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The main goal of a People to People student ambassador is to work with many people from other countries, discuss our differences and find a way to live in peace and keep the peace. On my trip to the United British Isles, I will be representative of the United States of America. I will be accompanied by other students my age who will be my teammates.

Together we will learn and accomplish so much in such a short time. We will change the world for the better. I would love to go abroad and expand my experience of the culture, agriculture, architecture, sports, countryside and music in the British Isles. I would love to improve my education and learn that people from other countries are just the same like us.

They are just as lucky as we are. They have the same small opportunities as we do. A People to People Student Ambassador behavior should be like grown adults. I should remember my manners at all times. I should be kind, courteous and polite to everyone I meet. I should extend courtesy to others hoping to receive the same courtesy back.

The 34th United States President Dwight Eisenhower founded the Program of People to People Student Ambassadors. President Eisenhower believed that ordinary citizens of different nations, if they could connect directly, would resolve their differences and find a way to live in peace. People can make a difference where governments cannot. People can preserve and strengthen peace. This Program was launched in 1956. I found some information about the Student Ambassador to People program on the web and read some literature in the library.

Unit one was beneficial as I learnt the importance of referencing in academic writing. Referencing is a way of acknowledging ging external sources hers used in writing academic papers such as used in academic writing.They include A.P.A.M.L.A. Harvard and Chicago, and the disciplines in which they are used. I e.g. the use of technical terms in scientific rome purpose of a text influences the choice of language In unit two I learnt how to present ideas in a text, depending on its purpose. In this unit, I learnt how to organize icgas in a tell to paragraphis, cry. progressing from general ideas in the introduction to more specific ones in the body and providing a summary of the main ideas in the conclusion. This involves presenting andaided the reader might be aware of in introduction, and then narrowing down to flowing text.

Unit three was a continuation of unit two . in the sense that while the latter was about th organization of paragraphs, the former narrows down to how ideas link to one another in a text. It involves connecting sentences that express the same idea, and now each proceeding sentence in a summary form to give a reader an insight into the subject under discussion, while new ideas are presented in more detail, and emphasized upon so as to draw the reader’s attention. ssues with conflicting opinions, and how to use In unit four, I learn onvince road point on persuasive language to convince readers. I also leant the importance of using facts to argue in f of a chosen position. Finally, I learnt how to analyze problems and offer persuasive recommendations on the basis of established facts or scientific knowledge.

Long ago, many Egyptians in Egypt, believed in an afterlife. They believed that there was another fantasy world where the Egyptians lived or was their home after they died. The Egyptians made the dead bodies mummies, and put them into Pyramids. A pyramid is a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt. The largest pyramid in the world is the “Great Pyramid of Giza.” Long ago, in Ancient Egypt, Egyptians mummified their bodies and kept them inside pyramids. But creating a mummy isn’t just taking a dead body and wrapping it around with a white cloth. Making a mummy takes a lot of skill and hard work. Creating a mummy has many steps in to make it a mummy. This is called mummification.

Mummification is a process in which the skin and flesh of a corpse can be preserved. The process can occur either naturally, or it can be intentional. If it occurs naturally, it is the result of cold (as can be found in a glacier), acid (as can be found in a bog) or dryness. There are 6 steps of mummification. The first step is to pull out the brain from the nose. Second is that after the person’s death, the priests take out all the internal organs except the heart because, in egyptian mythology it is said that the heart is used to check the person’s deeds. Next the body would covered in Natron and left in the dessert for about 40 days.

Then finally, the body would be given makeup to make the body look more alive and then wrapped around. The person’s relatives would give them valuable things in their tomb for the person to use in the afterlife. Around 2005, scientists were very surprised by the coincidence of how a copper coin could solve a mystery that they weren’t able to solve in decades. It was around 2005 and János Balázs was examining remains from an earlier archaeological dig of a cemetery conducted at Nyárlőrinc, a village in southern Hungary. The excavations had yielded more than 500 graves that mostly dated from between the 12th and 16th centuries. But none of those burials was anything like the mummified green hand Dr. Balázs and his colleague, Zoltán Bölkei, had uncovered in that forgotten box. There were a variety of bones buried and they were so small they could have been confused with a rat’s. Several, including some vertebrae, a hip bone and the leg bones were stained green.

The problem was that the scientists were trying to find whose body was that and if that was natural mummification or not. If the scientists were able to find whose body that was, they could see by the DNA reports and learn if that person was important or not. They could also learn other things about the past. Eventually, the scientists figured out whose body that was. It was a baby’s body that mummified naturally. But according to the place they found it, there was not a sign of how the body could be naturally mummified. Dr. Bereczki, one of his colleagues, started to see the actual story unfold. The team concluded that before the child was placed in the pot and buried, someone put the copper coin into its hand.

Many cultures in antiquity have buried their dead with coins as a way to pay a mythical ferryman to take their souls into the afterlife. In this case, the copper’s antimicrobial properties protected the child’s hand from decay. Along with the conditions inside the vessel, it helped mummify the baby’s grasp. The team thinks this child’s burial may be one of the first reported cases in the scientific literature of copper-driven mummification. The child was actually in a crouched position, that allowed the copper coin to stain other parts of the skeleton too. The team also found evidence of two more burials of premature babies. One had green bones, and the team found its coin and pot, but the other did not. Though the copper coin solved one mystery, though it presented another. The specific copper coin, or “Kreuzer” or “krajcár,” that was found with the baby was in circulation between 1858 and 1862. That meant the burial did not occur during Medieval times. Traditionally, Christians from this later time period have not been known to bury loved ones holding coins.

There’s more than one way to mummify a corpse. Ancient Egyptians practiced perhaps the most well-known method: extracting organs, embalming the body and wrapping the remains in linens. But nature can make mummies too. Such spontaneously preserved bodies can be of tremendous scientific importance, like “Ötzi the Iceman,” whose frozen remains were found in the Italian Alps or the Chinchorro cadavers that were buried in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile and safeguarded by the arid sand. These mummifications are made possible by environmental conditions that prevented human remains from naturally decaying. Bodies left in hot, arid environments can typically mummify in about two weeks, while the process typically takes a couple of months in enclosed locations. Remains in mild environments take about three months. The environment can speed up the desiccation process, often through extreme temperatures.

Sometimes the soil surrounding the body plays a big part as well either through osmosis or because heavy metals in the dirt can impede the enzymes. Even clothes can help mummification, according to Dr. Piombino- Mascali, because they can act as a wick that absorbs bodily fluids from the skin. In addition to protecting the remains from the body’s process of decomposing, the environmental conditions also have to defend against external threats like bacteria, fungi and animals in order to ensure that a mummy will last. But if all of these conditions come together just right, scientists might one day uncover the mummy and learn valuable information about the era in which it lived.

Formative Harlem Renaissance writer and poet, Festus Claudius Mckay was born in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica in 1889 and grew up in an African society when color-consciousness was a norm. After briefly serving in the Jamaican constabulary, Mckay entered America in 1912 and soon grew sentient of the all-pervading evils of discrimination. The bias made him a dissident and he quickly found himself hankering to appropriate the widespread bigotry present in the society. Mckay was ambitious and his fertile imagination led him to love literature, where he saw an opportunity to expand his thoughts in verse. The Harlem Renaissance was a period when African-American writers, artists expressed and articulated themselves through their writing and art. It was a remarkable era, as for the first time in history, African-American writers and poets were popularly accredited in America. While many of the writers of the Harlem Renaissance were born and raised in the U.S., Mckay, of Jamaican origin, was slanted differently vis-a-vis his viewpoint. His poems ‘America’ and ‘If We Must Die’ explored the intricate and unique connection African Americans had with their ethnicity. His poems chanted America with words that mixed love and hate, pain and pleasure, contempt and veneration. He viewed America impassionately with all its virtues and vices becaus ca as his home.

By probing ‘America’ and ‘If We Must Die’, one discovers how Mckay builds upon Du Bois’ concept of Double consciousness” which is shown through his adoration and frustration for America in the former poem and repulsion in the latter, ergo giving a voice to Black Americans to discuss the subtle and overt identity conflict and racism. Respect and revulsion are two of the most overwhelming emotions that can be experienced. Outwardly, these sentiments appear dissimilar as they are polar contraries but diving in the depths produces some evocative similarities. In the poem “America”, the reader is treated to the manifestation of both of these emotions in a poem replete with provoking opposition and weighty statements about society. Prior to Mckay’s ‘America’ and ‘If We Must Die’ , another prominent Harlem Renaissance writer, W.E.B. Du Bois, wrote about the two-ness’ or ‘Double Consciousness’ of African Americans. “Double consciousness can be defined as “the conscious splitting of the inner self in an attempt to create a character that would be accepted into mainstream society” (Du Bois, 3 he concept explains how African can. This was a crucial issue in Americans are wedged between being Black and countless Harlem Renaissance writings as the writers grappled with being part of a country that celebrated liberty, and at the same time being constrained by the African ethnic identity.

The essay focuses on ‘ America’ and ‘If We Must Die’ out of the all the poems from Mckay’s s perfectly and precisely delivered treasure chest of anthologies because the ab what it was to be Black in America. The unusual ardor and emotion in the poems makes them stand out. Mckay was distinctive as he was the first Harlem Renaissance writer to express the spirit of the New Negro. The “New Negro” is a term propagated during the Harlem Renaissance suggesting a more candid promotion of self-respect and a refusal to submit peacefully to the practices and laws of Jim Crow racial discrimination. The term “New Negro” was made popular by Alain LeRoy Locke. Mckay seems to be obeying conventional, white’ ideas of poetry by writing kespearean sonnet. “He believed Western societies were far more advanced than those in Africa and that in certain ways black men brought to the West were fortunate; moreover, he thought of himself as a child of the western civilization.” But the fact that the poem itself is about Black identity issues proves that he is in an identity crisis just like most other African-Americans. Many poets before and ness’ , but most of them have after Mckay have talked about the theory of ‘Double consci aspired and referred to the co-existence of both African and American.

We can observe from the above stanzas that Hughes is far more concerned about making Blacks a part of America, unlike Mckay who always finds himself as an outsider and thus never attempts to merge his dual identity. Many poets in the Harlem Renaissance movement were born in America but since Mckay was born in Jamaica, he approached the concept from an international perspective and was more critical to the experiences of spoken and unspoken “apartheid” in America. It is also interesting that “Mckay did not learn protest by being the victim of American racism. Before he had come to the United States he had protested against injustice, the cruelty of man, the misunderstandings that ignorance could engender, and the evils of deprivation. For the general disharmonies, he blamed fate; for specific evils, he put the primary responsibility on individuals.” Therefore, unlike many poets, Mckay did not completely blame the Americans his or his community’s misery. Mckay’s writings are often termed separatist in nature as they were significantly influenced by his non-American stature. America’ is a sonnet composed of triple quatrains and a couplet composed in iambic pentameter. The poem sees the speaker constantly oscillate between his concentrated feelings of positivity and negativity that he has for America. The dichotomy of dual emotions in the poem mirrors the attitude of the African-American citizen during the time the sonnet was published. In the poem, America is personified and addressed as an entity with whom the speaker seems to have a bitter-sweet relationship.

In the first stanza, Mckay vents his contempt for America and the way it has treated him ; however, he also expresses his reliance on the country. When Mckay says “Although she feeds me bread of bitterness”, the ambiguous speaker is telling that he or she relies on America for his or her sustenance as a newborn depends on his mother. The receptive reader the food being fed is unpleasant gauges the fact that America provides for the speaker, tho motions experienced by the Black and upsetting. This statement approaches the Americans regarding their limited rights in the South. The blacks were given pseudo-equal rights, as the rights were limited to only a minuscule part of the Black population who matched unrealistic expectations both financially and socially. This led to deep-rooted hostility among African Americans. The speaker fervently felt that America was a parasite that sapped the life out of his t her tiger’s tooth, Stealing body and it is clearly supported by the lines, “sinks int my breath of life, I will confess”. This is another scathing remark on the unjust treatment of blacks that shattered the pride and soul of the people. The speaker makes a controversial move and says “I must confess. I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!” Which is quite contradictory to the anguish with which the poem opened. The dyad element is evident in transition of both the tonality and the confession made by the speaker, and it clearly relays to Du Bois’ theory of Double Consciousness. In the following lines, the speaker uses the phrase “cultured hell” an oxymoron. The speaker lets his guard down and unabashedly confesses enjoying the grime that exists in American culture. He suddenly presents America as a guilty pleasure and he is no longer averse to admitting it. He thus makes a potent example of the dichotomy that exists throughout the piece and in the minds of many African-Americans who are in a love-hate relationship with America.

It seems as if Mckay relishes the challenges, both physical and l, that American society presented to him during this time period. Mckay, the poet, too seems to savor the trials that society hits him with during that period, and that is clearly reflected in his writing and poetry. The second stanza starts off on a more positive note and is strongly suggestive of the optimistic feelings the speaker has for America. “Her vigor flows like tides into my blood, line is one of the most powerful lines in Giving me strength erect against her er senses as they convey the the poem evocative as it is of the tactic imagery wh speaker’s passion purely fueled by the nascence of America. While the speaker is boldly proclaiming that America is the source of his strength, he is rebelling against the provider of that very strength and using it to stand up against the racial hate that was prevalent during this time period in America. Although the speaker is fervently against the racism in America, he feels that he is just a drop in the ocean of the struggle for equality which is clearly echoed by the line- “Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood”. His feelings are relatable because often we fear losing our individuality and identity, we fear facing the masses as they approach us like a deluge. The speaker feels the same way as he communicates the ineffectiveness of one person combating the bigoted history of a nation unacco d. However, he is brave enough to possible through his work. A rebel in a ake a solid stand and express his vie talks about the prospect of standing in king’s presence is sure to see his doom. Th ront of a king like a rebel and awaiting censure and penalty. He compares standing in front of the rigid racism to the above and says, “Yet as a rebel fronts a king of state,  I stand with her walls with not a shred Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer”.

Interestingly, here, it rier within the interaction is the reaction from the “king” that breaks down the expected ss malice to the unknown between the two parties. He does not raid, nor does he standing in his court. The rebel stands tall and mighty before the king within his fortifications because he is sheltered by law. Mckay gives us an interesting metaphor to convey the true variance of the American system and the reality that existed within America at the time. The speaker like many Africans lived in the gray- the constant tussle of being White or Black. America is the source of his strength, but it also is the cause of his angst and frustration. Like many African Americans, the speaker desires to be true to his cultural roots in Africa, but America is home though the feeling of alienation haunts him. This expression esonates the concept of ‘Dual Consciousness’ explained by W.E.B. Du Bois and echoes what every Africa-American experiences. The poem settles on a melancholy note as the speaker foretells what lies ahead for America “Darkly I gaze into the days ahead, And see her might and granite wonders there,  Beneath the touch of Time’s unerring hand, Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand. Conventionally in the United States, in order to pay homage to a noteworthy citizen, or a significant event, a stone memorial is erected for posterity to commemorate the feats of those who have gone before. In this passage, the speaker is examining the statues that remind people of America’s inspiring history. The speaker then foretells that America shall eventually wilt in memory with the passage of time. The speaker ingeniously uses the phrase “sinking in the sand”  which leads the reader to believe that the speaker knows of America’s brevity similar to most civilizations that ebbed into the sands of inconsequence over time. The robust use of metaphor and duplicity in the poem gives it a forceful slant.

The stark dualism that Mckay delivers is the sole purpose behind the prose. The points build a strong nexus with all those African-Americans who felt so during the 20th century and it urges them to acknowledge this feeling and allow it to empower them instead of making them fee demoted. The chaotic yelp that Mckay releases from the lines of this poem are the reverberations of a group wedged between true parity and false hope. From diving deep into the depths of the speaker’s emotional and confused mind in ‘America’, the reader almost feels throttled by the tonality of ‘If We Must Die’ and the militant message it tries to disseminate. Although Mckay denied referring specifically to the Blacks and the Whites in the poem, the fact that it was penned following the “Red Summer” of 1919 when the anti-black riots broke out, makes the sonnet reverberate the despair of the Africa-Americans during that time. “The persona calls black men in America to arm against racial oppression and lynching. He further goes on to urges them to defy all sinister forces and meet violence with violence in ascertaining their ethical dignity in their struggle for social, economic and political emancipation regardless of all odds.”

Mckay uses a derisive tone throughout the poem, quite contrary to the one used in ‘America’ and seems to cross the fence from devotion to anguish. The speaker aims at empowering Black Americans and emphasizes the significance of an honorable death. The existence and dreadful death of African Americans is pertinently equated to the rearing and nurturing of a hog only to be slaughtered. The rhetoric used here hits the nail on the head as it makes a powerful impact. Hogs are gelded male pigs and the reference indicates that Black people were rendered helpless and had to die without a choice. “hunted and penned in an inglorious spot”, goes on to show the aspect of being trapped in a pen; just as pigs. The revolting contrast is intentional as Mckay wants the gravitas of the troubles to cement firmly into the minds of his people. He wants the readers to get affected so that their conscience can comprehend what his people were then undergoing. Mckay is strongly connected to the African-Americans in this poem and he directly addresses them. This poem is to all those who are subjugated, specifically the Blacks, and they are the people referred to in this poem. The speaker implores his people to passionately resist all those who murder them by saying, “If we must die, O let us nobly die, so that our precious blood may not be shed in vain.” He wants them to forget the notion of being moral through non-violence and shows them nobility in purposeful death. The opening line “If we must die” is supposed to incite the rebels to act irrespective of the consequences and is conveyed in the line, “then even the monsters we defy shall be constrained to honor us though dead.” It is one hand he gives them hope, but interesting to note the contrast in the speake on the other hand, he tells them that death is impending and inevitable. The duality and uncertainty are explained by the conditional clause “if” in the poem.

Mckay strains on mortality throughout the poem and seems preoccupied with the manner of death rather than the time of death. The setting of the poem is one of a brewing war and Mckay urges his people to stay united and fight for their honor regardless of the outcome. He says, “O Kinsmen! We must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave.” and warns them they might be digging their own grave but courage is more important than victory. He urges them to never give up-“Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back.” It can be strongly argued that the poem addresses only men in the society as the imagery and tone used in the poem are masculine for example, “Li murderous, cowardly pack.” ssociated with men and The poem seems masculine visual imagery is used to enforce acts of warfare and hunting. The assertion of an honorable fight brings the distinction between cowards and real men in the concluding line of the poem and it intends to give a voice to African Americans and instill in them that they deserve an honorable death. Mckay wants his people to deliver the ultimate death blow knowing that they might not survive and he wants them to know that death under oppression for liberty makes it all the more honorable. The theme of nobility and honor is summed up by the line, “shall be constrained to honor us though dead!” Dogs represent the enemy in this poem and the image of vicious and hungry dogs creates fear among the readers.

The poem, like many of Mckay’s poems, ends on a blue and dual note. He calls the enemy a cowardly pack but at the same time tells his people bluntly to fight back knowing that death might be imminent “pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!” Brevity is emphasized and conveyed by Mckay and leaves the readers with hope that the death of his people shall bear fruits for posterity in the form of true equality and humanity. The impact of the poem was significant and astonishing to even Mckay himself. “If We Must Die” became, as Joel Rogers put it in 1927, really the “Marsellaise of the American Negro.” A generation later, Melvin Tolson, the distinguished Afro-American poet, similarly noted that the poem was the anthem and Mckay a symbol of the militant New st in the United States. “Indeed, “If Negro in the aftermath of the First World War a er written by one of Africa’s We Must Die” is not only one of the children; the poem also became the rallying cry of oppressed peoples of all colors, all over the world.” The reason for the fame can be attributed to both the poem and the poet’s state of mind. Both Mckay and his poems were inflicted with a dual conscience. We see a burning passion and reverence for America in the poem of the same name and we also see the speaker’s desolation. Whites by calling them the In ‘If We Must Die’, the poet out rightly criticizes the “enemy” and entreats his people to retaliate. Thus, Mckay’s dual conscience is evident. The fact that the name of the country is the title of the poem in “America” proves that it was in many ways a tribute to the land of dreams.

Mckay viewed America with a Utopic lens but found vices in the system. Both his poems harp on the concept of brevity. “America” talks bout the end of a great civilization and “If We Must Die” talks about the brevity of the African-Americans who shall wage a war against the “common foe”. Mckay, as a poet lives in the gray and has two folded emotions for America, because, the poem “America” was written in 1921 and “If We Must Die” was written three years before in 1919. We can then say that Mckay underwent a change of heart in those three years and unabashedly started to state both the virtues and vices of the country instead of just abhorring it. Through “America” and “If We Must Die”, Mckay successfully conveyed the that there can be two sides to every emotion and it is acceptable to not align with either. By ican Community juxtaposing love and hate, Mckay created and found acclaim and recognition. In his prose, Mck y emphasized the significance of the common Negro and brought together Negro Renaissance writers for the awakening of Negro traditional culture. But it is for his poetry that Mckay will be most considered. For in his poetry , he best articulated the New Negro’s resolve to defend his self-respect, ethnic value, and his right to a worthy life.

In the second lesson we had to act out ‘A night on the town’ in the form of still images, we did this in a group of four (myself, Luke, Reece and lee). Our stimulus for this task was our own visualisation from reading the script. In the first two scenes we had a split stage, showing two men and two women getting ready for their night out, in doing so we wanted to create juxtaposition; so the audience can clearly differentiate between the two groups of people in the still image.

In the third scene we had to show a still image of the two men watching the two women in the bar we (me and Reece) had to enhance our facial expressions and body language to seem attracted to the women (Luke and Lee). What we did to show that we was interested in the two girls was have our line of sight directly on them, and our bodies had to be very ‘masculine’ and facial expressions were inquisitive, we made this possible by raising our eyebrows and having wide eyes, and our heads were leaned back at an angle, to show that we are ‘checking them out’.

Lee and Luke had to close themselves from the audience, and have them facing the floor, to show shyness. We did this to show a typical night out in a bar, it was a convention. Towards the end of the lesson we had to develop the still images into a role play, using chat up lines and other explorative strategies. In the first scene we had both groups getting ready for their night out, at the same time, but this time we added movement, and speech.

Myself and Reece playing the two men, was from east London, so we had a typical cockney accent , and slow and heavy movement, to create a sense of presence. To make the two women to start acting, we marked the moment by using the line ‘come on mate, it’s not like we’re ’gonna’ crash. After that line was said that was the cue for Luke and Lee to start their performance, they were two typical women from Essex; with their role play they enhanced the women by having feminine movements and doing typical gestures for example putting on make-up and asking ‘if this outfit looks nice? The next scene involved us in the bar, we stared with the men entering the bar before the women, and they’ve already settled with a drink. With our characterisation we had created two typical men looking for women to chat up to in a bar, we had a calm and smooth tone to our voices to signify this.

Once the two women entered the bar, we froze with a still image that we used in the first exercise, to continue the performance I pretended to whisper in to Reece’s ear ‘I’m having the one on the left. We had a spilt stage where the two groups spoke between each other, while the other group mimed in the background. This was done so the audiences could understand what the men and women’s intentions were. Each group talked about their feelings for the person they want to ‘chat-up with, we did this engage the audience as we are revealing our purposes in this performance. To end our performance Reece walked up to Lee and used a ‘cheesy chat-up line’ so we can finish off with a bit of comedy; the line was ‘Hey babe, I’ve got the pencil; and you’ve got the sharpener!

Just after that line we went straight into a still image, to show the shock on all our faces as if to say, that was the worst chat-up line used. In another lesson we had to watch a short advertisement about drink driving, and the effects on alcohol on people. We had to create a short awareness advert that shows the effects of drunk driving, and a way to stop driving while intoxicated with alcohol. Our group consisted of, me (driver), Brandon (passenger), Binte (passenger) and Tyrell (passenger).

We came up with a basic outline for a performance. The story was the four of us went on a typical ‘night out’ and got drunk and decided to drive home, as soon as I put the key in the ignition we froze, symbolising that I was having a vision, but was unaware of it. We then used realism to imitate us driving along in a key, by doing standard protocols, or missing them and then realising what happened, we did to show the audience that drinking can slower your reaction and thinking process .

Then suddenly Brandon announces that he has another drink in his pocket, this causes a brawl in the car as we fight for the drink, then Tyrell, who is the front seat passenger , reaches around and kicks the steering wheel, causing the car to go astray and collide into a tree, to portray the crash we threw our bodies in different directions as if we got thrown out, we did this as it was naturalism, as it’s natural to get throw about in car crash and go in a completely different direction .

Then we re-wound the whole journey, including the crash, this was us using physical theatre and cross-cutting, we did this to enhance and engage the audience as it would be much more interesting to watch instead of simply just cutting back to the firs scene.

When we got back to the first scene when I put the key in the ignition we stopped, and then we cut out all sound and I had a quick thought track, while the others were miming in the background, I talked about my vision and what is about to happen, we returned to the performance by Tyrell hitting me and saying ‘hurry up lets go’ like he did the first time, to show that this was the real world now. I suddenly said ‘No! We’re not driving’ then suddenly we pictured another car hitting a tree, which would have been us, this was the repellent from driving.

If I ruled the world; which is highly unlikely of course, I would ban all languages except one – Arabic. The majority of you probably disagree but tell me how many of YOU have found yourself in a class with a teacher speaking some alien language to you? Many times, I assume just like me none of you probably enjoyed it, but hated it to bits and thought of the reason as to how and why you ended up in that state.

The reason as to why I chose Arabic is that it is an example of different cultures living in one language; how many Arabic countries do you know of? Syria, Saudi Arabia, Libya and the list goes on, well each one of the countries are their own, they have their own culture, own tradition but the same language, so why can’t the whole world be like this? How easy would life be?

Those of you who think that without different languages you can’t have different culture, you can’t be unique, well your wrong as trust me people from Iraq are as different to people from Syria as people from America and Africa are, and they don’t have different languages, they have one – Arabic, true they may have changed words here and there but it is still the same language – they can understand each other. So now as you were just informed that it is possible to have the same language and a different culture don’t you agree with me about having only one tongue, one language, one way of verbal communication the same as everyone else?

It was said that there is 6,809 languages in the world – it might be possible. But that is a significant number of languages. Like for example in Afghanistan, where I come from there are two main languages – Pashto and Farsi. But as I discovered a while ago, there are many more languages in Afghanistan only the main is Farsi and Pashto and Afghanistan isn’t even a big country. I am sure many of you didn’t know that, I being an Afghan didn’t even know until my dad informed me. So imagine if one country had many languages than how many are there in the world? IF mankind was united there would only be one and only one language!

Now that exam period is here, what are you more focused on? I think the majority of you are focusing on French, Spanish or German; if not then when GCSEs come I am almost certain you will – unless you haven’t taken a language or you already know that language as it is your mother tongue. Without this extra weight on our shoulders we could all become top fliers in other more important subjects such as maths and science. As the fact that learning language becomes harder to learn as we grow older is true, and if it weren’t true I wouldn’t mind languages but as it is true ( and we weren’t taught different languages at the age which was easy for us to learn languages) and all the endless lists of vocabulary is near to impossible to learn, I would rather banish all languages off the face of this planet except one, so that no one has to suffer sitting and learning the vocabulary off by heart – just to get accepted into a good university or to obtain a good job.

Aren’t there far better things to spend our time on? We all have better time consuming occupations than sitting there, pulling our hair out trying to learn a language made because the human race cannot be united. One language can symbolise unity amongst humans. If animals of the same species can achieve that why can’t we? Surely we are supposed to be greater than animals, with larger brains, so why don’t we have one language in which everybody would be able to communicate with each other, making everyone’s lives easier.

Allow me to share an account I underwent a few years back, I went on holiday with my family to France, on holiday, it was great only a major thing restricted me and my family having the utmost maximum fun my achievable – different languages. We went there via ship and car, so basically we had to drive to Paris and as my dad had never been there and didn’t know the way, as expected we became lost. We asked a few people but like us they had blank confused looks on their faces, as they couldn’t understand us and we couldn’t understand them, after a long period of time we reached Paris, but we would have reached our destination quicker if we had one language.

That was only one problem, there was problems with the hotel, finding our way around to Eiffel Tower, Disney Land, matters got so bad we ended up giving up not going to Disney Land. That wasn’t the only place I had gone for holiday to, that I didn’t know the language of and that I had problems in. I’m fairly positive the majority of you, have also had an account like this, would you and I have undergone those problems if we all shared one tongue, one language, one way of verbal communication the same as everyone else?

Imagine you were an immigrant from another country, to England, you don’t know English, your parents don’t know English, you moved here because of war, your father is desperately trying to make money for the family, but he is having difficulty as he doesn’t know English even though he is educated. Wouldn’t there be less racism if there was one tongue, one language, one way of verbal communication the same as everyone else? Wouldn’t our lives overall just be easier?

But when Is love ever true and committing? That Is why American tradition values marriage; the supposed full-term commitment of love and care. B) Sexual intercourse between partners is usually considered as love. Sex is valued as a freedom, and anyone could participate in sexual relationships. Even when someone isn’t married or together, our American tradition views it as a natural incident. I believe love could just be caring deeply for someone and supporting them. Though someone once told me that love doesn’t exist; it’s just a made-up hooch!

C) Transition: Consequently, people can catch sexually transmitted diseases and the false assumption that sex is love, and can destroy a persons life. That assumption is usually obtained from the mass media. II. American culture also influences love by mass media. America is known for its mind-shaping media which includes television, newspapers, music/radio stations, and especially the internet. A) It is a fact that the American society has always been influenced by the mainstream media. We see or hear opinions and facts on TV or radio that others eave broadcasted.

Most people give information that is most likely based on unfounded assumptions or unreasonable views. Love Is a topic that Is controversial In terms of how we should go about It. B) The media has portrayed love In many different aspects. In movies and TV shows love might be shown as a sacred and personal relationship between a husband and wife, or that special night for a teen couple on the mountain peak. Sex Is often mistaken as true love In the media. For example, I never had sex with my ex- relined and I truly loved her.

Today, our views on love can be Influenced by networking such as Namespace, Twitter, or Faceable. C) Transition: However, all of these Influences and Ideas are biased, and can prove to be misleading. Society shouldn’t believe everything In the media (or others). That is why American culture is based on individual freedom. America. We have the right to decide and think for ourselves on any topic or any action we choose. A) Today, American citizens have the right to choose who they can love or have sexual intercourse with.

Whether it be a husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend, we can decide. B) Individual freedom also gives us the right to decide if a loving relationship isn’t so loving. For example, a chaotic marriage. Couples can file for a divorce if agreed upon. Transition: Definitely, No matter how you view it, love should be honest and true. It should be pure, whether in a sexual relationship, marriage, or friendship. Love is a valued term and emotion that American culture has influenced by tradition, freedom, and the mass media.