retreat from the global (1 Viewer)

[captnpornstar]

hey everyone!

what did you all think about this year's retreat question? Is it just me, or were two parts to the question? One about how the composers celebrate the local, but the other about how they dont adopt a sentimental nostalgic approach to it?

And what did the question mean by how compelling the "retreat from the global" as a response to a difficult world?

i dont think i've answered the question. AHHHHH!!! I just re-wrote my practice essay on the relationship between global and local.

How about everyone else?

 

[CoYLiE]

IT'S OVER!!!

i thought it was asking about 10 different things... well actually 6...
1) the ambiguity addressed in "one way or another"
2) turning from the global
3) celebration of the the local
4) "sometimes" and "sentimenality"
5) How compelling is 'retreat from the global'
6) response to a difficult world...

and i guess having to address all of those things in regard to each of the texts you did was a bit much 2 do in 1 hour

it was bigger than the catholic trial.. yet not as difficult for some reason because it was pretty straight forward...

the creative one was pretty easy... it was exactly the same as our mid year exam and last assessment task!!

so all in all i guess it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be... at least it wasn't writers have legs, ears, eyes, noses, mouths, arms and whatnot...

 

[captnpornstar]

yeh i thought the creative was pretty good... i did a whole globalisation debate between Laurence Hamill QC from the Castle, and right-wing conservative Francis Fukuyama.... i did a dialouge, not very imaginative but big on the different ways of thinking...

overall the paper was definitely easier than last year!

 

[bask]

re:

Yeah the paper was very good.....wasn't tricky and very straight forward.

The essay wasn't bad....I agree there were lots of parts but once I got my structure down it was all fine and my other texts ruled.....it was a bit of an effort to include all of my political, scientific, religous, philisophical and economic themes is but it was all fine...

With the creative I done an e-mail from darryl kerrigan to airlink....when you said you wrote an interview with fukuyama...i was going to do that but i thought i was only allowed to have one voice so i opted against....good one though....

 

[CoYLiE]

For my creative, I put a grown-up Bunny in the middle of an S11 Globalisation rally. So that way I was about to reflect on the past using text from the Shipping News but also have the ability to play with a whole different character... but then of course she comes to realisation that Newfoundland is home from realising that one person can only do so much... blah blah blah... utilitarianism vs. deontology...... blah blah blah.... capitalism... blah blah blah.... agnosticism.... comes back to where the house once stood and says "i'm home"... did it in short story... somewhat like the way that Keri Hulme wrote the Bone People (so with the dialogue and thought i only used half of the page so it looked like i wrote a lot!)

 

[captnpornstar]

good idea coylie... S11 protester...hmmm...

just for all interested... WTO meeting nov 14th to 15th at homebush... bring on the protests, people!!!! What a way to end the HSC!

but coylie.... what the hell is utilitarianism, deontology, agnosticism?

 

[CoYLiE]

haha... i am soooo there!

umm... well...

utilitarianism is basically the greatest good for the greatest number of people (unit)
deontology holds that the individual should come before all else
both of those came up with the philosophical paradigms (the conflict between those two is really clear in the castle i think laurence hammill even talks about utilitarianism in the high court in an objection)...

agnosticism is basically the view that there is insufficient knowledge to make decisions on the existence of god... the religious paradigm...

all in all... just some big words to impress (and hopefully confuse the hell out of) the examiners

 

[Chicken]

RETREAT FROM THE GLOBAL

The creative was good, but the critiquing was such a big question!!

I decided that cuz we only had about an hour, that I needed to focus on something less and go into LOTS of detail. I discussed issues raised in teh question, but used terminology from the quote, ie "turning from the world" and "celebrate the local". I talked about paradigm shifts of the last 50yrs creating our "difficult world" and how composers have "responded" to this by "retreating from the global".

I surprised myself and wrote this fantastic intro for it!!! Usually in exams I'm uninspired and so my writing is flat (intro usually = 1/2page), but I wrote a 1 1/2 page intro crammed with general overview and sophistocated words! woohoo!!! pulled it off!!

For my composing I wrote down my thoughts and though I were Simon having a conversation with Kerewin (The Bone People). Simon can't talk, so he writes notes, so I included those in my writing too.

 

[Zenithliza]

Did anyone have a great imbalance in content? I had like 15 pages for the critical, but could only squeeze out 7 for the creative for fear of sounding boring and repetitive.
I did a suicide letter from the father to the son in 'The Boat' by Alistair Macleod...
Overall it was tolerable I guess.. lots of bullshitting..

 

[insearchofmarks]

un-creativeness

i dont know about you guys, but i found the creative bit really really hard. im one of those non imaginative types who memorise a generic essay and write it down, and the creative question today i really wasnt prepared for. and i just couldnt write anything. i was gonna do a letter to the government from darryl kerrigan but then i really stuffed myself up by writing an argument between billy pretty and tert card!! god damn

oh well, hope i did well in advanced!!!

 

[SgtSlick]

Creative section Q5

People,
It doesnt matter what u wrote, whether it be a conversation, an argument, a story, a feature artice - whatever....It said u may be as creative as u like...PROVIDED u demostrate an understanding of the ways of thinking about rfg.
So if u didnt somehow incorporate discussion about any of:

cultural imperialism, cultural materialism, economic rationalism, breakdown of small local communities, loss of cultural identity, sense of isolation and dispossession, inherent harm of global paradigms, importation of philosophical and or economic pedagogies into the local culture....

In some creative sense, ie. u could have had talking about how he felt isolated in the global community back in Mockingburg etc, then u r not going to score those marks - remember the rubric for the question:

"Demonstrate iunderstanding of how particular ways of thinking have shaped and are reflected in texts" There is the money winner guys,

Oh yeah, and u had to start with "Who says your way is right?"

Best of luck...

SgtSlick

 

[Zenithliza]

Man sgtslick.. you just succeeded in making me feel a million times worse than I was...

 

[SgtSlick]

Dont worry Zenithzila - my creative part munched dick, i worte two pages of a story, scrapped iot and started in a new writing book, leaving me 30 mins to do all of q5!! So dont worry, scaling will save us all!!!

-SgtSlick

 

[Zenithliza]

Mmm... thank goodness for scaling. Scaling... beautiful scaling..

 

[SgtSlick]

and just to make u all fell better ..... hell it made me feel better.... 3 unit english marks are scaled higher than equivalent 3 unit maths marks. Which is great news coz i found three unit maths hard!! So smile english champs (ie us!) coz we are gonna whoop ass!

-SgtSlick

 

[Zenithliza]

Wooohoooooo!!!!

 

[starrrboy]

retreat from the freakin global

thank god it's over!!!!!
essay: quite long i used the shipping news the castle and 3 other related texts and wrote a lot despite the fact i didnt think the texts were particularly sentimental.
creative writing: an article for the gammy bird written by quoyle about a crusade against globalisation in newfoundland except it was more like 5 peoples points of views
oh well

 

[bask]

OK....you guys are making me feel great with all this talk of scaling....can you teel me more about scaling for extension 1 and 2....that's be great