Author: Marcel

This piece is set in WW2

I’m a woman and I can not do anything because power doesn’t belong to women in Europe these days. When will my suffering finally end. My husband is out on the front-line fighting and he doesn’t have the courage to actually kill. Every time I see he him come home his hand are shaking and trembling. If only I was a man I could do all the deeds he cant do. Unsex me here! Man is to full of the kindness of man, I will need to pour my spirits into your ears to give you the strength you don’t have, Come and take the milk from my women breast so we may prevail.

“Pour my spirits in thine ear”

Milk: This is a symbol of Lady Macbeth loving her husband as if he is a good person and nourishes people or makes them feel better.

Stars ,hide your fires Let not light see my black and deep desires

When I was 10 (2 years ago) my friend, jacob ,came over for a sleep over. We were playing a few games and we came across the game called, Truth or Dare. Jacob dared me to prank call my mum about any random topic. I chose the purchase of a new computer because it seemed like a funny thing to make my mum worried about.

I switched to private number mode. I called here and made my voice sound different and gave myself a fake name, david. I was a little nervous at first because if i got caught id be in alot of trouble.

I started the call and she picked up the phone. She said “Hello” then I said “Hello, my name is david , is this Patricia” she said yes. I told her that she bought a computer for 599 pounds then she screamed in shock and panicked.

She was upset for a few minutes then she just got angrier and angrier  until she snapped. She she then yelled ” I didn’t buy any TV so shut up”. Then she ended the call.

Dear Mr Dastagir,

I am writing to address the problems in the school, more specifically racist banter. I am incredibly upset about this issue and it must be dealt with in the quickest way possible.

Many people have been judged by people of another race and banter is used to make fun of their tradition or culture. Many people also use this term as an excuse for them to use hurtful comments and to just shift blame. I think they are trying to get out of trouble so no consequences are put in place.

In addition, just saying “sorry” is both going to make it better and  help your relationship strengthen. Saying “banter” wont make it any better, but may escalate the situation by causing fights. Taking responsibility is better than starting a quarrel, making the victim feel miserable or starting a fight. Doing these things makes the victim feel better and they won’t have a bad opinion on you, they won’t spread nasty rumours about you being a bully or how you dont care about peoples feelings.

A lot of people are judged on what someone thinks of their skin colour. These things are stressful to the victim, lowers the victims self a stem and this can result in depression, bullying and anxiety; which isn’t good for a person as it could potentially make them feel lonely or to hate school due to desolation and if its really bad then they could commit suicide in some cases.

Banter is not something people should enjoy doing, because it is despicable and it starts a lot fights and destroys people’s relationship with each other. This offence shouldn’t go unpunished, when it is heard in school it should be come one of the consequences of 1 – 4, so people know it is incredibly wrong to judge someone just by looking at their skin and what they look like. For instance, if you heard someone’s voice or are looking at someone and they looked/sounded Australian, then someone could say “use boomerangs a lot?” (racism) even if he was British they use this to their advantage and say its was just banter.

“Banter” to me personally is both sinister and a serious matter in London Nautical School because many times as I am walking in the hallways to get to lessons I hear people mocking black,Mexican and Asian people more often than I hear them mocking white people. A lot of these issues occur due to insecurity or jealousy or just straight up hating the person. Insecurity because they may have been bullied and when they come to secondary school with a fresh start they want to show people they are very strong and they shouldn’t be messed with but that usually makes it worse as nobody will really like them.

Jealousy because the victim may have got stuff that the culprit wish they had and will start insulting the victim because they feel envious and to make the victim feel like the culprit has a “better life” than them to show they have a lot of money or to show that their parents love them more is often the case but usually its a contest to see who has the best equipment , games , consoles and who has the most money between them, this also starts fights and rivalry as they feel llike they must prove something.

Banter is not something that should be used as entertainment as it is a serious problem there are serious limits to what you can say.

People say its just banter because they want to gain respect from everyone else or be feared and instead they are hated by students and teachers.

I hope you do your best to tackle all these issues around the school, Yours Sincerely Marcel

And so we’ve came here today to dramitise a shameful condition.

Hyperbole over exaggeration.

Figurative (with metaphors) vs Literal ( what it means )

Adjectives because you can describe the goodness of something.

Exaggeration- Buy 1 get one free which will encourage you to buy it which is good for business

Adjectives

Why you want them to do want.

Similies

Metaphors – to compare things

This moment decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.

I think this means that it was Martin Luther King who created this hope for millions of slaves who are being discriminated.