Welcome! أهلا بك! Welkom! Bienvenue! स्वागत हे! Bienvenido!

My name is Joshy. I am 16 years old and I am from New Zealand. Four years ago, I moved from Auckland to the United Arab Emirates and I started IB at Raha International School. I am very passionate about the Psychology Field and I aspire to become a psychiatrist. My interests are swimming, photography and I love traveling very much. My mother tongue is Creole(slang version of French) although I can speak a little bit of Arabic.

I feel that literature helps to understand the purpose of a certain text and literature form and explore imagination within the text and the writer. Literature can often make a personal connection with the reader's life, and relate to the characters from the text.

I enjoy reading non-fiction type of books as this form of literature helps me to understand the real world around me, or know about the real world situations.

A quote I live by is: 'Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will'.

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How are violence and brutality used in Chronicle of a death foretold? What does their use reveal? | ENGLISH LITERATURE

The violence and brutality used in this novel depict the life and times of the people of that particular region. Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold centers on the brutal and public killing of Santiago Nasar by Picario twins (Pablo and Pedro) to avenge the "honor" of their sister Angela, who is returned only six hours after her marriage to Bayardo San Roman. Violence and brutality are themes throughout the novel as the narrator tries to figure out what led to this murder twenty-seven years ago. It's not clear if Santiago was falsely accused by the Picario twins or not. The Picario twins let everyone in the town know their intentions before publicly executing Santiago on his very doorstep. The fact that nobody stopped them as a crowd gathered to see if Pedro and Pablo would actually carry out the deed and that Santiago's own family shut their doors on him shows that "honor killing" was an integral part of the society. There is another subt...

Nora:The Manipulator (A Doll's House) | ENGLISH LITERATURE

In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House, decision-making is clouded by the manipulation caused by certain characters. Manipulation is a form of control over another person without either their consent or knowledge. In act two, Nora tries to manipulate Torvald when he explains to her why Krogstad must be dismissed. Nora thinks of Torvald as being narrow-minded. "Nora: ... it is such as narrow-minded way of looking at things. Helmer: What are you saying? Narrow-minded? Do you think I am narrow-minded ? (Ibsen 35)" It was impossible for Nora to stop Torvald from firing Krogstad. Krogstad placed a letter in the mailbox revealing all of Nora's misbehavior. Nora tries to increase the time when Torvald does not know about the letter and this is seen when she pleads to Torvald to not check the mailbox. She continuously says that she cannot practice for the dance without her husband. This can be seen on page 45 of the pla y. "Nora: help me, Torvald. Promi...

TOK Relevant Ideas in Poems | THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE

The first stanza of The Man with a Blue Guitar by Wallace Stevens (1937) The man bent over his guitar, A shearman of sorts. The day was green. ( Green is in contrast to blue, which may mean imagination in the poem) They said, "You have a blue guitar , (Knowledge) You do not play things as they are The man replied, " Things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar (Sense Perception) And they said then, "But play, you must, A tune beyond us, yet ourselves , (your gut) (Intuition/Faith) A tune upon the blue guitar Of things exactly as they are." What are some of the TOK relevant ideas conveyed in the exact? - The first stanza of The Man with a Blue Guitar, "You have a blue guitar" - This quote means that everybody has the knowledge and things are changed upon sense perception. "Things" stated here can be described as knowledge which can be changed to sense perception. “You have a blue guitar, yo...

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