ahaha my mum is a 40 yr old english teacher and she swears like a chimney. in the private arena, not when she's teaching :P
i didn't use any swear words in this exam but generally markers don't mind as long as it's in context and not just gratuitious swearing for shits and giggles
I wrote 17 pages for this one. I found the picture was fairly easy to link back to the question about challenging the nature of representation; I talked abt how post-modernism has resulted in a shift in the boundaries between surface meaning and deeper meaning and how they intertwin and stuff. I...
i adapted this postmodern fable i did as an assessment and made the animals represent different schools of critical thought and pomo came out on top
i forget what that had to do with the power of individual thought, but i did relate it
omg you retard, she was popular before the cancer thing ever came out. yes that did about as much for her career as dying did for elvis presley's, but before that what was it they marketed? as i said, the polite girl next door image. that didn't happen on its own, she had to back that up thru...
a minor part of their appeal? i'm sorry, are you mentally challenged?
look at delta goodrem. how strongly has she been marketed? you think she would be half as popular as she is if she didn't have the polite girl next door thing going?
minor part my ass
oh god, thank you! yeah, i realise she's young, i'm only a few months older than her myself, and it's obviously a very intimidating situation but unless she's a total fucking retard she should've realised what she was getting herself into. INCLUDING having to face questions, interviews etc.
um, wrong. she is not an indie underground singer. she will be, assuming she wins or whatever, a pop sensation. one of the chief features of popular music is that it relies very heavily on publicity. if the singer in question is inarticulate then their publicity will suffer for it.
i like dylan, cohen, bowie, buckley and waits
in terms of girly solo artists my favourite is liz phair. also i like tori amos, fiona apple, bjork, joni mitchell, janis joplin, heather nova...etc