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COM14 - Assessment Task 1 - Part 2
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I envisage this advertisement being shown on TV with the text below as a voiceover for corresponding pictures. Music should be played in the background, perhaps a simple repeating piano melody, preferably one that will become stuck in the viewer’s head for days.
Life can [...]

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Screaming with frustration, all I want is some peace and quiet. No matter what I do, where I go, I can’t escape. They follow me everywhere, to the shops, in the movies, worst in the shower. There is no escape from their insidious gloating whine.
“Why do you bother? What’s the point?”
Sometimes they’re right, there is [...]

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“Fuck you. Cunt. Sluut.”
The words rained down on the girl’s head harmlessly. She had heard them all before, and could probably use them to form a more coherent sentence than that. She chose not to swear however, there was no point in that, like anything else.
Once she had done a deal, cutting as hard and [...]

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No, I haven’t stopped writing or anything else important like that. My exams are over! Yay. This makes me happy for a change. Three whole weeks to work on my writing. Hopefully I will come up with heaps of new stuff for you all to read. On the way home from my exam I wrote [...]

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Julia drifted off to sleep, still tormented in her dreams. She ran, her legs carrying her quickly though the forest. Suddenly she tripped and fell, breathing heavily. Escape. She couldn’t escape. She crawled towards the base of a tree, noticing that her skin was beginning to weep blood from the scratches on her arms. She [...]

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Darkness
The Darkness beckons to me.
It whispers in my ear,
Come to me.
.

Those things which you fear most:
Being alone, lonely and lost
Will never ever happen
If you come to me.
.

I can take away all the pain.
I can make you oblivious
To the world outside,
To all the problems
In your life.
.

Freedom for everything,
The little voice whispers.
Wouldn’t that be nice?
No more rejection.
No [...]

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