http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/ The latest Blog feeds from www.cleareducation.com.au en-us Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:51:48 +1000 Rocketspark http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/post/11022/legal-studies-family-essay/ Perhaps you're an aspiring lawyer, maybe you did well in stage 5 commerce, or it's possible you've spend a few too many hours binge watching your favourite legal dramas. For whatever reason, you have picked one of the most content-heavy but most interesting HSC subject offered.As you may know, there are two option topics that your school will focus on for two 25 marker essays. These are: Consumer; Family; Workplace; Global Environmental Protection; Indigenous People; Shelter; and World Order. No... Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:34:17 +1100 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/#post11022 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/post/9444/macbeth/ Shakespeare’s Macbeth follows a moral battle of an individual’s ambition and drive forpower, and the ultimate guilt experienced, leading to a descent into madness. Throughoutthis tragic play we focus on the core themes of Fate, Ambition, and Guilt and a Demise intoMadness. Using key examples from the play to drive and support our argument. Let’s start building a paragraph for the themes of Ambition and Fate: Start off with a topic sentence:The complicated relationship between fate and ambi... Wed, 17 Aug 2022 18:50:12 +1000 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/#post9444 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/post/8375/legal-studies--crime-essay/ Perhaps you’re an aspiring lawyer. Maybe you did well in stage 5 commerce. Or it’s possible that you’ve spent a few too many hours binge watching your favourite legal dramas- Suits and How to Get Away With Murder. For whatever reason, you have picked to study one of the most content-heavy, yet interesting subjects on offer for your HSC. Welcome back to another CLEAR blog. Today, we will be channeling our inner Annalise Keating by discussing strategies on how to approach that pesky 15 mark ... Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:45:00 +1100 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/#post8375 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/post/8374/merchant-of-venice/ Welcome back to another blog post! Today, we will be discussing Shakespeare’s comedic play ‘Merchant of Venice’ published in 1623. Shakespeare’s portrayal of antisemitism, particularly for the protagonist, directly correlates with the HSC common module ‘Texts and Human experiences’. Shakespeare intentionally uses his play form which allows for a visual representation of the antisemitism towards the Jewish collective amid the Elizabethan era. The dramatic and theatrical storytelling a... Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:35:13 +1100 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/#post8374 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/post/8373/sylvia-plath-and-ted-hughes-poetry/ In this Clear Education blog, we will explore the HSC Module A – Textual conversations, focusing on the two poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. The textual conversation explores the historical and social contexts informing each poet, particularly the collective loss of identity of women in the 1950s under the patriarchy, brought to light by the rise of second and third wave feminist movements. Plath’s confessional approach to her poetry reveals the collapse of her mental health, and continued... Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:26:42 +1100 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/#post8373 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/post/8371/boy-behind-the-curtain--quotes-and-analysis/ In this blogpost, we’ll take a look at how Tim Winton’s collection of semi-autobiographical essays, specifically how ‘Havoc: A life in Accidents’ connects to the Texts and Human Experiences rubric.  In responses to the common module, it’s important to consider form, specifically how he combines the essay form with personal anecdotes and philosophies. Some ideas/key themes you might want to examine in his texts are his discussions of family values, emerging tensions between traditi... Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:10:41 +1100 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/#post8371 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/post/6112/Past-The-Shallows-Quotes-and-Analysis/ CLEAR Education is here to bring you another blog post! This time we are going to dive into Favel Parrett’s Past the Shallows and how it represents the inconsistencies of relationships, inviting us as the responder to reconsider contrasting familial relationships, as we understand that they have the power to both empower and hinder. Let’s dive into it. Topic Sentence: Parrett’s novel explores the inconsistent nature of familial relationships à they have the power to both empower and dest... Thu, 06 Feb 2020 14:33:49 +1100 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/#post6112 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/post/5842/The-Crucible-Quotes-and-Analysis/ Another CLEAR Education blog post! In this post, we will be diving into Arthur Miller's play, 'The Crucible' and how it extrapolates upon mass hysteria which ultimately affects an individual’s morals, to illustrate the anxieties of McCarthyism era.Overview and Context To have a strong understanding of The Crucible, it is important to first understand how Arthur Miller’s own context of the ‘Red Scare’ and McCarthyism relates to and is paralleled within the historical contex... Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +1100 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/#post5842 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/post/5829/The-Castle--Quotes-and-Analysis/ Hello all, in this blog post we will be exploring Rob Sitch’s 1997 film ‘The Castle’ and its relation to the Standard English Module A: Language, Identity and Culture. Let’s jump into the topic sentence: Sitch utilises the narration of Dale, the protagonist Darryl’s son, and his distinct ‘Aussie’ vernacular to voice his thoughts in appreciation of his father and family. This distinct colloquial language features prevalent in the early stages of the film places the audience immediat... Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:32:08 +1000 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/#post5829 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/post/5828/1984--Quotes-and-Analysis/ George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ is one of the most prominent texts studied across schools for the common module as the exploration of key concerns of the contextual period are now more relevant than ever. Nonetheless, when discussing Orwell’s text, it is crucial to unpack the ideas in relation to the human experience, for example: A Collective and Tormented Human Experience. This idea can be integrated into a topic sentence: Orwell’s politically charged novel, Nineteen Eighty-F... Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:27:36 +1000 http://www.cleareducation.com.au/blog/#post5828