Category: Communication

We teenagers are just misunderstood. Is it really too much to ask for to be loved and appreciated?

Not everyone knows what teenagers are going through and what their feelings are. Of course adults went through what we are going through, but that was a long time ago and they may have forgotten how they behaved and acted in their teenage years. By judging us, adults are saying they were never moody during their years, although they may have not started riots and vandalised. For these reasons I feel it is unfair for adults to judge us in a negative way.

Not all teenagers are lazy slobs. Most teenagers go out with their friends and do a range of activities. Many of us enjoy participating in sports, football being the main one. With teenagers hanging out with friends there is no way we can be labelled as lazy slobs.

Lazy, disobedient and anti-social are just some of the long list of infuriating stereotypes that wrongly describe teenagers. I’m not sure what it is that makes the rest of society despise ALL of us, not just the small few that ruin it for the rest of us.

Nothing makes me angrier than when I see how the media portrays teens in this way. Do YOU the public know why we teens sleep so often? We teenagers are constantly given such high expectations and are always being pressured to be the best that we can be. Skipping sleep may be harmful to you, particularly if you are driving, you are prone to be involved in a car accident. Teenagers are really the ones who need more sleep out of adutls and people younger than us. After having school, homework, tests, personal problems and things we do in our own time, you can not blame us for wanting to sleep for most of the time.

Us teenagers are going to be world leaders, Presidents and Prime Ministers, we need all the sleep we can get to reach the highest of our potential. You can look bad and feel moody.

I’m sure we would all appreciate it if school had started an hour later than usual. Our sleep patterns are also dictated by the light and our hormones. This hormone that is released is melatonin. Eight to ten hours of sleep will make us operate at our best.

Not all of us teens are bad, some maybe are, but that doesnt mean that through the whole of our teenage life we should be discriminated against because of our age. There are many teenagers that are 19 or on the verge 20 that are very successful and who can be an inspiration people older or younger.

Tom Wagg, a 15 year old boy who was doing his work experience at Keele University made an amazing discovery when he had least expected it. He found the planet 1,000 lightyears away. He is thought to be the youngest person to discover a planet. He was studying data of stars in the Milky Way when he discovered it. This shows teenagers can do amazing things. If a group of teens do a bad thing, all teens are criticized, whereas if a group of teens do a good thing, only this small group are praised.

Why we should praise teenagers:

1. Teenagers are more likely to do voluntary work. In fact, they are ten times more likely to be volunteering in their community than regularly be anti-social in them.
2. More teenagers than ever are staying at school after the age of 16 to study and further their education.
3. Despite the blame of most of crime being blamed on us teenagers, its is the teenagers that are mainly the victims of crime.

In conclusion, I believe that the good in most of teenagers is overlooked by a small minority of teenaers that actually are bad. I believe that we teenagers that are good, young and decent people, should not be associated with the teenagers that are bad. It is extremely unfair that adults can judge us although they behaved the same as us at one point.

‘We are running a system that works for the yobs, we want a system that works for decent people.’ Exaggeration is the language technique here because it says that all youth are yobs when there are some decent people.

‘Families on the Tranmere and Rock Ferry Boundary have flooded the authorities with complaints about gangs terrorising their streets.’ In this quotation there are two noticeable language techniques that are against youth. The first technique is exaggeration which appeared in the last quote. Where it says ‘Rock Ferry Boundary have flooded the authorities’. There is not only one, but two language techniques in this short phrase. There is both exaggeration and a metaphore here. The metaphor is where it says that people flooded authorities with complaints about the youth. It is a metaphor because complaints cannot actually flood anything. The word flood has connotations to everything happening all at once.

Hooligans

Violent

Ruthless

How newspapers depict teenagers.

Hello, my name is Joseph Deutrom and welcome to my schools opening evening. I will speak for a short while then you will be taken on a tour around the school by some of the very few students who volunteered to be a prefect. Once your tour has finished there will be application forms in the reception to collect.

What  you will find when your child  comes to this school is that your son will  make amazing progress in all subjects improving by one sub-level each year between Year 7-11. That is if you don’t decide to kill yourself by Year 9. If you do join the school you will be expected to join the Sixth form (Year 12 and 13) which has a modern looking common room which is much different to the rest of the school that looks like a WW2 boarding school. It also has a ridiculously expensive vending machine which is very reliable. It works only 10 percent on the time.

The LSC, otherwise known is referral is a place  where students are sent after bad behaviour. Students say they much prefer it to normal lessons as there is silence, class work and incredibly fast WiFi.

The chairs that the school has got are best suited for the school and most of them break after leaning on them a few times. Despite nearly going out of business, the school has a great budget and we are always welcome to buying things to make the school better. Infact the D.T department are still struggling to take two boys to Nandos after winning a competition when they were in Year 8, they are now in upper sixth form.

Due to the schools great budget the students and staff are provided with the most nutritious and healthy meals even though not one student or teacher has an attendance of 50% or higher. They all say they have come down with food poisining and the fingers are all pointed at me.

The classrooms in this school are amazing. They all have a great atmosphere and are alot of fun, for the students. I am told alot that paper balls are thrown around and that teachers get locked outside of their classrooms, but I know they are just joking and the teacher doesn’t mind, despite being brought to tears.

Thank you for listening, you will now be taken by a prefect 15 people per prefect. Also sorry for making you sit on the floor, we’re running a bit low on chairs.

Three extended noun phrases:

• Dr Henry Brubaker of the Institute for Studies. A man at the Institute for Studies.
• Carolyn Ryan of Hebden Bridge. A woman from  Hebden Bridge.

I do not see how the the pronoun changes the meaning of the sentence. The only changes it makes is that ot takes away detail from what the sentence was before.

Fate is the development of events outside a persons control. This is regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power.

Julius Caesar brings up many questions about the force of fate in life versus free will. In Julius Caesar, Cassius refuses to accept Caesar’s ever growing supremacy and he considers that accepting fate is a form of cowardliness. Cassius says to Brutus ‘Men at some time are masters of their fates: the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.’ As Cassius protests about Caesar’s power, he believes that it is Rome’s own fault for being subservient to just one man. According to Cassius, ‘Men are masters of their own fate’. This means that it is up to Cassius and the conspirators to take down Caesar. This seems like a good idea and there is a lot of evidence in play that men don’t have control over their destinies.

Soothsayer:’Beware the ides of March’

Caesar:’He is a dreamer; let us leave him. Pass.’

Even though the Soothsayer warns Caesar about the Ides of March, Caesar does not take any notice of him and ended up being stabbed 33 times on the 15th of March. His arrogance prevents him from taking advice from the soothsayer which eventually gets him killed. This is not the last time Caesar ignored warning signings of his death. His wife then later has a dream of Caesar being killed and a statue of him with his blood pouring out.

Flavius:’These growing feathers pluck’d from Caesar’s wing will make him fly an ordinary pitch, who else would soar above the view of men and keep us all in servile fearfulness.’

This quote means that if the people of Rome take away their support of Caesar, then Caesar will fly back to earth, if not then he will keep us in a state of fear and obedience. In the first scene of the play, you can sense that people of Rome can see no good coming out of Caesar’s power increasing. It is predicted that Caesar will keep them servile, but they are able to see the consequences of Caesars assassination. Civil war can be a result of his assassination.

‘They are all fire and everyone doth shine But there’s but one in all doth hold his place.’

‘But there’s…his place.’

This quote shows that Caesar refers to himself as the Northern Star. He says that he is the main the star and he will always remain leader. This is a metaphor.

‘The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks.’

The first idea that this gives me is that fate has many possibilities. Something to support this idea is that the Gods in the sky decide our fate and he mentions that the unnumbered sparks are in the sky. Another idea I got from this is that the unnumbered sparks are the citizens of Rome. Sparks being the people of Rome, they burn bright (have a good life)  then fade out and become dim (bad things happen in life or they die.)

‘The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves.’

Cassius says this in Act 1 Scene 2. To me this quote translates to ‘Our status is not in our fate, but in ourselves.’ Stars translates to fate for me as I earlier mentioned a connecting between stars, God, sparks and fate.

Caesar says all of this before he dies which shows that  Shakespeare punished Caesar for believing he can’t control his fate. Shakespeare, like a God decided Caesar’s fate.

In this scene Cassius and Titinius are on a hill watching their soldiers fighting their enemy. Pindarus enters the scene and warns Cassius that Antony is in their tents and that Cassius should  run away. Cassius replies by saying that their current position on the hill is far enough. He finds out that his tents are also on fire. Cassius orders Titinius to get on his horse to see what soldiers are enemies or friendly. He then orders Pindarus to get a better vantage point on the hill so he can tell him what is happening on the field, because Cassius’ eye sight wasn’t that good. Pindarus is very shocked to see that Titinius us being surrounded by enemies who continue to approach him but he continues on forward. Pindarus tells Cassius about it. Titinius is taken  as some of the soldiers got off their horse. Cassius calls him self a coward for not looking out for his friend and living long enough to see him taken. He tells Pindarus to get of the hill. Cassius reminds Pindarus about when Cassius made Pindarus his servant. He says Pindarus will be a free man if he takes the sword that was in Caesar’s bowels and ‘plunge it in my chest’.  Pindarus stabs Caesar. I think he does it to stay loyal to Cassius and he does not want to be a coward in case Cassius kills him. Pindarus says he is a free man, but he didn’t want to be free like this. He says he will run far away from Rome. The armies changed places because Octavius was overthrown by Brutus’ forces. Titinius says the news will comfort him. Messala asks where did Titinius leave him. Titinius says he was left with his slave. Messala finds Cassius. Messala thinks he killed himself. Titinius shouts for Pindarus. Messala goes to tell Brutus that Cassius is dead. Brutus enters the scene and says that Caesar is still powerful. He is walking around the earth turning our swords into ourself. Brutus says you could not find two Romans as noble as him and Rome will never make anything equal to him. He says he owes more tears to Cassius than he has.

I could possibly be convinced if I thought like you. If I could pray to move, prayers would move me: But I will never move like the Northern Star who’s stable has no equal in the sky. The sky shows many stars they all shine but there is one that stays put. Just like on Earth, full of men but out of all of them I remain unassailable and I never move.

I did not translate all because I didn’t know what it exactly meant, I wrote the proper language in those places.

Understanding

There is a soliloquy from Antony to the crowd. There is no real quotation to show this, he is just speaking to the crowd revealing his thoughts.

Antony pretended to make friends with the conspirators but he is still secretly hating them. ‘Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood.’ This means that there should be despair and stress to whoever drew this blood. He says ‘A curse shall light upon the limbs of men.’ This means that something bad should happen to the conspirators.

Antony is asking for forgiveness from Brutus because Brutus killed Caesar and he thinks that the conspirators will kill him. He tries to make peace with the conspirators so he stays out of danger.

Fate, we will know your pleasures.

Personify: To give an object or thing human actions or feelings.

Fate is the development of events without human control. It can also be what your destiny is, what is suppost to happen for you.