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How has your study forced you to re-evaluate your ways of thinking?
retreat from the global Ext I English essay.
retreat from the global essay using core 2 core texts studied in HSC syllabus (The Shipping News and Seamus Heaney's poetry) along with two related texts.
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How has your study forced you to re-evaluate your ways of thinking? The tension between the global, representing homogeneity and uniformity, and the local, signifying tradition and community, is the great conflict of the twentieth century. My study of the works of composers Annie Proulx, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and Mira Nair has transformed my ways of thinking about the world. Firstly, I have been encouraged to re-evaluate my belief that the local is weak and must submit to the global: on the contrary, the local is powerful and can subvert global authority. Secondly, my view of the ...

... Monsoon Wedding and Walcott’s Egypt Tobago has encouraged me to revaluate my ways of thinking. Firstly, I have been encouraged to re-evaluate my belief that the local is weak and must submit to the global: on the contrary, the local is powerful and can subvert global authority. Secondly, my view of the local as Edenic has been challenged, as I have learnt that the local is often highly traumatised and unable to survive without the global. Ultimately, I have recognised that the local and global have become inextricably linked, and must learn to co-exist, for better, or for worse.
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