...'Then And Now' By Oodgeroo Noonucal. This is a poem written by an aboriginal woman who is expressing her thoughts and feelings about the British settlement in Australia. 'Then And Now' is a poem written by Oodgeroo Noonucal who is a member of the Noonuccal aboriginal people on North Stradbroke Island. Oodgeroo's purpose is to reminisce about the culture and freedom that the aboriginal people experienced before the European settlers. Poetry can explore events and experiences. Oodgeroo's poem is discusses how her home was transformed into a city and no longer has a way to remember the aboriginal community. Oodergoo uses connotation with phrases like "teeming town","belches smoke" and "neon lights" to create visual imagery of the city her...
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...Adolescence is always a transitional experience that involves shifting perspectives and finding a sense of personal identity. J.C Burke’s The Story of Tom Brennan explores the first person perspective of Tom, a adolescent who is in a transition into adulthood. However, Tom’s experience of adolescence is shaped by his experiences with death, grief and trauma subverting the normal confronting nature of adolescence into a much more confronting experience for the protagonist. The novel explores transitions using a literal transition into a new town as the catalyst for the more significant cognitive and emotional transformation in the protagonist. The prologue captures the moment of the Brennan’s movement away from the town of Mumbili using significant...
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...for the people who go to war. From using repetition in words such as “ day after day”, Bruce constructs a mood of dullness. Soldiers aren’t appreciated When the soldiers came home to their homecoming, they were only met by dogs. “raise muzzles in mute salute”. This shows the meaningless of war and how soldiers weren’t given recognition for their war efforts. Dawe...
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...Robert Gray poem suite including ‘Journey: The North Coast’ and ‘The Meatworks’ as well as ‘Island Home’ by Tim Winton explores the view that discoveries of changed ideals and environments are transformative as they allow people to accept new values and attitudes. Gray uses descriptive language to invite the reader to broaden their perspective on the Australian landscapes he describes and consider the impact these landscapes have...
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...The poem ‘My Country’ written by Dorothea Mackellar in 1904 should be awarded with first place in the Annual Poetry Competition. It successfully expresses the love she holds for her home country, Australia, by describing the beautiful landscapes after the breaking of a long drought. Her inspiration for the poem originated while she was traveling around Europe, when a friend was discussing with her all of the things Australia didn’t have compared to England. The poem is directed towards all nationalities, excluding Australians, to demonstrate the beauty of the country. The poet effectively employs a wide range of language features such as rhyming, repetition, alliteration, and personification, along with the text structures, such as the poetic...
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...Using a scaffold for extended writing to compare texts A scaffold is a framework or structure from which you can build something. If you prepare a scaffold before you write, you have a solid base to begin further planning of your response. This scaffold shows the stages and organisation of a typical comparison response. Each box represents a paragraph. What new insights about a sense of belonging are shown in The China Coin and one other text? How has the composer conveyed these new insights to the responder? Put some ideas in each box to help you plan. The notes on the right are not complete. They provide some examples for you to see how to present your argument. The words in bold are linking words. |Introduction |A sense of belonging can emerge from relationships with people and places. When | |Mention aspect(s) of belonging |people experience a strong cultural connection to a place, their sense of | |Make a statement about how this aspect is |belonging is strengthened. This can change over time. The novel The China Coin | |represented in the set text and one other |and poem ‘We are going’ both have strong cultural images and personal statements.| | |These are revealed through the composers’ use of flashback, narrative voice and | | |descriptive language. ...
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...accommodation, event ticketing, financial services products and media downloads, as these categories are not included in the retail sales statistics. Purchases of items from online auction sites (such as eBay) are also excluded, but purchases of fixedprice items from sites such as eBay are included in the analysis. Online shopping is defined as occasions where a transaction is made online (generally with the payment being made at the time of the transaction) and excludes online browsing or research with the transaction subsequently being made in a physical store or via the telephone or another channel. All business-to-business (B2B) online purchasing is also excluded. The report is based on a comprehensive survey of 1,200 consumers (1,000 in Australia and 200 in New Zealand) between the ages of 15 and 65 who have shopped online in the past 12 months, with online shoppers being asked to record their online shopping behaviour in terms of total online shopping expenditure, both overall and by merchandise category, the reasons that they shop online and how they shop online (in terms of access, purchasing behaviour, payment methods and so on). The survey was conducted in May 2012. Similar surveys were undertaken in 2010 and...
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...Film Comparison The power and intrigue of a story is determined by the subject matter, and how that subject matter is presented. People who make films have the freedom to manipulate any story, or subject matter. Films which portray real historical, and personal events need to be viewed with the understanding that the form of the film needs to coincide with the content in order for it to be credible. The film Tarnation is a documentary film about a man’s life. John Caouette combines hours of filmed footage from his life. Home movies, photographs from before he was born, answering machine tapes, snippets of short films, and 1980’s pop culture come together to create a fast paced, unsettling, tragic, and dramatic story. This part documentary, part narrative tells the story of his life, and how every aspect of it was affected by the mental instability that his mother experienced from a very young age. Tarnation deals with the themes of family, rape, child abuse, drug addiction, promiscuity, abandonment, and psychosis. The form of the film takes on a very dramatic, and anxious feel. A lot of the footage is shown in fast and short clips. There are times when videos cut in and out at a speed that relates to which part of John’s life is being portrayed. This diary in the form of a movie is raw and emotional. The chaos, and aggressiveness is portrayed not only through the events in John’s life, but the form of the film. The editing of the footage shown in this movie...
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...poem “Enter without so much as knocking” and an image from Shaun Tan’s book “The Arrival” explores various aspects of belonging suggesting that belonging to a place is central to an individual’s identity and sense of security. Feliks Skrzynecki ‘Feliks Skrzynecki” explores the hardships experienced by migrants growing up in Australia. Skrzynecki highlights the underlying idea of Peter’s difficulty in trying to accept his inherent Polish culture, which is evident in the third stanza “His polish friends always shook hands too violently…I never got used to” while at the same time unconsciously assimilating to a new civilized Western culture. Skrzynecki utilizes an extended metaphor of Hadrian’s Wall; “Watched me pegging my tents further and further south of Hadrian’s Wall” to epitomize the confusion and choice surrounding Peter in the ethics and values of each culture to which he must choose. Peter is unknowingly moving away from his Polish heritage and gradually moving towards a western culture resulting in his consequential lack of identity as he is yet to establish a sense of belonging. Skrzynecki uses descriptive language such as “gentle” and visual imagery of the garden with its “geraniums” and “golden cypress border” to show his admiration for his father and the sense of...
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...have shown, he stands today as one of the biggest selling, highly regarded and most influential of Australian poets. And yet again, successful composers have proven to the world of literature that there is no need for an extended education to master the art of writing. Aiding in his success was his ability to capture the human experience with the timeless and universal themes that are implicit in his texts. Whilst Shakespeare was able to find universal human qualities in individuals with high hierarchical status such as Kings, dukes and other noblemen, the ‘Poet of Suburbia’ is a unique writer in that his work explicitly encapsulates the Australian way of life; he writes about the ordinary suburban citizen. “Bruce Dawe is the poet of Australia and the poet of the people. His poems effectively reveal many facets of Australian life.” Not only does this statement allude to Dawe’s work with the Australian poetic tradition, but it also informs the reader about his individual understanding of Australian life which accounts for his distinctive connection with the ordinary Australian. This essay will discuss this poet’s work with Australian poetry and will also prove the truth of the above statement with reference to three of his most popular poems: Life Cycle, Homo Suburbiensis and Drifters. Bruce Dawe lived with a family of farming backgrounds and like all of his siblings, he did not have the opportunity to complete primary school. Out of four siblings however, he was the only one...
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...In the second half of the 20th century, after two centuries of colonial oppression and assimilation policies in Australian history, political and social break thoughts of aboriginal people in to the dominant European culture was bought to an end, thus enabling Aboriginal Artists to have the freedom to express their traditions, culture and identity. According to Oxford Art Online, the Simultaneous explosions of the Australian art market in the 1990s, gained international recognition for Aboriginal Art that emerged into the contemporary Aboriginal art that appealed to White Australia's conflicting a desire for cultural reconciliation. The recognition of artistic production in Aboriginal communities across Australia enabled artists to explore themes of cultural alienation. The first wave of contemporary Aboriginal painters including Clifford Possum, Rover Thomas, Paddy Bedford and Emily Kame Kngwarreye, utilized repertoires of dots, blocks of color, with stimulating negative spaces or gestural brushstrokes to evoke the sense of a sacred, collective 'knowledge'. Collectors and museums began to actively collect contemporary Aboriginal works, whose conceptual paintings reinterpreted Australian colonial history. Our Guarantee To You No Quibble Money Back Guarantee! We are so confident in our ability to produce top level academic work that we are prepared to back it with a "No Quibble, Money Back" guarantee! Guarantee Information Essay Writing Service Today Aboriginal...
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...Within the 1800’s social expectations were dictated by men. This resulted in the restriction of women’s choices and opportunities within their lives as they were socially obliged to be subservient to men. Jean Bedford’s ‘Sister Kate’ displays the feminist views of women in Australia in the time period of the 1800’s. Through a variety of different literary techniques, we can see the struggles and hardships that women faced in that particular context, whilst we can also compare and differentiate our understanding of feminism to our modern context. Through a feminist lens we can see the lack of choice women had in the context of ‘Sister Kate’. The lack of choice for women is displayed in the character of Kate and her disinterest towards her unwanted pregnancies and children- reflecting the lack of contraception in the 1800’s. ‘But I knew it was deeper than that; it was not only the weakness from the loss of blood and the struggle regain. My flesh crawls at the thought of an infant once more suckling blind eyed at my sore breast.’ Feminist undertones are implied through the rich imagery of the burden of motherhood and this is further emphasized through the negative physical undertones of childbirth. A modern audience can understand the absence of knowledge society at the time of ‘Sister Kate’, regarding maternal health and wellbeing. This often meant that women were oppressed by the social burden of bearing a child. The convention of lack of control is furthermore explored...
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...Shaun Tan is an author/illustrator from the suburbs of west Australia. Tan Embraced suburban life and finding your place in the world with his graphic novels The arrival, The lost thing and Tales from outer suburbia. In Tan’s text The Arrival he depicted a man trying to find his way in a new country. It is a world less novel about a man that leaves his old life in the old country behind. He goes to this new country and strangers help him adapt to the new country.’The old country’, this is a drawing from The Arrival. Tan’s image looks like the main character’s home country. He makes it look like a bad place to live which is why the main character chose to migrate.The book was drawn to give perspective on what it was like to...
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...curve balls such as the CGI (Computer generated imagery) for Koko’s scenes being too expensive for the budget. Instead of throwing the movie out the window they did it the old fashioned way by having the trainer on screen, then just editing them out. All ended well though with Kriv winning Best Direction, Julie Ryan and Nelson Woss (producers) winning Best film and AFI members’ choice award plus many more. The movie Red Dog is a true story based on the book written by Louis de Bernieres. Louis was inspired to write this book after the statue of Red dog caught his eye while passing through Dampier. Red Dog has a very strong historical, context as many people thought highly of him, had a good attitude towards him and treated him well. The miners especially took good care of Red, they look after him when he was around and make sure he’s been fed, they also take him to the vet to make sure he was healthy. Red Dog lives in Dampier a mining town full of men who have no women around to tell them what to do and what not to do. This would influence Red dog as a lady would have kept him at home, taught him commands, kept him away from the mines, and transport. Red Dog did the opposite of all these things and was a free spirit who liked to travel. Red Dogs social context was much different to most dogs. Most dogs would have had a nice bed and a grassy green yard to run around in, but not Red. Red Dog was raised in Dampier Western Australia where “men were men and dogs were dogs. Rougher...
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...1. IT and Internet’s Impact on Tourism and Hospitality Industry: Implementations of technologies for Hilton Hotels Group. Demonstrate critical and evaluative interpretation and application of theoretical IT/ e-business concepts to a current tourism and hospitality market situation in order to build sustainable competitive advantage. I Introduction Accompanying the technological revolution of the 1990s there are many new opportunities and challenges for the tourism and hospitality industries. Since tourism, global industry information is its life-blood and technology has become fundamental to the ability of the industry to operate effectively and competitively. Poon (1993) suggests that the whole system of information technologies is being rapidly diffused throughout the tourism industry and no player will escape information technologies impacts. The report below gives an insight into the importance of application of information technologies and the use of Internet in tourism and hospitality industries. Two given strategic frameworks provide the analysis of the Internet and its impact on these sectors. This paper also aims to show how technological innovations and information systems can be beneficial for the hotel companies, by using the example of Hilton Hotels Group. II IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY IN TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY SECTORS Market wisdom today suggests that hospitality companies must embrace technology to compete against traditional competitors, as well as...
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