You may be under the impression that one’s ATAR strictly coincides with their innate intelligence. However, each and every year this assumption is proven wrong by the ACTUAL common factor between the top students: hard work and effective study. So, in order to maximise your results, you will find that regardless of your intuition or[…]
Having studied Thomas Stearns Eliot in my own final year of high school, I understand that this Module B unit can be more than a bit bleak. The emphasis on Eliot’s degraded environmental surrounds and sordid fantasies is enough to make even the most upbeat soul cringe inward as they are subsumed by his uniquely[…]
In our last post on Richard III we covered the basic context of the play up to the moment it began. In this post we’re mainly going to be concerned with the events of the play, the events of history, and how discrepancies between the two are evidence of the deliberate manipulation of history by[…]
Poetry, like fine wine, classical music, and art, is generally seen as an absolute quantity. Most people, scarred by their experience of it in school, are convinced that it is either the exclusive property of merlot sipping aesthetes, or that it’s some sort of elaborate con and that there aren’t any real rules to what[…]
Richard III is probably my favourite Shakespeare play, but it’s also definitely one of the most difficult to understand. The main reason for this is assumed knowledge – the play cuts in abruptly in the final days of Edward IV, playing out the closing stages of a drama which Shakespeare could confidently assume his audience[…]
Probably the first thing to understand about Alain De Botton’s The Art of Travel is that the title has a double meaning. Most students I speak to understand immediately that we’re talking about ways to travel well, but very few have realised that the title also refers to that art which has been generated because[…]
