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Brooklyn Cop   Built like a gorilla but less timid,                                     thick‑fleshed, steak‑coloured, with two hieroglyphs in his face that mean trouble, he walks the sidewalk and the 5         thin tissue over violence. This morning, when he said, "See you, babe" to his wife, he hoped it, he truly hoped it. He is a gorilla to whom "Hiya, honey" is no cliché.   10       Should the tissue tear, should he plunge through into violence, what clubbings, what gunshots between Phoebe's Whamburger         and Louie's Place.   Who would be him, gorilla with a nightstick, 15       whose home is a place he might,...

Aunt Julia          Aunt Julia spoke Gaelic        very loud and very fast.        I could not answer her —        I could not understand her.   5       She wore men's boots        when she wore any.        — I can see her strong foot,        stained with peat,        paddling with the treadle of the spinningwheel 10      while her right hand drew yarn        marvellously out of the air.          Hers was the only house        where I've lain at night        in the absolute darkness 15      of...

Here 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.

Hotel Room, 12 th Floor   This morning I watched from here a helicopter skirting like a damaged insect the Empire State Building, that jumbo sized dentist’s drill, and landing 5           on the roof of the Pan Am skyscraper. But now midnight has come in from foreign places. Its uncivilised darkness is shot at by a million lit windows, all ups and acrosses.   10         But midnight is not so easily defeated. I lie in bed, between a radio and a television set, and hear the wildest of warwhoops continually ululating through the glittering canyons and gulches – 15         police cars and ambulances racing to the broken bones, the harsh screaming from coldwater flats, the blood glazed on sidewalks.   The frontier is never 20         somewhere else. And no...

Black and white film titles. ‘Gran Torino’ theme is played slowly and mournfully on electric guitar and piano. Sounds of birdsong, daylight, long shot of chapel, cars parked outside, church music played on organ. Volume of music increases. Interior, low angle shot of organist, stained glass behind. High angle shot of congregation crowded at front of church. A coffin sits before altar. Tracking shot follows old man as he walks past coffin and photograph of elderly woman. As camera continues to track with old man, he talks to taller, serious-looking, suited man (Walt Kowalksi / Clint Eastwood) who is standing beside the coffin.   OLDER MAN       I'm real sorry about Dorothy, Walt. She was a real peach.   Reverse shot of man almost from Walt’s POV                               ...

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.