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• Essay on Bruce Dawe

  ...The Second World War changed many things: the face of Europe, the balance of world power, and, perhaps less notably, the perception of the common Australian. From Federation day to the 1940s, most poets wrote about the ideal 'aussie'; the strong, silent outback-dweller; the Man from Snowy River or the Man who went to Ironbark. The 1950s were a time of change, and Australian Literature changed too, from aggrandizing the increasingly rare 'Dundee's, to noting the average Australian living in suburbia with the other four-fifths of the population. This essay will cite specific examples of poems of a man commonly regarded as Australia's greatest living poet from 1950 to 1990. Through Bruce Dawe's poetry the true Australian persona has arisen to global knowledge. One of Bruce Dawes most famous poems, written in the 1950s, is Enter Without So Much As Knocking. In this poem he highlights the plight of a 'modern' man who slowly comes to realize and embrace the façade surrounding suburban life and its incessant consumerism. "Well-equipped, smoothly-run, economy-size" These terms give the feeling of mass production - just as well-equipped, smoothly-run, economy-size cars; these sorts of households must have been very common. Again the fact that these people lack individuality is being focused on and it is disputed whether this is correct. The rest of the family are presented as stereotypes. Whereas in the days of The Man From Snowy River, where...

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• bruce dawe Essay

  ...Bruce Dawes poems explore the impacts of consumer culture and are an indictment of the growing materialism in modern society. In Enter Without So Much As Knocking (1962), Dawe portrays a world dominated by consumerism, which has lead to `conformity, and eroded the individuality of many people. The idea that our view of the world can only be seen through television and that our experience of life is restricted and controlled by it is highlighted in the satirical poem, Tele Vistas.(1977) This idea is revisited in The Not So Good Earth.(1966) Television in consumer society is the prime source of information and entertainment. Dawe expresses his concern that we have become desensitized to human suffering because it is presented to us as entertainment. The central message of the satirical poem Enter Without So Much As Knocking by Bruce Dawe is that “you are dust and unto dust you shall return”. Dawe’s biblical allusion emphasizes that it doesn’t matter how many consumer items and materialistic things are bought, everybody ends up the same way, back to dust again. Society is portrayed as the product of the consumer age and human life is determined as a by-product, lacking in real value and soon rendered obsolete. Dawe suggests that contemporary society is false and superficial. The intertextual reference to 'Bobby Dazzler' epitomizes this: an empty smile behind the welcoming façade reinforced through the superficial cliché “all you lucky...

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• Bruce Lee Essay

  ...name was Bruce Lee; a famous film actor and a martial arts expert. He was not only a domestic film star; he was an international superstar which made the influence in the early Hollywood moviedom. Bruce Lee's father Lee Hoi-Chuen was a Hong Kong Cantonese opera singer and film actor. Before Bruce Lee was born, Lee Hoi-Chuen and his wife were in San Francisco for a one-year U.S. Tour with his Cantonese Opera Company. While they are in the tour, Bruce Lee was born, and he officially got the birth-right citizenship of the United States (Bruce Lee). Because of his citizenship, which be a stepping stone for him to start school, and his future career that his birth took place in the United States. The period of Bruce to become a Kung Fu star, Bruce got many hard times from it. At the age of three months, Bruce and his family returned to Hong Kong (Bruce Lee). Probably because of the climates change or other factors, Bruce was not a strong and heavy child in his early life. Therefore, his parents brought him to learn Wing Chun style of Kung Fu in order to get a heavy body. This was a foundation stone of Bruce to become a Kung Fu star, and started shaping his future career image. On account of Bruce's father was also a film actor which made Bruce wanted to go to the same path as his father. When...

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• Essay about Bruce Almighty

  ...Mena 2/15/05 Mr. Shea Bruce Almighty Bruce Almighty Watching Bruce Almighty, starring Jim Carrey, we were shown several scenes. In these scenes examples of hopelessness, individualism, enlightened self- interest, compassion, hope, love, free will, relationships, sin, and images of God were seen throughout them. In scene 2: This is my Luck; an example of compassion is when Grace is getting ready to give blood to those who are in dire need. Bruce responds that he isn't giving blood because he hates needles and because they stock up on the blood, an example of self-interest. When Grace says good bye to him, the only thing Bruce can say is that he is going to need a miracle to get to work at time. Once again, Grace is displaying compassion and love towards Bruce but Bruce is too worried about himself and work to even acknowledge Grace's actions, showing abandonment in a relationship with Grace. On Bruce's way to work, there is a severe accident and an ambulance is seen carrying someone but Bruce's remark is "Come on, not during Sweeps Week", showing severe individualism. After the meeting, Bruce approaches his boss and asks about the anchor position, the boss denies knowing any information but Bruce insists. He believes Evan is going to get the position so he says that he should be more like Evan because Evan is an ‘ass-hole'....

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• Bruce Chatwin Essay

  ... Bruce Chatwin’s Effects on Today’s Society: During the twentieth century there have been many well-known talented writers, such as, Martin Amis, William Golding, William Gibson, and many more, which have affected many people in an influential way. Bruce Chatwin was also one of the brilliant writers and novelists of the twentieth century who has touched many lives with his writings. Bruce Chatwin was the foremost traveler writer and English novelist of 1980’s. He was born on May 13th, 1940 in Yorkshire, England and was the only child. Bruce Chatwin had spent many years of his life travelling along with his parents. Bruce’s travelling days started since his childhood because of his father who served on a minesweeper in Cardiff harbor in World War II. At one point during his early childhood, Chatwin’s father decided to have him and his mother settle down in their home town of Birmingham. Bruce always attended different private and boarding schools. He used to spend most of his time in the library where he admired many French paintings, furniture, poetry, and history. He also lived a conservative childhood. “I never understood—then as now—the motivations of the English system…” as he has recalled (H.W. Wilson CO., 1988). Afterwards, Bruce went to Marlborough College, where everyone used to call him an imbecile. But that time people could not even imagine that this...

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• Commerative speech on Bruce Lee Essay

  ... Name: Zovin Chong Tutorial Grp: W18 Date: 15 September 2014 Title: Commemorative speech Topic: Bruce Lee Specific purpose: (I want my audience)…to know the reasons why I want to pay tribute to Bruce Lee. Central Idea: What are the various achievements and accomplishments that he has and what made him the famous icon people recognized him as today. ___________________________________________________________________ Introduction Born between 6 and 8am on November 27 1940, both the hour and year of the dragon, his symbolic birth marks the start of a new age, the age where a new martial art style is created which supersedes any other form of martial arts that has ever existed, the age where the Asians will never be looked down upon again by the Westerns, the age of this powerful man called Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee is a Chinese born in the States who was introduced to his first martial arts style called Wing Chun at the early age of 13. Despite being relatively small in size for an Asian, he possesses the tremendous amount of speed and strength He was very dedicated to martial arts and trained very diligently to win in various boxing championships. He then got interested in acting as a career later in his life and became one of the most influential pop culture figures in American and around the world. His philosophy in martial places huge emphasize on mimicking the nature of water; being able to adapt to any...

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• Bruce Dawe Poetry Essay

  ...Bruce Dawe Poetry- Many of Bruce Dawe’s poems have a heavy message and a bleak meaning relating to society’s weaknesses and downfalls. “Enter without so much as knocking” is a poem that is critical of consumerism in the modern world. The poem itself is a story of one man’s life, from birth till death and is a satirical look at modern society and its materialism. The poem begins with the Latin line “Memento, homo, qui, pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris.” This means in English “Remember you are dust and dust you will return”. This is the central idea of the poem; no matter how many materialistic items we acquire and consume, in the end, we all end up at the same place. The poem then follows by speaking of a baby waking into life, "Blink, blink. HOSPITAL, SILENCE". The sentences are deliberately short and simple. The baby awakens in the hospital and begins to experience the signs and expectations. The first thing that the baby hears is not the sounds of a loving mother, but the voice of materialism that is symbolised by "Bobby Dazzler" "A year or two to settle in and get acquainted with the set-up". This statement is cold, and impersonal. It does not convey any individuality upon the household, which is referred to when the child’s family is described as if they were from convenience stores. Dawe uses advertising language such as well-equipped, smoothly-run and economy-sized to describe the members of the family. These people are like...

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• Essay about Bruce Springsteen

  ...2012 Listening Assignment: “Born To Run” Bruce Springsteen If you talk many people who listen to classic rock and ask them if they know who “the boss” is and most would respond with one name, Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen has been an American rock n’ roll icon for almost three decades. For my listening assignment I chose to listen to Bruce’s breakout album “Born to Run”. Springsteen has been using the same band for years, The E Street band. Without this collection of hand picked musicians, now all good friends from their many years of touring and recording together it can be seen that the E Street band was essential to the success of Bruce Springsteen. After two albums that were not as successful as anticipated he came out with his third album “Born to Run”. The album “Born to Run” was one where he laid out all of his emotions and passion through his lyrics and melodies and it was a album that made him the legend that he is today. “Born to Run” starts the album out with the deep song called “thunder road”. Many believe it to be his best song. Bruce himself says this about the song "So this was my... it was my big, my big invitation to my audience, to myself, [chuckles] to uh... anybody who was interested. Uh... my invitation to a long and earthly, very earthly journey. Hopefully in the company of uh, someone you love, people you love, and in search of a home you can feel a part of. Good luck and good...

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