1. Determine the author’s point of view about Laura and Maurice’s friendship. Does the author have a positive, negative, or neutral opinion of their friendship? 2. Identify important events in Laura and Maurice’s friendship that the author includes in the text.
3. Explain what these events show about the author’s point of view about friendship.
4. Identify key words and phrases the author uses to describe the friendship between Laura and Maurice. What weighted words, or words with strong emotional associations, does the author use?
5. Explain what these weighted words and phrases show about the author’s point of view about friendship.
6. Explain how someone with a different opinion of Laura and Maurice’s friendship would write about it. Explain how that person’s description of events would change.

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.

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Read the excerpt from act iii of the importance of being earnest. jack. [in a pathetic voice.] miss prism, more is restored to you than this hand-bag. i was the baby you placed in it. miss prism. [amazed.] you? jack. [embracing her.] yes . . mother! miss prism. [recoiling in indignant astonishment.] mr. worthing! i am unmarried! jack. unmarried! i do not deny that is a serious blow. but after all, who has the right to cast a stone against one who has suffered? cannot repentance wipe out an act of folly? why should there be one law for men, and another for women? mother, i forgive you. [tries to embrace her again.] what is the best conclusion that can be drawn about jack, based on his words and actions in this excerpt? he has a tendency to be rude. he is inclined to show his emotions. he has a tendency to be gullible. he is inclined to be unresponsive.