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So we've been saying this for a while now that we should start a thread to put notes/phrases etc.I finally took it upon myself to start one seeing as we've been putting up a lot of notes here and there on different things so it's time to get them all together in one place beause I will never be able to find them come June.

So just throw up anything that you think will be useful on any of the JC subjects; English, Irish, French, religion, business, geography, whatever.

It's also another reason to be on boards - what it is study:p.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Closing of Novel

Resolution of plots

· We finally meet Boo Radley
· W learn that he should not be prejudiced and that the gossip and rumours that we have heard about him are untrue
· The novel comes full circle as we learn how Jem broke his arm
· Scout realises that Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are both innocent men and compares them to mockingbirds who do no harm “but sing their hearts out for us”
· Scout sees that she herself, Jem and Dill were prejudiced towards Boo Radley in the same way that Maycomb were prejudiced towards Tom Robinson – she sees that they were both unfairly treated

Tension

· conversation between Scout, Atticus and Heck Tate
· Heck Tate feels that it would be unfair to put Boo Radley in the spotlight by saying that he killed Bob Ewell
· Heck Tate says that Bob Ewell fell on his knife and killed himself
· Scout agrees with the sheriff as she too feels that “it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird” and that “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”
· Thus is a lesson that Scout has learned from her father and now it is finally being repaid to him
· Scout teaches her father the lesson he once taught her

3. Scout’s Development

· Shows great maturity as she teaches Atticus his own lesson that accusing Boo Radley would “be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird”
· She shows great maturity when she allows Boo Radley to lead her to his house instead of her leading him = she protects his pride and standing in the community
· She understands that she has to act within society’s expectations of her
· We see that she is still a little girl, even after all that she has been through = we see her climbing onto Atticus’ lap and being read to sleep by him
· She is able to put herself in Boo Radley’s shoes in order to understand the sheriff
· She realises that she can act in her own way and remain true to herself while inside her house but she can project a ladylike appearance on the outside – just as Alexandra did when told about Tom Robinson’s death
· She sees that white lies are acceptable in order to protect a certain person – at start Atticus tells her that they will keep reading if she stays in school, so she won’t embarrass Miss Caroline – white lie about Bob Ewell falling on his knife in order to protect Boo Radley.

bluejay14

An Tigh Nua - Seán Mac Fheorais

Tá Séan Mac Fheorais sean anois agus tá sé ag feachaint siar ar a shaol. Nuair a phós sé i dtosach, bhí saol crua go leor aige féin agus ag a bhean chéile. Bhí a lán páistí acu agus bhí said an-sona mar chlann. Ach bhí a detach róbheag don méid sin daoine.
Théastaigh ó Shéan saol níos fearr a thabhairt dá chlann agus chuir sé airgead i dtaisce ar feadh i bhfad. Nuair a bhí go leor airgid aige, thóg sé teach mór a raibh a lán seomraí ann.
Ach obair in aisce a bhí ann, mar d’fhás a chlann suas agus tá said imithe. Anois tá sé féin agus a bhean ina n-aonar sa teah mór folamh agus tá said uaigneach.

Cuireann sé pictiúr truamhéalach os ár gconhair de sheanfhear uaigneach agus é ag féachaint siar ar na seanlaethanta nuair a bhí sé sona.
Tá codarsnacht mhór sa dán idir an chéad véarsa agus an dara véarsa: Sa chéad vearsa feicimid lánúin óg agus a gclann mheidhreach ina gcónaí i detach beag plódaithe.Sa dara véarsa feicimid lánúin aosta uaigneach ina gcónaí i detach mór folamh.
Tá pictiúr an-mhaith sa chéad véarsa den saol crua a bhí ag Séan agus a bhean nuair a bhí said ina lánúin óg. Conas a chuireann sé é seo in iúl? Bhuel, úsáideann sé caint fhileata chun pictiúir éifeachtach a tharraingt dúinn de shaol na lánúine.
Ní úsáideann sé an focal saol sa dán ar chor ar bith! Tugann sé “an bóthar sléibhe” air. Meafar is ea é seo agus oibríonn sé go han-mhaith. Cén fáth, meas tú? Bhuel, rud casta crua is ea bóthar sléibhe, agus rud casta crua is ea an saol!
Chomh maith leis seo ní úsáideann Séan an focal “siúl”. “Ag tuirsiú” a deir sé. (Déanann sé briathar as an bhfocal “tuirse”) Caint fhileata is ea í seo arís agus tá sé an-éifeachtach mar tugann sé blas dúinn den chineál saol a bhí ag Séan ina óige.
Músclaíonn an dán seo brón agus trua sa léitheoir mar insíonn sé scéal an-truamhéalach. Ach cuireann an dán ag smaoineamh muid faoi shaol an duine freisin.
Céard atá le foghlaim ón dán seo? Bheul, léiríonn sé dúinn gurb iad an ghrá agus an comhluadar na rud is tábhachtaí sa saol. Is cuma cé chomh mór agus do theach, agus is cuma cé chomh saibhir is atá tú, mura bhfuil grá agus comhluadar agat, ní bheidh tú sona.
Is léir gur duine grámhar é an file. Is duine díograiseach é freisin mar nuair a bhí sé óg, d’oibrigh sé go dian dícheallach chun saol maith a fháil dá chlann.

bluejay14

Duilleoga ar an Life - Seamus Ó Néill

Is dán álainn gleoite é seo. Chuir duilleoga ildaite an Fomhair gliondar chroí ar an bhfile nuair a chonaic sé iad ag imeachet le sruth ar abhainn na Life i gceartlár Bhaile Átha Cliath.

Ar lá mar seo d’fhéadfá a rá go mbeadh na sráideanna dubh dorcha duairc ach thug ildaiteachas na duilleoga beocht is beatha is bua arís don chathair is don nádúr. Cuireann sé gliondar chroí is áthas ar an bhfile bheith ag féachaint orthu.
Sa dara véarsa feictear pictiúir soiléir gléineach anseo de sna duilleoga seo ar na crainn sa samhradh. Arís mothaítear seasamhacht an nadúr ag cothú na beatha anseo. Tá rím deas idir an focal deirneach i líne 2 agus an focal deirneach i líne 4. Tá uaim ann “cuibhreann is coillte”. Chuir na duilleoga seo an file ag smaoineamh. Spreag said é chun dán a chumadh.
Ar lá le solas íseal mar atá ann inniu tugann na duilleoga seo ardú meanman dó agus iad cosúil le dóchas agus solas an tsamhraidh ag gluaiseacht trí shráideanna dorcha duairc Bhaile Átha Cliath. Is cumhachtach na seoda iad seo ag “iompar na h-áilleachta” trí shráideanna na cathrach. Is féidir beag beann a dhéanamh díobh agus cintíonn an file nach dtarlódh a léithéid anseo leis an dán tíosach speagúil seo.

WanderingSoul

Wow Áine, you've been busy! :eek:

bluejay14

WanderingSoul wrote: »

Wow Áine, you've been busy! :eek:

I've had them there for ages but for somereason never put them up but now it's time to get them up with only 3/4 weeks left (:() to get them learned.

All that's left to do is start to study them.

Kyromancer

bluejaymraz, thanks for the notes on To Kill A Mockingbird. Do you have any sample answers for a thematic question? It would be much appreciated.

I'll see if I can post up a few sample People In History answers soon...

Kyromancer

This is my own answer - I'd appreciate if someone could tell me what grade I'd get for this, and how it could be improved.

People In History - Christoper Columbus.
Christopher Columbus was an explorer during the Age of Exploration. He was born in Genoa, Italy, and he had a passion for sailing.

Columbus believed the world was flat, and he wanted to sail west to Asia. He was sponsored by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, after he was turned away by Portugal. He was given three ships - the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. They were caravels, which were clinker-built making them strong enough to sail across the world, and they had square and lateen sails for sailing with and against the wind, respectively. In August 1492, Columbus departed Palos, Spain, before stopping in the Canary Islands to stock up on food and supplies.

Life on board the ships was tough. The sailors got only one hot meal a day, cooked in a firebox. They usually eat ship's biscuit, meat, cheese, dried peas, and fish. The sailors often suffered from scurvy - a gum disease which caused the gums to bleed and rot, resulting from a lack of vitamin C. They used a compass for direction, a quadrant to figure out their latitude, and a log and line to measure their speed.

Columbus kept two logbooks on the voyage - one true logbook for himself, and another "fake" logbook for his crew. His crew were getting worried that they had gone too far and would not find any land, and would not be able to find their way home. Columbus said the birds they saw were a sign that land was close, but he had to promise to return home if they did not find land within a few days.

In October 1492, Columbus landed at San Salvador, in the Bahama Islands. He later went on to explore Hispanolia and Cube. Columbus thought he had discovered Japan, but was surprised not to find any of the great cities that Marco Polo had described.

The Santa Maria ran aground, and the crew used the wood to build a fort - El Navidad. Columbus left forty men at the fort, and returned home to Spain.

He returned to Palos, and later to the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in Barcelona. Columbus had found a new continent, and as a result Spain had become very wealthy, and Columbus was rewarded richly. The voyage also led to the spread of Spanish culture, and Christianity.

KarZx

If anyone has any notes of romeo and juliet and Of mice and men would really help

Closed ac

Kyromancer, you'd probably get 16-18/20 for that. You should include a little detail about his reaction when he returned, other voyages, relations with the natives, search for wealth and dying a dissapointed man.

Otherwise, excellent!

patakadarragh

one thing kyro.......columbus knew the earth was round he wanted to sail west around the world to asia....if he reckoned the world was flat he wouldnt have sailed west for the fear he would go over the edge.

Moi!

Does anyone have any notes on summer of my german soldier??

mista_2k10

Anyone have any good geography notes or know of a good wesite that does??

kevin12345

mista_2k10 wrote: »

Anyone have any good geography notes or know of a good wesite that does??

not great but ok

http://www.skoool.ie/homeworkzone_jc.asp?id=2677

Anro

mista_2k10 wrote: »

Anyone have any good geography notes or know of a good wesite that does??

our teacher gave us some good geography notes is there any perticular section your looking for?

mista_2k10

kevin12345 wrote: »

not great but ok

http://www.skoool.ie/homeworkzone_jc.asp?id=2677

Thanks but ive looked through those before but there a bit too long and complicated

...

mista_2k10

Anro wrote: »

our teacher gave us some good geography notes is there any perticular section your looking for?

Well.... pretty much everything but particularly the population section...

Lukeyy

Funeral Blues

By W.H Auden

Background:
This poem was written by W.H Auden in the reaction to the death of a very close friend. The poem is extremely popular and famous. It is often used at funerals and was most famously used in the movie “Four Weddings and a Funeral”.
One of the characters recited the poem at the funeral of his friend.

Theme:
Theme of death, the poet describes his reaction to the death of his very close friend. The poet feels that his life is not worth living anymore because of his friends death.

“The stars are not wanted now, put out everyone. For nothing now can come to any good”

The poet wants everything in the world to stop. He orders in the opening stanza that;

“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone”, “Prevent the dog from barking”

The poet is stunned and deeply shocked by his death. It’s clear that he was very close to his friend.

“He was my North, my South, my East and West”

He is very emotional when he says:

“I thought love would last forever, I was wrong”

Death is viewed very negatively in this poem and the poem suggests that there is no life for those who remain, after the person has died.

“Pack up the moon, and dismantle the sun”

I find the image of death very depressing in this poem, because the poet suggests that there is no hope.

Tone/Mood:
In the first two stanzas, the poet orders that life should stop. He demands that the clocks, telephone, piano be stopped, so that the coffin and the mourners can come. The poet is very upset and angry in those stanzas.

“Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead scribbling on the sky, the message He Is Dead”

The third stanza of the poem conveys a different tone. The poet is emotionally upset and reveals how deeply he loved his friend.

“He was my North, my South, my East and West”

The tone also reveals the poets bitterness. He thought love would last forever but

“I was wrong”

The poet is in a hopeless and depressed mood in the final stanza. He paints a picture of the world where there are no stars, moon, sun, sea, or land - where there is NOTHING. His despair and deep depression is seen in the final line.

“for nothing now can come to any good”

Structure:
The poet comprises 4 stanzas with four lines in each one. This combined with the regular end of line rhyme gives the poem a steady rhythm and even structure.

End of Line Rhyme:
The end of line 1 & 2, line 3 & 4 rhyme in every stanza.
Telephone/bone, Drum/come, Overheard/dead, Doves/gloves, West/rest, Song/wrong, One/sun, Wood/good.
I like the rhyme scheme in this poem, and it makes the poem easy to read aloud.

Visual Imagery:
The poet uses some very striking visual images.

“pack up the moon”, “dismantle the sun”, “policemen wear black cotton gloves”

Aural Imagery:
The imagery in this poem not only appeals to the eye but also to the ear. In stanza one there are many wonderful aural images.

“clocks”, “telephone”, “dog barking”, “ silence the piano”, “muffled drum”

Metaphors:
The poem is also remarkable for its use of striking metaphors. Stanza 3 is most notable, the poet uses series of metaphors to describe the depth of his love for his dead friend.
He describes his friend as “my working week and my Sunday rest”. I think he is suggesting here that he spent all his time with his friend.
He also describes him as “my North, my South, my East and West”. This is a very unusual metaphor, again highlighting how much his friend meant to him.

“My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song”

Hope they help

Lukeyy

1918 - 1933

Adolf Hitler was born in Austria but moved to Germany to fight for them in WWI . When Germany signed the surrender in 1918, Hitler was in hospital and it angered him greatly. He, like many other Germans disagreed and called the politicians who signed it the November Criminals.
Germany then was run by a new government called the Weimer Republic. It was very unpopular with the people. Meanwhile, Hitler became leader of the Nazi party. He disagreed with the way the governmentt were running the country so he planned a revolution. This was known as the Munich Putsch. He failed though and he was jailed for 5 months. While in jail, he wrote a book with all his beliefs called Mein Kampf. Some of his beliefs were:
He hated Jews, and blamed them for all Germany’s problems
He dispised communism also
Germany needed lebensraum (living space)
He believed a group of humans were superior, known as the Aryan race
In 1929, the Wall St. Crash caused huge problems all over the world. In Germany, unemployment rose from 1,000,000 in 1929 to 6,000,000 in 1932. This put huge pressure on the government and led to lots of people hating them.
All the time, Hitler’s Nazi party were growing and by 1933 were the biggest party in Germany. Eventually, in 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. This was the equvilant of being Prime Minister.
He could now go about implementing his policies in Germany:
Break up the Treaty of Versailles
Cleanse the nation of inferior people like the Jewish
Improve the economy
Hitler also began to use propaganda to make people believe his ideas.

Not too much his early life really

Lukeyy

When You Are Old

By W.B Yeats

Themes:
1. Unrequited Love - Yeats was passionately in love with Maud Gonne, for her beauty and her inner qualities.

“one man loved the pilgrim soul in you”

But she rejected him many times. In this poem, Yeats imagines Maud as an old woman, reflecting back on her life and loves. He hopes that she will realise how much he loved her, he loved her the most - “Sorrow” of her “changing face”
Yeats points out that many men only loved her for her beauty - “false love”.

2. Old Age -Yeats highlights the theme of old age by imagining what Maud will look like

“old”, “grey”, “nodding by the fire”

He imagines that she will be a lonely old woman if she doesn’t accept his love NOW.

“Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled and paced upon the mountains overhead”

Tone/Mood:
There is a very personal intimate tone in this poem. Yeats adresses Maud as ‘you’ - he is speaking directly to her.
Loving tone in the poem where Yeats expresses his love for her - “loved the pilgrim soul”
Tone of sadness and loneliness as the old woman reflects on her beauty and youth that has passed.

“Soft look your eyes had once”

Final stanza, the tone is very sad, lonely as the woman realises that love has gone forever, it is now hidden in the mountains & stars. She can see it but never touch it.

Alliteration:
The use of alliteration, adds to the pace and mood of the poem, making it memorable.
sleep, soft (Stanza 1)
glad, grace (Stanza 2)
bending, beside, bars (Stanza 3)

End of Line Rhyme:
1st & 4th line and 2nd and 3rd line rhyme in every stanza.

Imagery:
Images of - Old Age - Old Maud
- Beauty - Young Maud
- Fire - Passion

Personification:
Love is seen as a living person, a man who “hid his face”

Lukeyy

Across The Barricades

The novel has an interesting opening. Sadie meets up with Kevin after 3 years. They go for coffee and catch up on the latest news. However, it is not simply a case of 2 old friends meeting up for a chat. Sadie and Kevin live in war torn Belfast and are from opposite ends of the religious divide. Prtestant and Catholic.
Hints of the conflict are given in the first chapter, description of “burnt cars, buses and armoured vehicles”. Tension on the streets. Our curiosity is arisen because we the readers want to see, if it will get any worse, or if it will affect the lives of Sadie and Kevin.
Also, in the opening chapter, Kevin and Sadie decide to renew their friendship, there is even a hint of romance. The reader is in SUSPENCE, it is a dangerous relationship, because of their different backgrounds.
“They were embarking on something dangerous” The reader wants to go on, and find out what happens next, and how the relationship will work out.

Novel Ending:
After all the trouble, conflicts, Kevin decides to leave Belfast.

“I’ve got to go away, I can’t stay here any longer, I’m sick of bombs”

The reader welcomes his decision, because we feel sorry for him, after all that has happened.
The ending of the novel is emotional/upsetting in one way, as we see him ‘say farewell’ to all of his family. We wonder will we see them again.
Brede meets him, and again it is sad to see her saying goodbye to him.

“Well, Kevin, I’ll miss you”

The ending works well also, because the final strands of the plot are tied up. Kate Kelly turns up and tells Kevin that “she was sorry”. She admits that she “made a mistake about the box” (of ammunition). Kate reveals that it was Brian Rafferty; who forced her to lie about the box.

“I wouldn’t have told the lie otherwise”

Once more, we the readers, see how horrible Rafferty was and we are happy that Kevin is getting away from him at last.

“It was all of it behind him now, Kate and Brian Rafferty and the beatings up and the bombs”

The reader is happily surprised again, on the final page of the novel, when Sadie turns up at the docks. It’s very exciting when she reveals that she is going with Kevin. He isa pleasantly surprised aswell.

“That’s the best news I had in months”

Although the novel contained much suffering, pain and conflict, it has a happy ending. Kevin and Sadie walk hand in hand, to the “while waiting ship”. We feel that they have the chance of a new, trouble-free life, in England.

Lukeyy

Base Details

By Siegfreid Sassoon

Theme:
Anti-war poem. The poet is angry at the officers, (majors, generals, colonels) the higher reanks in the army who had privileged lives,

“guzzling and gulping in the best hotels”

While the young soldiers fought at the front line and lost their lives, in World War 1.

“Reading the roll of honour; poor young chap”

Thousands of young men lost their lives, while the officers,

“Toddle safely home and die - in bed”

Tone/Mood:
Sassoon is bitter and angry at the officers. He mocks them, their appearance.

“fat”, “bald”, “short of breath”, “puffy petulant faces”

The tone is extremely ironic. He speaks in the tone of an army major, or pretending he wants to be one. This allows him to show us what the army majors are like.

“speed glum heroes up the line to death”

Pun:
‘Base’ Details. There is a pun on the word, ‘Base’. Base can mean ‘army base’, ‘headquarters’ or base also refers to something that is inferior, unworthy, low standard. Sassoon is suggesting that the army majors are base, base in character, unworthy people.

Rhyme:
Regular end of line rhyme pattern. Every second line rhymes - breath/death, base/face, dead/bed, chap/scrap.
Rhyme adds to the meaning of the poem.

Alliteration:
Reading/Roll/ - rolling sound - indicates all who died in the war.

Onomatopoeia:
“guzzling”, “gulping” indicates that the officers are only interested in drinking, only having a good time.

Imagery:
Unattractive visual images of the majors.

“scarlet majors”, “puffy petulant face”

Lukeyy

This is info on cloths of heaven by w.b yeats followed by a compare and contrast between cloths of heaven and when u are old both by w.b yeats

The Cloths Of Heaven

By W.B Yeats

　
Theme:
In this short sweet lyric poem, the poet W.B Yeats expresses his deep love for Maud Gonne. Yeats fell madly in love with Maud Gonne, and he was in love with her, all his life. However, it was not a happy love story for Yeats.
In this beautiful poem, Yeats points out that if he had all the riches (money) in the world

“Had I the heaven’s embroidered cloths”

He would give them to her, because he loves her so much.

“I would spread the cloths under your feet”

However, Yeats points out to his beloved that he is just a poor poet, who does not have any material wealth.

“But I being poor”

Because he is not rich, he offers to give her, his dreams instead.

“Have only my dreams”

In many ways, giving her his dreams,

“I have spread my dreams under your feet”

Is far more significant, more important than giving her material wealth, or gifts. In giving her his dreams, he is giving her a very IMPORTANT PART OF HIMSELF. Therefore, he is showing how much in love she is.

“I have spread my dreams under your feet”

I think it is more important that Yeats is prepared to give his most important wishes, hopes(dreams) to Maud Gonne.
It is worth noting that W.B Yeats is also afraid that Maud Gonne may hurt him, or reject his offer.

“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams”

He warns her to treat him, and his dreams with care, because he realises she has the power to hurt him.
This is interesting because we know that Maud Gonne did not return Yeats’ love. She did not feel the same way about him.
This is called UNREQUITED LOVE (one person doesn’t return the love). Perhaps Yeats was aware of this, when he wrote this love poem.
In the last line of the poem, he is not very confident about this love.
Tone/Mood:
The poem is very emotional and Yeats expresses his love.
At the opening of this short lyric, Yeats is in a wishful mood. He wishes (hopes) that he had the ‘heaven’s embroidered’ cloth.
His tone changes to one of acceptance, when he realises that he is “only poor” and could never afford to give her anything expensive.

“But I being poor”

The poet is in a very loving/romantic mood when he offers to

“Spread my dreams under your feet”

His tone dramatically changes again in the final line, when he becomes afraid, insecure, and warns her, not to treat him badly.

“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams”

He accepts that he is very much in love but that she can hurt him.
Metaphor:
The title of this poem, and indeed the image of “heaven’s embroidered cloths” is a metaphor for the wealth, material riches of this world, money, gifts.
Extended Metaphor:
The metaphor of the cloths is spread throughout the poem.
Line 1 - “cloths”
Line 3 - “dark cloths”
Line 5 - “spread the cloths”
Line 7 - “spread my dreams”
Visual Imagery:
The poem is rich in vibrant visual imagery. The poet creates a beautiful vivid picture of the “embroidered cloths”
He uses colour, light and shade to suggest its brilliance. He refers to;

“golden and silver light”
“blue, dim, dark cloths”
“night, light, half-light”

End Of Line Rhyme:
The poet creates a very effective and striking end of line rhyme with repetition of the SAME WORDS at the end of the lines
Line 1 & 3 - “cloths”
Line 2 & 4 - “lights”
Line 5 & 7 - “feet”
Line 6 & 8 - “dreams”

Internal Rhyme:
The poet uses internal rhyme and assonance (vowel rhyme) very strikingly in the line,
“Of night, light, and the half light”

Run On Lines:
Line 3 runs very effectively into line 4.

Alliteration:
“dim” “dark” (D sound)
“softly” “dreams” (S sound)

Assonance:
There is a dominant use of a broad ‘o’ sound throughout the poem.
“cloths” “of” “poor” “only” “softly”
This slows down the rhythm of the poem.
Also ‘I’ sounds - “night” “light” “I”

He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven

Compare and Contrast

When You Are Old

The Cloths Of Heaven:
In this poem W.B Yeats is expressing his love for Maud Gonne.
He wishes he had all the riches in the world.

“Had I the heavens embroidered cloths”

To share with her, so that he could show her how much he loved her. He basically wishes for a piece of heaven, something that no one else could ever give her, to make her realise he would do anything to make her love him He wanted to give her something unique and impossible.

“Had I the heavens embroidered cloths”
“I would spread the cloths under your feet”

However, Yeats is only poor and doesn’t have much to offer.

“But I being poor”

What he is offering is his dreams, which may not be all the riches or “heaven’s embroidered cloths” but they are special to him and it is a very personal and hard thing to do, offering someone your dreams.

“I have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet, Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams”

When You Are Old:
In ‘The Cloths Of Heaven’ the theme is offering her all he has, and showing his love for her.
In ‘When You Are Old’ the theme is different. Yeats seems a lot more bitter towards Maud. In my opinion, ‘The Cloths Of Heaven’ shows Yeats offering himself to Maud, in a hope that she will accept him. He warns her not to hurt him “Tread softly” in ‘When You Are Old’ Yeats has no more hope of Maud accepting him, he is not offering himself anymore now. He is now trying to make her realise that what she has done is a big mistake and he warns that she will regret rejecting him.

“Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face, amid a crowd of stars”

He is saying because she has rejected him, when she is old, by the time she regrets it, Love will have already passed and it will be unreachable.

“And hid his face amid a crowd of stars”

The stars are unreachable.

In ‘Cloths Of Heaven’ the main theme is Love, but in ‘When You Are Old’ the main theme is Unrequited Love.

leemurta

Any chance of some spanish notes about the different tenses? it seems to be only french here.:D

AtomicDictator

Here are some helpful German notes which seem to be missing from the thread (:

Useful Verbs

AtomicDictator

Meine Schule
Meine schule heist _____ ==>My school is called ______
Es ist eine Gesamtschule ==>It is a comprehensive school
Es ist eine gemischte Schule mit ungefahr (X) Schülern und (Y) Lehrerin ==> It is a mixed school with about (X number of) pupils and (Y number of) teachers.
Die Schule beginnt um funf vor neun täglich ==> The school begins at around 5 to 9 daily
Die erste Stunde beginnt um neun Uhr ==>The first period begins at 9 o’clock
Eine Stunde dauert vierzig minuten ==> A class lasts 40 minutes
Ich become immer schlecht/gute Noten ==> I get terrible/good grades (test scores)
Mein Lieblingsfach ist ____ ==> My favourite subject is _____
Ich finde die Uniform furchtbar ==> I find the uniform horrible
Es ist unbequem und altmodisch ==> It is uncomfortable and old-fashioned
Wir tragen ein Uniform ==> We wear a uniform
Wir haben zwei Pauzen täglich ==> We have two breaks every day
Die erste Pauze dauert 15 Minuten und die zweite Pauze dauert 30 Minuten ==> The first break lasts 15 minutes and the second break lasts 30 minutes.

Fächer (Subjects)
Irisch ==> Irish
Englisch ==> English
Geschichte ==> History
Erdkunde ==> Geography
Mathematik ==> Maths
Naturnwischenschaften ==> Science (All three sciences)
Deutsch ==> German
Technikal Graphik ==> Technical Graphics

Anro

Okay here is some geography notes on population

Demography is the sudy of population.

1 Population density
this is the number of people per square kilometer. It is an average figure.

2 Population distribution
This is the way that population is spread out accross the land. It can be evenly or unevenly spread. e.g the population in Ireland is uneven, the west have few people and dublin has a very high population.

3 Population Patterns
The are the order or shape the population makes. There are three basic patterns.
(a) nucleated or clustered.
This is where people live in one area e.g towns are a nucleated settlement.

(b) Linear or ribboned
This is where people live in a line along the side of a road or a river e.g. the river Rhine has lead a linear pattern of cities along its banks.

How does the population grow?
More babies born than people dieing causes the population to grow it is called natural change.

what effects the total population in an area?
Migration
This changes the distribution of world population. Mirgration causes an increase of population in countries where people go to. e.g Ireland. However Migration does not effect world population

What is birth rate?
This is when we count live births per thousand per year. So if there were 20 births per thousand people it would be 2% (20/1000 = 2/100 = 2%)

What is death rate?
It is counting the number of deaths per thousand per year. e.g 10 deaths per thousand (10/1000 = 1/100 = 1%)

How do I get natural change?
I subtract the deaths from the births. If there are more births we have a natural increase but if there are more deaths we have a natural decrease.

Population growth
Population Growth is not the same throughout the world. First world countries like Germany and France have negative growth were as third world countries like India and Brazil have a Population explosion.

Why are there large pupulation in the worlds poorest counties?
Modern Medicine like vaccinations have helped lower the death rate
Clean Water By sinking a well in a village which provides clean water can have a dramatic effect on the death rate. The biggest killer of babies in the third world today is dehydration from diarrhoea.

What are the stages of Population growth?
This is the predictable changes that the population of a country will go through:
1 High stationary stage
Birth and death rates are high little change in population. Third world.
2 Early expanding stage
Birth rate remains high and the death rate falls rapidly. Developing world.Population explosion occurs here.
3 Late expanding stage
The death rate remains low. Birth rate falls rapidly, population growth begins to slow down.
4 Low stationary stage
The birth rate remains low, death rate is still very low, low population growth.
5 Senile stage
Birth rate falls below death rate. Population decrease. e.g. Germany

(sorry couldn't find graph with senile stage)

I have some more notes to do with why some areas have high or low population that i can get for you but that is most of my population growth.

leemurta

Any chance of notes on industrial revolution, for Q5 on history paper?

mista_2k10

Those are great geography notes...... thanks

kevin12345

Just a few notes our teacher gave us for unseen poetry and prose. She said we can have answers actually prepared before we go in, even if we can't understand the poem. For example, if a question says "Do you like this poem? Why/why not?" You can have an answer prepared saying you like the poets style/use of personification/metaphors etc.

Irish Prose and Poetry notes:

IRISH

ENGLISH

Is é mo thuairim

In my opinion

Feictear dom

It seems to me

I dtús báire

Firstly

Tagaim

I agree with

Ceapaim

I think

Is cosúil go bhfuil an dán seo

It seems that the poem is

Ar an taobh eile

On the other hand

Ar chuma ar bith

Anyway

Ar ndóigh

Of course

Go háirthe

Especially

Go bhfios dom

As far as I know

Is bocht an scéal é

It’s a sad story

Is beag é mo mheas air

I don’t think much of it

Tá a fhios ag an saol

Everybody knows

Ar deireadh thiar

Finally

Dar leis an ___

According to the ___

Ní bhíonn in aon rud ach seal

Nothing lasts forever

Sa chéad/dara/triú alt

In the first/second/third paragraph

Léiríonn an t-údar dúinn

The author shows us

Creideann sé/sí

He/she believes that

Luann an scríbhneoir

The writer mentions

Déanann an t-údar cur síos ar

The author describes

Tá go leor fianaise sa sliocht

There is plenty of evidence in the passage

Mar gheall ar

About

Is féidir leat ionannú leis an pearsa

You can identify with the character

Tréithe na phearsanna

Traits of the characters

Amadán

Fool

Cancrán

Cranky

Slíbhín

Sly person

Meatachán

Coward

Teideal an dáin

Title of the poem

Téama an dáin

Theme of the poem

Sa chéad/dara/tríú véarsa

In the 1st/2nd/3rd verse

Stíl an fhile

Style of the poet

Casta

Complicated

Corraitheach

Exciting

Cumhactach

Powerful

Dearfach

Positive

Diúltach

Negative

Dramatúil

Dramatic

Éifeachtach

Effective

Dea-scríofa

Well-written

Gruama

Gloomy

Maoithneach

Sentimental

Nua-aimseartha

Modern

Readúil

Realistic

Seanfhaiseanta

Old fashioned

Lúcháir

Joy

Teannas

Tension

Naire

Embarrassment

Trua

Pity

Is breá liom an cur síos ar …

I love the description of...

Tá an file ag caint faoi

The poet is talking about

Luann an file

The poet mentions

Thaitin an dán seo go mór liom

I really liked the poem

Áibhéil

Exaggeration

meafar

metaphor

Pearsantú

personification

Blas an dáin

tone of the poem

Kyromancer

DKZ wrote: »

Kyromancer, you'd probably get 16-18/20 for that. You should include a little detail about his reaction when he returned, other voyages, relations with the natives, search for wealth and dying a dissapointed man.

Otherwise, excellent!

Cheers! That's good enough for me for my Summer Tests, but I'll see if I can improve it for next year.

patakadarragh wrote: »

one thing kyro.......columbus knew the earth was round he wanted to sail west around the world to asia....if he reckoned the world was flat he wouldnt have sailed west for the fear he would go over the edge.

Yeah, thanks for pointing that out. It was just a typo, thanks.