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    Postcard Lynchings

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    Writing 1211 17 February 2013 There are billions upon billions of postcards with pictures on them in the world. Why do people send these postcards? What is the meaning? Many postcards have pictures on them and are sent from spots of vacations or even just to say hello. Sometimes they hold great meaning‚ or sometimes their just sent for the beautiful picture stored on the front. For the most part‚ when people think of postcards they think of a beautiful picture that symbolizes happy times. However

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    what it teaches. Good morning teachers and fellow students. Through the text ’Crossing the Red Sea’ by Peter Skrzynecki. This text have helped effectively shape my understanding of physical journeys by developing empathy with the migrants in the poem‚ and the techniques and ideas incorporated in them have increased and developed my understanding. The text ’Crossing The Red Sea’ by Peter Skrzynecki catches the immigrants experience at a point between 2 worlds‚ as those on board leave their homelands

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    Ancestors - Paper

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    A. INTRODUCTION The comfort room might be the last place that would come into a student’s mind in which he or she would use as a subject for an improvement plan. Contrary to that‚ the group has decided to focus its study in this area. Sanitation as defined by Oxford’s Dictionary is a system of protecting one’s health. It is an important aspect in ensuring that the comfort room is a harmless place for the use of everyone. Sanitation has always been an issue in every public comfort

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    Ancestor Worship

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    Ancestor Worship: ATR It is vital in ATR to celebrate the ancestors of the African people: "Abundant life is realized through ancestral communion. The ancestors link individuals in a clan with the visible and invisible world. (kauta‚47). It clearly plays a major role in the religious belief systems and acts as tool to commemorate its ’ own history. It is easier to understand the African ’s take on ancestor worship by further understanding there view on death. Unlike the western world‚ where

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    Feliks Skrzynecki

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    FELIKS SKRZYNECKI: Places affect our sense of belonging through traditions and vogues. 1. Feliks Skrzynecki is a poem about the authors (Peter Skrzyneckis’) stepfather. The poem demonstrates the strong feeling of belonging Peter feels with his family. However it also expresses the detachment Peter feels from his cultural heritage. This is shown in the lines ‘Remnants of a language I inherited unknowingly’. The use of first person (‘I’) through out the poem is used to show the perception that Peter

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    Tattooist and Skrzynecki

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    individual. The poem “Feliks Skrzynecki” by Peter Skrzynecki and the short story “The tattooist” both explore these two concepts of belonging and use a variety of techniques to display these ideas. Shared experience can bring about an understanding of the past which can help an individual find a sense of belonging. Shared experience can come from past historical events‚ places or people which can lead to a common understanding. The poem “Feliks Skrzynecki: by Peter Skrzynecki is a poem that explores

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    Feliks Skrzynecki

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    Feliks Skrzynecki‚ composed by Peter Skrzynecki‚ is an affectionate‚ yet puzzled poem of the persona’s father‚ as seen through the eyes of the composer. The first stanza beings with the line‚ ‘My gentle father’ showing the reader that not only does this show some sort of affection and admiration the composer had for his father‚ but also some detachment. In the verse‚ it states the father’s devotion to his tasks stems from his sense of belonging to his garden; ‘Loved his garden like an only child’

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    Feliks Skrzynecki Analysis

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    Skrzynecki Feliks Skrzynecki Feliks Skrzynecki is the poet’s father and this poem is a tribute to his dignity and stoicism in the face of loss and hardship. Felix’s individual journey from Europe to Australia‚ from one culture to another‚ echoes through the poem and it is clear that the impact of the journey is as strong for the son as it is for the father. Feliks Skrzynecki is an individual physical and cultural journey experienced by Felik’s and narrated by Peter Skrzynecki. It seems Felix

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    Peter Skrzynecki is of Polish/Ukrainian background and was born in 1945‚ in Germany‚ shortly before the end of World War II. He emigrated to Australia in 1949 with his parents. Most of Skrzynecki’s poems are about his life and the change that he has experienced from moving to a different country. In 1951 the family moved to Sydney‚ to the working-class suburb of Regents Park‚ where a home had been purchased at 10 Mary Street. The poem “10 Mary Street” represents change as it shows the comparison

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    The Other side of the Postcard More often than not tourists come to Oahu thinking of a tropical setting in Waikiki sitting on the beach sipping a cold beverage isolated from the problems of the rest of the world. The reality is that Waikiki may not seem as pleasant as is portrayed to be in postcards and travel advertisements. The once royal surfing grounds reserved only for the highest ali’i(chiefs) has become plagued with worn down drunks splayed out on the benches in the park and card board

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