self-entitled album‚ Cooper. In 2008‚ An Horse’s single "Postcards" was featured in a Mercedes-Benz TV advertisement. "Postcards" is about the tumultuous cycles through which relationships travel. The video for "Postcards" starts with the band members of An Horse painting a body shape on a craft table. The band constructs this body – from the vessels up – by hand‚ drawing and painting paper organs‚ bones‚ skin‚ and clothes. "Postcards" was created using the stop-motion technique of filmmaking
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We need history so that we will not commit the same mistakes as our ancestors. A sad thing is that even though we learn the past and know what to do and not to do we still do it anyway that’s why history seems to repeat itself so many times. History also helps when u start to work if you’re a lawyer and u get a case and you have no idea of how to help your client you can go back into history and see how another lawyer deled with a similar case in the past. Another profession history could help with
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impact one’s sense of connection with others‚ hindering them negatively. Have you ever had a relationship with someone and then in the next breath it is gone‚ broken‚ destroyed? How did this situation impact you? The poem Feliks skrzynecki written by Peter skrzynecki‚ deals with the issue of the relationships between the generations and the adaption of migrants from an old European culture to the new Australian society. Through the poem we see the widening gap between father and son as the
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“Feliks Skrzynecki” although a paean of admiration for his father‚ reveals a growing disconnection between the two. The poem reflects aspects of post World War Two life for migrants in Australia‚ providing a viewpoint from the influx of migrants from the war-torn countries of Europe and the racism they endured under the White Australia Policy. This racism is manifested through the clerk’s ignorant question ‘Did your father ever attempt to learn English?’ Ironically‚ it is the clerk who is demeaned
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fabricates their social and cultural expectations which inevitably influences their ability to belong. The poem Feliks Skrzynecki‚ composed by Peter Skrzynecki depicts a nostalgic yet perplexedly negative description of the writers father. The readers are taken on a journey from Peters child-like admiration for his father to the pairs developing detachment throughout the poem. Peter and his father have contrasting social and cultural expectations as a result of their different upbringings which influence
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Ancestor Hunting: As a beginner you need to keep it simple. Embarking on an ancestor hunt can be as exciting as looking for buried treasure. For the hunter the early enthusiasm can‚ however‚ quickly drain away if early successes are few‚ and a clear route is not apparent to finding that nugget of information about an ancestor. The sheer enormity of the task may then seem overwhelming. So‚ as a beginner‚ keep it simple‚ and go for the lowest hanging fruit first. A family tree chart should start
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comfortable way that is accepted. The prescribed texts that I have used to identify the power of own choice‚ attitudes of others and external factors that influence a person’s sense of belonging; include two poems from Peter Skrzynecki’s ‘Immigrant Chronicle’‚ ‘Migrant Hostel’ and ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’. Another two related texts that I have identified to have significant meaning and relation to the statement‚ include Ian Kim’s watercolour painting ‘Alienation’ and an anonymous online feature article called ‘The
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Ancestral worship – Lavish tomb burials Tomb construction and tomb contents were an important part of ancestral worship. Because a tomb contained the physical remains of the deceased‚ it was also believed to be the dwelling place for the soul (po 魄). Earth mounds or tumuli were constructed over tombs of the wealthy or the elite during the Zhou period (1027 - 256BCE). During the Eastern Zhou (770 – 256BCE)‚ terraced pavilions were added on top. According to Zhou burial rites‚ the height of a tomb
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In “Postcards from Chinatown”‚ the poet examines how‚ in a place that had been renovated as a tourist attraction‚ the past lurks in the shadows of the present‚ which is unauthentic and seemingly all just a performance for entertainment. “An Empty Cinema”‚ on the other hand‚ laments the vanishing of Singapore’s past and heritage‚ likening the past to no more than just a cinematic film‚ where it is just a hologram projected onto a screen. In “Postcards from Chinatown”‚ the poet calls our daily
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made with people‚ places‚ groups‚ communities and the larger community. There are different concepts of belonging and they can be described through the use of various language and film techniques. Belonging is evident in Peter Skrzynecki’s poems St Patrick’s College and Felix Skrzynecki and in the film Mean Girls directed by Mark Waters. Both composers use various ways of interpreting belonging and not belonging. Through the use of language techniques such as cliché and hyperbole‚ and film techniques
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