http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ AllHonours Q&A » Recent Posts en Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:45:29 +0000 http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14299#post-75030 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:58:44 +0000 Patrick Barry 75030@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>Timetable now available on AllHonours.ie:</p> <p><a href="http://www.allhonours.ie/blog/junior-certificate-timetable-2011/" rel="nofollow">http://www.allhonours.ie/blog/junior-certificate-timetable-2011/</a> </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14300#post-75029 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:50:17 +0000 Patrick Barry 75029@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>Now available on AllHonours.ie:</p> <p><a href="http://www.allhonours.ie/blog/leaving-certificate-timetable-2011/" rel="nofollow">http://www.allhonours.ie/blog/leaving-certificate-timetable-2011/</a> </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14446#post-75028 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:28:45 +0000 Patrick Barry 75028@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>Hi All,</p> <p>After a successful testing period, the new AllHonours.ie is now open to the public. Some important messages:</p> <p><ul>Existing AllHonours.ie users will need to register on the new site.<br /> The old Q&amp;A site is not closed for new posts, however all previous questions and answers can be viewed.<br /> The blog will continue here as normal.<br /> No new grinds are being accepted at the moment.</ul></p> <p>Appreciate any feedback you have on the new site. Thanks,</p> <p>Patrick.</p> <p><a href="http://www.allhonours.ie/blog/new-allhonours-ie-social-qa/" rel="nofollow">http://www.allhonours.ie/blog/new-allhonours-ie-social-qa/</a> </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14417#post-75027 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:24:54 +0000 Patrick Barry 75027@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>@studentrm - No problem, invite sent, only a handful left! </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14418#post-75026 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:30:00 +0000 fergcad 75026@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>hey there hmeva I sent you an email in regards to your offer. Are you still willing to group with someone for the discount for the HPAT course? </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/13878/page/4#post-75025 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:12:35 +0000 Sexx_On_Fiire_Xx 75025@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>glamorous any chance ? thaaaaaaaaaaanks:D<br /> <a href="mailto:fitzy_fitz@hotmail.com">fitzy_fitz@hotmail.com</a> </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/3668#post-75024 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:55:29 +0000 studentrm 75024@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>yeah id love one too </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14417#post-75023 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:35:56 +0000 studentrm 75023@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>more invites?! &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14445#post-75022 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:31:27 +0000 studentrm 75022@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>do you mean like supervised study?<br /> in my school it is just 2 hours after school where you can study and do homework, and a teacher will supervise for disipline. its 220 a term in my school... </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/13626#post-75021 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:29:54 +0000 studentrm 75021@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>all they look for in the aiste is good grammer, they wont care really if you copy something as long as the content is relevent and grammar!! </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14300#post-75020 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:37:01 +0000 almostAllHonours 75020@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>For anyone interested the Leaving Cert timetable is now up on examinations.ie &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:-)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14445#post-75019 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:12:00 +0000 johnmck45 75019@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>What would you expect from a study group? Supervised revision, help with homework, study tips? How much would you pay per week? Say for 2 hours after school. </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14406#post-75018 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:27:52 +0000 lausie-93 75018@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>Yeah that makes sense thanks a mill!:D<br /> I just dont want to regret not dropping down and not spending time on maths and stuff...our teacher is a joke though and i hate her so im not going to work for her (havent been so far).I got 74pc in my christmas test without studying so maybe i should stay??:P </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14186#post-75017 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:33:12 +0000 studentrm 75017@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>anyone got anything??? </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/13878/page/4#post-75016 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:31:20 +0000 studentrm 75016@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>if anyone has any on politics id love them!!!<br /> reply and ill send my email &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14406#post-75015 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:29:13 +0000 studentrm 75015@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>if you have a bad teacher then think about dropping, im doing higher and it takes up an awful lot of time! if you are having to try to make up for lost time with what you should be doing in class (as i am having to do) then you would prob be better focusing on maths, especially as your lucky year will get bonus points for higher maths!!<br /> you will find ord irish a joke after higher!!<br /> do think about it though, and see what will maximise your points which unfortunatly is what the LC is about!<br /> hope that helps.. </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14401#post-75014 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:26:29 +0000 studentrm 75014@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>i need one like that too...<br /> hard to find...<br /> there some if you google it? &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:-)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14444#post-75013 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:22:55 +0000 studentrm 75013@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>hey<br /> does anyone have an aiste or ever a diospoireacht or anything on politcs, current affairs, politicians... anything like that would be great.<br /> Its for higher irish and i need to do an essay, and my teacher is shockingly bad.<br /> Thanks so much!!! &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14443#post-75011 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:28:17 +0000 gonorrr 75011@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>Do I have to sign any forms or get a booklet to fill in my project.I am finished it I just have to write it up.I did it myself can the teacher in the school still sign it to say he supervised it </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14442#post-75010 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:49:59 +0000 IrishJoe 75010@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>Really really need this. </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14441#post-75009 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:50:56 +0000 gonorrr 75009@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>Do I need a teacher to supervise me doing me doing my history project I am studying it a home </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14428#post-75008 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:15:06 +0000 raf 75008@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>That link doesnt work </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14437#post-75007 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:03:22 +0000 readystudypass 75007@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>These documents should help: </p> <p><a href="http://www.examinations.ie/archive/examiners_reports/cer_2005/LCAgriculturalScience.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.examinations.ie/archive/examiners_reports/cer_2005/LCAgriculturalScience.pdf</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.examinations.ie/schools/S_07_10_Agricultural_Science_Practical_Coursework.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.examinations.ie/schools/S_07_10_Agricultural_Science_Practical_Coursework.pdf</a></p> <p>Best of luck,</p> <p><a href="http://twitter.com/readystudypass" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/readystudypass</a> </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14440#post-75006 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:07:44 +0000 Jon Ryan 75006@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>If anyone is interested in a full set of Leaving Certificate English notes (on all seven sections of paper 1 and 2) by the author of the Leaving Certificate English notes on allhonours.ie please check out <a href="http://www.ryjolc.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.ryjolc.wordpress.com</a></p> <p>John</p> <p><a href="http://www.ryjolc.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.ryjolc.wordpress.com</a><br /> <a href="http://www.allhonours.ie/lc-jc-english-grinds-online-weekly-newsletter-free-online-help-answers-to-every-question-ever/" rel="nofollow">http://www.allhonours.ie/lc-jc-english-grinds-online-weekly-newsletter-free-online-help-answers-to-every-question-ever/</a><br /> <a href="http://www.allhonours.ie/notes/" rel="nofollow">http://www.allhonours.ie/notes/</a> </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14428#post-75003 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:21:03 +0000 GOOON 75003@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p><a href="http://leavingcertenglishnotes.webs.com/" rel="nofollow">http://leavingcertenglishnotes.webs.com/</a><br /> follow this link for my leaving cert notes for any part of the course that you are struggling with from a qualified teacher. </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14433#post-74997 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:17:41 +0000 nathan wheeler 74997@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>Just to say kavanagh came up last year and is not a favorite for this year so it might be a bit of a waste to work heavily on him. I may be wrong but there are much better chances of Yeats, frost Dickenson and Boland coming up if you know what i mean.</p> <p>Best plan of attack<br /> Nathan wheeler </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14428#post-74996 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:15:13 +0000 nathan wheeler 74996@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>How is the character of Hamlet portrayed as an enigma?</p> <p>Hamlet is an enigma. No matter how many ways we try examine him, no absolute truth emerges. Hamlet breathes with the multiple dimensions of a human being, and everyone understands him in a personal way. Hamlet's challenge to Guildenstern rings true for everyone who seeks to know him: "You would pluck out the heart of my mystery." None of us ever really does. The conundrum that is Hamlet stems from the fact that every time we look at him, he is different in some small way. Our perceptions depend on what we bring to the table. Hamlet is so complete a character that, like an old friend or relative, our relationship to him changes each time we visit him, and he never ceases to surprise us. His being stems from the main conflict the death of his father old hamlet and such an action could be thought as of making hamlet bi-polar. Going from great highs to miserable lows. Therein lays the secret to the enduring love affair audiences have with him. They never tire of the intrigue and the multi-dimensional personality.</p> <p>The paradox of Hamlet's nature draws people to the character. He is at once the consummate iconoclast, in self-imposed exile from Elsinore Society, while, at the same time, he is the champion of Denmark, the people's hero. He has no friends left, but Horatio loves him unconditionally. Although the two he believes are his friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are the two he quickly turns against when he discovers they are working for Claudius. This eventually leads to them being killed leaving hamlet very isolated with his only friend Horatio. He is angry, dejected, depressed, and brooding; he is manic, elated, enthusiastic, and energetic. He is dark and suicidal, a man who loathes himself and his fate. Yet, at the same time, he is an existential thinker who accepts that he must deal with life on its own terms that he must choose to meet it head on. "We defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow."</p> <p>Hamlet not only participates in his life, but astutely observes it as well. He recognizes the decay of the Danish society (represented by his Uncle Claudius), but also understands that he can blame no social ills on just one person. He remains aware of the ironies that constitute human endeavour, and he savours them. Though he says, "Man delights not me," the contradictions that characterize us all intrigue him. "What a piece of work is a man. How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!"</p> <p>Astutely as he observes the world around him, Hamlet also keenly criticises himself. In his soliloquies he chastises himself for his failure to act as well as for his propensity for words. Hamlet is infuriatingly adept at twisting and manipulating words. He confuses his so-called friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern whom he trusts as he "would adders fanged" with his dissertations on ambition, turning their observations around so that they seem to admire beggars more than their King. And he leads them on a chase in search of Polonius' body. “You’ll not find him but in a short time ye will smell him” He openly mocks the tottering Polonius with his word plays, which elude the old man's understanding. He continually spars with Claudius, who recognizes the danger of Hamlet's wit but is never smart enough to defend himself against it.</p> <p>Words are Hamlet's constant companions, his weapons, and his defences. And yet, words also serve as Hamlet's prison. He analyzes and examines every nuance of his situation until he has exhausted every angle. They cause him to be indecisive. He dallies in his own wit, intoxicated by the mix of words he can concoct; he frustrates his own burning desire to be more like his father, the Hyperion. When he says that Claudius is “. . . no more like my father than I to Hercules" he recognizes his enslavement to words, his inability to thrust home his sword of truth. No mythic character is Hamlet. He is stuck, unable to avenge his father's death because words control him. “What an ass am I? This is most brave, That I, the son of a dear murdered Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must like a whore unpack my heart with words, And fall-a-cursing like a very drab, A scallion!.” This very character trait is also very connected to his procrastination at not doing the deed he was instructed to do by his dead father. This constant waiting and pausing for thought our hamlets enemies he is choked by his need to be sure and his idleness to kill Claudius. It is only when his own death is assured that he finally takes Claudius’s life. A play on Hamlets destiny perhaps? Only in death can the murder of a king be righted.</p> <p>Is Hamlet in love with his mother? The psychoanalytic profile of the character supports Freud's theory that Hamlet has an unnatural love for his mother. Hamlet unequivocally hates his stepfather and abhors the incestuous relationship between Claudius and Gertrude. But whether jealousy prompts his hatred, whether his fixation on his mother causes his inability to love Ophelia, and whether he lusts after Gertrude all depend on interpretation. He is appalled by Gertrude's show of her pleasure at Claudius' touch, and he clearly loathes women. His anger over Claudius' and Gertrude's relationship could as easily result from a general distaste for sexual activity as from desire to be with his mother. Hamlet could be, at heart, a brutal misogynist, terrified of love because he is terrified of women. He verbally abuses Ophelia, using sexual innuendo and derision, and he encourages her to “get thee to a nunnery”.<br /> Is hamlet mad or merely pretending madness determining all the questions about Hamlet's nature? Could a madman manipulate his destiny as adeptly as Hamlet turns the tables on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Perhaps his own portrayal of madness his "antic disposition” that he dons like a mask or a costume actually drives him. Could Hamlet's madness be his tragic flaw? Perhaps, the ghost is a manifestation of his own conscience and not a real presence at all?</p> <p>Is Hamlet a tragic hero at all? Hamlet has no great power, though it is clear from Claudius' fears and from Claudius' assessment of Hamlet's popularity that he might have power were he to mix it among the people. His topple results as much from external factors as from his own flaws. Nevertheless, he certainly does take everyone with him when he falls. Shakespeare created a tragic hero who can appeal to a larger, more enduring segment of the population. Hamlet fulfils the Aristotelian requirement that the tragic hero invoke in us a deep sense of pity and fear, that we learn from him how not to conduct our lives. Hamlet is our hero because he is both confused and enticed by endless dilemmas that come from being, after all, merely human.</p> <p>Always here to help &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif&quot; title=&quot;:D&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> <p>Best plan of attack<br /> Nathan wheeler </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14431#post-74995 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:13:25 +0000 nathan wheeler 74995@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>The poetry of Emily Dickenson<br /> Emily Dickenson, the “belle of Amherst”, she is one of the most highly regarded poets ever to write. In America, perhaps only Robert frost is her equal in legend and in the degree of influence. Dickenson, the famous recluse dressed in white, secretly produced an enormous canon of poetry while locked in her room and refusing visitor after visitor. She dropped out of popular society and from the age of thirty and she choose to live the rest of her life as a recluse in her father’s house communicating with the world with letters. Many scholars and novelists have commented on her work;<br /> “The starving thirsty “I” of Emily Dickenson’s poetry expresses its bitterness toward god, towards nature, and toward human society through the language of withdrawal” (Vivian R.Pollak)<br /> Scholars in the past hundred years are continually examining her many features and comparing and contrasting the many themes and issues she raises in her rich poetry. She is neither a nature poet nor a philosophical writer or romantic but more so she is a genre onto herself. Her good education has put her in a position where she was interested in nature while also having a scientific eye. She explores death and the mild hope she has of the afterlife. We will now explore some of the themes of Emily Dickenson.<br /> Dickenson throughout her life spent a great amount of time exploring the relationship with the Judea- Christian god. Many poems describe a protracted rebellion against the god whom she seemed scornful and indifferent to human suffering. In a sense she was a religious poet. But unlike other religious poets Dickenson “challenged god’s dominion throughout her life, refusing to submit to his divine will at the cost of herself”. In the poem I felt a funeral in my brain we see how she confronts the ideas of the afterlife. Some critics believe that the plunge as the coffins descent into the grave and the “here” of stanza 4 as death. This plunge may be understood as the plunge into the beyond that yields a deeper knowledge of what exists after death. Yet however in the line “and finished knowing-then-“we are confronted with the idea that she now knows what is beyond death.<br /> Another proem that deals with the theme of death and her disillusionment with god is One of Dickinson’s most famous poems, “I heard a Fly buzz” strikingly describes the mental distraction posed by irrelevant details at even the most crucial moments—even at the moment of death. The poem then becomes even weirder and more macabre by transforming the tiny, normally disregarded fly into the figure of death itself, as the fly’s wing cuts the speaker off from the light until she cannot “see to see.” But the fly does not grow in power or stature; its final severing act is performed “With Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz—.” This poem is also remarkable for its detailed of a deathbed scene—the dying person’s loved ones steeling themselves for the end, the dying woman signing away in her will “What portion of me be / Assignable”. And then the windows failed – and then I could not see to see” this final line suggest the figure is robbed of sight and understanding, a finality emphasised by the rhyme of “me” and “see. Is this a message of the dead and that it is truly just darkness and emptiness? The poem effectively deals with the writer’s direct lack of faith in god and the afterlife. In another instance of implicit criticism, Dickenson portrays god as a murderous hunter of man in “my life had stood – a loaded gun”. In which death goes about gleefully executing people for god. This poem and many others are part of Dickenson’s portrayal of god as aloof, cruel, invasive, and vindictive. This type of anger and malevolence towards god may be contributed to the upbringing she had in a Calvinist society and how it affected her when she was called upon to profess her faith in boarding school. However Dickenson models many of her poems on protestant hymnal meter. Many of her poems share their title with the first line this is identical to how protestant hymns are arranged in hymn books.<br /> In her work, Dickenson asserts the importance of the self, a theme closely related to Dickinson’s frustration at god. As Dickenson understood it, the mere act of speaking or writing is an affirmation of the will, it is the call to express herself to others. For Emily, the self is understanding of identity according to the way it systematizes its perceptions of the world, forms its goals and values, and comes to judgements regarding what it perceives. In the poem “I could bring you jewels had i a mind to” Emily is expressing herself not on a figurative scale but as flirtatious women in tune with her sexuality. This is instead of being deep and philosophical is striking notes of confidence and playfulness, a note that is sustained to the very end of the poem. This poem is also important because it focuses not just on an event but more on a relationship Emily has for another person. In the opening stanza, the speaker i.e. Dickenson considers all the gifts she will offer her beloved, the “you” in the poem. She refers in the poem to a number of exotic gifts “berries of the Bahamas, emerald swing and this topaz”. But it is her that is the gift she wants to give. Her mind, most importantly. Dickenson wants to assert herself in the distinction between her mind and her body even though they are unable to survive without each other. In its playful, assured way, the poem establishes that the true value of gifts and the true nature of her being cannot be measured in material terms.<br /> Although the poet spent much her time in Amherst, she was quite in tune with the modern world through extensive correspondence by letters. Dickenson began to see language and the word, which were formerly part of gods domain, as the province of a poet. Her duty as a poet is to recreate through words, a sense of a world as a place in which objects have almost ghostly properties if not mythical. Dickenson’s poems often link abstract things to physical things in an attempt to create a design in her world. This act is apparent in her poems such as “hope is the thing with feathers”. In this poem Dickenson employs metaphors that assign physical qualities to the abstract feeling of “hope” in order to flesh out the nature of the word and what it means to her.<br /> For Dickenson there was an awful lot of power in the ability to see. She attributed allot to this sense as she viewed it as the authority to associate with the world around her in meaningful ways. In this sense, sight becomes an important expression, and consequently the speakers in her poems value it highly. The horror that the speaker in the poem “I heard a fly buzz when I died” experiences is attributed to her loss of eyesight in the moments leading up to her death. The final utterance, “I could not see to see” points very effectively to just how much emphasis Emily Dickenson placed upon her desire to see. In this poem however we also see her correlation between sight and self show that the end of one perhaps blindness would lead to her death.<br /> Dickenson had a fascination with nature and through her formidable education expertly discusses and contrast her love with nature and her difficulty in connecting with religion. This is a perfect example of Emily Dickinson’s move away from Calvinist tradition and towards Transanedentilism. The movement was growing stronger and stronger in the states but would eventually fizzle out. Its key themes were the connection between god and nature; this aspect can be seen with two poems i have studied. In this poem, a bird came down the walk the simple experience of watching a bird hop down a path allows her to exhibit her extraordinary poetic powers of observation and description. Dickinson keenly depicts the bird as it eats a worm, pecks at the grass, hops by a beetle, and glances around fearfully. As a natural creature frightened by the speaker into flying away, the bird becomes an emblem for the quick, lively, ungraspable wild essence that distances nature from the human beings who desire to appropriate or tame it. But the most remarkable feature of this poem is the imagery of its final stanza, in which Dickinson provides one of the most breath-taking descriptions of flying in all of poetry. Simply by offering two quick comparisons of flight and by using aquatic motion (rowing and swimming), she evokes the delicacy and fluidity of moving through air. The image of butterflies leaping “off Banks of Noon,” splashlessly swimming though the sky is one of the most memorable in all Dickinson’s writing in my opinion. The second poem associated with the poets love for nature is “hope is a thing with feathers. Like almost all of Dickinson’s poems the form is iambic trimeter that often expands to include a fourth stress at the end of the line (as in “And sings the tune without the words—”). Like almost all of her poems, it modifies and breaks up the rhythmic flow with long dashes indicating breaks and pauses (“And never stops—at all—”). The stanzas, as in most of Dickinson’s lyrics, rhyme loosely in an ABCB scheme. This simple, metaphorical description of hope as a bird singing in the soul is another example of Dickinson’s homiletic style, derived from Psalms and religious hymns. Dickinson introduces her metaphor in the first two lines (“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers— / That perches in the soul—”), then develops it throughout the poem by telling what the bird does, how it reacts to hardship (it is unabashed in the storm), where it can be found (everywhere, from “chilliest land” to “strangest Sea”), and what it asks for itself (nothing, not even a single crumb). Neither her language nor her themes here are as complicated and explosive as they would become in her more mature work. Still, we find a few of the verbal shocks that so characterize Dickinson’s mature style: the use of “abash,” for instance, to describe the storm’s potential effect on the bird, wrenches the reader back to the reality behind the pretty metaphor; while a singing bird cannot exactly be “abashed,” the word describes the effect of the storm—or a more general hardship—upon the speaker’s hopes<br /> The poetry of Emily Dickenson is not without its flaws but Emily Dickenson does more for us than other poets of the time. She as a woman in Amherst is a second class citizens. But through her writings she challenges not just the world she lives in but about the religious fundamentalism that’s occurring at the time she takes up another religion and she takes on the idea of life after death or the lack thereof. She approaches nature poetry and also expresses not just herself but more so her sexuality on discussing her love of another, some poems are flirtatious and playful as if aimed at her secret lover. Furthermore Emily Dickenson has made an incredible addition to the literary world and in my opinion far exceeds frost or Ezra pound. She as a woman set herself apart and is a symbol for non conformity to not just religion but to the mechanics of the world in which she lived. She is truly one on the best poets upon the leaving cert course.<br /> Nathan wheeler</p> <p>Always here to help &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> <p>Best plan of attack<br /> Nathan wheeler </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14426#post-74994 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:28:28 +0000 nathan wheeler 74994@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>thank you very much a big help i must admit</p> <p>Best plan of attack<br /> Nathan wheeler </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14427#post-74993 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:27:00 +0000 nathan wheeler 74993@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>Thank god i found someone else in Ireland who is doing this exam. Are you doing the exam version? I in Dundalk Grammar School. Started it over the summer. Was wondering do you use the book faith in action?</p> <p>Best plan of attack<br /> Nathan wheeler </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14438#post-74992 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:35:04 +0000 Maestro 74992@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>You would be surprised how this type of situation can turn around in your favour.<br /> The Ordinary Level Maths exam does have an element of predictability. Even a weak student can achieve a B3 from this point in time. This can be done by taking an organised and structured approach to the exam.</p> <p>What I would suggest is to prioritise the predicable 'a' and 'b' part questions. You should target on 4 particular of the 'b' questions in time for the Mock exam (2 for each paper)</p> <p>Paper I<br /> Simultaneous Equations (it is part b on Q2 or Q3, 20 marks)<br /> Differential Calculus(Q7 parts, typical a and b parts, total of 30 marks)<br /> Differentiation by first principles (Q6 likely 20 marks)<br /> Factor Theorem (Q2 or Q3 likely 20 marks)</p> <p>Paper 2<br /> Simpsons Rule (Q 1 part b)<br /> Statistics (Q7 20-40 marks for sure) Practice drawing Histogram, Ogive, and Average from Mid-Interval values.<br /> Probability &amp; Combinations (Q6) This question is much easier than it looks.<br /> Linear Programming (Q11 30-40 marks) Practice doing the 'b' part from the past papers</p> <p>So if you can do 2 or 3 of these for each paper, it will give you a solid start.<br /> Also practice the 'a' parts of as many questions as you can.</p> <p>From there start looking at Q4 on Paper I (Complex numbers) and Q5 on paper 2 (Trigonometry). Also use the foundation on Differentiation to finish off Question 7 (paper I) and approach Questions 6 and 8.</p> <p>What I am outlining is a general idea of what you need to do between now and the exam. There are other things that may help you on the way, and everyone is different with what their strengths and weaknesses are.</p> <p>Put simply:<br /> Concentrate on few topics/questions first.<br /> Play your strengths.<br /> Practice past papers.<br /> Be patient. </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14438#post-74991 Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:45:50 +0000 ineedhelpahh 74991@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>Hi all &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:-)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; <br /> Well this year hasn't gone so great. So me getting a good leaving is kinda out of my reach at this stage &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_sad.gif&quot; title=&quot;:(&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; <br /> Anyway the question i have is how hard would it be to get a B3 in Pass maths (barein in mind i'm crap at it and i've never got on with it )</p> <p>I finally found a course i like that may give me a bit of a goal then it got ruined by the Math requirement so i dunno at this stage<br /> Anyway any help appreciated<br /> From<br /> A very lost LC student </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14436#post-74990 Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:30:24 +0000 paulol 74990@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>When it comes to oxbridge it's so much more than points in the leaving cert.</p> <p>They take into account your junior cert results , 8 A's minimum - all higher.</p> <p>The interview is rigorous. They are very unpredictable... one girl got asked to make some jam on the spot.</p> <p>and leaving cert. 600 on point prediction through UCAS and an AMAZING personal statement.</p> <p>if you meet that criteria apply ... </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14437#post-74989 Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:59:16 +0000 gonorrr 74989@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>What is the breakdown of marks for the ag sceince exam.like what percent for the paper and the project and is their an oral or something like that </p> http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/topic/14436#post-74988 Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:57:20 +0000 gonorrr 74988@http://www.allhonours.ie/answers/ <p>Hey does anyone know how many points in the leaving cert I would need to get into Oxford or Cambridge in England </p>