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INTRODUCTION

our drama stimulus wasn’t really about refugees but it was about a old man who had alzheimer disease and he couldn’t remember his home life. Basing around the question “can love be love be forgot” This links to how the refugees missed there home and they regret when they leave. Men now struggle to express their feelings because it isn’t seen to be manly The old man also struggled to show his emotions because he believes he isn’t able to do anything. The old man showed he that he couldn’t express himself by not really talking or giving simple answers. He never spoke but you could tell he was finding it hard to sit there normally with his family because of the plain look on his face.

Aylan Kurdi was a young boy who had to leave his country because of a war that was putting him and his family in danger so he had to go on a boat. On the 2nd of September Aylan and his family hoped on a plastic or rubber early hours in the morning. Him and his family left turkey to start a new life in Canada but he was found dead washed up on a beach a few days later. During his journey he was thinking about home missing his friends and home. Him and his family leaving made his and his fathers relationship break.

ITEM 1

Our stimulus was a father living in a care home struggling to remember things due the Alzheimer’s disease. He has a son and a grandson. I played the son and I had a son who my father could hardly remember his grandson. I took myself to see my father and reminded him about a few things like the death of his wife and to tell him I was bring his grandson up. I showed no emotion in my face when me and my son turned up to the home to not scare my son but it hurt.

I could of the played this character with many different emotions. I chose to play my character the way i did because it was realistic. If i was  to have a breakdown in front of my child it wouldnt be real or the scene would look fake because this is showing to be strong in front of your kids. Not having a bed in the scene or it looking like a care home was hard but the way the characters carried themselves and the way the stage was set out with two boxes representing a bed you could see the improvisation.

ITEM 2

My second idea is a monologue based on the first item i did. the first item was based on a son and his grandson seeing their father/grandfather die in hospital. my second idea was based around the deaf of the father. the deaf of the father was the reason why the son was homeless. he was homeless because after the father died he sold the house he was living in which made him sleep on the streets. another idea i thought of was to do a duologue with someone from my group from item one and that was a scene straight after the deaf.

the characters that appeared was the son of the dead dad in the last item who is still feeling the effect of the passing of his dad. when hes father died he was 32 with a 7 year old son. at 33 he was living in the cold streets of london. he was a man who kept himself clean and had some respect for himself. a year changed alot of things. from wearing the nicest designer cloths to wearing the same with everyday due to the passing.

ITEM 3

this item i will be producing

I think to call India a undeveloped country is not fair because in some parts of the country their are business men leaving 5 star hotels in expensive cars but a large number of Indian citizens live in poverty and unemployment. India, Indonesia and Pakistan have millions kids from the age 6 to 11 that do not go to school. India suffered 1.4 million kids that do not go to school because there parents couldn’t afford the fees. The young Indian faces challenges stretching from a poorly administered education system to the lowest average wage rates in the world. The kids that do go to school and do get a education still have to face the poor pay and the work that India have to offer. Kids from the age of 7 go out to find things in rubbish bins and dumps so they can make money to provide for their family.

A lot of the Indian society believe that the other side of india should invest more funds into the slums. Women with kids have to sell their bodies and have sex with rich men just so that they can make as much money as they can to provide for there family. There are no opportunity’s for any of the families in any slums that are located in india so young children have to spend their childhood doing dangerous jobs to support the family.

Talk about how the character of the FOREMAN would be performed according to his motivation and objectives.
The Forman’s motivation would be fear . He knows that if he didn’t get the work done in time he’d die. The Forman is the head of the building operation but still a builder himself . But because he’s the head and in charge it’s his fault if the wall isn’t build in time . So he only wants to finish the wall to get paid and keep on breathings as if the wall isn’t ready in time he’s dead . I would portray the foreman as a person who moves a lot and rushing his men to working . As well as nervous and scared around his superiors . I would hope that the audience would think of him as a jumpy character never relaxing and always moving . Hopefully they would learn from the scene that he is worried , scared and anxious

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Boisterous is a adjective that describes The noun manner this is the best adjective because Dr lanyon manner is described as boisterous and boisterous means roudey and excited so it sums up his old personality

When Stevenson says that lanyon went from rosy cheeked man to then going to pale do maybe lanyon never took care of his self

“His flesh had fallen away”

“Tokens of a swift physical decay”

Lanyon went from a rosy cheeked and enthusiastic with a boisterous manner Then he describes lanyon by saying that his appearance and his mental state has started to decay

The Killers is a story about a young man and his work friends. they are having a normal day until two men walk in and tell them to get on the floor. The two men say they are looking for a man. Homicide is more of a relaxed story. The scene was mainly a manipulation. It speaks about how the police station there are three witnesses and the was a knife at the scene. Tension get is being built in the book from the way the detectives are shouting at the person. The way Hemingway builds tension is they tie the two cooks up and question the boy to see where the person they are looking for “we’re  going to kill a swede. Do you know a big swede named Ole Anderson?” . They scare the two to cooks by tieing them up but the with the boy they keep on calling him a bright boy because it was a way of mocking the boy.

David Simon creates tension in homicide by using lots of swear words and in the book the detective says “I got a knife from the scene that’s going downstairs to the lab for latent prints. I got blood spatter on them air Jordans we took of you ten minutes ago”. This creates tension by making people who are reading this think more then they should be. People will be think is it him that killed this person or why was there a knife at the scene if it was suspected as manslaughter. the first difference between the two books is in the killers it is very patient in the way the two men don’t get angry and shout they just use there power to get the answer out of the boy. but the difference between in homicide is the detectives like to shout and swear. Also the way that the detectives are threatening the person that has got arrested by saying there are three witnesses that are sitting in other rooms. They were also saying that the things on the the seen are linked to you.

The second difference between the two books are that the killers is set in third person.

Good start, Billy, but it tails off significantly. I don’t see why you did not keep this going as you clearly understand what is expected of you. One piece of advice I have is to remember that the title of a book or story is a name so it needs a capital letter. We also put quotation marks around it, e.g. “The Killers”.

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In Julius Caesar power or the people is noticed but Its very effective. Its also used a lot because Caesar dies early into the play and Brutus is trying to take his role. The power of the people with the help or Mark Anthony, Brutus and the conspirators are getting taken down slowly and slowly. They are forced to kill there self at the end because they new the was going to lose the battle but had so much confidence. This could have been because they was scared they were going to be killed and embarrassed by Mark Anthony and his followers. Also they had no team because every body supported Anthony. This is a big effect of people power because without the power not following Brutus and the conspirators the battle would have been more fighting without Brutus and his army killing there self Also the status of Julius Caesar  was kept as a god and a king

In act1 scene1 the carpenter, the cobbler, Murellus and Flavius are on stage. the carpenteris having a conversation with Flavius and Flavius is asking what he does for a job.

Murellus is with Flavius and is going into more detail about the carpenters job ” wheres the leather apron and thy rule”. the cobbler is also on stage and starts to have a conversation with Murellus about a trade and the cobbler is using irony to wind Murellus up. This lowering Murellus status as a leader. he gets more frustrated as the cobbler carries on speaking and starts to speak a bit ruder

Brutus a noble man as well as Caesar and a friend of his. Brutus was known as king or a leader in some cases and was known as more as a role model. different to Caesar you could get things through to Brutus which shows a lot of people power towards him.

Act 3 scene 2 the funeral of Caesar is the biggest act of power to the people where Brutus takes advantage of the funeral and how many people are there. he speaks about the group of men who killed Caesar in a good way and then changes the minds of the people on there opinion of Caesar. but Mark Anthony, Caesars good friend use irony to change the peoples mind again. which left Brutus and his team unstuck because it lost them the follows of the people. this happening left them vulnerable and the status decreasing. and in the Roman time status was the most important thing there could be because without having a name in Rome you was just any normal person which Brutus wasn’t. this effected them later on in the play because people thought negative about them.