Sonder. The sudden inexplicable realization that everyone’s lives are just as vivid and complex as your own life. This thought passed through his brain, the meaning of it completely and utterly incomprehensible, unattainable, while the next moment it was understood, an explicable part of him;changing who he is and what he is becoming. He looked…
He lays awake at night His body dead and limp, slumped on his bed While his mind is awake, all neurons and synapses Firing, working at full capacity He wonders who he is, Who everyone else is deep within Hidden from sight by The façade that is kept on Around others, people who will judge…
He lay on the operating table, nervous energy coursing through his body as he prepared to go under; the nitrous oxide coursing through his system serving to counteract this and put him to sleep. The surgeons assured him that the chance of something going wrong with an eye surgery was one in a million. In…
He was bound, gagged and blindfolded, all in the space of a few minutes; a few minutes that would forever change his life. Thrown in the back of a cart, he was dragged to his death. For hours all he felt was bump after bump, and the shouts of commoners. They finally came to a…
Just look at how despicable Brutus is, orchestrating and killing one of the greatest conquerors of Ancient Roman times. Marcus Brutus is the “tragic hero” that appears in all Shakespearean plays. To begin with, we see Brutus as an honourable person who loves Rome and everything that it encompasses but also loves Julius Caesar, the…
HUGO is the story of a 12 year old orphan boy named Hugo Cabret. He lives in the walls of a train station in 1931 Paris, fixing and maintaining the clocks of the station. Hugo was raised by his widowed father until… his father dies in a fire that consumes the entire museum that…
They say that the best weapon is the one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I prefer the weapon you only have to fire once. In my opinion, Iron Man is the ultimate hero, no matter what the situation or the odds are. I love him because, excluding the fact that is…
This print advertisement is aimed at teenagers and is distributed by the publishers of the Star Wars:Force Unleashed 2, in the hope that by putting this in magazines and in newspapers it would spread the news about the games pending release. That way fans of the original game could start saving for it and purchase…
For my environmental campaign, I chose to do one based on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. I chose this issue because, in this day and age, we are looking for more renewable sources of energy as we are starting to run out of fossil fuels, and in this time of crisis, we have turned to…
As the years go by, more and more conferences are held, more and more books are written, more and more movies are made, all about and based on one specific subject, the protection and restoration of the planet’s forests and mainly, the environment. As this is stated, a perfect example of this is Lockie Leonard:…
In the article that I read, it talks about how poachers are hunting elephants for their ivory tusks and how many people are trying to use cutting edge technology such as drones to try and preserve and keep elephant safe from human-elephant conflict and poachers. One such person is Marc Goss, a Kenyan who is…
Year 9 English @ Bossley Park High 