Volume Two

• Describe the reunion – summarize this action
• Reflect on how you currently view Frankenstein and The Creature. Who is in the right?
• Explain what Frankenstein means when he says, “If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst and desire, we might nearly be free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.”

Frankenstein is traversing Mount Blanc when he is approached by The Creature.

I believe Frankenstein is in the wrong at the current moment given that he brought the creature into the world, yet failed to raise him and blamed the consequences of his failure onto the creature. He also was refusing to listen to the creature, which I feel he was obligated to do.

Volume Three

Reflect on the title: The Tell Tale Heart

A story with this title could be about someone coming clean from a crime. Perhaps their heart is beating fast due to the feeling of guilt; this sensation could convince them to come clean about their crime.

Interpreting it in a lighter way, it may be that someone is confessing their love to someone else, thus the ‘Tell Tale Heart’.

The Unreliable Gothic Narrarator

The narrarator is established in many ways as unreliable, such as when the narrarator says the old man’s heart was still beating even after they killed him. Edgar Allen Poe’s use of an unreliable narrarator is done to prove the character’s mental instability. Much of the unreliable storytelling from the narrarator actually comes from their denial of their own mental instability, since they are trying to prove to not just the reader, but also themself that they are not crazy. For example, they explained the murder of the old man was justified because of the man’s evil ‘vulture’ eye.

Research

• It is possible that the vulture eye serves as symbolism for the old man’s power over the narrarator; the old man could be a father figure or the narrarator could be their servant.
• published January 1843
• Inspired by a murder in 1830, Salem, Massachusetts, where a wealthy 83-year-old shipmaster and trader was murdered and it was suspected that his neice was the murderer.

The Setting

The setting in which the events take place is in the old man’s house. It is very dark considering that the old man was unable to see the narrarator hiding in his room. Evidence of this is the quote “his room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness”. It is mentioned that the bedroom is so dark because the old man keeps the shutters tightly shut through a fear of robbers. This can lead us to believe that the house is likely in a high-crime urban area.

Common elements of the Gothic setting in the novel

One theme of the gothic setting is elements of death/decay. One time this element is used in the novel is when describing the old man’s “vulture eye” since vultures, being scavengers, can symbolize forthcoming death.

Another gothic setting used in Edgar Allen Poe’s novel is madness. The main character in this poem is described to be in denial of their own insanity, spending most of the story trying to prove their sanity and ironically in doing so admit to commiting murder.

Furthermore, one element of a gothic setting used by Poe is mystery. This is shown by how the narrarator describes the murder of the old man with shocking detail, yet leaves the reader with many unanswered questions to ponder.

Hi, my name is Romili Townsend and today I will teach you how to teach anyone anything. Listen closely and by the end of this speech you should be able to teach people so well they’d think it was your job.

The first step is to engage your audience. You can do this by being passionate and radiating energy. This will tell your audience that you care a lot about what you are talking about and if you believe it is important then they will want to listen to find out why that is. When teaching it is important to speak in a loud yet clear voice, ensuring that you project your voice rather than shout. Once you have done this you need to give them a reason to trust your opinion. This is why you should list your achievements in the topic and back your points up with statistics and evidence. It’s even better if you can prove an opinion is backed up by an expert in the field. Using jargon, words exclusive to a specific field, will also make your audience think you know what you are talking about, but it is best to use it sparingly as you don’t want to confuse your audience as this will make them disengaged.

The next step is to choose a learning style. People use a variety of their senses to learn, but research has proven that one of the three main senses in each person is usually dominant over the others. This means that some people are visual learners and learn the most from reading how to do something or watching someone do that thing whereas others are better at listening to how it should be done, known as auditory learners. Finally, there are kinesthetic learners; these people learn best from hands-on experience and trying to do these things themselves. Deciding which of the learning styles to use should be easy if you know someone well, but if you don’t, or are teaching to a large group of people you should try to incorporate all three of these methods to ensure that no matter what sort of learning style someone prefers, you will cover it.

If you are struggling with teaching something you can try adapting your methods of teaching to suit the student. For example, if you were teaching computers to someone who knows a lot about cars then you could compare how the processor’s function is similar to an engine. Not only will connecting your speech with their interests make it easier for them to understand what you are explaining, but they will also become more interested in what you are teaching as you’ve related it to something they find interesting.

After you have taught a thing to someone and they have demonstrated that they can do it, it is important to briefly go over your points again and get them to perform the thing multiple times. You’ve probably heard the saying “practice makes perfect”. This principle has been traced back to more than 6,000 years ago for a good reason; the more we practice something the easier it is to remember. 

Those are my tips on how to teach anyone anything, and remember: The mediocre teacher tells, the great teacher inspires.

Reading Logs
Text 1: 1984 – Novel by George Orwell

This novel is set in a dystopia of London in the year 1984 in which a totalitarian government lead by a man named “Big Brother” closely surveil it citizens through telescreens. In this alternate reality the thought police prosecute anyone who thinks for themselves or does things such as owning a diary. The story follows Winston Smith, a man working at the ministry of truth, as he falls in love with a girl named Julia and they begin to conspire against the state.

Emmanuel Goldstein is an interesting character to me in that he may not even exist. Goldstein is said to be the leader of the Brotherhood (a secret organization which aims to overthrow the Party), the biggest enemy to the Party and the most dangerous man in Oceania. It is rumoured that he was once a high ranking member of the party and colleague of Big Brother, but that he rebelled against the Party by creating the Brotherhood. Despite these rumours, there is no definitive evidence of his existence. It could be that neither him nor the brotherhood exist, both being fabrications of the Party created purely to justify taking personal freedoms away from the public and also to direct the anger of the population away from the government and onto a fictitious enemy. When Winston asks O’Brien (a member of the Inner Party) if Goldstein exists he is told:
“That, Winston, you will never know. If we choose to set you free when we have finished with you, and if you live to be ninety years old, still you will never learn whether the answer to that question is Yes or No. As long as you live it will be an unsolved riddle in your mind.”
Goldstein is also interesting to me because of his similarities to Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was once a close friend of Joseph Stalin but later opposed Stalin and so was denounced as a traitor. In my opinion, this resemblance being intentional would make sense as 1984 was created as a satire of Russia during Stalin’s rule.

A message I took from this text was to be careful when valuing safety over your personal liberties and right to privacy. This is shown in the novel where telescreens are recording everything, including inside everyone’s houses. The justification for this by The Party was that it is to keep everyone safe and protect them from Goldstein, but this justification allowed them to use these things for malevolent reasons. If the Party disliked you or thought that you posed a threat to their existence then they could search through everything you had ever done until they find some crime you have committed, and then have you executed. Many things were illegal for no logical reason other than that it gave them a reason to arrest you. This message is increasingly important in today’s times as many cities are setting up security cameras on every street to reduce crime and people have devices with built in cameras and microphone sitting throughout their home. By letting the government or companies monitor us to protect us, we are giving them the ability to use these things to our detriment such as by selling our personal information to companies or arrest us over trivial things.

“Not a word of it could ever be proved or disproved. The Party claimed, for example, that today 40 per cent of adult proles were literate: before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been 15 per cent.” – This quote shows a challenge that the characters had to deal with was not having reliable information to base their opinions off. This is because the Party fabricated facts so that it made them and their allies look good, meanwhile spread lies about their enemies to make them look bad. They also made it illegal to keep a diary as this would allow people to record events that showed the Party in a negative light. I relate a lot to this because most sources of news nowadays choose to selectively report on things that promote their agenda and ignore things that disagree with their ideas, or even lie about things to make their political side or their interests look good. Put simply, they use propaganda to protect their interests just as how Big Brother in the novel uses propaganda to protect theirs.

I think titling the novel “1984” was appropriate because George Orwell wrote it as a warning of what the future could become. When Orwell first wrote the book back in 1947, totalitarianism and dictatorships were on the rise so the book was written to warn everyone of what the world may be like if these things became more widespread. The year 1984 was chosen because this would have given some time for totalitarianism to grow, as well as for the fictional atomic war that is mentioned in the novel to have happened.

I would recommend this story to anyone capable of reading. This is because this book has aged incredibly well and is continually getting more relevant as many of the things expressed in this book have become, or are becoming, a reality. For example, just as telescreens in the novel watch the public’s every move and brainwash them with propaganda, we have phones, cameras and voice assistants watching and listening to us at all times and we have news on television spreading propaganda and telling us how to live or what to believe.
Text 2: Tower of Dawn – Novel by Sarah J. Maas
This text is set in a medieval fantasy world about a warrior who has been paralysed from the waist down. He wishes to aid his allies in the war against a lord of dark magic, but is unable to due to the injury he has sustained. He travels to the kingdom of Antica in the Southern Continent to ask for their army to ally with his, also hoping to be healed by the healer of the Torre Cesme once he arrives.

One character I found interesting was Chaol Westfall. He once served as the captain of the royal guard of a king who has ordered him to commit atrocities. However, he has shown regret for what he has once done and even fought against the king in a rebellion, the events of which caused him to be partially paralysed. He is now an important figure in the war against the dark lord Erawan. What is interesting to me about this character is that he is not shown as a wholly bad person nor perfectly good person. As mentioned earlier he has done bad things and killed innocent people under the orders of a bad king, but has been redeeming himself by rebelling against the king and also now by wishing to fight for the greater good against the dark lord. I thought this makes the character interesting because it shows how people are capable of change and being better than they once were, and how despite most novels showing the protagonists as being only good, and the antagonists as only bad, this character is more realistic because they have not always acted morally.

One message I took from this text is that everybody of capable of being better than they once were. This message relates to me because I try to behave morally and learn from mistakes. Chaol Westfall admits he hasn’t always been morally in the right shown by this quote which shows his response to being asked why he allowed the king to commit wrongdoing: ““I knew,” He said quietly. “That he was doing unspeakable things.”.”

One challenge that a character faces is that of Yrene Towers. She is the only healer of the Torre Cesme gifted enough to heal Chaol Westfall of his injury, and has sworn an oath to assist those in need. Despite this, she has an internal conflict of whether or not she should assist him after learning about his dark past. Shown by the excerpt: “To decide, Chaol realized. She wanted to decide whether to help him”. I thought this was a very captivating plot point as it shows how one’s own personal beliefs can conflict with each other and everyone has to make difficult decisions at times.

I would recommend this book to people who enjoy stories about fantasy in medieval settings, such as those who enjoy books like Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings. I recommend it because it has a very interesting and creative, well laid out world and story and it is part of a large series so there is a lot of entertainment that can be had from reading this book.
Text 3: Animal Farm – Novella by George Orwell
This novella by George Orwell tells the story of farm animals who revolt against their farmer, forcing him off the farm. They rename the farm to “Animal Farm” and create the Seven Commandments of Animalism, rules to which all the animals of the farm should follow; the most important commandment being that all animals are equal. As the story progresses the pigs take over the farm and begin to behave like their previous owners. The seven commandments are butchered until the only one that remains is that all animals are equal. However, this commandment is changed to “all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”. This text serves as an allegory for the formation of the Soviet Union. This is because Russian Revolution was to overthrow corrupt, immoral leaders which led to Stalin, a corrupt and immoral leader being put in power just as the animals overthrowing Mr. Jones put Napoleon in power.

One character I found interesting was Snowball. Snowball is another pig who lives in the Animal Farm and is interesting because just like Goldstein in Orwell’s novel 1984, Snowball is based on Stalin’s opposer, Leon Trotsky. Snowball is a morally flawed character, believing that pigs are superior to the other animals but is also a lot more logical and compassionate than Napoleon. Snowball aims to keep the ideals of the revolution forever and make the farm better than it previously was. This is shown by the quote “Now, comrades, to the hayfield! Let us make it a point of honour to get in the harvest more quickly than Jones and his men could do.”

Another character I found interesting was Napoleon. Napoleon is a pig who becomes the leader of the Animal Farm after the rebellion. The reason why Napoleon is interesting to me is because he is based on Joseph Stalin. One example of his similarity to Joseph Stalin is him kicking Snowball off the farm before ordering the construction of the windmill, which was designed by Snowball. This is like how Stalin opposed Trotsky’s desire for industrialization, yet then adopts it after Trotsky was exiled from the Soviet Union. Napoleon has his army of 9 dogs chase Snowball off the farm to ensure there is no competition to his leadership. As leader Napoleon turns the farm into a dictatorship and becomes more cruel than Mr. Jones even was. This is shown in the quote “…out from the door of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs…out came Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gambolling round him. He carried a whip in his trotter.” Napoleon becomes the very things the animals rid themselves of.

I Recommend this to people interested in politics and/or history because it is an allegory for the Russian Revolution movement.
Text 4: Of Mice and Men – Novella by John Steinbeck
This story follows two fieldworkers, George Milton and Lennie Small. George is intelligent but lacks a formal education. Lennie is a large and incredibly strong man but mentally challenged. Because of his mental handicap he is often unable to contain his strength and this means he accidentally hurt or even at some point kills people and animals.

Lennie is an interesting character to me. He is kind-hearted and means well but often kills pet mice that he keeps by patting them too hard because he struggles with controlling his brute strength. Later in the novel he accidentally kills a puppy and tries to hide its body before shortly after accidentally killing a lady when he was trying to comfort her. This danger that he poses to people leads to George shooting him in the back of the head. Lennie interests me because he portrays one of the messages of the film; even though some people mean well their actions can cause harm. Lennie adores animals and is a good person but ultimately hurts and kills them when trying to pet them. Him being considerate is shown when him and George are sharing a limited supply of water, George drinks some and Lennie responds “Tha’s good, you drink some, George. You take a good big drink.” Even though this means he himself will have less water.

This message that people can cause harm while intending good is very relevant in society. Sometimes someone can try to do good but ultimately cause more harm than good. As Lennie once said “I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn’t mean no harm, George.” He doesn’t intend to hurt animals but can’t control himself. I found this to be a powerful message about how good intentions can cause bad outcomes but don’t relate much to it as I can’t think of when it has personally happened to me.

I recommend this novella to anyone who enjoys stories with sad endings because Lennie dies at the end. I think people should read this novella for to understand how our best intentions can cause more harm than good at times.
Text 5: Birdman – Movie directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
This movie follows a washed up actor known as Riggan Thomson who is famous for once playing the superhero “Birdman”. He has written, directed, and is starring in a Broadway production called “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”. The film goes over his struggles from casting issues to working with a man notoriously difficult to work with as well as his personal mental health issues and inability to separate himself from his former Birdman superhero persona. The movie is shown from his perspective through its entirety which allows the audience to be tricked into believing Riggan has powers until the final sequences which indicate he doesn’t.

The most interesting character to me in this film would easily be the main character, Riggan Thomson. Riggan wishes to create a deep and meaningful broadway production to become relevant as an actor again yet receives a lot less appreciation for this than he does of his role as Birdman in a cheesy, decades old superhero movie franchise. Mark Shiner is also interesting to me. He is a famous, well known actor who is used to getting what he wants and acts entitled because of his fame. A quote that highlights this is when he tells Riggan “…don’t tell me how to do my job. Cause, this is my town.”

A message I took from this is that celebrities and actors can still be dealing with issues even if they are famous or wealthy. It shows the mental health issues many actors go through such as playing a role for so long that they view their fictional persona as an actual part of themself. This is very important in this world where the issues many celebrities may deal with internally are ignored by society because the general population tends to think that because they are wealthy and famous they all live easy lives.

A struggle he faces is that due to playing the role of Birdman for so long in this movie franchise he struggles with separating himself from this persona to the point that he believes he has actual supernatural powers. He also struggles with dealing with the fact that he is losing relevance as a celebrity. This is confirmed many times, one of which being when he says “I don’t exist. I’m not even here. I don’t exist. None of this matters.”

I think that anyone who enjoys films like Fight Club where the audience is put in the perspective of someone and intentionally misled should watch this film. I recommend this film because it shows the mental health issues many actors and celebrities go through.

Text 6: Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse – Movie directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman
This film is about Miles Morales, a teenager bitten by a radioactive spider who gains superpowers, becoming spider-man and also the other spider-men from other universes who help him fight against the Kingpin.

One character I found interesting was Kingpin. He kills people and uses a machine that could destroy the world, which are bad things to do but he does to try to get his wife and son back that died in a car accident. He also uses a lot of the money raised by his crime operations to build infrastructure in poor areas. This makes him interesting to me as he is a very bad man but has many redeeming qualities and some of the bad things he does are for good reasons. Personally, I could understand the rationale behind his actions but believe that the means did not justify the ends.
Miles’ Uncle Aaron is also an interesting character to me. He tries to make Miles think he is a good person and wants Miles to look up to him but eventually Miles figures out that he is a supervillain. It is interesting because it shows how when we care about people we want them to think positively of us. This is captured by his quote where he says “No, Miles. I’m sorry. I wanted you to look up to me. I let you down, man, I let you down.”

A message I learnt from this film was that it is never too late for a second chance. The Peter Parker from the alternate universe has broken up with his wife and has become unfit, unhealthy and likely depressed. At the end of the film he decides to try and change, however, and dresses up in a fancy suit to rekindle his relationship with his ex-girlfriend. This is important in society because some people accept things for how they are rather than try and change them once their life falls apart.

A challenge faced by a character was Miles Morales dealing with the death of his uncle. It is also an important message that no matter how hard we try things won’t always go perfectly. This is captured by the quote from the film “Miles, the hardest thing about this job is you can’t always save everybody.”

I would recommend this film to people who enjoy Superhero movies because it plays off the cliches of most superhero movies except with some twists and has good messages behind it.

3 Modes of appeal:

• Logos
• Ethos
• Pathos

Logos: Logic. The use of statistic facts, figures or statistics. This bolsters your speech with the power of truth. Your audience are not able to dismiss it as opinion. Proves your knowledge, allows your audience to learn, backs up your demonstration.

Ethos: Authority/Ethics. By using an ethical appeal, you are trying to appeal to your author/speakers credibility. This can be especially powerful as by establishing authority allows the speaker to appear as an expert. This makes your audience more likely to listen to what you have to say. Audience engages, know what you’re doing, won’t believe you without it, jargon. Include successful people. Done through the use of specific language, word choices directly related to the topic or referring to notable figures within the area. This increases the power of your speech with the weight of importance. Your audience are encouraged to listen because you are shown to have authority on the subject.

Pathos: Emotional. Using specific language, “charged” words, tone and anecdotes to create an emotional response. This increases the power of your speech with the impact of emotional investment. Your audience are encouraged to listen because they connect with the content on a personal level. Empathy, more likely to believe, emotional connection equals relatability.

Structure

You need to have a logical progression to your speech. One point needs to flow into the next so that your audience is able to fully understand your demonstration.

Start with your introduction: how will you greet and engage your audience? What is your activity? Why did you decide to present this activity?

It is important to start off by grabbing your audiences attention immediately. You can do this many ways. Start by giving your audience a command, open with a joke, tell them a story or ask them a question.

Now you have outlined your topic it is time to get into the demonstration. What are the things your audience needs to know? Work through each step ensuring enough detail is given. How are you continuing to engage your audience?

You will need to have a demonstration of whatever it is you are discussing. After you have demonstrated your topic it is time to wrap up. You need to think about what you want to leave your audience with.

Think about: What are the points you need to reinforce? How will you make this memorable for your audience? Have you made it so the audience can do it themselves? How will you conclude and thank your audience?

Some techniques to think about using:

• Rhetorical questions
• Directly speaking to the audience
• Personal pronouns
• Figurative language
• Repetition
• Humour
• Analogy

Memory

One method of remembering your speech is to write your speech out in full and practice it a few times. Go back to your script and delete the last sentence/few words of each perspective and practice again. Continue to steadily delete parts of your speech until you are only left with the first few words. Now you are left with a list of bullet points which serve to prompt your speech moving forward.

Another powerful and effective strategy is to just practice, practice, practice. Doing the same speech over and over again will help push the speech into your long-term memory.

You can try recording yourself so that you can listen back to your speech to help connect it to another sense. Give your script to another person and ask them to interrupt you if you struggle to find your words.

Another more obscure technique is to connect information to location. When you are talking about a specific piece of information, connect it to a specific chair in the room. Now every time you look at that chair you will remember that piece of info.

Techniques

Eye contact: Easiest to understand but one of the hardest to get comfortable with. Spread the eye contact around, don’t just focus on 1 or 2 people.

Posture: This refers to how you hold yourself. Do stand confidently on both feet and stand up straight and look up. Don’t look at the ground, hold your hands in front of yourself or fold your arms. Don’t shuffle back and forth on your feet.

Voice Control: This is all about how clearly you speak. Practicing tongue twisters can help. There is a massive difference between shouting and projecting! The secret to projection is in the breath. The more breath you have the louder you can project.

Describe a key relationship between two or more characters or individuals in the text. 

Explain how this relationship helped you to understand at least one of these characters or individuals.  

• Simile – A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description ore emphatic or vivd (e.g. as brave as a lion).
• Metaphor – a figure of speech in which a word or phase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
• Alliteration – the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
• Assonance – resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants, but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels.
• Personification – applying human characteristics to something non-human.
• Onomatopoeia – a word which imitates its actual sound. E.g. bang, zap, splash.
• Hyperbole – an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally. E.g. “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.”
• Imagery – visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
• Personal Pronouns –
• Statement –
• Irony –
• Euphemism –
• Cliché –
• Jargon – special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.
• Proverb – a short, well-known pithy saying, stating a general truth or piece of advice. “Early to bed and early to rise.”
• Pseudonym – A fictitious name, commonly used by an author.
• Rhetorical Question – A question asked to make a point rather than ask a question. The answer is generally already known.
• Rhyme
• Tautology – the saying of the same thing twice over in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style. “The two twins.”
• Satire – the use of comedy, humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
• Sarcasm – The use of irony to mock something.
• Pun – A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
• Oxymoron – Two contradictory terms appearing in conjunction. “Living death”, “Act naturally”.
• Neologism – A newly coined word or expression.
• Mnemonic – A system such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations which assists in remembering something.
• Juxtaposition –
• Slang –
• Idiom –

In the twelve years I’d served aboard this ship, not once did I expect to be tasked with the objective that I’d been given. The ship’s oxygen supply was limited, everyone knew that, but frequent shipments of oxygen from the federation’s capital kept us alive. Everything changed when the last shipment was seized by rogue vessels.

I knew what sacrifices must be necessary to get us by while the next shipment was on its way. I suppose I had no one else to blame but myself for volunteering, but I had determined that volunteering was the only way I myself would survive this purge. The captain himself supplied me with a list of all the passengers, in order of their value to the wellbeing and sustainability of the ship, determined by computer algorithms. One look showed me that this data was heavily biased in favour of upper class members of the ship, but I dared not to digress against the plan of my superiors. One by one was I supposed to disable life support to the quarters of each passenger until only the valuable members of the ship were sustained, and the crew capacity had decreased to a quantity at which our current oxygen supply would last us until the next shipment.

The terminal booted almost instantaneously and a second later I had entered in the passcode to be greeted with a welcome screen. My heart pounded in my chest as I typed in the command to display the list of passengers, a task which took forever to do given the sudden clumsiness of my hands. My heart skipped a beat when I pressed the enter key. The screen flashed as it showed the list of passengers. With a sigh, I ran my fingers through my hair and considered what options I had. If any. Thud, thud, thud sounded the keys as my digits squabbled onto each one. The little sips of my drink had turned into large gulps as I longed for the spirits to numb my sorrows. It had some affect, I guess, as the world turned to a blur around me and my eyes grew heavy.

I had been dormant when the sound of a rock bouncing of the ship’s shield had brought me out of my half-conscious state and back into the world. A empty bottle lay on the floor, what content of it remained poured out over the floor. As I pieced together my surroundings, the blueish hue of the display dragged my attention back to the task at hand. With a jittery mouse I sorted by the execute tag and ticked the box to select all items on the list. The computer froze up for a second as thousands upon thousands of names were selected. The swirling of the room resumed, this time from the millions butterflies flying around in my stomach rather than the liquor. Each key took all my effort to press down as I typed in the command to disable the supply of oxygen to the sleeping pods. My heart beat with the speed of a thousand horses, echoing through my chest each time. I stared at the clock for what seemed like an eternity; every second felt like an hour as they passed. I’d had enough of putting it off. I struck the enter key and left the room. As I walked away I worried about greater things than the restlessness which would follow.

I’d had enough of this. The kids, Cheryl, and that father of mine always getting in the way to try and “help” us. I waited until the kids were asleep before opening the car door and sitting down in the driver’s seat. I twisted the key a couple times before the old piece of shit finally started and backed out of the driveway. I needed to get away from this. I drove to the nearest liquor store and bought the cheapest bottle I could get fucked up on before entering the neighbouring ammunitions store.

Write without using the letter r.

The automobiles lined up in position. Kyle adjusted the seeing glass to give himself a view of the vehicles behind him. If the event went how he expected it to then he’d be spending most of his time watching the tailing vehicles collecting dust.

Write without using the letter e.

Car go to start. Cars broom broom and start going fast. Carl turns oval and car turns too. Carls wins.

Rewrite the sentence in one tense.

“Nothing there!” said Peter, and they all trooped out again – all except Lucy. She stayed behind because she thought it would be worth while to try the door of the wardrobe, even though she felt almost sure that it would be locked. To her surprise, it opened quite easily, and two moth-balls dropped out