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The Extended Essay in DP Language B
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- This is a very shaky area to deal with as an EE, Noemi - as you have commented, on the various vague ideas the student suggests. One fundamental problem is that she can only quote the lyrics - but clearly, the music is equally, or more, important,...
- Hi David, I have a student who wants who write her EE based on songs. At the beginning she wanted to proof if there were some changes in the way some songs presented "love" in earlier years and nowadays. She wanted to take songs from the early...
- Thank you very much David.
- No, Kristin - full comparisons between languages are not a good idea. I do not know of anything that explicitly bans such an approach, but clearly half of such an essay would have to be about Japanese, and this is not acceptable in an English...