Task A
Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of what you have to say in response to the theme, how well you organize and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself. You will not be judged on the views or attitude you express.
********** Poverty is the failure of equity and charity. ***** The world's poorest nations are those that have been torn apart by conflict. ***** No one asks to be born into poverty but they can ask to be removed from it through hard work and dedication. ***** Poverty can never be eradicated whilst humans have free will. ***** Poverty is the mother of crime and the daughter of upheaval.
Task B
Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of what you have to say in response to the theme, how well you organize and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself. You will not be judged on the views or attitude you express.
********** Home is more than a place of bricks and mortar. It is solace, security, love. ***** Home is the place that, when you have to go there, they have to let you in. ***** Home is where the heart is. ***** Home is a word that belongs only to the loved. ***** Home is for the idle, the ill and the unimaginative.
Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme; how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself. You will not be judged on the views or attitudes you express.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. W. H. Auden Television is a medium of entertainment entertainment which permits millions millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. T. S. Eliot Communication is two-sided – vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it… demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated. Roger Sessions The media’s the most powerful powerful entity on earth. They have have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. Malcom X Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. Charles Dickens Don’t hate the media, become the media. Jello Biafra
WRITING TEST A Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme; how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself. You will not be judged on the views or attitudes you express.
“If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn’t be enough to go around.” Christina Stead “Endless money forms the sinews of war.” Cicero “The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.” Edith Wharton “Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.” Donald Trump “A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” Jane Austen “Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.” Groucho Marx
Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme; how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself. You will not be judged on the views or attitudes you express. “Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.” Blaise Pascal “He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.” B. C. Forbes
“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.” Friedrich Nietzsche “Reason is our soul’s left hand, faith her right.” John Donne “The faith that stands on authority is not faith.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.” Mason Cooley
