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Below is an example of how someone wrote about 'Gran Torino'. It is an old essay, it answers a specific question, it does not use the PEAR paragraph and it is also very long - you only have forty-five minutes - nonetheless, it may be useful to have a look at it, to get some ideas. Remember that, because this essay appears on the internet, copying it is plagiarism. . Choose a scene or sequence from a film which is particularly dramatic. Describe what happens in the scene or sequence, explaining how the film makers effectively use techniques to create drama. A film in which there is a particularly dramatic sequence is ‘Gran Torino’, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. The story is set in modern day Detroit, where the central character, Walt Kowalski, a retired car plant worker and Korean War veteran, struggles to come to terms with the changes in his community. In particular, the plot revolves around his unlikely friendship with Thao, a teenage boy from a H...

Who are you?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMGflOYAEG0 Get off my lawn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idJPmAKcDQw Thao works for Walt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ay1Iw-FvWI Spooks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLdIKlXl3ZA Where the hell is Hmong anyway?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxkHSJQYbB4 Chat about Gran Torino and work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Y_WjeU3Oc Beating   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Tpw1ICJEc Confession https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FNHxEOjKVc Locked in basement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-TS_85-Kwo Sacrifice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQN-3p2HqPA Final sequence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJLbR9TEMD8

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1205489/                         - IMDB https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gran_torino/         - Rotten Tomatoes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ecW-d-CBPc     - trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1MCAHSHXS8  - opening sequence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQN-3p2HqPA    - 'sacrifice' sequence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJLbR9TEMD8    - final sequence There are plenty more clips available to view on YouTube.

George Orwell – ‘A Hanging’ 1         It was in Burma, a sodden morning of the rains. A sickly light, like yellow tinfoil, was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard. We were waiting outside the condemned cells, a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages. Each cell measured about ten feet by ten and was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot of drinking water. In some of them brown silent men were squatting at the inner bars, with their blankets draped round them. These were the condemned men, due to be hanged within the next week or two. 2         One prisoner had been brought out of his cell. He was a Hindu, a puny wisp of a man, with a shaven head and vague liquid eyes. He had a thick, sprouting moustache, absurdly too big for his body, rather like the moustache of a comic man on the films. Six tall Indian warders were guarding him and getting him ready for the ga...

Below is a exemplar essay. Remember, if you choose the non-fiction option, the question will be different. Your answer must reflect the question. Choose a non fiction text in which the writer expresses outrage or shock about an issue which you feel is important.                                                                                                                          ...

This is a link to a useful powerpoint on persuasive/discursive writing. It details how to develop ideas for a topic, then it gives you lots of help with writing techniques. http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwiD366ct7_UAhVLBMAKHSETDg4QFggoMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdallison1983.edublogs.org%2Ffiles%2F2014%2F09%2FNational-5-persuasive-essay-2lxnmpp.ppt&usg=AFQjCNEoqy-vooHY5R-4T9UM00ZqPHQe-w&sig2=NTkNCs_na6dvY0AGH6gw1A If you do your own internet search, there are lots more materials available.