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PASTRY. CHYMISTRY

THE QUEEN'S Royal COOKERY:

OR, Expert and ready Way for the Dressing of all Sorts of Flesh, Fowl, Fish: Either Baked, Boiled, Roasted, Stewed, Fryed, Boiled, Hashed, Fricasied, Carbonaded, Forced, Collared, Soused, Dried, &c.

After the Best and Newest Way. With their several Sauces and Sallads.

And making all Sorts of PICKLES

ALSO

Making Variety of Pies,Ppasties,Ttarts,Cheesecakes, Custards, Creams, &c.

WITH

The ART of Preserving and Candying of Fruits and Flowers; and the making of Conserves, Syrups, Jellies, and Cordial Waters, Also making Several Sorts of English Wines, Ciders, Mead, Metheglin.

TOGETHER with several Cosmetic of Beautifying Waters And also several Sorts of Essences and Sweet Waters: By Persons of the Highest Quality.

One aspect of this text which is obviously non-standard is the capitalisation of certain words, for instance ‘OR’ at the beginning and ‘PICKLES’ midway through. This is prevalent because its prior to standardisation of the English language in the mid 1700’s. This is also shown in the beginning of certain words such as all the words used to describe the way food is cooked. One other grammatical feature is their use of the suffix ‘est’ specifically on the end of ‘new’ which now an archaic term and sounds old fashioned since its’ no longer used.   Use of the words such as ‘Mead’ and ‘Soused’ have experienced the phenomina of becoming dated and non-existent in todays langugae

Programme write up homework

The first part of the programme supports David crystals stage theory in which children learn through stages from babbling to the one word stage then the two word stage then on to the telegraphic stage through to the multi-word stage. This is shown through the 24/7 observation of the young child passing though all these stages before they can make long coherent sentences, however due to it only being one case it might not be applicable to the entire population. The data collected from this investigation is extensive and spans many years and once it has all been analysed it will be able to be used as a significant piece of evidence to either prove or disprove certain language acquisition theories. One discovery that came from this investigation in the early stages of its analysing was how the parents subconsciously change the way they talk and slowly increase complexity as the child’s competence and understanding of language increases.  This supports Piaget's theory since he believed children learnt language when they were cognitively developed enough, this would explain the parents’ behaviour since as the child develops more the parents push the child with more complex sentences and words.

 

Another part of the programme focused on whether language was unique to humans due to anatomical structuring or cognitive processes. It was discovered that dogs and birds among others could change their anatomy when they vocalise leaving it down to the difference in cognitive ability as the main cause for human communication. This revelation helped explain why children were able to pick up language much faster than adults, this is because there is a critical period to learn language due to the speed at which connections and synapses are created in a particular part of your mind when you are younger. This is supported in the programme by a case study of a man that suffers from autism which affects his social skills among other characteristics but the biological difference in a particular region of his mind which is connected to language acquisition also gives him the capability to learn languages much faster than an average human.

History of Harlot

Harlot

The first recorded use of the word ‘harlot’ was in c1225 it’s from the Ancrene Wisse (also known as the Ancrene Riwle or Guide for Anchoresses) is an anonymous monastic rule (or manual) for anchoressess, written in the early 13th century

It originally meant someone who lived in isolation like a nomad but did not change location. It was a particularly popular lifestyle choice in 13^th century England.

However afterward, around the 13-1400’s it meant an itinerant jester, buffoon, or juggler; one whom tells or does something to raise a laugh.

 The word then evolved again in the 1600’s to mean something like a vagabond, beggar, rogue, rascal, villain, low fellow, knave or generally a person who didn’t fit society’s views of right and proper. In later use sometimes a man of loose life, a fornicator; also, often, a mere term of opprobrium or insult.

 a1653  Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers 103   A man a harlot, and a wife a whoore.

1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 37 What should you do with such Harlots in your Service? Which calls for holiness, and better principled men.

Throughout its history however beginning in the 1400’s and continuing to this day a Harlot has referred always to woman that are prostitutes but earlier in its history it also referred to men alongside women. Now  it has undergone substantial broadening and means someone who jests and jokes as well as being sexually promiscuous.

grices maxims
thse are the rules of conduct followed whilst in conversation. It describes how, when engaged in conversation, the two people involved follow a set of unconscious rules. These rules include:-

• being truthful: Don't speak of things you know to be false, don't speak of things for which you lack appropriate and acceptable evidence.
• maxim of quantity: the intervention has to bring enough information, it should not bring more information than neccessary
• being releveant: you must be relevant, however this does not account for subject changes.
• be clear: you must be clear and easy to understand, be brief, avoid ambiguity, be orderly, avoid obscurity of expression.

foucault

• We often talk about people as if they have particular attributes as 'things' inside themselves -- they have an identity, for example, and we believe that at the heart of a person there is a fixed and true identity or character (even if we're not sure that we know quite what that is, for a particular person). We assume that people have an inner essence -- qualities beneath the surface which determine who that person really 'is'. We also say that some people have (different levels of) power which means that they are more (or less) able to achieve what they want in their relationships with others, and society as a whole.  
• Foucault rejected this view. For Foucault, people do not have a 'real' identity within themselves; that's just a way of talking about the self -- a discourse. An 'identity' is communicated to others in your interactions with them, but this is not a fixed thing within a person. It is a shifting, temporary construction.  
• People do not 'have' power implicitly; rather, power is a technique or action which individuals can engage in. Power is not possessed; it is exercised. And where there is power, there is always also resistance.

i come from poem

I come from

I come from rustling paper and murmured lines

Backstage praying silently

From deep red curtains, ladders

Blinding lights on your eyes

From the chatter of voices

Easy distractions

And absolute silence together

From pineapple juice

Stacks of Strepsils

Proud smiles

And laughter

I come from music in the streets

Accents and colour

Tunnels underground

And the shadows of people, in suits

But I‘m stuck here

In Shenfield

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The wolf’s jagged teeth tore through the flesh. Specks of blood flicked away from the kill, still fresh enough for blood to be pouring out of the gaping hole and dousing the wolf in a sticky red glaze. the beast now stood out, a deep auburn, against the pale snow.

Sam, a pale white with fear, backed off tenderly, not wanting to disturb this gruesome scene.

‘Just nature’s circle of life..’ Sam convinced himself. With each step Sam winced at the crunching snow beneath his feet. Each one was accompanied by a silent prayer and a glance toward the heavens to say thank you… That was until he felt the snap of a brittle branch under his feet. He cursed. Shit. The snap cut through the night like those jagged teeth cut through the deer’s hide. The pieces of silence being flung away from Sam to settle somewhere else in the forest.

The wolf eyes darted up for the first time from his kill, his panting breath sending coils of steam pouring from its jaw, a steam train ready to sprint and scream at Sam. The boy and the wolf locked eyes and froze.

The wolf had come across this kind before, when it was weak and scared. It was beaten and howled at, the stinging metal teeth were thrown at him through the bang of the deafeningly loud sticks. But it was strong now, the wolf. ‘And this was a young one’ it thought. A scared, shaking and helpless one.

 If the wolf could understand the ironic circumstances then that snarling smirk spreading across its face must be real.

That’s when it took its first bounding leap. Sam ducked out of the way and leapt over the wolf’s kill sprinting through the wood. The trees became a blur. The snow jumped into Sam’s eyes blinding him. He dodged side to side through the trees pounding his legs as hard as he can, maybe that would confuse the wolf? He daren’t glance back. Not to see that blood soaked horror.

Why did he enter this forest?

Why did he let curiosity get the better of him?

He’d been warned about the place, about its demons. But he had to see for himself didn’t he, he had to discover what caused that horrific noise, like the shriek of a baby, like the call of every animal before its savage murder, the sound of grinding, squealing desperation.  Now he was going to die. Dying without knowing. Dying for nothing. Dying in vain.

All of these thoughts pierced Sam’s brain like a bolt of lightning. He was still running, stumbling, toward death at the jaws of this monster. Or so he thought. Sam glanced back for one brief moment and the wolf had vanished. He was alone, completely and excruciatingly alone. But he was wrong again. There. In the shadows. A man.  No. Too tall to be a man. but it had all the features in the outline. The arms the legs, but no face. No face at all. Then he heard it again, that ghastly noise, and he realised. That was the moment he realised.

 Laughter.

It was this creature laughing at him.

 Then darkness.

 

By Charlie Noble