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Dreamtime Stories English Laws Aborigines
431 wordsThe making of a nation is a slow and painful process. It needs a people who identify with each other and with the land they inhabit. Australia began that process on 26 January 1788. This essay will attempt to describe the Pre-European Customary law which existed in Australia in 1788. When the first fleet arrived in Botany Bay in 1788, It brought with it all the laws of England. English laws were seen as being every Englishman's birthright. The coming of English laws was to have disastrous conseq...
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Good And Evil Due To The Fact
1,586 wordsThe use of hallucinogenic plants dates back thousands of years. Over the years, many different cultures and civilizations have used them for different purposes. The common belief that similarities exist between cultures that rely upon the use of herbal hallucinogens is greatly exaggerated. The cultural variables between these cultures are often so significant that the only major similarity between them is the fact that they use hallucinogens. The common generalization by society that every cultu...
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Visual And Auditory Australian Aborigines
1,614 words... misconduct, priests profiting from gifts in return for the drug, or simply the economic decline of the tribes which is said to be due to their peyote usage. In any event, peyotism is strongly look down upon by a majority of Navaho's, yet the members of the Peyote Cult still continue to practice. The fact that the Peyote Cult is only a small division of a larger culture also provides a distinct difference between them and the Aborigines. There is no division among the Aborigines over plant us...
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Poetic Devices Descriptive Language
591 wordsAt Cooloola is a lyrical poem written by a well recognized Australian poet, Judith Wright. This poem creatively describes a beautiful scene of nature. The poet uses highly descriptive language and a diverse range of poetic devices to engage the reader into imagining a picture of how peaceful and serene this exquisite the scenery is down by Lake Cooloola. Underlying the subject matter is the implied theme that the lake is under threat from conquering people who will not protect its white shores o...
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Convey Aboriginal Issues Play Much Of A Role Aborigines
740 wordsBefore we look at whether James Moloney effectively uses characterisation to convey Aboriginal issues we must look at the issues themselves. In Dougy, the issue of black and white prejudice is strongly present in the plot. The stereotyping of Aborigines and white Europeans play an important role in the events and the outcome of the story, as is individuality and the breaking of the stereotypes. The book also touches on the old Aboriginal superstitions that are still believed in by some today, th...
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Justified In Declaring Australia Justified In Declaring Aborigines
608 wordsQuestion: The British settlers were justified in declaring Australia to be terra nucleus? Were the British settlers justified in declaring Australia terra nucleus? The British bought a lot of things to Australia by declaring it terra nucleus, such as they took the land of the Aborigines; they introduced Australia to houses, farms, clothes and money. The British decided that the Aborigines werent living there or didnt have a government before they checked the evidence, and they tried to replace t...
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Australian Aborigines Modern Era
949 wordsHuman had a long history of showing their will to shape, control their surrounding and understanding the natural world. Thus, it is no surprise that mankind had gone this far in advanced technology. By improving our science and technology, we are able to understand and research the world. This will allow mankind to create more stability thus avoiding some of the effects from great fluctuations of nature forces explore the truth of myths. With this theme in mind, I find it to be a very common cha...
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Ends On An Optimistic Note Ends On An Optimistic Japanese
545 wordsThe Divine Wind describes an Australia that is tarnished by racism, hatred and distrust, and yet the novel ends on an optimistic note. Do you agree? The novel is set during a World War. The tension and separation of races during a war seemed evident in Australia. As a multicultural country including Japanese and Aborigine population, conflicting attitudes towards these races had to be imminent. I entirely agree with the above statement due to the unequal treatment of the aborigines, tension betw...
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Forced Onto Reserves Successful Playwright David Williamson Australian
1,282 words... with stunning use of effective language. All his plays achieve moments of striking, non-realistic drama, challenging our attitudes to sexuality and life, but are said to be sketchy and undeveloped as drama. In 1968 Thomas Keneally, another renowned novelist wrote Childermas, a symbolic play dealing with the plight of children in Vietnam. This was one of the first plays to confront the topic of Vietnam. The 1960 s also saw a significant Federal Government contribution to the arts. A number of...
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Southern China Chinese People
661 wordsWelcome to Taiwan! In this report you will find out more than you already know about Taiwan, or at least you should. You see, to tell you the truth, before I did this report I couldnt have told you Whether or not Taiwan was part of Japan or China! Now I know very well that it is part of China, and many other very impotent facts about this country, as you will now here in this report. Taiwan, like the rest of China, is unique. It has languages that are a result of different dialects or languages ...
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Conflict Between Australia And Aborigine Property Rights
2,927 wordsConflict Between Australia and Aborigine Property Rights In the past centuries a peaceful yet devastating fight on the territory of Australia occurred. The fight happened between the natives of the continent the Aborigines, and newcomers the European settlers. Aborigines have lost it and became the minority in Australia, a country they used to be the sole occupants of. Their relationship to the government as a minority has affected them profusely. Many of the policies the government has construc...
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Dominant Culture Cultural Beliefs
735 wordsThe Last Wave SOC 118 The Last Wave-Peter Weir dir. (1977) In the film, The Last Wave, the director is trying to communicate the idea of a culture within a culture or sub culture. The dominant culture in the film is the white members of society living in Australia. The subculture in the film is the Aborigines who were natives to the land before the white people settled in Australia. The natives sustained their cultural beliefs and ideologies while living in largely populated cities. The dominant...
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Treated Very Badly Aborigines Will Never Forget Changed
331 wordsThe coming of Europeans to Australia has changed the aboriginal lifestyle in a very large way. The Europeans changed the aboriginal lifestyle by taking their land, forcing them into slavery, making the aborigines do all the jobs and taking half-cast children away from their parents. The whites taught them all about Christianity and teacher them the white ways of life. A day in the life of an aborigine without whites would be them walking around all day searching and hunting for food and places t...
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