eng (1023) - CST: sadat 4

didn't make much progress today.. coz had to talk about other stuff like classes and rank slips and whatnot.

but we did talk about some contextual stuff.. like jerusalem. home of the ark of the covenant and deathplace of jesus, important to the three battling religions.

we reviewed stuff again, like techniques. repetition, metaphor, simile, anaphora, lexical chains, imagery and quotes, etc.

we discussed what kind of person sadat is, and what we can draw from just 5 pages of his speech. he's a passionate, logical speaker who demonstrates his knowledge and proves he knows what he's talking about with analogies and whatnot. he's religious, in terms of his own, and neighbouring religions, but he is also a proud man. he is dedicated and he is courageous, especially to step into enemy territory and make such claims.

although he offered peace and all these guarantees with israel, he still claimed it all to be arab land, including jerusalem.

apparently both the arabs and the israeli people filmed it, and they edited the speech and camera shots in different ways. the arab takes focused on people not paying attention, and the israeli film showed astonished looks on peoples faces.

also, apparently my level of language has crapped up as my recent essays have shown me, and it has been commented on -.- have to work on that.. i did crap in eng and ext1 eng this yearly.. not surprised im not in top class -.-