time tasks, which have two or more different time periods. […]
The Order of Words
Robert Frost argues that a poem should “end in a clarification of life” which provides the reader (and writer) with “a momentary stay against confusion.” For many modern thinkers religion no longer adequately answers the significant metaphysical questions about life’s meaning; and thus the established beliefs of past centuries are “falling down falling down falling […]
School Report Card Comments
The time of year is once again approaching when you have to sit around your desk and write school report card comments for your class. If you usually have to struggle with this task, continue reading this article as it will provide you with some very important steps that you should take in order to […]
Toy Reviews – How to Write Helpful Toy Reviews
1. Does The Toy Do What It Says It Should Do? This is pretty straightforward, yet strangely often overlooked. If the packaging is advertising a toy incorrectly, it is not only dangerous, but against the law and should be reported. In your opinion, did the toy do what you thought it would do? 2. Is […]
Need For Continuous Internal Assessment in University Examinations
Internal assessment versus external assessment The external examination or external assessment serves the purpose of providing information about students, information that may be used by teachers and others to find the suitability of students for a subsequent course of higher education or job in an establishment. So teachers are also too impressed with the suitability […]
Art, Gender, and Domination in Middlemarch and "My Last Duchess"
George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” are two Victorian-era works that delve into the world of bad relationships. (In case you were wondering why they’re both so long.) Interestingly, both pieces of literature also rely heavily on descriptions of paintings and sculptures to explore a skewed male-female dynamic. This technique of using […]
Hegel’s Dialectic And Geist From Christian Hermeneutics
Hegel is a continental philosopher who is famous for having brought about his version of dialectics and the philosophy of the Geist. Now what is Hegelian dialectic? Hegel’s dialectic stems from three propositions and they are: at first there is the thesis, then the anti-thesis and finally the synthesis. Hegel is famous for having propounded […]
Proper Use of a Semi Colon
Proper English punctuation is important when submitting projects and correspondence, no matter if you are a student or a professional. Read the instructions when learning how to incorporate the semicolon into sentences. The main use of a semicolon is to separate related clauses that aren’t joined by conjunction words such as: and, but, for, nor, […]
PF Tosi’s "Observations on the Florid Song" (1723)
“This was the teachings of the school of those masters whom, disdainfully, many mediocre singers now call ancients. Observe carefully its rules, examine strictly its precepts and, if not blinded by prejudice, you will see that this school teaches to sing in tune, to project the voice, to make the words understood, to express, to […]
The Art Of Culture
Now, what is culture? Culture is the summum bonum of ideas, language, customs, beliefs, values and technology inherited from the society. In this article I would like to enumerate on certain facets of culture and explicate them with the synthesis of new ideas. I would like to look at culture from (a) Paedogenesis (b) Sedimentation, […]