Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Touching the Void – Court Room Drama

  • Touching the void quotes and thoughts

    “I wasn’t that brave. In fact I was having enough difficulty staving off the dread which through me as I descended” This talks about how his emotions are just as much of a burden as his physical condition. He states he has too much difficulty preventing his anxious feelings. The dread term is used as…

  • Controlled Assessment: Shakespeare and the Literary Heritage

    You have done an excellent job of exploring the causes of the women’s anger and frustration and you have explored at some length the social context of this in relation to both texts. You have generated an original response to each text and each character and referred extensively to textual references to support this. To…

  • Up up and away – Mark Scheme

  • Other Playwrights in the Shakespeare Era.

    Christopher Marlowe ‘ the not so famous playwright’. When you think of playwrights in general only one name pops into your head, William Shakespeare. Unknown to most he wasn’t the first or most popular of his time to some, the man who actually inspired William Shakespeare was called Christopher Marlowe. Unfortunately we don’t know Christopher…

  • This is Your Online Domain

      Hello and welcome to your personal online journal. This platform has been created to enhance and enrich your learning at the London Nautical School. Its purpose is to provide you with an audience for your work (or work-in-progress) and you have the choice (by altering the ‘visibility’ of your posts) of whether your work…

  • Welcome to your Journal, Raphael

    Welcome to your new English Journal. This site has been created for you to allow a more modern and dynamic way for you to approach your work in English. It is set to “Private” so the only people who have the ability to read what you write here are you, me (Mr Waugh, your teacher) and…

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