I consider myself to be one of the best male partners a woman could find in Bangkok (although it is too late for anyone interested out there, as I’ve been happily married with a most exquisite woman since 2005). I have no vices at all! I don’t dink alcohol, I don’t smoke and...
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Pamela: - the plot is very strong - it is the story of a courtship - long but structured - he cashes in on the change of view regarding marriage (the extended family marriage vs. the romantic love-marriage) - economically, the patriarchal society stood in the way of romantic marriage - the author appeals to women - full of stereotypes of...
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I didn’t attend the last couple of meetings organized by the Bangkok Writer’s Guild as I made a promise to myself that I would not procrastinate any longer and use any excuse possible to get out of my Bangkok condominium and not write the thriller I was working on at that time. Luckily for...
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Genre: short story Setting: Southeast Asia (maybe Malaysia) Meaning of title: expresses the incapacity of finding out the truth Point of view: third-person omniscient Characters: - Aiya, the main character, a vagrant, whose name is mentioned only twice - Kee Huat, Aiya’s school lost friend - Gaik Lang, at first Kee Huat’s secret girlfriend, murdered in a moment of insanity...
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In his poem, As a African, the Jamaican-British Rastafarian poet, Benjamin Zephaniah, describes a journey in search of his identity. 1. From the very first line, the author starts his journey as a black man towards what is considered to be his homeland, i.e. Africa. There are different steps and different challenges that the...
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Some people read without even acknowledging the fact that they are reading, while others read in a more self-aware way. The readers that exercise careful judgement and judicious evaluation while engaged in decoding a written message are critical readers. This essay will explain, using arguments and examples, some of the characteristics of a...
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Considerations on the way we view literacy The way we view literacy has changed in the past years. New literacies are closely connected to various communication practices, and can be addressed with the help of other media, such as radio, television, computers, etc (see the UNESCO report Literacy: an evolving concept). Although electronic communication has...
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There are a great deal of instances of violence in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Below you will find examples of most (if not all) of them, classified according to the situation and / or location. Violence against animals: - “ ‘I cut the pig’s throat,’ said Jack, proudly, and yet twitched as...
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Consider the following scenario: A Year 1 teacher chooses to use only a paper-based literacy model for both teaching and assessment. Although the class is equipped with computers, the teacher does not allow the students to use them, only for practicing numbers, phonics and spelling. As a result of the teacher’s conceptualization about literacy,...
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Andrew Hicks is a retired British corporate lawyer and university professor who was born near Stratford-on-Avon in the English Midlands during the big freeze of 1947. Andrew became famous on the Thai literary scene after the publication in 2004, of his debut novel Thai Girl, a bitter sweet romance that explores the mutual fascination...
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