Category: Communication

I believe this man is going upstairs to commit a crime, which is either murder or robbery from looking at the picture. I think this because the illustration is drawn in a grey, gloomy texture which suggests something evil is occuring. Another reason I know the man/woman is about threaten or kill someone is because of the obvious knife the man/woman is wielding. The knife makes me think this because the only case where a knife is used properly or to its use is in a kitchen, but this man is creeping up the stairs, which I can tell by the bending of his knees in the illustration, which suggests he/she knows what their doing is wrong.

Darkness is an important part of the setting as it sets the scene. When we see the knife we immediately think some sort of crime is about to occur. I believe adding the darkness is inferring that the man/woman is not supposed to be in that house because at night people are asleep and this man is awake walking around with a knife. Isn’t that odd? Tense? It tells us the man is not meant to be in that house. The darkness also creates tension for the reader as in darkness It is hard to see, which means anything can be there, this is what creates the tension.

I disagree with the statement as not all teenagers are lazy and not all lazy people are teenagers! People always focus on teenagers being lazy and monstrous and not what stage their going through in life; puberty. Which proves those who critise a teenagers behaviour clearly haven’t heard of a hormone which heavily affects a teenagers sleeping pattern.

Teenagers have a hormone named ‘melatonin’,which is released to allow us to sleep, but when your a teenager it is released at 1 in the morning, causing us to be tired. So is laziness really our fault? No it’s not! Are you starting to reconsider?

Now calling us monsters? That’s just monstrous! Yeah we may get a bit aggressive or angry sometimes, but lack of sleep means what? Moodiness. Science proves this. Is it really our fault? Think again! Now you call us monsters but are we all knife-carrying, fighting and robbing pensioners? No that’s the minor percentage, but because the media only likes the interesting stories, they would rather tell us about teenagers stabbing someone than telling us  how teenagers are focusing on their learning and how our grade level percentages have rised. We rarely see on the news how a teenager is helping the community out. The world urges violence, why not shade out the violence and encourage good behaviour? Instead of promoting violence and encouraging stereotypes.

I should not be one of the few teenagers arguing against these negative, prejudice comments against innocent teens. We need more people to help us on this campaign as it is a clear stereotype,which can be stopped, but just needs some encouragement.

Moving on, we are humans, Just like you. We’re not “lazy” and we are not “monsters” and if so, metaphorically of course, there is a pretty good reason. Is it really that once a child blows their candles out on their 13th birthday they turn into  a lazy monster? No! The truth is that we have matured and start recognising certain aspects we do not agree with, so we talk back, argue our point, debate. This is the point where we are called monsters. Are we not considered humans? Can we not make our point? Can we live? Can we breathe? Adults are telling us that teenagers making good arguments and making you feel bad is a bad thing? No it’s not! It’s a sense of intelligence, don’t tell us we can’t be clever now! Teenagers need to start defending themselves and more importantly stop this continuous bullying.

Not all of us are monsters, and we do not all rob pensioners for 10 pounds. The truth is the majority of us are in school studying for a good cause. then there is the minority of ‘bad’ teens on streets getting involved in gangs and commiting unnecessary crimes; giving us teens a bad name, stop showing us these bad teens, it is only going to make us think, “is that all we are, are we just all criminals?”. Stop pushing it in our face that we are all knife carrying, gang involved teens as the majority of us our in school, playing sports, the list goes on. I bet if there was statistics the majority of criminals were adults. On the news how old are the criminals most oftenly? Adults. Which proves my fair point.

Now I think this is something not debated over enough, the teens that are involved in gangs are beings persuaded by who? Adults. Adults use teenagers, innocent teenagers, to do jobs and get money for them through persuasion,(money  items, etc) which eventually, not to my suprise the teen ends up getting involved in serious crime. Then that teen takes the place of the adult and does his job. It’s an ongoing system. Which Isn’t stopping and needs to stop. Therefore that proves my point, is it really teens that are the real monsters? Adults are the real “lazy monsters”

Concluding my essay I disagree with the statement “teenagers are lazy monsters” as I believe it is a clear stereotype and is not argued for enough.

I think the tattoo on the teens neck, “another lost child” tells us he may be labelling himself as a lost child, a confused child who may have chosen the wrong path metaphorically speaking and has now realised he was lost and whatever he was previously involved in, of which burdens, telling us he was “lost” I believe he is telling us his gang related crime has ruined his life and caused him to lose his path, he is “another lost child” Therefore the tatto metaphorically means he is another ruined child by gangs. There can be another interpretation of the tattoo of the tattoo as it can also mean he is referring to one of his friends who is also a teen  may have been killed in gang-related crime. I know this because lots of teens get involved in Gangs and most of the time end up being killed or very severely injured mentally or physically which goes back to my last point he might also tell us he has been mentally affected through his phase of being in a gang, mentally “lost” maybe.

The photos represent teens negatively because in the the first one it says “another lost child'” on his neck, this is negatively directed at teens because he says ‘another’ meaning he isn’t the only lost child, teen which can also mean there are lots of lost teens who might not even know yet so he gets the tatto to tell us he know she is a lost child and has ruined has path but may not be done finding his true way of living. Therefore the picture gives a negative view of teens.

‘There was a hand in the dark, and it held a knife’,this is a complex sentence because it has a main clause ‘there was a hand in the darkness’ and a subordinate clause ‘and it held a knife’. ‘was’ is an auxiliary verb which describes the tense something happened. ‘And’ a conjunction. ‘It’ being a pronoun.’a’ is an article or because it comes before a noun ‘a hand’

‘Musicians have gained public recognition as a result of being directly involved in street crime and gang activities’

I chose this quotation because I see it to be biased as it is trying to say all musicians (rap, hip hop) are involved in some sort of crime. This is biased because not all musicians are involved in crime for example, rappers as such as drake are not involved in crime. The writer also states ‘ rap, through materialist boasting and sexualised music videos tells vulnerable young men and women from isolated neighbourhoods that their problems that their problems can be solved by adopting similarly nihilistic personas’ I chose this as this is also very biased as not all rappers, in their lyrics, tell or influence young men and women to adopt a ‘gansta’  lifestyle. Going back to rappers like eminent

Robert frost uses the image of a cross road in order to symbolise what is it like for human beings to make difficult decisions.

For example, Frost describes ‘two roads diverged in a yellow wood’ to show a moment of indecision.

The two roads present the walker with a choice. The road that he chooses to take here will impact the rest of his journey. The fact that he is unable to see the outcome of the journey means that he must make a blind choice as in the poem he chooses the more ‘different one’.

This is extended metaphor symbolises the ‘roads’ we choose to take within our lives. It can often feel as though human beings are confronted with an importat choice that will determine the rest of their lives, also when the writer describes the forest as a ‘yellow wood’ he is telling us that it was autmn at the  time, it could also signify a time of happiness. The metaphor symbolise. Moments of indecision.

Modal verbs: Must, should, may, might, shall, can, would, should. Or imperative verbs, instructions.

Mobal verbs In article two: must, should, would,

Auxiliary verbs add functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it appears for example: tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis.

Remorse: To show mercy of sorrow for your actions

Rehabilitation: To restore someone to their normal condition

crititism: the expression of disapproval

Proffession: a job requiring special training

employment: when a person is given a job

evans should be allowed to work again and be signed by clubs as he has been rehabilitated

“There was once, in the country of Alifbay, a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name”. This is a complex sentence.

“There was one a sad city”. This is the sentence in its simple form.

“It stood by a mournful sea full of glum fish, which were so miserable to eat that they made people belch with melancholy even though the skies were blue”. This is a compound sentence.

“It stood by a mourning sea full of glumfish”. This is it in a simple form taking away the second clause.

“Black smoke pouredout of the chimneys of the sadness factories and hung over the city like bad news”.

The noun phrases are: “Black smoke” and “bad news”.

The nouns are: Smoke, news, chimneys, factories, city.

The verbs are: Poured, hung.

the prepositions are: Out, over.

“There is black smoke pouring out of the chimneys of the sadness factories and hanging over the city like bad news”. In third person and present tense.