NCEA 3.4 Writing Portfolio: Satire Piece

Ideas:

Description of MAC like it is an op course with extra options such as maths

Accurate reliever’s plan

Honest resume for a person applying for their first job

News article of students for vaping

Today we are confronted with the epidemic of ever increasing stress and overwhelming school days for the modern teenager.

Vaping is a government conspiracy to keep people addicted to drugs

School is a government conspiracy to control the population – we only know what they want us to know

Assembly speech advertising doing the bare minimum

“Good morning everyone, my name is … from the common student body and I’m here to speak about some of the fantastic opportunities available at MAC. We are all here, attending high school for at least 5 years. In that time you have so many hours, both in and out of school, and the way you spend these hours will shape you as a person. The more opportunities you get amongst, the more things you’ll

How terrible social media is but actually talking about the good parts

How hard it is to live in New Zealand:

  • slow internet
  • places out of cell phone range
  • bad tasting fruit
  • cold so get a runny nose
  • not being able to find the end of sellotape
  • cold enough in the morning for a jacket but warm enough for shorts in the afternoon
  • wanting to go skiing but the mountain slightly over crowded for your liking
  • Most delicious chocolate, Whittakers is $1.80 more than the cadbury’s chocolate
  • In order to tramping to NZ’s beautiful and sort after locations you have to decide before you go and book it
  • The supermarket is too busy at 5pm on a Tuesday
  • Stone fruit aren’t in season all year round
  • Lulu lemon bag gets too fluffy, can’t use it any more
  • Country road bag got dirty so you have to put it in the washing machine
  • In order to save the environment you have to remember to get your Trelise Cooper shopping bags from the car
  • If you are not a hug person and you’re involved in a NZ disaster you will be hugged by our friendly and compassionate prime minister
  • Too windy to go out on my jetski
  • Hit a rabbit with your toyota highlander on the way home, super inconvenient because you have to pull over to cry
  • Trying to buy things from amazon but it costs $15 to send to NZ
  • Too many people have the nice metal drink bottles from New World, no one knows whose is whose
  • Your taking your pure bread labrador for a walk along a beautiful, scenic trail and you have to pick up it’s shit so it doesn’t ruin the experience for others
  • Trying to go camping and you have to spend $6 for entry
  • No service on the 3 day hike – route burn or Milford track, so have to wait till you get home to brag to instagram followers about the wonderful scenery
  • Amazing new developments and facilities being built need an access road so you have to go 50km/hr in a 80km/hr zone for 3 mins
  • Occasionally you hear words in Maori and you don’t understand what they mean because you have never put enough effort into learning about your culture even though you have had 13 years of schooling where the option was available to you.
  • Block buster movies come out in NZ a couple of days after they do in the US
  • There is a smaller and lower quality movie/tv selection on NZ netflix
  • Fringe that doesn’t look good on them
  • For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”
  • “Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”

Trivial arguments, insufficient funds to satisfy desires, hungry for intervals up to 25 mins per day…

Every upper middle class 16 year old deserves the chance to grow and thrive, without any form of obstacle or inconvenience. In New Zealand we believe that each adolescent, regardless of circumstances or their parents being in the highest tax bracket, has the right to be untroubled and content at all times. Each year in First world countries, the days of innocent young lives are tragically interrupted by preventable causes. It is our responsibility is to stop our teenagers finding themselves in truely awful situations, such as inaccessible wifi, bad tasting fruit or getting a runny nose. Please donate now

Where would your donation go?

Technical Emergencies – Slow internent, no service

Education without Embarrassment –

My Story

“My dream is to go back to school without a fringe again”. Like so many students attending a decal 10 school, 16-year-old

Child Protection Against Bordem –

Climate Change –

Apparently, according to researchers in the particular field, the earth’s temperature is rising. Inconvenient for skiing.

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