Tuesday, 15 October 2013

WM: Good to be with you.

P: Finally, finally, six years later, investigators are releasing a computerised sketch of a – who – we – they call possibly a suspect – er, or a ‘person of interest – a suspect that people saw around the vacation complex that night.

What took them so long?

WM: Er, er, I hope you don’t mind if I duck the – that question, because I’m not buying it.

I mean, er, I think this is more PR than anything.

There, er, in my opinion is no new suspect and there never will be a new suspect unless and until the parents answer questions.

Remember – Kate McCann, poor Madeleine’s Mum, refused to answer 48 questions –

P: Er, Wendy…

WM: Now they hired a team of lawyers right away

P: Wendy

WM: Ah, but this is important, she refused to anser – she hired lawyers straightaway. She refuses to answer 48 questions, things like: ‘What did you see when you walked into the room where your child was supposed to be sleeping?’ I mean, I’m so not interested in being dragged down a rabbit hole about a fake suspect. I think this is all related to a civil suit now under way in Portugal. The McCanns sued the former police chief for defamation,

P: Because he wrote his book…

WM: And now... Kate wants…

P: Wait. This alleged,

WM: Kate wants

P: Wait, Wendy, hold on, let me tell you the other side of this – er, because there’s a lot of evidence on the side of the parents being completely innocent as well. They say that the Portuguese police never took the case seriously. They never did the kind of investigation that we would certainly have done here in the U.S, - which is…talking to other people at the vacation complex where, where they were vacating in Portugal.

Further, Kate and Gerry, the parents, have appealed to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, for help on this investigation. Is that something you would do if you’re trying to stay under the radar? - and you feel guilty?

WM: Do you hire the nation’s biggest defence attorneys, PR firms and refuse to answer questions? The Portuguese police did a very good job – and the PR misinformation, especially in this country, is doing a disservice to this poor little girl who is dead, I believe – and has no voice.

The libel suit currently under way in Portugal is important because the McCanns sued that police chief, claiming he lied about them in his book.

Now Kate McCann wants to testify in writing – because she doesn’t want to submit to cross-examination.

I think this is all related to that - and this whole ‘new suspect thing’ is again part of them trying to distract attention from the fact that, as parents of a missing, probably dead child, what are you doing?! – not answering questions?!

Please!

P: It’s such a tough one, I – er – I - as you know, this has gripped our country, and Europe – to try to find this little girl – and when things like Elizabeth Smart’s parents…put out a book – and then she is found – she came home, you still have hope that maybe Madeleine McCann is alive and can come home – against all odds.

Good to see you. Wendy, thanks so much for your, er, theory.



Good to talk.
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Wendy uses many hedges and fillers whilst being interviwed , for example in the first question she tries to avoid answering , she uses fillers because she has to think about whether to answer the question or not  in case she is going to offend anybody.

There is also an element of turn taking amongst the two people, this is because it is a formal interview broadcasted by fox and due to the matter being relatively serious it would be innapropriate not to speak on the basis of turn taking.

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Wilfred Owen

What passing-bells2 for these who die as cattle? 
Only the monstrous anger of the guns. 
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle 
Can patter out3 their hasty orisons.4
No mockeries5 now for them; no prayers nor bells; 
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, –
The shrill, demented6 choirs of wailing shells; 
And bugles7 calling for them from sad shires.8
What candles9 may be held to speed them all? 
Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes 
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. 
The pallor10 of girls' brows shall be their pall; 
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, 
And each slow dusk11 a drawing-down of blinds.12


The shells described via a compund sentence  - "shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells." -this is a phonelogical description of the shells , the emotive adjective "wailing" is sound imagery and it symbolises the emotion the soldiers are feeling of sadness as a wail is often associated with sadness .within the word "wail" are the vowels a and i when put  together these create a long vowel replicating what a wail would sound like as a wail is a long painful cry as opposed to short thereby further creating a vivid image of the soldiers pain and agony

The poem also has elements of onomatopoeia  amongst it, for example "rattle" this is vivid and allows the reader to visualise the sound of the rifles firing , the sound of a rifle firing is a short sharp sound and the short vowel within rattle mirrors this sound perfectly as it is also short and creates a sharp tone to the word and therefore making the vivid in the readers head.

"They ask me where I've been,
And what I've done and seen."



In this poem there is a rhythm,. but in the second line, the rhythm is delayed,  it is missing a syllable it should say "what ive seen" in order to allow it to flow correctly. This creates the sense that Owen is nervous or scared whilst this was written, it is clearly presented as a sensitive subject to the reader.  open vowels are used as well for example the double e in "been " and "seen", which extends the length of the words making the poem sound as if it is being spoken, furthering the effect of making the subject sound sensetive because if it sounds spoken it sounds more personal.














Monday, 7 October 2013


 

Fast food

Implies its fast “busy lifestyle” so you can fit it in.

Shows audience of businessmen “busy lifestyle”

“Real food” connotes freshness and it tasting nice

 


Connotes death and bad health as tumours usually results in some of these things.

Very strong connotation due to the extremity of the picture.

 


“Russian standard” Russians are rich so this quote connotes wealth things to do with wealth and things that are expensive are usually of better standard so this suggests the vodka is of high standard..