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AA100 The arts past and present

Question: TMA 06 Option 1 How might a liberal philosopher argue for the view that parents should be granted an exemption? How might a liberal philosopher argue against this view? Which side has the stronger argument?

Answer: Liberalism itself places the individual at the heart of society and argues...

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Question: TMA 01 Part 1 What does this passage suggest about the relationship between Cleopatra and Antony? Compare this with how the relationship is portrayed in the other written source material from the classical period in Book 1, Chapter 1.

Answer: Another source on this subject was the Roman poet Horace. When discussing...

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Question: TMA 01 Part 2. Look Carefully at Plate 1.3.5, Paul Cézanne, Bathers(c.1894-1906), and Plate 1.3.6, Palma Vecchio, Bathing Nymphs (c.1525/8), in the illustration book. Discuss what you think are the most significant differences between the two paintings.

Answer: When looking at the paintings for the first time, Vecchio’s ‘bathing nymphs’...

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Question: TMA 01 Part 1 Cleopatra - Carefully read the following extract several times. What does this passage suggest about the relationship between Cleopatra and Antony? Compare this with how the relationship is portrayed in the other written source material from the classical period in Book 1, Chapter 1.

Part 2 Cezanne
Look carefully at Plate 1.3.5, Paul Cezanne, Bathers (c.1894-1906), and Plate 1.3.6, Palma Vecchio, Bathing Nymphs (c.1525/8), in the Illustration Book. Discuss what you think are the most significant differences between the two paintings.

Answer: In the passage it states that “Her (Cleopatra’s) flatterers also worked hard...

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Question: TMA 02 Part 1 Look Carefully at Plate 1.3.5, Paul Cézanne, Bathers(c.1894-1906), and Plate 1.3.6, Palma Vecchio, Bathing Nymphs (c.1525/8), in the illustration book. Discuss what you think are the most significant differences between the two paintings.

Answer: When looking at the paintings for the first time, Vecchio’s ‘bathing nymphs’...

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Question: TMA 01 Part 1. What does this passage suggest about the relationship between Cleopatra and Antony? Compare this with how the relationship is portrayed in the other written source material from the classical period in Book 1, Chapter 1.

TMA 01 Part 2. Look Carefully at Plate 1.3.5, Paul Cézanne, Bathers(c.1894-1906), and Plate 1.3.6, Palma Vecchio, Bathing Nymphs (c.1525/8), in the illustration book. Discuss what you think are the most significant differences between the two paintings.

Answer: Cézanne also highlights his figures from the left; however this illusion of...

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Question: TMA 03 Part 1 Read the following extract and then answer the question in no more than 600 words. What does this source tell us about the creation of myths surrounding Stalin?

Answer: The source provided is an excerpt of Khrushchev’s ‘secret speech’ which can...

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Question: TMA 03 Part 2 Read the following poems by Thomas Hardy (‘The Oxen’) and Seamus Heaney (‘Cow in Calf’) in The Faber Book of Beasts (pp.195 and 62). In no more than 600 words, compare the ways in which the two poets represent cattle.

Answer: New forms of poetry, however radical they appear, almost always show traces...

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Question: AA100 Reflecting on progress

Answer: Working my way through this course, I have progressed in many different...

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Question: ‘The city both offers and restricts possibility’ (Lehan, The City in Literature, p.250). In an essay of 2,000 words discuss this statement with reference to both Metropolis and Dubliners ( ‘A Painful Case’).

Answer: Metropolis and Dubliners both, ultimately, portray ‘the city’ as a force which...

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