HSC · Persuasive Writing
Persuasive Writing: Is artificial intelligence creating…
HSC Persuasive Writing essay scoring 75%: Is artificial intelligence creating more opportunities than problems for society? Real talk, is AI really…
Is artificial intelligence creating more opportunities than problems for society?
Real talk, is AI really creating more opportunities than problems to our society? The way I see it, I would say a lot of people in this generation would say so. Younger kids, adolescents, and even older generations use AI for everything now. I even bet more than half of the people in this class use Ai. Some may say they never have, but Ai is everywhere, it pretty hard to get away from it. People are using Ai without even realising it. Ai has become a part of people’s everyday routine. I can’t lie, Ai can be really useful, they can basically do everything for us, research, doing our daily tasks and work, managing our home and lifestyle, and especially for learning. However, behind all of these good things Ai can do for us, Ai has created more problems than opportunities to our society. Ai has created major problems to our society by eroding trust through spreading false information, weakening the critical thinking of humans, especially the economic and environmental strains.
For the past years Ai has made it possible to create deepfakes and generate false information causing harm more than good to many generations. For example, generating fake representations of real people or events. Anyone who spends anytime on the internet will know the huge numbers of images, audio and video freely accessible mainly to advertise Ai. While some uses of deepfakes are done for innocent fun, others use this advantage to spread false information. Fake content has caused havoc and panic in the middle of pandemics, causing chaos in share markets. Criminals have been taking advantage of the technology to conduct misinformation campaigns, committing fraud, as well as even bringing down an organisation or even a government. Another important issue is the potential of Ai to breach security, facilitate identity theft, fraud and promote scams, as well as other crime. Once an Ai developer has such information it is a small step to create multiple versions of that person. These deepfakes can be used to get access to health data, bank accounts, and other important documents and information. Ai can also expose children and teens to harmful content. The eSafety survey found 20% of children and teens reported potentially harmful or inappropriate interactions with Ai tools. With Ai being everywhere now, it is harder to prevent the use of it. Although people see Ai as their friend, Ai has created a mass of alleged murder suicide allegation, mainly ChatGPT, the most used Ai tools worldwide. One example is from the CIO article, when in August this year, the New York Post reported ChatGPT may have fuelled the delusions of a former Yahoo manager to actually think his own mother was a chinse spy trying to kill him. This led the man to kill his own mother and himself after months of interactions with the chatbot, whom he called bobby. Not so friendly after all, isn’t it? Yeah, I must say, our generation might be cooked chat.
VCE · Text Response
Text Response: ‘Medea’ explores the consequences of human…
VCE Text Response essay scoring 75%: Uncontrolled emotions can override reason, leading individuals to irrational and destructive decisions. Within the…
Uncontrolled emotions can override reason, leading individuals to irrational and destructive decisions. Within the world of Medea, the Greek ideal sophrosyne valued self-control and moderation as the pillars of a stable society, yet Euripides exposes that the men in the play fail to embody it. They hide their lack of honesty behind a fraudulent mask of logic, using it to frame their cruelty as rational behaviour. This is not the moderation they value but it is a tool used to silence women. When women are abandoned and lose their agency, the expectation of rational restraint becomes impossible. This is evident when the nurse describes how Medea has “no pleasure when she sees” her children and glares at them “like a bull,” while lying in grief with her “eyes fixed to the floor.” Offstage, consumed by rage and sorrow following Jason’s betrayal, Medea is constantly compared to a “lioness shielding her cubs.” This suggests that she is full of rage rather than being rational, foreshadowing the destructive consequences of
VCE · Text Response
Text Response: Texts provide insights into complex…
VCE Text Response essay scoring 87.5%: Introduction Repressive regimes seek to limit our collective and individual human experience through the…
Introduction
Repressive regimes seek to limit our collective and individual human experience through the corruption of our personal integrity by demanding conformity. However, when confronted with oppression, there is a need to resist for the sanctity of our autonomy, as a way to create meaningful social change. Arthur Miller's play, 'The Crucible' (1953), explores the importance of personal integrity, allegorically comparing the Communist paranoia of 1950s America with the superstitious hysteria of the 1690s Salem witch trials, dramatically representing John Proctor's tragic demise and emphasising the power of stories to both control people but also as a way to challenge oppression.
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Achieving a holistic human experience requires cognitive and philosophical freedoms that allow for a just society. Conceived as a response to the contemporary concerns with McCarthyism, Miller's tragic play 'The Crucible,' is set in an antithetical society where conformity to theological beliefs limits personal freedom. Miller establishes his allegorical use of the tragic form in the narrative commentary, declaring that just as the people of Salem are to be pitied, so too "we shall be pitied someday", alluding to the existence of ideological repression in contemporary America. With no separation between church and state in Salem, the freedom of expression necessary for an authentic human experience is rendered impossible. Mary Warren's plea to Abigail to tell the truth about dancing in the forest, as she exclaims, "witchery's a hangin' error", but "one is only whipped for dancin'", positions us in a society reliant on fear of severe punishment to create conformity to its ruthless Puritan dogma. The overwhelming coercive influence of the church in Salem corrupts the individual integrity necessary for free thought and autonomy. Miller utilises the Christian symbolism of fire in Reverend Parris' simile, proclaiming that "there is either obedience or the church will burn like hell is burning", giving voice to the threat of eternal damnation used to eliminate conflicting beliefs and demanding conformity. In this way, Miller positions us in an unjust world where the repression of individual freedom inevitably leads to the corruption of personal integrity.
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VCE · Text Response
Text Response: ‘Punish me? You mean send me to bed…
VCE Text Response essay scoring 87.5%: ‘Punish me? You mean send me to bed without my dinner?’ What role does punishment play throughout Shirley…
‘Punish me? You mean send me to bed without my dinner?’ What role does punishment play throughout Shirley Jackson’s ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’?
Shirley Jackson’s 1962 gothic novella, We Have Always lived in the Castle, punishment is structured as the mechanism through which patriarchal society enforces order, However, the novel suggests that punishment is not fixed to this singular function: the same structure used to oppress the sisters is also the means by which they seize power for themselves. Yet Jackson complicates this contention further, resisting the idea that punishment is simply a weapon which can change hands - the novel's ending does not resolve into the sisters "winning" the cycle of punishment, but escaping it entirely. Thus, she detaches lasting power from punishment altogether, locating it instead in immunity: a state the villagers can no longer touch, and one the narrative itself enforces by denying the reader any ground from which to judge Merricat. WHALITC therefore moves punishment through three functions in turn - oppression, empowerment, and finally irrelevance - to argue that true power is not won within a system of judgement, but achieved only once a person exists entirely outside its reach.
VCE · Text Response
Text Response: The playwright, Jane Harrison, claims:…
VCE Text Response essay scoring 72.5%: Aboriginal playwright, Jane Harrison, utilises her 1998 award-winning play, Stolen, to expose the complex racial…
Aboriginal playwright, Jane Harrison, utilises her 1998 award-winning play, Stolen, to expose the complex racial tensions and harrowing realities of the Stolen Generation during 19th century Australia. Though authoritarian structures are held accountable for their crimes against the stolen generation, Harrison's play is ultimately a celebration of understanding and acceptance, rather than an assertion of blame. Harrison begins by condemning the hypocritical authorities that borrowed cultural assimilation as an excuse for systemic oppression against First Nations people. However, the playwright also commemorates the strong personal connections held by the Stolen Generation despite decades of abuse. Ultimately, Harrison celebrates how Indigenous Australians used humour as a channel for personal acceptance, escaping a cycle of blame and hatred. Thus, Stolen greatly extends beyond simply asserting blame onto perpetrators, instead applauding a new culture of growth and maturity, and challenging traditional narratives about the experiences and journeys of the Stolen Generation.
Harrison begins by critiquing the hypocrisy of government, by exposing the promotion of cultural assimilation as a guise for systematic abuse. The play frames victims of the Stolen Generation as both physical and psychological refugees, enduring continuous pain and irreversible trauma onto young indigenous children. The ringing of the bell on stage acts as a cue for the children at Granby Children's home to begin a long shift of cleaning, becoming an auditory symbol of the oppressive system that the children are trapped within. Harrison foregrounds how this ringing sound effect erases the individuality of each child, reducing them to mere servants, and thus criticises the inhumane treatment of the Stolen Generations in an environment that was supposed to better integrate them into white society and support their wellbeing and childhood. Furthermore, Harrison reveals the irony of the assimilation policies for instead destroying social bonds and relationships of the Stolen Generation, rather than helping them create new ones in society. Ruby, an indigenous child who has experienced reoccurring abuse as a domestic in Caucasian families, is "[rocking] and muttering] to herself" as her family "awkwardly" try to bring her back home. This highlights Harrison's stage direction further how Ruby's mental awareness and presence was shattered as a result of the displacement caused by these assimilation policies, diminishing the moral righteousness of government of officials for regulating abuse against Indigenous people, which could lead to such permanent, irreversible consequences. Harbour utilises the mental and spiritual disconnection experienced by the Stolen Generation to remind the audience of the atrocities committed by supposedly righteous institutions.
VCE · Text Response
Text Response: The playwright, Jane Harrison, claims:…
VCE Text Response essay scoring 72.5%: The playwright, Jane Harrison, claims: 'Stolen is not about blame, it is about understanding and acceptance.'…
The playwright, Jane Harrison, claims: 'Stolen is not about blame, it is about understanding and acceptance.' Does the play support this view?
Aboriginal Australian playwright, Jane Harrison, utilises her 1998 award-winning play, Stolen, to expose the complex racial tensions and harrowing realities of the Stolen Generation during 19th century Australia. Though authoritarian structures are held accountable for their crimes against the stolen generation, Harrison's play is ultimately a celebration of understanding and acceptance, rather than an assertion of blame. Harrison begins by condemning the hypocritical authorities that borrowed cultural assimilation as an excuse for systemic oppression against First Nations people. However, the playwright also commemorates the strong personal connections held by the Stolen Generation despite decades of abuse. Ultimately, Harrison celebrates how Indigenous Australians used humour as a channel for personal acceptance, escaping a cycle of blame and hatred. Thus, Stolen greatly extends beyond simply asserting blame onto perpetrators, instead applauding a new culture of growth and maturity, and challenging traditional narratives about the experiences and journeys of the Stolen Generation.
Harrison begins by critiquing the hypocrisy of government, by exposing the promotion of cultural assimilation as a guise for systematic abuse. The play frames victims of the Stolen Generation as both physical and psychological refugees, enduring continuous pain and irreversible trauma onto young indigenous children. The ringing of the bell on stage acts as a cue for the children at Granby Children's home to begin a long shift of cleaning, becoming an auditory symbol of the oppressive system that the children are trapped within. Harrison foregrounds how this ringing sound effect erases the individuality of each child, reducing them to mere servants, and thus criticises the inhumane treatment of the Stolen Generations in an environment that was supposed to better integrate them into white society and support their wellbeing and childhood. Furthermore, Harrison reveals the irony of the assimilation policies for instead destroying social bonds and relationships of the Stolen Generation, rather than helping them create new ones in society. Ruby, an indigenous child who has experienced reoccurring abuse as a domestic in Caucasian families, is "[rocking] and muttering] to herself" as her family "awkwardly" try to bring her back home. This highlights Harrison's stage direction further how Ruby's mental
awareness and presence was shattered as a result of the displacement caused by these assimilation policies, diminishing the moral and righteous righteousness of government of Ulab for regulating abuse against Indigenous people, which could lead to such permanent, irreversible consequences. Harbour utilises the mental and spiritual disconnection experienced by the Stolen Generation to remind the audience of the atrocities committed by supposedly righteous institutions.
VCE · Text Response
Text Response: To what extent is Oedipus the least…
VCE Text Response essay scoring 85%: Sophocles' tragedy, Oedipus the King, sophisticatedly examines the human condition within a preordained world. Set…
Sophocles' tragedy, Oedipus the King, sophisticatedly examines the human condition within a preordained world. Set in the backdrop of 5th century BCE Athenian society, the play aligns with the ideology that human life is orchestrated by the Divine beings. Thus, Sophocles portrays the actions of Oedipus to be more reasonable in that his fated doom is the root cause whereas foil character Jocasta subtly acts unreasonably despite her minimal fated suffering. Yet, Oedipus becomes the least reasonable as his hubrisness and blindness consumes him from acting with moderation.
VCE · Text Response
Text Response: Wilder provides a critical commentary on…
VCE Text Response essay scoring 87.5%: Shrouded in the ubiquitous phallocentrism of the post-war American Dream’, emigre Billy Wilder’s quintessentially…
Shrouded in the ubiquitous phallocentrism of the post-war American Dream’, emigre Billy Wilder’s quintessentially American film Sunset Boulevard ensnares an iconoclastic critique of omnipotent patriarchal control, as it renders the success of female stars as ephemeral. At its heart, the film weaponises meta-fiction to lampoon the hypocrisy of the partisanship imposed upon female Hollywood hopefuls and ageing stars by the dream factory, and further satirises this by giving the female characters of the film control and power over the men whether it be in the form of moral consciousness or material success and wealth. Thus, through Wilder’s oscillation between the vilification and moral glorification of female characters, the director constructs a diatribe against the pervasive age and gendered expectations of Hollywood.
VCE · Text Response
Text Response: How does viewing Earth from space change…
VCE Text Response essay scoring 72.5%: Harvey suggests that viewing Earth from space transforms the astronauts' perspective, allowing them to develop a…
Harvey suggests that viewing Earth from space transforms the astronauts' perspective, allowing them to develop a deeper understanding of themselves, humanity and the significance of their shared home. From the low-Earth orbit of the ISS, the astronauts' bodies wither as their own bodily dependence on Earth is revealed in its absence, where "legs are a thing of the past" and their muscles atrophy, they are reminded of their fragility. They feel this fragility not only physically but mentally, in their need for "Mother Earth" to nurture them, not as their home but also the thing that bore them into existence and nurtured them to life. It is in their shared love for Earth that the six astronauts of varying backgrounds are united as they "feel like children" to the Earth. Harvey continuously describes Earth as alive, vivid and bodily, and from space this can be seen in its entirety as the "planet sings with light", taking on an angelic and awe-inspiring presence. Yet, Harvey reminds readers again of the fragility of humanity as man-made climate change and "politics sculpted and shaped and left evidence of
VCE · Text Response
Text Response: "Travis has no sense of duty, no sense of…
VCE Text Response essay scoring 85%: Stephen Johnson’s 2020 Australian film High Ground explores the theme of loyalty in different contexts. Set in 1919…
Stephen Johnson’s 2020 Australian film High Ground explores the theme of loyalty in different contexts. Set in 1919 and the 1930s during the frontier wars in Arnhem Land, Johnson uses characters like Moran, Travis, and Gutjuk to explore different perspectives of loyalty. Moran, a police superintendent, is undyingly loyal to the colonial system and believes that no matter the circumstances, authority should always be obeyed. Gutjuk, a young indigenous man who witnessed his family’s massacre when he was a boy, is loyal to his indigenous heritage and his surviving family, but also slowly begins to trust Travis, an ex-military sniper, throughout the course of their time together. And finally, Travis, an ex-sniper turned police officer upon the conclusion of the war, is loyal to his own morals and will always choose to do what he believes is right in the moment, decisions un-altered by anyone else’s judgment.
VCE · Text Response
Text Response: Born a Crime demonstrates that strength…
VCE Text Response essay scoring 70%: In the autobiography Born a Crime, the author Trevor Noah explores his experience of growing up in a racist and…
In the autobiography Born a Crime, the author Trevor Noah explores his experience of growing up in a racist and segregated society, where race remained a factor in law enforcement even after the apartheid system had been officially dismantled. Travor Noah establishes within his memoir how the power of strength has the ability to take many forms to protect oneself, while also implementing the inability of one to hold the power to protect oneself even if that strength has the power to take many forms. Noah fights for his power even through the racism South Africa holds against him, through the suffering of poverty he faced growing up and how he found the power of language giving him the ability to overcome the separation the apartheid system tried to place over him due to the colour of his skin.
Noah initiates the idiocy of racism to express the strength he holds to power against those who believe they hold higher authority due to their colour of their skin, while also admitting the limitations he fell against due to his race. Noah attacks the idea of racism through insulting those who believe one race has more authority than another, the idea of racism being stupid as “it’s easily tricked” giving Noah the power against those who believe he is less due to him being coloured. Therefore, Noah uses the strength of humiliation to fight racism. Noah admits to him getting away with trouble as a kid due to his family having the inability to punish him, allowing him to take more strength through his grandmother not knowing “how to hit a white child” permitting him to have strength over his family being afraid that he is different than them. However, while he found the strength against those that see him as different, he is often excluded for “being too black”, not allowing that strength over those who saw him as different as he was not being given a chance to prove that he is not unlike. While Noah believed as a kid he could “mock the system” of racism the power others had over him did not allow him to hold the ability to prove his beliefs. Noah admitting early on, as hard as he can try to just be himself rather than either black or white “eventually life will force [one] to pick a side”, this pain taking away his strength, holding the inability to prove how his strength could take many different forms when one side is forcing it to be a one-way road.
VCE · Language Analysis
Language Analysis: I had to analyse an introduction for…
VCE Language Analysis essay scoring 70%: To open her opinion piece, Bennet declares that the current gambling reforms imposed by the Albanese government…
To open her opinion piece, Bennet declares that the current gambling reforms imposed by the Albanese government are important, but they lack the magnitude and substantial impact required for Australia’s level of loss. Bennet’s analogy of this ratio, “the equivalent of throwing a bucket of water onto a bushfire”, seeks to minimize the government’s reforms and show how much is really being done, to the audience. The use of “bushfire” signifies the widespread, unpredictability and chaotic nature of gambling throughout all of Australia, while “bucket” shows the lack of action toward the reforms and there minimal impact. Reading this, the audience may feel as though the reforms imposed by Labor and Albanese truly aren’t as impactful as they were made out to be. Following this, the revelation could cause distress and frustration throughout the readers toward Labor’s lack of urgency. Bennet also utilizes the metaphor, “there’s a casino in everyone’s pocket” to show the accessibility of modern day gambling and how the ease in it’s utilization aids Australia’s high gambling loss and addiction rates. The comparison of between something known for loss and widely regarded as somewhere to waste