Based on the context, choose the words that correctly complete this excerpt from ernest shackleton’s memoir south! worsley produced several safety-pins from some corner of his garments and (affected/effected/afflicted/effect uated) some temporary repairs that really emphasized his general disrepair. down we hurried, and when quite close to the station we met two small boys ten or twelve years of age. i asked these lads where the manager’s house was situated. they did not answer. they gave us one look—a (compromising/compressive/commissiv e/comprehensive) look that did not need to be repeated. then they ran from us as fast as their legs would carry them.

1. explain the technique of loaded language and loaded images and provide an example of where this technique might be used in the media that you consume on a daily basis. 2. when you evaluate media, you can use a number of techniques to you evaluate critically and effectively. discuss one important technique and provide an example of how you may use it with the media you consume.

If you were starving, what would you do for food? "condensed milk" tells the story of a political prisoner in a russian gulag (a forced-labor camp) who is faced with a choice: stay in the gulag—working and starving—or escape from the prison and risk dying. what choice would you make? historical context: from 1929 to 1953, joseph stalin was the dictator of the soviet union. his goal was to transform the soviet union from a poor society into a world superpower. he used terror and violence to rule, and under his reign, millions of his own people died in work camps, from starvation due to famine, or by execution. select a detail to support the idea that russian gulags treated prisoners cruelly. prisoners faced choices. prisoners had to work. prisoners tried to escape. prisoners were starving.

Once you have finished revising your peer’s essay, continue to demonstrate your understanding of grammar and punctuation by writing an essay containing all of the grammatical concepts outlined above. your essay should be short, just 250 words, and it can be written on any subject. it should contain an example of parallel structure, an example of every type of phrase and clause outlined in this lesson, an example of two independent clauses connected by a semicolon, and an example of a colon. if you are struggling to come up with an idea for an essay, consider writing it about the themes present in one of the texts you have read already.