Sådan skrives et essay – How to write an essay

Et essay i gymnasiet er en sammenhængende analyse og fortolkning af en tekst. Det består grundlæggende af tre dele:

• Indledningen (the introduction).
• Hoveddelen (the body).
• Afslutningen (the conclusion).

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The Hunger Games

Imagine being born into a new world that rose from the ashes of an old world, and imagine, that in this world there is a capitol and around it there are districts – the father away from the capital the poorer the district. You so happen to live in the one farthest away, and your life is a continuous struggle to feed yourself and those close to you. Additional to that, each year, you must risk being sent to an arena where you have to kill young men and women from the other districts in order to survive and win the ‘game’. Let us then conclude that if this were your reality you would be living in a very dystopian world. But what then if you instead of living in poverty and fear on the outside, lived in the midst of this world – in the capitol? You would never be hungry or want for anything and you would live your life in contentment, without having to experiencing war. Would this then be the best you could possibly imagine your life to be, a complete opposition of the dystopia – a utopia? [Læs mere…]

Brave New World

Lets us say there was no such thing as parenting and love, and from before you were born your profession, and social standing was predetermined, you would function just fine and take pills to ensure you were always happy. Would this world of no heartbreak, be what you would consider ideal – a utopia? Or would you shiver from the lack of affection and fret the lack of belonging to what we today know as the ‘family’, would you consider it the worst imaginable scenario – a dystopia? [Læs mere…]

Big brother isn’t watching you

”Hoodies don’t vote, they’ve realised it’s pointless, that whoever gets elected will just be a different shade of the ‘ we don’t give a toss about you’ party”(p.10 l. 92-93). That is the opinion of Russell Brand and quite a lot of other people. But can this opinion that the estrangement of the ‘weak’ youth generation, who are not really included in society, be the cause of the terrible riots that happened in London in 2011? Russell Brand justifies this belief in the following article “big brother isn’t watching you”. It is this justification I am going to focus on in my paper and by doing so analyse his use of various techniques to forward his opinion. [Læs mere…]

Twelve

This written assignment is about the extract of the novel “Twelve” by Nick McDonell written in 2002. I will make a summary and a characterization of one of the characters. And an analysis of the narrative technique and describe the themes in the text. Finally I will make a conclusion.

The text “Twelve” takes place a few days after Christmas in New York City where you meet White Mike and three other characters. White Mike is taking a year off before college and he is good at dealing drugs. Hunter is one of Mike’s best friends from high school. They discuss about going to college or not. Hunter is studying at Harvard. [Læs mere…]