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  1. ryan11

    Viva Voce...i don;t know

    "Thematic issues" are the ideas/issues/concerns you voice throughout your major work, not just story/content-wise, but also the way you present your work. The second question has the same function as the proposal, but this is about what you have completed thus far, and what else you wish to...
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    Favourite band(s)

    What's wrong with James Blunt?
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    Greatest Guitar Solo Ever

    Man, I don't want to. I love Metallica too much.
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    The Official Football Thread 2005/2006

    I should've clarified: we need every play we have got at United, to put in their bit and form a challenge, not every player from the EPL or La Liga etc.++ Why not identify the central midfielder that we need as a "strong bastard"? Fletcher's gangly, Smudge does extremely well for a striker...
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    Vampire books

    Nothing wrong with reading Anne Rice novels. They're beautifully-written tales, although they are sometimes too deep and profound. Interview with the Vampire is amazing.
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    Favourite band(s)

    Interesting; I hear they're utter shite anyway. Metallica, Opeth, Machine Head, Parkway Drive, Dream Theater, Radiohead, Wolfmother, Dungeon, Creed, A Perfect Circle, Audioslave and In Flames. I also love singer/songwriters Jeff Buckley and James Blunt.
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    The Official Football Thread 2005/2006

    Rumour-mongering. Ruud has publicly shown his love for United for years now, particularly when Madrid were after him a few seasons ago. Yes, he's being linked with many top clubs, because he's a top-class player every team would want, but I doubt he'd be off to Chelsea, simply because of the...
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    The Omen

    I have never seen the original, but I am tempted just by seeing the trailer. It looks genuinely boring on the outside, bringing in all the usual Satan crap, but the trailer was chilling, not by what is heard and seen but what isn't - it's that lack of noise, that eerie nothingness that is...
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    Greatest Guitar Solo Ever

    I don't think you could dispute Kirk Hammett performing the solo in Fade To Black. People recall the solos in The Unforgiven or Master of Puppets, but for sheer musicianship and emotion, Fade To Black rules.
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    The Da Vinci Code

    It's unfortunate that neither of Brown's colleagues or the global audience appreciate the great ploy. He'll probably be a billionaire (if he isn't one already), all for creating mass hysteria over fiction. The world is stupid. I suggest commending him for a wonderful payslip.
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    Yeats.. anyone?

    Remonstrate with your teacher...because you can. If you had a poor result, it means you can excel in your remaining assessments and exams. I remember doing my Yeats assessment, and got something like 13/20 for it; I studied my arse off and completed the essay question in the HSC exam. I don't...
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    related text for identity

    Try the actual film "Identity". It's horror/crime-fiction. American Psycho - either the book by Bret Easton Ellis (superb) or the movie (equally superb). Why not Fight Club as well?
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    Yeats.. anyone?

    Wild Swans at Coole is the easiest to grasp, and I warrant the poem most students will use. Byzantium and Sailing To are horrendously difficult.
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    Band 6 Leni Riefenstahl responses

    I received 10/10 for both questions in my trial paper, which were marked by an outsider. I think the essay is concise and strong in argument; the biography packs a punch with detail, which is vital to get a Band 6 - it's about packing as much as you can using your time wisely...I think maybe...
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    A text relating to 'change'.

    For films, try The Last Samurai or Midnight Cowboy. Vastly different in content, but still related in the theme of change.
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    Yeats.. anyone?

    Like you guys, I had the poor fortune of suffering near-death with WB Yeats last year. I helped a mate of mine in constructing a 'superguide' to Yeats, with six of his poems covered in-depth along with critical analyses. I've attached it here. It's incredibly comprehensive, but you'll get a...
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    The Official Football Thread 2005/2006

    Bullshit. He's a selfish bastard in terms of the contribution to doing the dirty work, such as tackling and defending. Don't you think he will find it difficult to displace Lampard as the central midfielder. I don't know if you have noticed, but Ballack is not that great defensively. Munich...
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    The Official Football Thread 2005/2006

    You're joking: Tim Cahill? I know he performs well for Everton and Australia, but he seems a poor man's Frank Lampard. We don't need any attacking players; we need a highly defensive midfielder to protect a formidable but poncy defence, a box-to-box player who's unafraid of doing the dirty...
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    Where is everyone goin for schoolies?

    I'm sorry to be the dissenter amongst all you crazily enthusiastic HSC students, but schoolies isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Sure, you get to fuck around for a week or two - depending on the size of your wallet and liver - but there is nothing more to it. The real fun is in travelling...
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    The Official Football Thread 2005/2006

    Wigan are indeed very good. I bet they'll do a West Ham and sign Paolo di Canio, which'd be damn great. Silvestre wasn't shithouse; the entire back-line were poor because they were complacent and suffering from bad communication. I personally think Silvestre is a fantastic defender, quite...
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