PREP Start in class by downloading the 3 copies of The Observer from the OCR website and save to your folder 02 NEWS on your desktop

1. Find one example of the representation of a woman and say how she is represented.

On the bottom left corner, there is an image of a woman in underwear or lingerie which is clearly an advert for the clothes, however this woman is represented as more of an object than an actual person, the advert had clearly and very smartly used an eye-catching picture that people of any kind will look at, they made the woman look attractive and meet expectations of what men might want. The poses in which she is making adds to the attractiveness and makes men in particular like to look at it which is not a good thing for a woman to be represented as especially today in the society we live in.

2. Find another contrasting example of a woman and say how she is represented

The image in the second newspaper shows the Queen looking quite worried and anxious, it creates a whole different scene on how woman are looked at. The Queen looks caught up in her feelings and is one of the people that everyone looks up at and so her reaction going to the 'incident' that happened in Wales shows us that she really is thoughtful and emphasises with the people around her. The fact that the Queen wouldn't usually turn up to tragic events like this one shows what is truly inside of her and that must have shocked a lot of people.

2. Find one example of a news story about the Cold War

An example of the Cold War found in the newspaper was 'Unions postpone strike' as there title which clearly was trying to tell people about what was going on as they would have ben quite concerned at the time.

3. Find one example of a story about a domestic disaster

An example of the domestic disaster was the picture of the Queen with the caption 'Queen visits the mourning valley', this was obviously a very large disaster that the nation would have been shocked by especially as the Queen took time out of her day to visit it. 

4. Find one example of a story about a European disaster

An example of a European disaster was '68 dead in Italian flood', this would have been very tragic and unexpected as in those days people knew nothing about what weather was coming and how bad it was therefore people weren't able to get prepared for it. It was a very devastating disaster that sadly killed a lot of people.