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Task 4 1.**Which character do you think undergoes the most change? Explain the journey that your character underwent during the novel?**

Throughout the novel, homer went through the most changes. Homer went from a wild teenager to a leader of the group by the end of the book. He set out choices like, “we could involve ourselves in some way that would help us win this war and get our country back.” So the group could make a decision either to help in some way or to do nothing. Homer also had the wild idea of blowing up the bridge. At the beginning of the novel, “nobody took him very seriously.” Because he wasn’t serious about his actions but when it came to the war it was like nobody, took the war as seriously as homer. As homer thought of many plans Ellie mentioned, “Homer’s genius” where she meant that he was the one that combined action with thought and who planned ahead.

**2.Ellie at one stage outlines what she sees as “Homer’s genius” was homer a genius for coming up with the plans to “rescue” lee and to destroy the bridge?**

Homer had the idea of rescuing lee and destroying the bridge but that does not make him a genius. Anyone in the group could have had that idea but just didn’t have the heart to say it or even think it. In the novel Ellie said, “Homer was becoming more surprising with every passing hour. A genius is someone who always thought ahead, had great ideas, thinking about others and thinking about the consequences of something. It was getting hard to remember that this fast thinking guy… wasn’t even trusted to hand out the books at school,” saying that homer was just an ordinary guy that was known as the class clown that when it came to the war he was the one able to think outside of the square. When Ellie was describing homer she said, “Homer always seemed to be in trouble.” When she said that she meant that he was the classic rebel who just stood out from the crowd and came up with good ideas but that does not make him a genius.

3.**Ellie worries that she might become “like a war criminal? Because of the acts she’s committing. She says she uses “a sense within [her]” to determine what was “good or bad.” Was Ellie a ‘good’ person?**

Ellie always said, “I don’t know if I’ll be able to do this” saying that she doesn’t want to admit to all the crimes she’s committed. Ellie struggled when she said, “I saw their faces; then struck the match.” She was so frightened thinking that they were going to die because of her. She was taking the responsibility of her actions. But she took it hard when she heard that she had killed people with the lawn mower. Ellie was a good, normal person that had to go through war witch would change peoples’ normal view on life. Ellie thought she was a bad person when she heard, “two of them (the soldiers) died” she seemed to feel bad but knew she had to anyway. But war brings out the worst and Ellie before the war, and still is, deep down a good strong-hearted person.

4.**When Ellie finds Chris asleep on sentry duty she loses her temper with him. She understands why sleep sentries should be ‘shot.’ She becomes ‘logical, cold-blooded and merciless.’ Later she says that “I guess he atones.” Did Chris belong in the group**

Chris belonged in the group in a way but stood out from the others so it didn’t really include him in their choices. “He’d risked the lives of all of us by being so slack” Ellie said when she found him. She knew that if one thing goes wrong everything they’ve worked for could be ruined. Chris tells Ellie, “take it easy” Because Chris didn’t notice the responsibility or take it seriously and Ellie tried to make him understand that they could die if he fell asleep. “You might as well get a rifle and finish us all off now. Because you’re as food as doing that by taking it easy” that quote was Ellie’s response which shows that Ellie is under pressure and needs everyone to be on guard in case the worst happens. Chris was more like an outsider in the story because he couldn’t understand and take the war as serious as it was.

Task 2 Twtwb 1.**Who is the leader of the group?** I think that a leader is someone who takes control or takes charge and responsibility in something they choose to do. A leader would look out for others but think carefully in their options. Leaders would match action with consequences and think about any others and take care in what you do. I think that showing leadership means bravery, courage and mental strength. In my opinion I think that in this story everyone is a leader in their own way. Everyone has their own strengths so I wouldn’t say there is only one leader in the group. I think that Ellie is the moral leader, the truthful one. She isn’t afraid to write what she thought like when she said “We’re dead, it’s all my fault.” where she took responsibility thinking people were depending on her and was taking the responsibility or blame. Homer is the leader for action, he says what to and sometimes within choices. He opens up options too choose from so then you always have a choice of your own like. When Homer said, “…involve ourselves in some way that would help us win this war and get our country back.” Homer was able to put faith into the group and offer options. Robyn was more of a friend than a leader, she cared more for others like when she said, “Are you ok Lee?” when she was checking up on him. That showed she cared for others more than herself so in a way she was the leader of care and friendship. 2.**Who, in the group shows remarkable courage?**

I think that in the novel everyone shows remarkable courage in their own way. Ellie was courageous when she was just writing the story. It would be tough writing about terrible things and admitting to the crimes her and her friends have committed. When she said, “I don’t know if I’ll be able to do this,” she said it because she didn’t think she could handle it but she did write so I think that she had courage just in telling the story. I think that Homer had a lot of courage by standing up for their country. He suggested to try and do something like, “we can do something else to help the good guys,” where he set out choices so they could decide and that would be hard because you wouldn’t want to just sit there and you wouldn’t want to inflict pain on purpose or kill someone so that was very brave. 3.**Ellie is concerned by Chris’ morality; she’s concerned that if the romantic relationship break up there will be tension in the group. What tests of their friendship do you see lie ahead for the group?**

The group is put under pressure when they are tested with their friendships because each person has a partner but if they break up it won’t be the same and if Ellie or someone went for someone else in the group who was already taken then there would be no trust that was developed in the group so their focus wouldn’t be on what they’re meant to be doing it is on stress or maybe anger. When Ellie said, “We all have to get on,” she explaining that if they weren’t friends or weren’t loyal or trustworthy of each other their plans wouldn’t work or their friendship would just fall apart. When Ellie and Lee were talking she mentioned that Lee, “Looked really hurt,” because she was practically saying that nothing matters to her. Lee asked Ellie, “do you just dislike me as a person?” if something like this continued into the group they would have trouble talking to each other, trouble like being honest.

4.**Why do you think Marsden included the story of Christie in the novel?**

I think that john Marsden included the story of Christie because He almost had a similar story to the group. “Private Christie….forward under enemy fire to rescue a wounded….corporal…he endangered his own life…for which his majesty is pleased to honour him with the award...” When Lee and Ellie were reading about that they said that Robyn should get a medal for helping Lee when injured so in that way, the hermit and members of the guerrilla group are alike in some ways. “The judge recommended that the director of public prosecutions lay and information of wilful and felonious murder…”Ellie and Lee also read this out and Ellie felt that she had a small connection to Christie because he must of killed his wife and child in some way but how could you do that without feeling bad. Ellie felt that killing someone had such a bad feeling that maybe she felt just like the hermit so once again the group has another relation to Christie.

Task 1 Twtwb


 * 1. ** When Homer shares options on what they could do there was the choice of rescuing the families, inflicting damage on the enemy or do nothing and wait until the war is over. If it was my choice I would say no to killing more and there is no way that anyone could sit back and watch as their land is being taken over so I would say to rescue the people captured. Even though it is risky and it might kill you, it’s better to die trying rather than to die running away from what may be the future. Even though it is probably the most dangerous with having to go inside the show grounds that are guarded, you are trying to rescue other people and you are putting your life on the line for others.

**2.** In life, murder is wrong but in war there is no right or wrong. You could kill someone to protect yourself and others but even though it is still murder you are taking one life to save many others. In war I would say no, murder isn’t wrong, yes I would say that life would change knowing that you have killed someone or having the guilt of it but in a war murder is what people do to either get what they want or keep what they have. I would say it is wrong to kill someone innocent but who is innocent in war, war brings out different sides in people, changes their thoughts on violence and makes them do unbelievable things that they would never do, like murder someone. So in a war, if you were being chased or hurt murder isn’t wrong in war.

**3.** When Ellie killed people to save Lee I think that it wouldn’t be that bad to refuse Corrie and it wouldn’t make sense for the enemy to help the group outside of the show ground.

**4.** Other countries would be less likely to be involved in a “clean war” because if there weren’t many deaths then no one would not want to go in and attach to just cause more deaths. If only forty people died then the war wouldn’t be that bad but i think that there is no such thing as a “clean war.” A clean war would be no deaths at all, no fights or blood but in every war something bad comes out of it, someone always ends up injured or sad about someone else. There are too many choices in war, too much of a chance of death. My opinion is that nothing is right in war, no problems can be solved over death and violence. A clean war would be no death or blood but what war starts the country being asked to be invaded. The war in Tomorrow when the War began would be a cleaner war than others with only about forty deaths but there were still lives lost.

My Long Aztec Report **When and Where the Aztecs Lived.** For hundreds of years the Aztec civilization ruled over Mexico. Mexico had Aztec cities and towns in it with Tenochtitlan as its largest city. The Aztecs lived from around the 11 hundreds to 1519. The Aztecs were believed to have around 15 million people in their civilization. They also had about 500 towns which soon lead to an enormous empire. The Aztecs had many beliefs which involved a lot of sacrifice and blood but in some ways they were still like any other civilization in like how they had many traditions and how they built temples and used some of them for tombs. Their society included priests, warriors, farmers and many others jobs.

**The Aztecs Social and Political Structure.** The Aztecs had organised duties for everyone. You could tell what “class” they were in by the way they would dress and by their haircuts. Many were warriors and priests or farmers. For education, the girls were taught things at home like learning how to spin at the age of four and how to cook at the age of twelve. Noble girls at twelve or thirteen would go to work at a temple or learn to become a priestess. Girls were mainly trained for marriage. The boys were all trained for war. At the age of about four boys would help carry water around and get wood and at the age of six they would learn to fish and take things to market. The Cuicacalli was like a military school for boys teaching them about weapons and war but Calmecac students had more religious roles and learnt about history, poetry, astronomy and writing. When the Aztec people went to war they thought it was more honourable to be killed in a battle or be sacrificed than come back alive. The Aztecs were trained to be very tough. The Aztecs would have a leader for their armies that would be called Tlatoani which meant “speaker.” Their leader would be elected from the other army commanders.They had many sacrifices for part of their religion. The Aztecs religion involved a lot of blood, war and gory ceremonies. They also had thousands of slaves who were criminals; enemies that were caught or poor people who gave up their home and freedom for food and a shelter. The Aztecs would also capture many of prisoners for their sacrifices.They did many sacrifices at a temple in Tenochtitlan, as their largest city had about 200,000 people.

**The City Of Tenochtitlan** Tenochtitlan was the largest city of the Aztecs in Mexico. Mexico was dry land that had barely any plants other than small trees and grasses. Mexico had very hot weather and frequent earthquakes. The valley of Mexico was over 2,000 meters above sea level and it barely ever rained. Mexico had many volcanoes with its largest being called “Popocatepetl” which means “smoking mountain.” Tenochtitlan had the largest amount of people in it out of all the other Aztec cities. The Aztecs built Tenochtitlan on an island in the middle of a lake called Texcoco. Tenochtitlan soon grew to be their largest city with an estimate of about 200,000 people who lived there. The image to the right is a picture of Lake Texcoco where Tenochtitlan Island is around the middle of the lake. The city of Tenochtitlan was divided into four districts. The centre was called the Sacred Precinct which was where hundreds of captives were brought to be sacrificed so that they would live on into the sunlight the next day.

**The Aztec’s Religion** The Aztecs believed that to make the sun rise the next day they would next to sacrifice people andoffer their hearts and blood to the gods that would let them to live on. They did that because they thought that if they were to keep the gods of nature happy they needed special gifts like human sacrifices. By the year 1519 the Aztecs were sacrificing about 20,000 people each year. They thought that the sun would die if they did not offer gifts. Every fifty-two years they believed that the world would end but to stop that from happening they thought that if they hold a ceremony with a sacrifice to the sun, the Aztec world would live on for another fifty-two years. The Aztecs thought that war was very important to them. For luck and so the gods would give them strength they would prick a hole in their ear or cut their hand to offer their blood to the gods that would let their battle be honourable. They thought that it was more honourable to their people if they died in battle or were sacrificed than to come back alive. The Aztecs had many legends and beliefs and one of the prophesies was that in the year 1519 there would be a conflict between two of their gods, Tezcatlipoca the god of war and Quetzalcoatl who has the power over the Aztec empire. They believed that after the battle between the gods that the Aztecs would fall. That was their most accurate out of all their beliefs because in 1519 the Spanish discovered Mexico and then soon ended their reign.

**How The Aztec Empire Grew.** The Aztecs conquered most of Mexico planting towns and small cities around it. The Aztecs used war to keep and expand their empire. The Aztecs would fight to gain more land. They had a continuous war so they were always making their empire grow. The Aztecs specialized in war, they fought many people and took many prisoners. Taking prisoners were one of their main aims. Once they had prisoners they would sacrifice them for small rituals by putting them over a large stone and cutting them up with a sacrificial knife like the one in the image above.For the more special ceremonies a warrior from the army would volunteer to be sacrificed instead of a prisoner because it was more honourable. Normally to begin a fight they would shout loudly and bang their hands on drums. The Aztec warriors would dress up in costumes that looked like jaguars and eagles meant to scare away the enemies. The outfits also told what rank the warrior was. Ever since a boy was young they would be trained to be a future warrior and when they captured their first prisoner that would say that they are becoming a proper man. The Aztecs depended on war to help them through almost anything but it began to stop working in the year 1519. **When and Where the Aztecs Lived.** For hundreds of years the Aztec civilization ruled over Mexico. Mexico had Aztec cities and towns in it with Tenochtitlan as its largest city. The Aztecs lived from around the 11 hundreds to 1519. The Aztecs were believed to have around 15 million people in their civilization. They also had about 500 towns which soon lead to an enormous empire. The Aztecs had many beliefs which involved a lot of sacrifice and blood but in some ways they were still like any other civilization in like how they had many traditions and how they built temples and used some of them for tombs. Their society included priests, warriors, farmers and many others jobs. **The Aztecs Social and Political Structure.** The Aztecs had organised duties for everyone. You could tell what “class” they were in by the way they would dress and by their haircuts. Many were warriors and priests or farmers. For education, the girls were taught things at home like learning how to spin at the age of four and how to cook at the age of twelve. Noble girls at twelve or thirteen would go to work at a temple or learn to become a priestess. Girls were mainly trained for marriage. The boys were all trained for war. At the age of about four boys would help carry water around and get wood and at the age of six they would learn to fish and take things to market. The Cuicacalli was like a military school for boys teaching them about weapons and war but Calmecac students had more religious roles and learnt about history, poetry, astronomy and writing. When the Aztec people went to war they thought it was more honourable to be killed in a battle or be sacrificed than come back alive. The Aztecs were trained to be very tough. The Aztecs would have a leader for their armies that would be called Tlatoani which meant “speaker.” Their leader would be elected from the other army commanders.They had many sacrifices for part of their religion. The Aztecs religion involved a lot of blood, war and gory ceremonies. They also had thousands of slaves who were criminals; enemies that were caught or poor people who gave up their home and freedom for food and a shelter. The Aztecs would also capture many of prisoners for their sacrifices. They did many sacrifices at a temple in Tenochtitlan, as their largest city had about 200,000 people. **The City Of Tenochtitlan** Tenochtitlan was the largest city of the Aztecs in Mexico. Mexico was dry land that had barely any plants other than small trees and grasses. Mexico had very hot weather and frequent earthquakes. The valley of Mexico was over 2,000 meters above sea level and it barely ever rained. Mexico had many volcanoes with its largest being called “Popocatepetl” which means “smoking mountain.” Tenochtitlan had the largest amount of people in it out of all the other Aztec cities. The Aztecs built Tenochtitlan on an island in the middle of a lake called Texcoco. Tenochtitlan soon grew to be their largest city with an estimate of about 200,000 people who lived there. The image to the right is a picture of Lake Texcoco where Tenochtitlan Island is around the middle of the lake. The city of Tenochtitlan was divided into four districts. The centre was called the Sacred Precinct which was where hundreds of captives were brought to be sacrificed so that they would live on into the sunlight the next day. **The Aztec’s Religion** The Aztecs believed that to make the sun rise the next day they would next to sacrifice people and offer their hearts and blood to the gods that would let them to live on. They did that because they thought that if they were to keep the gods of nature happy they needed special gifts like human sacrifices. By the year 1519 the Aztecs were sacrificing about 20,000 people each year. They thought that the sun would die if they did not offer gifts. Every fifty-two years they believed that the world would end but to stop that from happening they thought that if they hold a ceremony with a sacrifice to the sun, the Aztec world would live on for another fifty-two years. The Aztecs thought that war was very important to them. For luck and so the gods would give them strength they would prick a hole in their ear or cut their hand to offer their blood to the gods that would let their battle be honourable. They thought that it was more honourable to their people if they died in battle or were sacrificed than to come back alive. The Aztecs had many legends and beliefs and one of the prophesies was that in the year 1519 there would be a conflict between two of their gods, Tezcatlipoca the god of war and Quetzalcoatl who has the power over the Aztec empire. They believed that after the battle between the gods that the Aztecs would fall. That was their most accurate out of all their beliefs because in 1519 the Spanish discovered Mexico and then soon ended their reign.The Aztecs conquered most of Mexico planting towns and small cities around it. The Aztecs used war to keep and expand their empire. The Aztecs would fight to gain more land. They had a continuous war so they were always making their empire grow. The Aztecs specialized in war, they fought many people and took many prisoners. Taking prisoners were one of their main aims. Once they had prisoners they would sacrifice them for small rituals by putting them over a large stone and cutting them up with a sacrificial knife like the one in the image above.For the more special ceremonies a warrior from the army would volunteer to be sacrificed instead of a prisoner because it was more honourable. Normally to begin a fight they would shout loudly and bang their hands on drums. The Aztec warriors would dress up in costumes that looked like jaguars and eagles meant to scare away the enemies. The outfits also told what rank the warrior was. Ever since a boy was young they would be trained to be a future warrior and when they captured their first prisoner that would say that they are becoming a proper man. The Aztecs depended on war to help them through almost anything but it began to stop working in the year 1519. **The Fall of The Aztecs.** In 1519 a man called Hernan Cortes was asked by King Charles the 5th of Spain to explore the new land and to tell and describe Mexico to him. Cortes described how mountainous it was by crumpling up a piece of paper and throwing it on the table. He brought 500 men to the shore of Mexico. The Aztec thought that Cortes was Quetzalcoatl who was coming to destroy the land. The Aztecs were not sure if they were gods so they treated them well. The special ceremony that happened every fifty-two years was in the time that the Spanish came and it was also the year that they believed two of their gods would fight. They thought that these signs were bad omens towards the Aztecs. The Spanish were amazed at how beautiful it was but became suspicious when the room in the palace they were staying at had a doorway that was covered with rocks and decided to take the wall down they found gold, silver and rubies. After the discovery the Aztecs had killed two messengers from Cortes so he decided to take over the Aztec city. Soon the Spanish defeated the Aztecs and gathered any treasure like gold they could find. Any remaining Aztecs became slaves working for the Spanish and watched their land get torn down. Although they were gone, they were soon discovered again years later.King Charles the 5th of Spain to explore the new land and to tell and describe Mexico to him. Cortes described how mountainous it was by crumpling up a piece of paper and throwing it on the table. He brought 500 men to the shore of Mexico. The Aztec thought that Cortes was Quetzalcoatl who was coming to destroy the land. The Aztecs were not sure if they were gods so they treated them well. The special ceremony that happened every fifty-two years was in the time that the Spanish came and it was also the year that they believed two of their gods would fight. They thought that these signs were bad omens towards the Aztecs. The Spanish were amazed at how beautiful it was but became suspicious when the room in the palace they were staying at had a doorway that was covered with rocks and decided to take the wall down they found gold, silver and rubies. After the discovery the Aztecs had killed two messengers from Cortes so he decided to take over the Aztec city. Soon the Spanish defeated the Aztecs and gathered any treasure like gold they could find. Any remaining Aztecs became slaves working for the Spanish and watched their land get torn down. Although they were gone, they were soon discovered again years later.

Essay

As the Roman Empire fell the feudal system developed. The feudal system is a system that showed loyalty to people more educated. For example the feudal pyramid has the king on top, then nobles, then knights and lords and then the peasants. The pyramid showed that the people with the most power were on top and the people below had to be loyal to them. Peasants who worked on farms and had food would give their lords food in return for a shelter. The lords would be loyal to the nobles and then the nobles would be loyal to the king but sometimes the lords would change their loyalty to a different noble who would still be loyal to the king but the peasants would still be the same because they never changed. There were a few things that caused the feudal system to end such as the influence of the effects of the Crusades.

The Crusades were events that were one of the reasons that the feudal system fell. The first crusade was in 1090 and was led by the pope who wanted more Christian society and to liberate Jerusalem. He wanted at least 5000 people to sign up to go to Jerusalem and in return for joining the crusade the pope would “save you a seat in heaven” and all your sins and regrets would be forgiven and they would also pay you. Instead of getting 5000 people joining the crusade he got 100000. On the way to Jerusalem the Egyptians had already taken over. On the long journey with 100000 thousand people going to Jerusalem when they actually arrived they had around 20000 people left. Even though the Muslims, Jewish and Christian people in Jerusalem who were all cooperating together the pope still wanted the land so he just killed everyone everywhere. On their way over there they discovered new products and ideas that they brought home and for the first time peasants had money which led to the rise of towns.

From the new objects and ideas that came back with the people from the Crusades people started to get smarter and because the people were getting paid to go to Jerusalem for the first time peasants had money. The farm workers came up with the idea of crop rotations so they had a rise of population because they had more food and people who had goods to sell they went to the crossroads where all the people passed by and so they got more money. Soon they all made up councils called guilds with an elected mayor who would sort things out which reduced the power of the nobles. After that there was education and peasants started sending their children to school and that once again lessened the power of the nobles and priests because they were the only ones that could read or write which gave the peasants some power. The value of the peasants when up and their value increased when diseases came in like the Black Death.

The Black Death was a disease that was carried by rats. Sicily was the first place it came to but it was carried on ships so Sicily sent the ships away. The Black Death was a highly contagious and very dangerous disease, around 70 million people died. Nobles and lords would sometimes move themselves from the affected area and the peasants felt betrayed because the people they worked for would make a deal that said that if anything were to happen like diseases broke out they could stay in their house. But instead they were left to stay so most of the peasants caught the disease and died during the years the plague was around. Many people died and all their loyalty to the nobles and lords were lost which caused the feudal system to fall.

The Crusades, Black Death and the rise of towns all played a role in ending the feudal system. After all that the people paid less attention to god and more of the arts came in like music and paintings. The time when that was around was called the Renaissance.

Retell the story of Beowulf in 150 words. Listen readers as the story of Beowulf begins. Beowulf set us free from the ugly and treacherous troll Grendel. When the troll started killing and eating men Beowulf grabbed his arm and didn’t let go. He ripped of Grendel's arm and Grendel left. Beowulf hung the arm up in the hall as a trophy, but he knew this wasn’t over just yet. Grendel’s mother, a sea witch went to the village and tore apart people to get to Grendel's arm. She took it down and held it in her arms like it was a baby. The next morning Beowulf came down to the swamp. It took hours, we thought Beowulf had died but when he came up we knew the witch was gone. But Beowulf never was never happy again. Some say he saw corpses and skeletons of the dead people that Grendel and his mother killed together. He made our home safe.

Techniques used to convey the horror of Grendel. In the story of Beowulf the author used many different poetic and powerful wording techniques to convey the horror of Grendel. “...terror stalked the land...” The author used many metaphors and similes to make the words in the sentence to sound strong and powerful. The writer has also used visual imagery and powerful adjectives like in the following quote, “...thunder clouds hang heavy...” in the sentence the adjective is “hang heavy.” It describes storm coming, it gives you an image of land under dark heavy clouds. “...after that the music stopped...”The author also uses short sentences to make the words sound more dramatic, make them seem as if you have to pay attention to the words being said because something is about to happen. Alliteration and assonance is also used like in the sentence, “...it sends shivers down my spine and makes my scalp crawl...” In the story the description is used to tell you what the appearance of something looks like when the author is describing Grendel and says, “...a huge mottled creature, a deformed troll from the marshes...” you immediately get an image of what the character looks like.

Tell a story of bullying. Every day I would meet the devil’s sister. A cruel person who insults anyone she passes but acts so sweet and innocent around teachers so they don’t know what she is truly like. I was strong but tired of what was going on. I can’t stand it anymore. I hate her so much! And out of everyone in the school, she chose to be friends with my friend Lou. Lou thinks she is really nice, friendly and helpful, helpful? What rubbish, Amie is the meanest, worst possible friend and the rudest of all. I mean who greets someone by hitting them? That’s what she did to me. She ruins everything and she gets away with everything. Her evil mother works at the school so if anything goes wrong she goes straight to her mother and (what I was afraid of) would come back to me. I hated the way she would scream in my face when and would hit me in sport so she could go ahead of me. But I then made a friend with Lilac. Lilac is really nice and we ended up being best friends and Amie would do exactly what she did to me but to her as well, she hated it too so we would go off to be just us. But when I told Lou that I was going to spend my time with Lilac, Amie heard. So a few days later Amie put on her innocent sad face on and cried her way to the teachers and said that me and Lilac have been bullying her. So at lunch the next day me and Lilac got brought into a room with Amie still crying. She just whined and sobbed that I don’t want to be friends with her and that I hit her, teased her and hurt her all the time. She wouldn’t even let me speak, she didn’t want me telling the truth about her. So I let it slide. I sat there, glaring at her, waiting for my time of revenge. My mum knew about how badly Amie hurt me every day so we went into the teachers office and told them everything, that I did nothing wrong, I just wanted to hang out with Lilac, and how everything she said I did was what she did to me. I was mad with what she’d done and the teachers knew, they were on my side. The next day I stayed away from her but I saw her go into the teacher’s office and her face going red, she couldn’t get out of this one. She came out, face bright red and glared at me while I smiled. Everything’s fine now. Oh revenge can be sweet.

Why do bullies bully. Bullies bully because they crave happiness and friendship but they don’t know how to get it, because they don’t know if you give, you get back. They think that controlling someone is how you make friends. Bullies hurt others and are mean because they think that having power over others will gain them points in popularity. They don’t know that true friends are nice to each other and respect each other.

This is My Bayeus Tapestry Report

The Bayeux Tapestry Background To The Bayeux Tapestry

In the year 1068 the Bayeux tapestry was made. Drawn in France and sown in England the Bayeux tapestry, 50 centimetres high and 68.38 meters long it was made by 35 nuns sewing with eight different colours of wool on the tapestry being grey blue, blue green, light green, dark blue, dark green, yellow, buff and terracotta. The Bayeux tapestry tells the story of all the events that happened in the year 1066 when the battle of Hastings between the Normans and the Saxons began. The Bayeux Tapestry was made because William of Normandy who won the battle of Hastings had a half brother, Odo, the bishop of Bayeux wanted a tapestry to hang up in his church telling the people what happened in the battle of Hastings, who won, why and why they had a right to be there. The words on the tapestry are written in Latin because for the people that was the only language that they could read and for the people who couldn’t read Latin, the pictures on the tapestry would tell the story as well.

Is the Bayeux Tapestry Biased or Unreliable

The Bayeux tapestry is unreliable because history is written by the winners. In this case the Normans won the battle of Hastings so William of Normandy wrote down what he wanted to be down in history. The Bayeux tapestry could easily be biased because the losers never got a say in what happened so maybe the Normans never had a right to be there, maybe King Harold never promised William the throne. The story was told by a Norman point of view not an English point of view. In the tapestry there was a scene where Harold put his hands on saint’s bones promising William the throne, but maybe that was the Norman’s story, maybe he didn’t promise anything.

What Kind Of Evidence Is The Tapestry

The Bayeux tapestry is primary evidence as for it tells us what things they used for embroidery, like what fabric they stitched on, what wool they used and what colour dye they used. The tapestry also gives us a small glimpse of what their clothing was like, what their weapons were like and what their houses looked like. But the actual story that the tapestry tells is secondary evidence because the story may not be correct because the story is written by the victors so it is only telling the Norman’s side of the story. The tapestry is evidence to the medieval time and at least one story of everything that happened in the year 1066.

The First Possible Cause Of Death

The first possible cause of the death of King Harold is the arrow in his eye. Earlier in the tapestry Harold promised Willian the thone to England but in that time, if you lied, you lost your eyes. So by fighting against William of Normandy, Harold got an arrow in the eye from lying but it was also noticd that if that figure in the tapestry was Harold, would he really of died from the arrow because in the image he seems to be pulling the arrow out. In the text above the figures, in latin it says, “Here Harold Dies.”

Second Possible Cause Of Death

The second possible cause of the death of Harold is that in the bayleux tapestry there were infact two figures that could have been Harold, one what the man with the arrow in his head and another one where about to be under a horse there is another figure with a sword through his body. The figure was also thought to possibly be Harold because where is says in latin “Here Harold Dies” both of the people are underneath the text. When people thought that Harold probally wouldn’t die from an arrow in the eye people looked at the other man and thought if it was the man with the sword in him, he would deffinitly be dead so there for maybe that was Harold. But then again, it was thought that the figure with the arrow in it’s to the left of the tapestry was most likely to be Harold because he is under the text where it says Harold.

Conclusion I think that king Harold is the figure in the tapestry with the sword through his body because i don’t think you would really die from an arrow in the eye unless is hit his brain but at the angle of the arrow in the picture it wouldn’t seem as if it would puncture the brain. Earlier i said the figure with the arrow in his eye was claimed Harold because he was standing under the word “Harold” in the text, but the body with the sword through it is under the word “dies” in the text. So to end this report, The Bayeux tapestry does tell a story.