This is the moment you have all been waiting for!! An interview with Auld Rabbie Burns!
Hello my name is Ross Martin and I will be your interviewer today so without any delay lets fire straight into the questions.
Question 1:
What was your biggest inspirations when you were starting off as a poet?
Rabbie:
Women were always good. Either that or chocolate.
Question 2:
How do you feel about modern literature compared to those from your golden years?
Rabbie:
Its all rubbish. None of it is from the heart, which as everyone knows, is always present in my poems.
Question 3:
How are you coping with all the advances in technology of this modern era?
Rabbie:
A havent a clue how to use most things, but luckily with me being so infamous, I have people that do it all for me.
Question 4:
Have you had time to visit the Statue to commemmorate your life?
Rabbie:
No. I have been told it is in Dumfries but I havent had time to go and find it with my busy schedule.
Question 5:
How do you feel having two places outside of Scotland named especially after you; Burns, New York and Burns, Oregon?
Rabbie:
I feel very proud and thankful to those places for showing this tribute.
Question 6:
Are you surprised that the cottage your father build with his own hands is still a infamous must see attraction in Scotland?
Question 7:
Yes I am extremely surprised. Mostly that it is still standing and still in its original condition of the traditional style that houses were made.
Question 8:
If there was anything you could have changed about your childhood, what would it be?
Rabbie:
We wouldn't have been raised in poverty and also I wouldn't have agreed to work such hard labour on the farm.
Well thank you very much for agreeing to this interview, I have been fascinated and intrigued by your answers.
Rabbie:
No problem no if you dont mind I am leaving now to write more stories.
About Me
- Ross
- Hey I'm Ross and I'm 17 years old and I am currently studying Intermediate 2 I.T. I live in the middle of nowhere outside Banff but originally came from Stirling and will be moving back down at the end of the year.
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Thursday, 22 November 2007
Thursday, 15 November 2007
Task
Robert Burns Biography
Robert Burns was born in 25 January 1759 two miles south of Ayr in Alloway, South Ayrshire and is the oldest of the seven children from his father William Burness.
The house they lived in until he was seven was built by his father and is now called The Burns Cottage Museum. Upon his seventh birthday, his father sold the house and took the tenancy of a seventy acre farm south east from Alloway. Burns then lived a life of poverty and hardship, and because of the severe manual labour, the farm contributed to an already weakened constitution.
Because of the families poverty, Robert was seldom schooled and received most of his educational teachings from his father who taught him, and all the other children, reading, writing, mathematics, geography and history, as well as writing a manual of Christian belief to give them some sort of religious education.
At the age of fifteen he was the main labourer at the farm but was assisted by Nelly Kilpatrick who then inspired to attempt his first poem, O, Once I Lov’d A Bonnie Lass. He then was sent to finish his education with a tutor where he met Peggy Thomson, to whom he wrote two songs, Now Westlin’ Winds and I Dream’d I Lay.
In 1781 Burns became a Freemason at Lodge St David, Tarbolton. His earliest existing letters date from this time, when he began making romantic overtures to Alison Begbie (b. 1762). In spite of four songs written for her and a suggestion that he was willing to marry her, she rejected him.
In December 1781 Burns moved temporarily to Irvine to learn to become a flax-dresser, but during the New Year celebrations of 1781/1782, the flax shop caught fire and was sufficiently damaged to send him home to Lochlea farm.
He continued to write poems and songs and began a Commonplace Book in 1783, while his father fought a legal dispute with his landlord. The case went to the Court of Session and Burness was upheld in January 1784, a fortnight before he died. Robert and Gilbert made an ineffectual struggle to keep on the farm but after its failure, they moved to the farm at Mossgiel, near Mauchline in March, which they maintained with an uphill fight for the next four years. During the summer of 1784 he came to know a group of girls known collectively as The Belles of Mauchline, one of whom was Jean Armour, the daughter of a stonemason from Mauchline.
His casual love affairs did not endear him to the elders of the local Kirk and created for him a reputation for dissolution amongst his neighbors. His first illegitimate child, Elizabeth Paton Burns (1785 - 1817) was born to his mother’s servant, Elizabeth Paton (1760 - circa 1799), as he was embarking on a relationship with Jean Armour. She bore him twins in 1786, and although her father initially forbade their marriage, they were eventually married in 1788, and she bore him nine children in total, but only three survived infancy.
During a rift in his relationship with Jean Armour in 1786, and as his prospects in farming declined, he began an affair with 'Highland' Mary Campbell (1763 - 1786), to whom he dedicated the poems The Highland Lassie O, Highland Mary and To Mary in Heaven. Their relationship has been the subject of much conjecture and it has been suggested that they may have married. They planned to emigrate to Jamaica, where Burns intended to work as a bookkeeper on a plantation. He was dissuaded by a letter from Thomas Blacklock, and before the plans could be acted upon, Mary Campbell died suddenly of a fever in Greenock. That summer, he published the first of his collections of verse, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect, which created a sensation and has been recognized as a significant literary event.
Meanwhile he was writing at his best, and in 1790 had produced Tam O' Shanter. About this time he was offered and declined an appointment in London on the staff of the Star newspaper, and refused to become a candidate for a newly-created Chair of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, although influential friends offered to support his claims. After giving up his farm he removed to Dumfries.
As his health began to give way Burns began to age prematurely and fell into fits of despondency. The habits of intemperance aggravated his long-standing rheumatic heart condition, and on July 21, 1796 he died at the age of 37.
A memorial edition of his poems was published to raise money for his wife and children, and within a short time of his death, money started pouring in from all over Scotland to support them. His life and work continues to be promoted by Burns clubs across the world, with his birthday an unofficial national day for Scots and those with Scottish ancestry, celebrated with Burns suppers.
Robert Burns was born in 25 January 1759 two miles south of Ayr in Alloway, South Ayrshire and is the oldest of the seven children from his father William Burness.
The house they lived in until he was seven was built by his father and is now called The Burns Cottage Museum. Upon his seventh birthday, his father sold the house and took the tenancy of a seventy acre farm south east from Alloway. Burns then lived a life of poverty and hardship, and because of the severe manual labour, the farm contributed to an already weakened constitution.
Because of the families poverty, Robert was seldom schooled and received most of his educational teachings from his father who taught him, and all the other children, reading, writing, mathematics, geography and history, as well as writing a manual of Christian belief to give them some sort of religious education.
At the age of fifteen he was the main labourer at the farm but was assisted by Nelly Kilpatrick who then inspired to attempt his first poem, O, Once I Lov’d A Bonnie Lass. He then was sent to finish his education with a tutor where he met Peggy Thomson, to whom he wrote two songs, Now Westlin’ Winds and I Dream’d I Lay.
In 1781 Burns became a Freemason at Lodge St David, Tarbolton. His earliest existing letters date from this time, when he began making romantic overtures to Alison Begbie (b. 1762). In spite of four songs written for her and a suggestion that he was willing to marry her, she rejected him.
In December 1781 Burns moved temporarily to Irvine to learn to become a flax-dresser, but during the New Year celebrations of 1781/1782, the flax shop caught fire and was sufficiently damaged to send him home to Lochlea farm.
He continued to write poems and songs and began a Commonplace Book in 1783, while his father fought a legal dispute with his landlord. The case went to the Court of Session and Burness was upheld in January 1784, a fortnight before he died. Robert and Gilbert made an ineffectual struggle to keep on the farm but after its failure, they moved to the farm at Mossgiel, near Mauchline in March, which they maintained with an uphill fight for the next four years. During the summer of 1784 he came to know a group of girls known collectively as The Belles of Mauchline, one of whom was Jean Armour, the daughter of a stonemason from Mauchline.
His casual love affairs did not endear him to the elders of the local Kirk and created for him a reputation for dissolution amongst his neighbors. His first illegitimate child, Elizabeth Paton Burns (1785 - 1817) was born to his mother’s servant, Elizabeth Paton (1760 - circa 1799), as he was embarking on a relationship with Jean Armour. She bore him twins in 1786, and although her father initially forbade their marriage, they were eventually married in 1788, and she bore him nine children in total, but only three survived infancy.
During a rift in his relationship with Jean Armour in 1786, and as his prospects in farming declined, he began an affair with 'Highland' Mary Campbell (1763 - 1786), to whom he dedicated the poems The Highland Lassie O, Highland Mary and To Mary in Heaven. Their relationship has been the subject of much conjecture and it has been suggested that they may have married. They planned to emigrate to Jamaica, where Burns intended to work as a bookkeeper on a plantation. He was dissuaded by a letter from Thomas Blacklock, and before the plans could be acted upon, Mary Campbell died suddenly of a fever in Greenock. That summer, he published the first of his collections of verse, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect, which created a sensation and has been recognized as a significant literary event.
Meanwhile he was writing at his best, and in 1790 had produced Tam O' Shanter. About this time he was offered and declined an appointment in London on the staff of the Star newspaper, and refused to become a candidate for a newly-created Chair of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, although influential friends offered to support his claims. After giving up his farm he removed to Dumfries.
As his health began to give way Burns began to age prematurely and fell into fits of despondency. The habits of intemperance aggravated his long-standing rheumatic heart condition, and on July 21, 1796 he died at the age of 37.
A memorial edition of his poems was published to raise money for his wife and children, and within a short time of his death, money started pouring in from all over Scotland to support them. His life and work continues to be promoted by Burns clubs across the world, with his birthday an unofficial national day for Scots and those with Scottish ancestry, celebrated with Burns suppers.
This information is based on information given on wikipedia. To vistit this topic in more detail visit www.wikipedia.com
Thursday, 27 September 2007
Radio1
Now before we begin todays lesson i would like to apologise for this essay but this is a reflection of thoughts and feelings.
How life began for Radio 1:
Taking a brief step back in time, the first radio's came around in the early 50's with a total of three basic stations if you will, these basically consisted of;
- Home: Which is self explanatory
- Light: which basically consisted of news stations
- Classical: Which again is self explanatory
But suddenly everything changed and the 60's began and thus a new era of music began. Upon hearing of this revelation, radio stations chose to ignore the new age of music and remain loyal to the stations they were currently airing.
Pirate radio was then brought about by vessels lying at the British coast, illegally brodcasting the records to over 20million listeners, with no commission given to the artists.
Then, in 1967 the idea of a single radio station brodcasting different genres of music, news bulletins, Radio 1 was born with The Rolling Stones taking the honours of the first song legally played.
Producers
Producers basically have the role of deciding what will be done in each show and when it will be done. For instance; Piers Bradford is the producer for one of the DJ's, Jo Whiley, and decides what competitions will take place etc.Still with me?
DJ's
The DJ's for each show are the actual hosts of the shows, the people behind the microphone if you will, playing the music and talking to the listeners and so on.
Some of the more popular DJ's include;
- Chris Moyles
- Jo Whiley
- Colin Murray
- Sarah Cox
- Zane Lowe
- Edith Bowman
- Vernan Kay
- Dave Pearce
- Scott Mills
- JK & Joel
Playlists
A playlist is the list of songs that get played on each show. Playlists are categorised into;
- A list: most popular songs which get played roughly 35x a week
- B list: quite popular songs which get played roughly 10x a week
- C list: fairly popular songs which get played only 5x a week
Each playlist is found by Puggers. A plugger is the person that finds new artists and tracks that the listeners would like as well as some golden oldie's to be included in the playlist. Sanita Jagpal is but one of many designated pluggers.
Once the playlists have been decided they are sent to Alex Jones Donnely, the head of music, who has the final say on which tracks and playlist will actually be played.
Reporters
The reporters are the Newsbeat team that read the news every few hours each day on the latest happenings in the world be it news, sports, entertainment or fashion.
They are always scheduled to start at 8am so its always a hectic day for some of the reporters such as Andy Brown and Natalie Jamieson who are responsible for going out and finding the stories. Once the stories are collaberated, Rod McKenzie, the editor, puts everything together and hands it over to Georgina Bowman who is the newsreader and tells the news on air.
Finally........
Publicity
As with everything in life, publicity is a key factor to radio and Radio 1 always look for ways to improve publicity by organising events al over the UK as well as abroad, especially in places where the Brits commonly go for example Ibiza.
Julian Payne is in charge for publicty and has the role of finding different ways to attract new listeners but always having to bear in mind that the average age group of listeners is 15-27 year olds. Once he has found the perfect solution he shares his idea with James wood who is in charge of marketing and decides on the budget of the idea and helps the plan go into effect.
The cost of freedom
British blogs have taken a blow proving that freedom of speech is not as free as people lead us to believe.
Tim Ireland and Craig Murray both discovered this after there bloggerhead site was given the boot after posts were created, in which both men, spoke out against Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, the man currently trying to buy Liverpool F.C.
Bloggerheads are also hosts to blogs run by Conservative MP Boris Johnson and Labour councillor Bob Piper as well as other and as a result, their sites were also shut down even though they had not taken part in the posts.
The post itself refered to Alisher as a bully saying "who wants that kind of person in control of their football club?"
The question I feel tempted to ask is why blogs are punished for libel allegations, wether they are true or not, when the same thing happens everyday in newspapers, magazines and most other publications? Looking at it from both sides, newspapers do have legal processes to follow in the UK so obviously one would expect the same process for british bloggers unless it is clearly stated as a personal opinion, unless of course it is un-acceptable.
In my opinion, although I suppose i'm slightly biased, after looking at the facts from both sides of the story, I feel it is a harsh decision to pull the plug on one of UK's most popular political websites all because of one or two people's mistake.
Tim Ireland and Craig Murray both discovered this after there bloggerhead site was given the boot after posts were created, in which both men, spoke out against Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, the man currently trying to buy Liverpool F.C.
Bloggerheads are also hosts to blogs run by Conservative MP Boris Johnson and Labour councillor Bob Piper as well as other and as a result, their sites were also shut down even though they had not taken part in the posts.
The post itself refered to Alisher as a bully saying "who wants that kind of person in control of their football club?"
The question I feel tempted to ask is why blogs are punished for libel allegations, wether they are true or not, when the same thing happens everyday in newspapers, magazines and most other publications? Looking at it from both sides, newspapers do have legal processes to follow in the UK so obviously one would expect the same process for british bloggers unless it is clearly stated as a personal opinion, unless of course it is un-acceptable.
In my opinion, although I suppose i'm slightly biased, after looking at the facts from both sides of the story, I feel it is a harsh decision to pull the plug on one of UK's most popular political websites all because of one or two people's mistake.
Thursday, 13 September 2007
Bob Marley Concert
Bob marley Clip 1:
clip 1 was very melodic and very relaxing and although i enjoyed it, i found the lyrics very repetitive but full marks for efort because unlike modern artists, he was never in the same place for a long period of time and leaped an jamp about the stage.
Clip 2:
Clip 2 was also very relaxing and melodic and was a more relaxed mood all round and i thouroughly enjoyed it because it was the song i knew best also i have been singing it constantly since hearing it. Again full marks because he sounds as good live as he does in the studio.
Favourite Album
My favourite album right now is Curtis by 50 cent because i cant think of any other albums righht now so i'l say that one because i got it on monday.
It is his 3rd album and was released on monday and can be found in most music shops. It is a very good album and has personal vendetta's attached because of the different "beefs" with other rappers, most recent of which, Kanye West. 50 personally stated that if his album doesnt reach higher in the album charts than Kanye's newest album (which is also out this week) he will retire from the rap game.
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