Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

One of the quotations from Touching the void is when Simon was saying, “The dreadful suspicion that I had nursed through the night was confirmed, Joe was dead.” He always make an assumption/fatalism on when something bad will happen eventually. It also shows us his feelings about how he felt when he thought that Joe…

In this transcript, I am going to say and explain all of the key devices which relates to messaging and texting and compare it to how we speak. One reason why the devices that people use to maintain brevity when messaging or texting is because of Abbreviation. Abbreviation is when you shorten the words down…

The source which I have chosen is Source 3 because it is an article about a woman on her own on a boat and tells it us about her experience and I didn’t chose the other two articles because they are similar because they are from a newspaper and they are both show pictures which…

Claire Francis’ thoughts and feelings during her journey across the Atlantic was fulfilled with a lot of emotions. At the beginning she was feeling unprepared and she was a bit nervous and she was very exhausted for her first day alone on her journey doing everything by herself on the boat which can be very…

How did William Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath show the strength of feeling of women?     Both William Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath show feelings with themselves in their poems and plays and they use it on a character which is based on their lives. In the poems and the play, all their feelings started very…

I will start with an intorduction about Sylvia Plath and William Shakespeare’s life when they were both young and how their childhood made them famous by being a poet and a playwriter. I started with Sylvia Plath and her childhood was mostly about her and her dad and it started with happiness and then changed into…

All the different emotions by the author Sylvia Plath are very truthful and she expresses herself in her own way. Most of the emotions include anger, sadness, excitement, nervous, impatient, sarcasm and lonely and most of these poems are about her expressing her feelings to other people and trying to blame it on someone else…

Hello Mr.Waugh   Unfortunatley I cannot find the homework on Edutronic I don’t know if you have already updated it or not but i know that you are going to put it on the website today and I know it was something related to the poem by Sylvia Plath and I do have all her poems so i was wondering…

I think that this is not a fair comparison because Katherina is not being rude but is at ease with petruchio and she is also intelligent character to Petruchio who is an angry, unusual and out of control person who is trying to make situations complicated for himself and others. Katherina is trying to protect herself…

PETRUCHIO Where be these knaves? What, no man at door To hold my stirrup nor to take my horse! Where is Nathaniel, Gregory, Philip? All serving men: Here, here, sir; here, sir. PETRUCHIO Here, sir! here, sir! here, sir! here, sir! You logger-headed and unpolish’d grooms! What, no attendance? no regard? no duty? Where is…