Bias Blog Post

Taboos are topics which are rarely touched upon or prohibited usually due to social customs. This is a significant symbol in Britain’s economic standpoint and one of the integral factors that could lead to another 2008 financial crisis. The British government wants the public to believe that their economic growth is sustainable, and that budgetary surplus will fix all their economic problems. But these are dangerous myths.

This can be centrally presented through the simple saying, “the less the government is in debt, the more everybody else is.”. This can be centrally portrayed through the following diagram which represents Britain’s balance between the public and private sectors, where each rise and fall on the positive axis is reflected on the negative. Now if the British Government declares that it must pay back all national debt through the implementation of a budget surplus, then the public sector (e.g. the Government as shown through the negative axis in the diagram) is taking more money out of the private sector than investing into them. Furthermore, this leads to absolute mayhem for individuals such as ourselves as the Government knows the private sector will go into deficit once they’re able to balance their books, leaving the rest of us in debt, as they reply with the statement “We’re just trying to behave responsibly!”.

This is utter foolishness and personal greed. You may be asking me why everyone can’t everyone balance their budgets including Governments, households and corporations. Well, to that I say, “then money wouldn’t really be money”. Money in itself is a debt, just look at the banknotes printed every day, they’re just promises and trusts circulating everywhere. They’re even created by banks through making loans. Thus, if nobody really took out loans, there would be no such thing as money.

This leads me to my standpoint in this text. It’s preposterous how we should pay to balance the governments checkbooks. The rich can easily wriggle their ways out of such issues through misuse of Power. What about the rest of us? Why should we ever take part in such an act and how can one apply so much burden to those who even struggle to fulfill their basic necessities?

All in all, something along these lines has to happen when the government runs a surplus. Everyone will just keep pushing the debt on to those least able to pay it, until the whole thing collapses like a house of cards: just like it did in 2008.

Rational: The following text was a re implementation of the bias used within the article “Britain is heading for another 2008 crash: here’s why” by David Graeber. This text was centrally focused upon the recent infringement of taxes upon the British private sector in aims to pay off Government national debt, focusing upon the cruelty of the rich to avoid following these legal acts and the burden transferred upon the poor and middle class to deal with the running elite’s issues. The author aimed to regularly emphasize his argument and viewpoint upon this economic situation through the lens of rhetorical questions to directly communicate with the audience alongside negative connotations and diction as well as various uses of hyperbole and a clear, logical tone to relay his ideas.  

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This is Water

Through our exploration of emotional intelligence and its significance in the modern-day era, David Foster Wallace and Alice Munro both seem to implement this tactic through various parts of their works, focusing centrally upon the extent of empathy and emotion in their writing whilst crafting delicate literary masterpieces in the making.


To begin with, the two authors relate to one another in several ways; Wallace and Munro submerge their central themes using topics of realism and true events in order to provide the reader with a practical reading and one that may, although not be as thrilling as a popular fictional novel, yet provides a trend of emotions and intellect for the reader to understand as well as proper knowledge and learning upon a specific genre in a literary style, attempting to enable and drive the reader’s thoughts into their direction. In addition to this, both deeply develop the plot and context of their texts, with Wallace concentrating completely on a specific theme he aims to speak of, whilst Munro explores her central ideas through characters and conflicts to develop them, proving to be more vivid in presenting content in terms of real-life situations and personal encounters in contrast to Wallace.


This can be further supported through the difference in context of the two writers, with Munro being born and brought up in early Canada, influencing where most of her stories are set and progress, as Wallace features towards a slightly more modern perspective, alongside a somewhat shift in character and personality type, through his encounters with depression, portraying a rather unique and different viewpoint in his writing unlike Munro. Furthermore, this leads to the great difference in writing styles of the two authors, whereby Wallace tends to devise his writing through a more frank and informal tone, enlisting that he is teaching or instructing his endeavors to a somewhat younger audience as a form of advice or guidance of avoiding dark paths of distress and dismay. Munro, on the other hand, composes her texts with a major application of innovation, along with a tranquil tone, allowing the tale to settle and advance gradually towards her central themes included.


As a result, the writers tend to establish meaning within their text through emotional intelligence, confirming that the reader continues to think of the tale, or feel emotionally impacted even far after the text has concluded. These factors, also, are not only of competence between the two, yet also establish and enlists the basis of their accomplishments and achievements, signifying the distinction between these two individuals and their tales to success within the literary world.

Summer Blog Post 1: A Memorable Champions Trophy Victory

After completing our Mock Exams and watching the last few days of school pass by, everybody was craving for a summer break, and mine was already packed with some excitement as Pakistan had qualified for the final of cricket's veteran tournament, the Champions Trophy. Perhaps the most exciting bit was that they were set to face arch-rivals India at The Oval in London for the trophy and a victory would not only set up a huge triumph for the nation, but would signify the perfect start to my summer break, being a die-hard cricket fan.


The only unfortunate bit was that the odds were low for a Pakistan victory, as seen by the following statistics, displaying Pakistan's clashes with India in ICC tournaments, lacking any success in the World cup or World T20. Furthermore, Pakistan had previously faced India in this very edition of the tournament, during their opening match, whereby they lost by quite a large margin, another factor supporting India's chances to clinch their second consecutive Champions Trophy win. Overall, Pakistan's chances in general were low, and India were the true favorites in this nail biting contest, but did the numbers dictate the true story?

The day had finally come, it was the 18th of June, with 4 more days left till summer, I returned back from school just after the toss as India had won (the toss) and chosen to bowl first, an element of surprise on a historically well known batting ground. Nevertheless, a good sign for Pakistan due to the fact that batting was their central weakness. Pakistan batted, putting up a competitive score of 338, the highest in the tournament, with Fakhar Zaman scoring a belter 120 runs and Hafeez chipping in at the end with a useful 54, symbolizing a huge spark of hope for Pakistan and their possible trail to victory (as bowling has been their strength for many generations).

Mohammed Amir confirmed this, by picking up 3-16 in his 6 overs, including taking the wicket of India's top batsmen, and the number one batsmen in the world, Virat Kohli, as well as the top run scorer of the tournament, Shikhar Dhawan, early in the game to set up a comfortable Pakistan victory as India were bowled out for 158, Pakistan lifted the trophy, coming into the tournament as the 8th ranked side in the world (the tournament itself is between the top 8 sides globally), and finishing at the top of the table, proving to be one of the most memorable wins in Pakistan Cricket's history.

The following Link leads to the Full Match Highlights of the CT17 Final (5:04 minutes): https://www.icc-cricket.com/champions-trophy/video/420969

Thesis Statement and Essay Outline

Prompt: The personal history of an author can have a significant influence on the way meaning is constructed in his/her writing. Comment on specific instances of such influence in Things Fall Apart.

Thesis Statement: Achebe developed Things Fall Apart as a piece of literature to display and influence a neutral perspective towards both Christianity and Igbo lifestyle, providing the reader with an equal viewpoint of both variables.

Topic Sentence 1: Okonkwo was characterized as a biased, yet unaware entity towards Igbo culture, and was implemented by Achebe to prove the lack of justification and complete understanding of Igbo beliefs.

Topic Sentence 2: Reverend James Smith was another significant individual part of the plot to portray Achebe's balance towards Christianity (being a Christian himself) and Igbo beliefs and discover that religion wasn't the central reason for White influence.

Topic Sentence 3: Achebe shaped Nwoye as an antagonist towards the central Character (Okonkwo) to foreshadow and, as a result, symbolize the gradual transgression of Nigerian Society.

Things Fall Apart: Thesis Statements

Prompt: With reference to Things Fall Apart, show how sub-plots or secondary characters contribute to the reader’s understanding and appreciation of the work as a whole.

Thesis Statement: Achebe places certain sub-plots within the novel to centrally influence Okonkwo's tragic-hero archetype to symbolize the gradual downfall of Igbo lifestyle and culture.

Things Fall Apart Tragic Hero Archetype

In many ways Things Fall Apart is considered a tragedy. Why would Achebe, taking into account the cultural context, choose to characterize Okonkwo using the tragic hero archetype?

Achebe produced his novel as a literary piece, providing both sides of the story between the white missionaries and Umuofian public. In the tale, he desired to keep a balance between the two sides and Okonkwo himself is, ironically, lob sided towards the previous or ancient Nigerian culture of the Ibo people. The result of his perishing is persistently depicted due to the transformation of society from one stage to another, as Achebe focuses on the historic purpose of how the Nigerians were influenced by the white missionaries and that, overall, culture and society has progressed. Okonkwo's death similarly symbolizes the death of Ibo belief and rituals, not as a stance of support towards the great destruction that the missionaries had convicted upon the ancient Nigeria, but to display an image of reality and provide a true, yet meaningful account of local history, attempting to fish-out or subtract the modern-day emphasized or exaggerated stories that lack coherence and truth, aiming only to show a single side of the actual happenings. This can also be evidently justified through the fact that the novel concluded at Okonkwo’s death, rather than developing onwards, as Achebe designed the novel to provide a neutral viewpoint with little details of the ongoing events and what he likely assessed to occur soon afterwards with British rule.