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- [size=1]The Campaign
"But the one thing Darius did not lack was military numbers. The sight of this assembly filled him with joy, and his courtiers further inflated his expectations with their idle flattery." Curtius book III
http://www.ancientbattles.com/Issus/Issus.htm
March and countermarch
After waiting some time in Sochoi for Alexander to attack him, Darius seems to have become impatient and decided to move against Alexander. He must have heard that the Macedonians had unified their forces at Issus, and the Persian army and baggage train may well have stripped the area of supplies, which may have pressured him into action. The logical move would have been to withdraw to the south and cover the Belen pass as Darius already knew that Macedonian troops had secured that passage, but for some unknown reason the Persians were loathe to hold passes during the whole campaign against Alexander (excepting the Persian Gates which was Way too late, later on after Gaugamela, another scenario to be addressed later
A Macedonian expatriate named Amyntas supposedly told Darius that holding the plains was the least dangerous course of action faced with Alexander's superior army. Darius, according to the tradition, disdained the good advice, and decided to risk all in a hammer blow.
Darius ordered the army to march north, cross the Amanus range, find the enemy and fight them, head on.... man to man. His cavalry would ride them into the dust. The army made the move in reasonably good time, after debauching from the unguarded passes Darius' scouts rode up to an almost empty camp at Issus. Where had Alexander gone?
While Alexander was at Myriandrus, the Persians overran the Macedonian garrison and hospital at Issus and executed many, and mutilated others. Some Macedonians with cut off hands were paraded around the army to show off its awesome size, then they were let go to warn Alexander. Darius convinced himself that Alexander's army had fled from him in a panic, and rather than fight had run south before the Persian advance. He moved the army fifteen miles south and took up a position along the river Pinaurus (Payas) that ran from steep hills inland to the coast on the west. Some portions of the river bank were made more defensible, but Darius failed to guard the Jonah pass further south. Obviously he felt content to build a wall of troops across the plain with his army, and awaited news of Alexander's capitulation. (What if Darius had sent troops to delay Alexander at the pillars of Jonah?).
The army made its Way slowly onto the widening plains until they reached sight of Darius' army, no Persian troops had even scouted their advance or harassed them in the least.
One can surmise that it was with difficulty that Darius' generals were able to put together a coordinated deployment. First he sent out his cavalry and skirmishers to cover the front of the army while the non-combatants withdrew, and the generals harangued their troops into some order of a battleline. He possibly entertained creating a double envelopment of Alexander's forces, as once they were in sight they were drawn up at great depth, plowing onto the plain in 32 deep phalanxes. He sent a force of light troops to hold the hills on the right flank of Alexander's approach route. Either they were sent to delay Alexander, or they were to wait and attack him in the rear, while his cavalry overran the Macedonian wings, or maybe they were just to cover the withdrawel of thousand so non-combatants that wer cut-off and working their Way back the main lines along the hills.
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- . The Persian cavalry and light troops stayed well out of contact range, and when close to the Persian lines they were withdrawn across the river. The heavy cavalry under Nabarzanes went the right flank near along the coast, some lighter cavalry moved back to the Persian left wing. It was now late afternoon, nearing 4:30. Alexander had halted his army for a rest outside of bowshot, and redistributed his own cavalry, by sending the Thessalians from the right wing down behind the phalanx to the left.. The battle was initiated by the Agrianians and a detachment of Companion cavalry on the right wing who pushed back the unenthusiastic Persian light troops into the mountains. Opening up more room for Alexander's army to deploy. Then slowly Alexander began his assault.
The Battle
"Having thus marshaled his men, he caused them to rest for some time, and then led them forward, as he had resolved that their advance should be very slow. For Darius was no longer leading the foreigners against him, as he had arranged them at first, but he remained in his position, upon the bank of the river, which was in many parts steep and precipitous; and in certain places, where it seemed more easy to ascend, he extended a stockade along it. By this it was at once evident to Alexander's men that Darius had become cowed in spirit. But when the armies were at length close to each other, Alexander rode about in every direction to exhort his troops to show their valor, mentioning with befitting epithets the names, not only of the generals, but also those of the captains of cavalry and infantry, and of the Grecian mercenaries as many as were more distinguished either by reputation or any deed of valor. From all sides arose a shout not to delay but to attack the enemy." Arrian
The hills and valleys swarmed with Persian troops and non-combatants. Darius’ kinsmen, mounted on large Niseaean chargers held the center. Behind them, Darius stood tall in his Royal chariot. To the left and right up to ten to twelve thousand Greek Hoplites under the Polemarch Thymondas guarded the riverbanks. On each flank large masses of the Kardakes extended to the hills and ocean. Some these Kardakes were armed with hoplite shields and spears, and were deemed the Persian's hasty answer to Alexander’s phalanx. Some Kardaka units formed into units of peltasts, and maybe provide slingers and archers as well. Callisthenes' account differs from Arrian's, he places all the Greeks from the shore to the center, then the Kardakes extend to the hills. The symmetry of Arrian's account seems more likely for a Persian army, but since there was confusion forming the battleline it is possible both accounts are correct to some extent. Behind the front lines the levies formed up in useless masses…at least they made an impressive display.
A screening force of Persian skirmishers held the high ground on Alexander’s right flank. The excellent Persian cavalry under Nabarzanes was pulled back behind the river near the coastline. Alexander immediately dealt with the threat to his right flank and sent in Agrianians and slingers reinforced by a squadron of Companions and mercenary cavalry. These cleared the hills and the Persians fled. Alexander arrayed his forces in the typical fashion with the Companions on the right wing, the Hypaspists to their left and then the six taxeis of the phalanx in oblique order to the left. In front, the Agrianians, Cretans and other skirmishers screened the advance. On the far left Parmenion commanded the Thessalian and Peloponnesian cavalry, with strict orders to maintain touch with the ocean and not be outflanked. Alexander's Greek League troops were held back, as there was little desire to get them stuck in with the mercenaries in Persian service.
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- "But when they came within range of darts, Alexander himself and those around him, being posted on the right wing, dashed first into the river with a run, in order to alarm the Persians by the rapidity of their onset, and by coming sooner to close conflict to avoid being much injured by the archers. And it turned out just as Alexander had conjectured; for as soon as the battle became a hand-to-hand one, the part of the Persian army stationed on the left wing was put to rout; and here Alexander and his men won a brilliant victory." Arrian
Within minutes the whole Persian left wing routed to the rear . "But the Grecian mercenaries serving under Darius attacked the Macedonians at the point where they saw their phalanx especially disordered. For the Macedonian phalanx had been broken and had disjoined towards the right wing, because Alexander had dashed into the river with eagerness, and engaging in a hand-to-hand conflict was already driving back the Persians posted there; but the Macedonians in the center had not prosecuted their task with equal eagerness; and finding many parts of the bank steep and precipitous, they were unable to preserve the front of the phalanx in the same line. Here then the struggle was desperate; the Grecian mercenaries of Darius fighting in order to push the Macedonians back into the river, and regain the victory for their allies who were already flying; the Macedonians struggling in order not to fall short of Alexander's success, which was already manifest, and not to tarnish the glory o fthe phalanx, which up to that time had been commonly pro claimed invincible. Moreover the feeling of rivalry which existed between the Grecian and Macedonian races inspired each side in the conflict. Here fell Ptolemy, son of Seleucus, after proving himself a valiant man, besides about 120 other Macedonians of no mean repute." Arrian
The Phalanx Recoils
By now, the phalanx arrived at the riverbank and began assaulting the Greek mercenaries across the river. After a struggle, the Macedonians were repelled with heavy losses. Near the coastline, the Persian cavalry literally bowled over a squadron of Thessalians. Parmenion’s faster cavalry struck at the slow moving heavy Persian horsemen then turned around and galloped to safety, trading time with space, rather than attempt to duke it out in melee. The Thessalians kept up their delaying hit and run tactics while Parmenion gathered the reserve troops and counterattacked, stabilizing the left wing. The Greeks on Darius' side seemed to have held up any pursuit as Alexander's cavalry and the Hypaspists appeared on their left flank.
Alexander's spearhead was now knifing through the Persian left wing as the levies behind the main line were swept away with the routing Kardakes. As he approached Darius from the rear, the Persian kinsmen threw themselves in his path. The Companions fought through them and their bodies piled up in front of the Great King. Alexander was wounded in the thigh as he came within a javelin throw of capturing Darius (the scene as possibly depicted in the famous "Issus mosaic" from Pompeii). Darius seized with panic fled, or possibly his kinsmen grabbed the traces and dragged the chariot away as they saw the tide turning against them. Darius jumped out of the chariot an took to his horses as the ground broke up, by now the whole Persian center was in flight jamming the narrowing channels and paths out of the battlefield.
The Persian Rout
Alexander on Darius' ridge, could see the phalanx and left flank needed help, so he turned from pursuing Darius and charged the rear of the Greek mercenaries. The Macedonian phalanx rallied and held. The Greeks began to back away. The Persian Royal Guards were now surrounded, and fled or died, but they had saved the King. It must have been a moment similar to the raising of the flag at Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima, the Macedonians and Thessalians and Persians could all see Alexander in his shining armor along with Companions occupying the center of the line, and no sight of the Great King. As dusk set in the Persian cavalry on the seashore fled back across the river, hampered by their heavy armor. They trampled the crowded masses of their own infantry attempting to escape. The Thessalians rode down the Persians as the their horses bogged down in the sand along the coast. As night fell, the Macedonians pursued and slaughtered the fugitives for many miles. Eventually darkness allowed an end to the slaughter. Exaggerated accounts say that 110,000 Persians were killed and captured, Macedonian losses were but 500 killed. Darius lost his chariot, his mantle, shield, bow and bowcase, and worse; his camp with his wife, mother and daughters. He fled back to Susa, all he had left was the treasury which fled from Damascus. Alexander and his army savored the riches as they plundered Darius' camp... fastidious Alexander took a bath in the golden Royal bathtub.
"The next day, Alexander, though suffering from a wound which he had received in the thigh from a sword, visited the wounded, and having collected the bodies of the slain, he gave them a splendid burial with all his forces most brilliantly marshaled in order of battle. He also spoke with eulogy to those whom he himself had recognized performing any gallant deed in the battle, and also to those whose exploits he had learnt by report fully corroborated. He likewise honored each of them individually with a gift of money in proportion to his desert." Arrian
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- Aftermath
Darius fled with 4000 troops back to the East, and gathered his treasury at Damascus and recouped. He offered to bribe Alexander as ransom for his family. Alexander refused. Some of Darius surviving troops including some Greek mercenaries fled north into Phrygia and became the nucleus of new army under Nabarzanes.
The short battle was so anti-climatic after so dramatic a build-up. Darius' host initially did everything right and pulled off a strategic move of Napoleonic brilliance. But all Alexander needed to do was come to grips with the Persians on the open field and his army bowled them over. Within a few twilight hours the campaign and Darius' army was ended. Of course once Darius had 'trapped' Alexander, he did nothing to help his cause. If he had sent Amyntas with some Greek troops to fight for the Jonah pass, maybe Alexander's men would have seen the desperate situation they were in. Instead he laxadaisically aligned his troops along the river, and allowed Alexander the full initiative of where to attack.
http://www.historynet.com/wars-of-alexander-the-great-battle-of-issus.htm#high_4
As he convalesced, Alexander sent ahead Parmenio, his senior and ablest general, to capture the little harbor town of Issus and to watch the only two passes (the Amanic Gates northeast of Issus and the Syrian Gates farther South) through which Darius could bring his army into Cilicia. Finally Alexander himself passed through Issus, leaving there his sick and wounded (evidently feeling the town was safe from attack), and continued south, passing through a constricted place known as the Pillars of Jonah. On his right, now, was the Mediterranean Sea; on his left, the rugged Amanus Mountains. As he advanced, scouts arrived with chilling reports-the Persian army, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, was gathering in the vast plain east of the mountains.
Alexander had always taken pride in his ability to anticipate an opponent’s actions. At this point, perhaps acting on false information deliberately ‘leaked’ by the Persians, he decided Darius would make his approach through the Syrian Gates, specifically via the Beilan Pass. He proceeded to pitch camp near the pass and waited. However, this time he was wrong. Days passed, and the attack never materialized.
Alexander had underestimated his opponent. Darius III was a wily, ruthless monarch, who three years earlier had taken over a throne made vacant through an assassination arranged by Bagoas, his scheming grand vizier. Darius showed his gratitude and headed off any further intrigue by promptly forcing Bagoas to drink the poison he had often administered to others. Truly this was a man of many moves, one Alexander could ill afford to underrate.
But he did, and as a result–perhaps for the first time ever Alexander was both outsmarted and outmaneuvered. Darius, taking part of his force, advanced rapidly to the north, swept through the Amanic Gates and positioned himself astride the Greeks’ line of communications in the vicinity of Issus.
In Issus itself, the Persians captured most of Alexander’s hospital cases, lopped off their hands and sealed their wrists with pitch. These unfortunates were then paraded through Darius’ camp, and after being suitably impressed, were turned loose and told to report what they had seen. (More than a century earlier, a similar terror tactic had been employed by Xerxes.) And soon cavalry scouts pounded into Alexander’s camp to spread the grim message that he and his not-so-great host were cut off.
What had occurred was any commander’s worst nightmare–an enemy in force astride one’s lifeline. Alexander’s Macedonians were far from home with no hope of help or reinforcement. A lesser man might have panicked. Alexander, however, supremely confident in the ability of his troops and his own destiny, moved quickly to regain the initiative. He faced his army about, sent cavalry units northward to secure his route past the Pillars of Jonah, and then dispatched other horsemen to scout out Darius’ position.
The Macedonians hurried north in an incredible forced march, covering 70 miles in two days. The bone-weary foot soldiers were made even more wretched by a torrential rain that washed out their tents and left the men sodden and miserable. Nevertheless, when the weather cleared and the charismatic, ever-optimistic Alexander addressed them, his enthusiasm was contagious. When he finished his speech with a reference to Xenophon and the Ten Thousand (Xenophon of Athens had led some 10,000 Greeks on a torturous 4,000-mile retreat following the Battle of Cunaxa in 401 BC), the troops were on their feet, banging swords against shields and cheering lustily.
Late in the afternoon, just beyond the Pillars of Jonah, the Macedonians and their allies made camp, ate a hot meal, and saw to their weapons. Alexander and his lieutenants made an inspection tour, walking among the hoplites, who included both the pezetaeri, or foot companions, with their long spears called sarissas, and the hypaspists, or shield-bearing guards, with their swords and one-handed pikes. Nearby were the psiloi, well-organized and substantially armed light infantry. Farther off, and strung out more loosely, were irregular wild tribesmen from many lands, skilled archers, slingers and darters.
Next, after mounting his horse, the legendary Bucephalus, Alexander reviewed the cavalry, trotting past the lancers, the horse bowmen and scores of rough mercenaries. Finally he came to his finest troops, squadrons of crack horsemen from Thessaly and Greece, including his favorite unit, the Cavalry Companions. The latter group, an elite unit of Macedonian bluebloods, was the one with which he would ride into battle.
Well after dark, while his troops secured a few hours’ rest, Alexander climbed a nearby hill and by torchlight made sacrifice to the gods. Looking to the north toward Issus, he could make out thousands of twinkling campfires in the Persian camp. It was not a reassuring sight for the Macedonian leader. Next morning, scouts were dispatched to reconnoiter the Persian position. As reports came in, Alexander realized he was facing a man with no small military ability. Darius had deployed his army skillfully on the far side of the narrow Pinarus River. His line extended across the entire Issus valley, its right resting on the sea, its left anchored in the foothills to the east.
Darius had positioned a large cavalry screen south of the Pinarus to mask his dispositions, so Alexander was still uncertain as to the center of his opponent’s strength. He did know that Darius’ best troops, ironically, were the Persian’s Greek mercenaries, seasoned veterans who would fight especially hard. Viewed as traitors to the Hellenic League, they could expect no quarter, and they would give none in return.
The phalanxes had been advancing in column. Now, as the leading unit halted just out of archery range, the other phalanxes came abreast. Next Alexander deployed his cavalry. Parmenio would take command of the squadrons on the left.
‘Do not lose contact with the sea,’ he told Parmenio. ‘The enemy may try to turn our left flank. Do not let him!’ Alexander himself then went to the right, which he felt would be the decisive point. With him were his best troops, the Thessalian cavalry and his own Macedonian Cavalry Companions.
Some horsemen and archers made a quick sally into the foothills on the right, and the Persian cavalry screen promptly withdrew. With that, the Persian disposition became a bit more visible. In the center of the line was the Royal Bodyguard, 2,000 hand-picked troops whose spear butts were decorated with golden quinces. Behind them was their Great King in an imposing ornamental chariot. On either side, filling out the line, were the best of Darius’ infantry–the Greek mercenaries plus the cardaces, the latter lightly armed Persian youths who had just completed their military training. As part of their defense, the Persians had placed upright sharpened stakes along the riverbank, especially at those points where the river was dangerously low.
Massed behind the front line were the thousands of Persian irregulars. With grim satisfaction, Alexander noted that while Darius had the advantage of numerical superiority, the comparative narrowness of the valley effectively kept him from making much use of that advantage.
Suddenly he saw Darius’ true battle plan. The Persian cavalry, including those who had begun the day acting as a screen, now moved swiftly behind the Persian front line and took up positions near the sea. It suddenly became obvious their main attack, led by the able Nabarzanes, would be made against the Macedonian left!
Alexander dispatched the Thessalian cavalry to reinforce Parmenio, along with instructions to bend back, but always to maintain contact with the sea in military terms, to ‘refuse the flank.’
The moment had come. Raising his sword, Alexander gave the signal to launch the attack. A trumpet rang out and the phalanxes moved forward, with successive elements echeloned to the left in the formation known as an ‘oblique order.’ On the far right, Alexander and his Cavalry Companions shrieking like fiends, galloped across the river in an all-out charge, scattering the archers and light infantry nearest the mountain. Within moments, the Persian flank had crumbled.
As the troops facing Alexander were fleeing in disorder, the first Macedonian phalanx was becoming engaged, and for them the going was not so easy. With long spears bristling, they had moved forward and been met by swarms of arrows-in the words of one ancient writer,’such a shower of missiles that they collided with one another in the air.’ After splashing across the river, the foot companions had been forced to climb a steep, bramble-covered bank, after which they had been slowed by the sharpened-stake palisades. Understandably, even the well-disciplined Macedonians were having difficulty maintaining cohesion, and to make matters worse, they were up against Darius’ best Greek mercenaries.
With the phalanx slowed and the Cavalry Companions stilt moving ahead, a break formed in the Macedonian line–their opponents moved to exploit it. A wedge of Darius’ mercenaries drove into the gap, swinging their swords in vicious arcs and inflicting heavy casualties, among them some 120 Macedonian officers. At this point Alexander wheeled his Cavalry Companions to the left and charged at full speed into the Persian flank. Amid a tremendous din, forcing their Way through the bodies of dying horses and men, the Companions drove forward against the mercenaries, who now had to fight in two directions. It was too much–the mercenaries began to give Way. With that, Alexander swung his whole right wing so as to roll up the Persian line.
A few hundred yards away, Alexander saw the ornamental chariot of Darius, which he now used as his personal aiming point. Darius was surrounded by his Royal Household Cavalry, loyal defenders of the Great King led by his brother Oxathres. They fought bravely but were no match for the Companions. Darius’ chariot horses, wounded by arrows and terrified by the screams and the confusion, began to plunge and rear, at one point almost pulling the unwilling king straight into the Greek line.As Darius fought to control his chariot, Alexander continued hacking his Way forward, swinging his sword left and right, ignoring the personal danger, even when someone managed to slash his thigh with a dagger. Darius, seeing his bodyguards dying and fearing for his own safety, abandoned his ornate chariot for a lighter, more mobile one and raced to safety.
For the moment, Alexander was unable to pursue the fleeing Persian king. His help was needed in the center, where the phalanxes were heavily engaged, and on the far flank, where Parmenio and the Thessalian cavalry were engaged in a fierce struggle with Nabarzanes and his heavily armored Persian horsemen.
Alexander and the Cavalry Companions, joined by succeeding echelons of Macedonian phalanxes, continued to roll up the line. The embattled Persians, who had been struck from two directions at once and abandoned by their king, lost all semblance of cohesion. Before long, their entire formation was shattered; the only remaining resistance to the Macedonian forces came from small groups whose members one by one were throwing down their arms.
Nabarzanes, looking to his rear, saw the Persian line had disintegrated. Then, learning that his king had fled, he prudently decided to follow. Within the next few minutes the entire Persian army (including the Asiatic levies who had played no part in the battle) turned into a panicky, chaotic, fleeing mob. Some of the escaping infantry were even ridden down by their own cavalry.
Fleeing Persians continued to be cut down, both by pursuing horsemen and by clouds of arrows. (Ptolemy, one of Alexander’s lieutenants, later wrote that he and his squadron had ridden across a patch of deep water bridged by the pileup bodies of the dead.)
With the battle won, Alexander set off in pursuit of Darius. The daylight was fading by this time, however, and the chase was hampered by the fleeing mass of humanity blocking his path. Nevertheless, Alexander and the Companions, threading their Way through the remnants of the Persian Imperial Army, kept going for some 25 miles–only after dark did they give up the chase and return to camp. (Darius had escaped for the moment, but his days were numbered. Three years later, after being decisively routed by Alexander in their ultimate confrontation at Gaugamela, and once again fleeing the battlefield, he was murdered by traitorous companions to keep him from falling into Alexander’s hands.)
Back near Issus, meanwhile, Alexander’s men had found Darius’ base camp to be rich in plunder. Looting the Persian tents, they found jeweled swords, inlaid furniture, priceless tapestries, and countless vessels of gold and silver. Darius’ own luxurious belongings were left untouched, since custom decreed they now belonged to Alexander himself.
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kay dont read them, its just like 9 pages of school work.
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Oh that internal. I got a merit for it.
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Lol we did that essay in 07.
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3 and i dont normally like black and white
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Four. :
omg.
omg.
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im gonna be real unhelpful here and say 2, but next would be 4. =)
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I like four and three the best
What's your assignment on?
I hate design at the moment, all we're doing is logo stuff, exactly the same as graphics, only more 'artsy' I hate it. Our teacher doesn't know how to use photoshop either. It sucks!
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one is really beautiful. i love the parrallels in it.
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Thanks everyone!
I think I'll probably go for four. =]
But, I changed the text on number three, so does it look better or worse now? here it is
At the moment we're doing an A3 mixed media picture with the artist model being Jasper Johns. And I've finished that already, so I did the next bit, which is taking photos at the Hamilton Gardens and adding text using Photoshop.
lol, my teacher's such a n00b with Photoshop too, she's like 50-something, and really scary.
But we did some courses at Wintec on Photoshop and Illustrator, so at least she knows the basics.
I think I'll probably go for four. =]
But, I changed the text on number three, so does it look better or worse now? here it is
It's Achievement Standard 2.1. We've already done our logos, mine were based around cobras, lol. (did you have to use an animal for yours?)oh so squeamish wrote:What's your assignment on?
I hate design at the moment, all we're doing is logo stuff, exactly the same as graphics, only more 'artsy' I hate it. Our teacher doesn't know how to use photoshop either. It sucks!
At the moment we're doing an A3 mixed media picture with the artist model being Jasper Johns. And I've finished that already, so I did the next bit, which is taking photos at the Hamilton Gardens and adding text using Photoshop.
lol, my teacher's such a n00b with Photoshop too, she's like 50-something, and really scary.
But we did some courses at Wintec on Photoshop and Illustrator, so at least she knows the basics.
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It does look better now.
Four's still the best
Four's still the best
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I like 4, personally.
You've probably turned it in by now though.
You've probably turned it in by now though.
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Nope, still got a couple of weeks till I hand it in!
Thank you both! =]
Thank you both! =]
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Ahhhh Mi Diario again. Im so over spanish
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Ncea lvl 2 talk?
what novel/film/shorts stories/poems are you studying?
my novel is "Among the Cinders" and my poems are "te whetu plains" by edward tregear and "cloudy bay" by Eileen Duggan.
Anyone doing Biology?
I just went on my quadrat/transect data collection trip.
counting tree and shrub species in the forest was a good time =]
Chemistry anyone?
I've done the precipitate testing, it was insanely easy.
what novel/film/shorts stories/poems are you studying?
my novel is "Among the Cinders" and my poems are "te whetu plains" by edward tregear and "cloudy bay" by Eileen Duggan.
Anyone doing Biology?
I just went on my quadrat/transect data collection trip.
counting tree and shrub species in the forest was a good time =]
Chemistry anyone?
I've done the precipitate testing, it was insanely easy.
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-I think for english we're doing two short stories by Tim Winton, (Cockleshell and Big World.)
-Macbeth
and I can't remember what the film is.
Now, is it just me or is English incredibly hard this year?
I've always gotten straight E's for my essays and internals for English, but the essay I handed in recently got a N.
makes me sad.
Ahhh, maths. My friends are all complaining cause they're doing their probability internals at the moment.
Lol I just show them the level 3 algebra I have to do and that shuts them up =P
-Macbeth
and I can't remember what the film is.
Now, is it just me or is English incredibly hard this year?
I've always gotten straight E's for my essays and internals for English, but the essay I handed in recently got a N.
makes me sad.Ahhh, maths. My friends are all complaining cause they're doing their probability internals at the moment.
Lol I just show them the level 3 algebra I have to do and that shuts them up =P
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Oh I remember doing Macbeth. 
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Macbeth was very very mental. The movie we watched had a naked old women orgy
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We're doing The Truman Show for English, and I'm not sure about books/poems etc.
I'm doing Maths unit standards, so it's reeeaaally easy, which is good, 'cause I don't have to worry about passing it. =]
Other than that, I'm doing Photography, Design, and ICT.
Which are all awesome subjects.
Although I wish I could do History (because they're learning about philosophy), Legal Studies (because it sounds interesting), and Social Studies (because they're learning about land mines).
Anyone else doing Photography?
Oh and do you have any ideas of what you're going to do for your Design board Kat?
I'm doing Maths unit standards, so it's reeeaaally easy, which is good, 'cause I don't have to worry about passing it. =]
Other than that, I'm doing Photography, Design, and ICT.
Which are all awesome subjects.
Although I wish I could do History (because they're learning about philosophy), Legal Studies (because it sounds interesting), and Social Studies (because they're learning about land mines).
Anyone else doing Photography?
Oh and do you have any ideas of what you're going to do for your Design board Kat?
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