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Leaving Cert '11/'12 Off-Topic 2

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    #5252
    Fergus_
    Registered Users Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Fergus_


    I'm gonna do mine on someone having to turn off their loved one's life support machine, the first half is gonna be all memories and the 2nd half is facing the dilemma.

    So I'm gonna make some contrasts.

    Not original but it's tragic :p


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    #5253
    Wesc.
    Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Wesc.


    Hayezer wrote: »
    Me being a doctor, off duty, someone collapses or something, persons probably gonna die, moral dilemma to do make shift procedure with make shift tools and risk getting blamed if person dies/getting sued/losing job, pull it off, happy ever after?

    I cant think of a story :(:(

    Hahaha stop I tried come up with one there it's hard. :P

    But as someone once said on this forum (think it's obvious who :L) do out a simple plot, and capture it perfectly. It's more how you say it, than what you say.


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    #5254
    Mysteriouschic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭Mysteriouschic


    Martin_94 wrote: »
    Does there have to be a change.

    Not sure but my teacher told me the character has to have some kind of a change or learn something and there needs to be obstacles leading up to the climax or just one climax in which the change happens from there.


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    #5255
    reznov
    Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭reznov


    leaveiton wrote: »
    The joys of just not doing the short story at all :P

    I ate your puppy.

    :cool:


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    #5256
    leaveiton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭leaveiton


    reznov wrote: »
    I ate your puppy.

    :cool:

    Unusual plot, but it could work!


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    #5257
    reznov
    Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭reznov


    leaveiton wrote: »
    Unusual plot, but it could work!

    Who reckons all exam papers this year will become like project Maths Paper two? :pac:
    SEC: SURPRISE!


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    #5258
    leaveiton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭leaveiton


    reznov wrote: »
    Who reckons all exam papers this year will become like project Maths Paper two? :pac:
    SEC: SURPRISE!

    "Write a short story in which a character is lost at sea with only a clinometer for help"


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    #5259
    Cruel Sun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭Cruel Sun


    The one plot I have in mind, doesn't really have a climax, it's more about how someone is coping with the death of someone and there's lots of flashbacks and memories and then there's a twist at the end. Would that be ok, or will I have to incorporate some sort of change and climax into it.


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    #5260
    FaoiSin
    Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭FaoiSin


    My story is about a guy contemplating suicide. I can fit any number of reasons into why :P


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    #5261
    Cruel Sun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭Cruel Sun


    I'll probably end up making something else up on the day though.
    I might just copy my Mock.


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    #5262
    The High Crusade
    Registered Users Posts: 378 ✭✭The High Crusade


    leaveiton wrote: »
    "Write a short story in which a character is lost at sea with only a clinometer for help"

    MacGyver could do it!


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    #5263
    reznov
    Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭reznov


    leaveiton wrote: »
    "Write a short story in which a character is lost at sea with only a clinometer for help"

    I gasped - the torrent of waves oscillated me as though I was drift wood. Beyond the horizon I could see neither a ship nor land. Prayers surged to my mind regaining a long lost faith in religion and its belief in an omnipotent being. My eyes scanned the vast expanse of water in anguish, when to my surprise a clinometer bobbed not more than ten feet away. At that point I knew Divine Providence existed. I shouldn't have prayed to God, but instead the SEC who taught me to utilise the apparatus. In the mock I obtained an A1 in project Maths, excelling in trigonometry and use of measuring appurtenances. Traversing with pace across the ocean, I grasped the clinometer and began frantically measuring the angle of the horizon to ensure I was sane. Unfortunately it was 180 degrees - I was not in a nightmare. I was fūcked.


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    #5264
    c28omzk7ihsxv0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 878 ✭✭✭c28omzk7ihsxv0


    I heard on the radio they are going to make the essay choices much more specific/different so people can't just spiel off learnt stuff.


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    #5265
    Togepi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,813 ✭✭✭Togepi


    Whoever was asking about quotes - you don't need them for the comparative, one or two is nice though. And for Hamlet you don't need loads, four or five would probably do, they're not going to dock marks for it! :) Just use a few short ones like "antic disposition" or say stuff like Gertrude's "noble son" is "mad". ;)


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    #5266
    leaveiton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭leaveiton


    reznov wrote: »
    I gasped - the torrent of waves oscillated me as though I was drift wood. Beyond the horizon I could see neither a ship nor land. Prayers surged to my mind regaining a long lost faith in religion and its belief in an omnipotent being. My eyes scanned the vast expanse of water in anguish, when to my surprise a clinometer bobbed not more than ten feet away. At that point I knew Divine Providence existed. I shouldn't have prayed to God, but instead the SEC who taught me to utilise the apparatus. In the mock I obtained an A1 in project Maths, excelling in trigonometry and use of measuring appurtenances. Traversing with pace across the ocean, I grasped the clinometer and began frantically measuring the angle of the horizon to ensure I was sane. Unfortunately it was 180 degrees - I was not in a nightmare. I was fūcked.

    A2, marks docked for inappropriate language.


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    #5267
    Eathrin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    In a pickle?


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    #5268
    Cruel Sun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭Cruel Sun


    do you need a quote from a critic for poetry/hamlet


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    #5269
    reznov
    Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭reznov


    leaveiton wrote: »
    A2, marks docked for inappropriate language.

    We'll see if my trusty clinometer can fix that.


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    #5270
    leaveiton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭leaveiton


    Project maths has taught me that clinometers are the solution to all life's problems.


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    #5271
    FaoiSin
    Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭FaoiSin


    reznov wrote: »
    We'll see if my trusty clinometer can fix that.

    I added a tag for you reznov. I think you'll approve.


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    #5272
    c28omzk7ihsxv0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 878 ✭✭✭c28omzk7ihsxv0


    Would it be wise to use aryan language in your essay? Or would it just seem try-hard and confuddle the examiner?


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    #5273
    reznov
    Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭reznov


    YeaaahFaoiSin wrote: »
    I added a tag for you reznov. I think you'll approve.

    What does the tag say? :(


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    #5274
    Togepi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,813 ✭✭✭Togepi


    reznov wrote: »
    What does the tag say? :(

    I'm assuming it's "625 or gtfo". :D


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    #5275
    Dwellingdweller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 825 ✭✭✭Dwellingdweller


    The funny thing is there are at least a few people on this forum who are going to get all A1s. :pac:


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    #5276
    Eathrin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    Craig Mealy Couch wrote: »
    Would it be wise to use aryan language in your essay? Or would it just seem try-hard and confuddle the examiner?

    Do as you like, I'm writing in Wingdings.


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    #5277
    reznov
    Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭reznov


    Togepi wrote: »
    I'm assuming it's "625 or gtfo". :D

    I think that's been there before! Have seen it in previous refreshes anyway.


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    #5278
    Fergus_
    Registered Users Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Fergus_


    Is it just me or is anyone else actually interested in Sylvia's Plath poetry.

    I love it! I really hope she comes up


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    #5279
    Cruel Sun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭Cruel Sun


    Fergus_ wrote: »
    Is it just me or is anyone else actually interested in Sylvia's Plath poetry.

    I love it! I really hope she comes up

    The only one I like.


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    #5280
    leaveiton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭leaveiton


    Fergus_ wrote: »
    Is it just me or is anyone else actually interested in Sylvia's Plath poetry.

    I love it! I really hope she comes up

    Yep! I'm not just hoping she comes up because she's likely, I'm hoping she's up because I love her poetry!


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    #5281
    Joey.
    Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭Joey.


    I know it's nice of people so I shouldn't really complain, but all the good luck cards, phone calls and people calling to the door to say good luck is really unnerving me :o


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