...When a migrant leaves their homeland, in search of a better life, physical hardship and emotional turmoil may ensue. This is expressed in Peter Skrzynecki’s poem, ‘Crossing the Red Sea,’ when Peter himself was a migrant who travelled to Australia. The poem portrays the physical distress and the emotional disturbance experienced by the Skrynecki family, as they journey to pursue a better quality of life. This is depicted in the line “stretched out on blankets and pillows against cabins and rails.” The author has conveyed the physical distress in the poem through the use of vivid imagery. As a result, this line describes the physical hardships experienced by the composer and conveys to the audience how the migrant experience is seen as uneasy and uncomfortable. “Against cabins and rails” suggest...
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...traveller and this was reflected within Skrzynecki's poems, "Crossing the Red Sea" and "A Drive in the Country." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step..." The importance of the journeying process, and the positive and negative outcomes of the journey, is not so much about the destination to which the travellers are headed, but the various occurrences that affect the traveller along the way. The importance of the journeying process was explored and exposed by Peter Skrzynecki and a variety of other composers. Skrzynecki, using the powerful textual vehicle of poetry explores the importance of the journeying process and its various outcomes, a journey often results in the confused and mixed emotions of the traveller and this was reflected within Skrzynecki's poems, "Crossing the Red Sea" and "A Drive in the Country." A person is always emotionally involved in the journeying process, highlighting its' importance, this is shown in Julius Caesar's public memoirs "De Bello Gallico", the political cartoon "Freedom"" (Sun-Herald, April '03) and text five from the Board of Studies Stimulus booklet, "Journeys over Land and Sea." Skrzynecki uses poetic techniques to explore the range of conflicting emotions associated with the journeying process, enabling a responder to identify with its importance. "Crossing the Red Sea" is the first poem in the anthology "Immigrant Chronicle" and...
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...them, endure them, and make yourself comfortable inside of them. Yes, I can honestly say this summer was a “bucket list” summer for me. One other item on my list while there was to experience The Red Sea, that miraculous place of astonishing crossings, partings, and transformations. So I got on the bus for the ride through the blistering Negev desert or the Wilderness as we know it (and as I saw, it truly is). Soon enough, clad in my hot pink swimsuit, I stood at the shores of the Red Sea. Then it was my turn to immerse myself and take “part” in this miracle. I looked across the waters of the Sea. On the opposite shores I could see Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan in one eyeful. Worlds away and yet so close. I stepped into the calm sparkling water … expectantly, and… OUCH! What I didn’t expect was to step onto sharp, jagged rocks. Apparently, the Red Sea is a rocky place. All I felt was the stab of rocks and the scorch of the Negev sun. Laughing at myself for over spiritualizing, I thought of one of my favorite Midrashim. Towards the end of the line of Israelites, two men, Reuven and Shimon are crossing through the sea. The thing is, they're both looking down. Apparently even though the water had drawn back from the sea creating water walls on either side, the bottom of the sea was still muddy. Reuven steps into this mud and sneers, "What is this muck? This is just like the slime pits of Egypt!" "Shimon scowls, "There’s mud all over the place! What’s the difference? Mud here...
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...he journey may offer life-changing experiences, but it is ultimately the destination that motivates the traveller to overcome obstacles and achieve their goals, making both equally important. Such physical journeys involve the exploration of new and challenging environments, equipping the traveller with fresh experiences, perspectives and insights of the world around them. Through a variety of written and visual techniques, these notions are explored in Peter Skrzynecki’s poems Crossing the Red Sea and Migrant Hostel, Mel Gibson’s film Apocalypto, and Dr. Seuss’ picture book I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew. The process of the journey is portrayed through phases of movement and standstills, allowing the traveller to reflect on the impact...
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...Bachelor2 Literary Analysis of Riders to the Sea The chosen work for this literary analysis is Riders to the Sea, by J.M. Synge (1903). This piece is written as a classical drama. This form of writing is written with direction for setting creation and stage direction for characters included as its form is to be set into action. What is so delightful about this type of writing is that when reading, your imagination is taken to the scene enfolding before you. The characters need not speak every word to portray their emotion to you. Their subtle movements and changes in set symbolically convey visual meaning. After reading the play, it is just as interesting to see it performed. You will want to see if the director of the play has picked up on the subtleties that the playwright has included that have already captured your own mind or emphasized symbolism that you did not absorb. There are several portions of this play that stood out to me as saying more than what most would glean important. The first is a soliloquy made by the two daughters concerning the death of Michael. They are clearly worried how the impact of the news of Michael’s death will impact their mother. They are worried most about her and not of their own loss of their brother. This leads to dramatic irony, as now the audience knows more than the protagonist about what is the sisters believe has happened. The dramatic irony is further proven when the daughters inspect the stitching and fabric of...
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...Tennyson (Ulysses and Crossing the Bar) Presented by: Fatima Tawfiq ********************************************************** Tennyson Biography Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is one of the most famous poets in English literature. Many of his poems are standard of 19th-century literature and are critical and popular favorites. The body of critical work on him is immense, and although some of his work is seen as too sentimental today, his intellectual contributions to poetry and metaphysics are undeniable. Alfred Tennyson was born on August 5, 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, where his father George was a clergyman. Young Alfred began writing poetry at a very early age, and published his first work "Poems by Two Brothers" at the tender age of sixteen. In that same year of 1827 Tennyson entered Cambridge University, where he befriended Thackery and produced his second collection, "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical". He also met Emily Selwood, to whom he became engaged in 1839. The Selwood family objected to the engagement, partly because of Tennyson's lack of money, and partly because his brother Charles was unhappily married to Emily's sister Louisa. Tennyson poured his energy into writing, and his "Poems" of 1842 made him extremely popular. He let his doctors convince him to give up writing for a time because of his poor health, but the respite was temporary. In 1847 "The Princess" was another success, and two years later Tennyson married Emily in a secret ceremony. When William Wordsworth...
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...Emil Fackenheim No philosopher or theologian has written as extensively or as feelingly about the Holocaust as has Emil Fackenheim. Having experienced life in a camp, Fackenheim, seemingly out of a sense of compulsion, has tried to grapple with the overwhelming events of the death camps in order to draw some meaning from them for post-Holocaust Jewry. In a series of essays, and especially and most clearly in his God's Presence in History (1970), Fackenheim has tried to find a way to avoid both the absolute faith of the pious who do not see any special problem in the Holocaust and those like Rubenstein who argue that the only reasonable conclusion to be drawn from Auschwitz is the "Death of God" and the ultimate absurdity of history.22 If the former alternative blasphemes against Hitler's victims, the latter blasphemes against the God of the victims. Both victims and God have to be held together in dialectical tension after Auschwitz; neither can be devalued without resulting distortion and loss of truth. To keep God and Israel together is the demand of Jewish theology; it is still an imperative after the Holocaust; the problem is how it is to be effected. If Rubenstein's solution of Jewish communal existence without the God of historic Judaism is no answer, what then is the answer? Fackenheim's reply is both subtle and difficult. He is adamant in his refusal to allow any theological explanation of the Holocaust. In no sense, he argues, can any particular theodicy be propounded...
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...emptied himself: laid aside his heavenly glory, position, riches, rights, the use of divine attributes and finally died cursed death on the cross. In turn God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father (Phil. 2:5-11). Conclusion Throughout Exodus, there is a foreshadowing of the redemption that is offered under the new covenant. The first pass over, the Red sea crossing, and the giving of the law at Mount Sinai are to the old covenant, what Jesus' death, Resurrection and the giving of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost are to the new covenant. Types in Exodus that foreshadow Christ and redemption in the new testament are 1) Moses, 2) the pass over, 3) the Red sea crossing, 4) Manna, 5) The rock and water, 6) the tabernacle,7) the high priest. ...
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...Moses/ Key Person in Jewish History Divana Elkins REL 134 September 22, 2014 James O'Briant Moses/ Key Person in Jewish History Moses was born when the Hebrew were slaves in Egypt. He was born during the time that Pharaoh had ordered all Hebrew children be killed at birth. Pharaoh was afraid the Hebrew people would try to take over his country. To save Moses form death his mother placed him in a basket and put him on the bank of the Nile River. Moses sister Miriam was sent to watch over him until he was found. Pharaoh’s daughter was bathing in the Nile and spotted the basket. She sent one of her maids over to get it. When she realized there was a baby, that was obviously Hebrew, she took the baby as her own. She named the baby Moses that means, “I drew him out”. Miriam, Moses sister, ask Pharaohs daughter if she wanted her to find someone to nurse the baby. Unknowingly to Pharaohs daughter, Miriam took Moses to his own mother. Moses was brought up in the Egyptian court as the adopted son of Pharaohs daughter. As Moses grew to manhood he was aware of his Hebraic origin. He became angry one day at an Egyptian soldier for killing a Hebrew slave. Impulsively he killed the Egyptian. This act forced him to leave Egypt and travel to the desert of Midian. Moses then became a shepherd for Jethro, whose daughter Zipporah he later married. While he was tending to the flock God revealed a burning bush to him. The meaning of this was to instruct him he had been chosen to lead...
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...|Christianity |Islam | |Countries of origin |Sinai Desert |jerusalem/israel |Saudi Arabia | |Historical figures and |Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David and Jesus.The ten |Noah, Moses, Jesus, DanielMinistry of Jesus.The great |Muhammad, Moses , Jesus, AbrahamMuhammad’s death.The | |events |commandments.The betrayal and killing of Jesus.The |flood of Moses.Buddha, Prince Siddhartha GautamaThe |Koran | | | |crossing of the Red sea. |birth of Jesus. | | |Central beliefs |they believe in the Synagogue, the messiah or the |Christians worship god as part of the trinity father, | LIFE AFTER DEATH.ALLAH DAY OF JUDGMENT | | |anointed one, they also believe that Israel is the |son, and holy spirit. | | | |chosen people. |THE BIBLE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT. | ...
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...it are an integral part of the Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1996, which came into force on 1 May 1996. These Regulations implement the Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972, as amended. They enhance safe navigation, by prescribing the conduct of vessels underway, specify the display of internationally-understood lights and sound signals and set out collision avoidance actions in close quarter situations. This notice incorporates amendments to the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972, up to and including those annexed to IMO Resolution A.910(22). In accordance with the Convention, the latest amendments come into force internationally on 29 November 2003. 1. Introduction This Notice and the Rules referred to in it are an integral part of the Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1996, which came into force on 1 May 1996. These Regulations implement the Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972, as amended. Latest Amendments This notice incorporates amendments to the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972, up to and including those annexed to IMO Resolution A.910(22). The amendments include: Extension of the General definitions of vessel to include Wing-In-Ground Craft (WIG) with amendment to rules 3, 18, 23 and 31; 1 Revision of Action to avoid...
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...opposing tunnels, one of which strongly contradicted my upbringing, I am overwhelmed with an offensive odor I have not smelt before. Akin to a wrestling match taking place inside me, morals and direction are being pressed against the rubber, red ropes, in a tag-team match with curiosity and social-pressure. My parents and teachers disappear behind smoke at midnight. I had been in this place before. ‘The Lot’, my peers and I had affectionately declared it; this neighborhood shared high-grass field was home to many childhood adventures. Seasons changed, but The Lot remained valuable. A baseball stadium with a distant left field wall in the summer, transformed into a white palace in the winter. Two of the companions that journeyed with me then are by my side on...
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...the ancestors of the twelve tribes of Israel. God had Jacob's son Joseph sent to Egypt by the shameful actions of Joseph's brothers. Eventually things ends up with Jacob and his family being saved from a famine by Joseph, who had risen to a powerful position in Egypt. Exodus The Basic Genre’s of the Book of Exodus are historical and of the law. It is historical because it gives the reader, an account of the birth of Moses, who his adoptive parents were, his early adulthood, and how he leads the Israelites out to bondage. It is of the law, because it gives details and descriptions of what God’s covenant is and how it applied to the Israelite’s. The key themes are Israel’s deliverance from slavery in Egypt, the Pass Over, the crossing of the Red Sea, and Gods Covenant. God spares the life of the first born if lambs blood is painted on the doorpost of the family’s home. God uses Moses, with Aaron as his voice box once, to convince and compel Pharaoh to set the...
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...side of plate boundaries. Ocean trench: a deep trench in the ocean floor that is much deeper than the rest of the ocean floor. Plate tectonics: the theory that the Earth’s crust is cracked into many large pieces that move on the asthenosphere. Rifting: the process of continents breaking up, subsiding and allowing in the sea. Seafloor spreading: the process of new crust forming at the ocean ridges and spreading outwards. Subduction: where the crust is sinking down into the Earth. Alfred Wegener proposed the theory that all of Earth’s continents were once connected, which he called Pangaea. His reasoning behind this was that all the continents fit together like a jigsaw and that he also had proof of dead organisms on different continents that had no way of being where they were unless the continents were once one and that when they drifted apart, the fossils were separated....
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...The detective stories (or detective fiction) are a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional or amateur—investigates a crime. These types of crimes are usually murder. The value of crime fiction, and by extension the value of collecting crime fiction works, has been debated at length. John Carter explained, in the 1930s, that, for crime fiction: The detective story shows every sign of having come to stay. As a literary form it is not yet 100 years old, and there have not been wanting during its most recent heyday (which is still going on) certain crabbed person to prophesy that such a boom must end in a slump, with the implied, or sometimes explicit rider that the sooner this happens the better for the republic of letters. (1934/ 1947, pp. 453– 454) One of the earliest examples of detective fiction is Voltaire's Zadig (1748), which features a main character who performs feats of analysis. Detective fiction in the English-speaking world is considered to have begun in 1841 with the publication of Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" itself, featuring "the first fictional detective, the eccentric and brilliant C. Auguste Dupìn". Poe devised a "plot formula that's been successful ever since, give or take a few shifting variables." Poe followed with further Auguste Dupin tales: "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" in 1843 and "The Purloined Letter" in 1845. Arthur Conan Doyle had a longstanding interest in mystical subjects...
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