Hi‚ I’m ............ and my topic is Anzac Day and whether or not sport should be played on Anzac Day. I believe that sport should be played on Anzac Day‚ as it rejuvenates our attention and interest in the day. Many different sports play special matches every year on the 25th of April to commemorate Anzac Day. The AFL holds an Anzac Day clash‚ which Essendon and Collingwood have played in every year since 1995. The NRL holds two Anzac Day clashes‚ one game between St George Illawarra and the Sydney
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Soldier represents a part of Australia’s history and also represents the ANZAC soldiers that fought in World War One. He holds all the values and qualities that the ANZACs were said to evident in their everyday lifestyle. He is an iconic symbol for Australia and its military history as well a representative of commemorating the sacrifices the soldiers made for their country. The ANZAC legend was written to describe the way ANZAC soldiers conducted themselves on and off the battlefield. Their behaviour
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Gallipoli may have given birth to the Anzac identity but the first generation of Anzacs were fighting for Empire and Mother England. At Kokoda‚ a new generation of Anzacs‚ although showing the same characteristics as their ancestors‚ achieved much more. As Keating said “The Australians who served here in Papua New Guinea fought and died not in defence of the old world‚ but the new world. Their world. They died in defence of Australia…”. The Anzacs were characterised by mateship‚ courage‚ humour
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young country compared to the rest of the world and places such as Europe. Before the First World War Australia struggled to give itself a lasting identity‚ the war united the Australian people together for the first time as a nation‚ and created the ANZAC legacy’ and the Australian way we know today. The years surrounding World War One helped build our identity‚ and David Malouf expresses this issue in the novella Fly Away Peter. In 1914 Australia was just a newly federated country‚ only 13 years
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conflict between Hughie and the other characters; it is Alf’s inflated sense of ego on Anzac Day which Hughie objects to most. Thus through examining the basis of the conflict‚ we can better understand the character and the view they hold. This same analysis of character can be applied to Hughie. The audience knows that the main conflict he holds with Alf is due to his objection to the way Alf celebrates Anzac Day. However‚ for The One Day of the Year to be classified as a successful drama‚ the audience
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society when asked about the First World War will only be knowledgeable of the Anzacs involvement in the Battle of Gallipoli because it is the only battle discussed at Anzac Ceremonies. Battles like the Battle of the Somme deserve more recognition and this essay will give an overview of why. Australia’s transformation from the war‚ the soldiers experiences‚ the impact on the soldiers and their families‚ how the Anzac legend is carried on as well as how the army has changed are all things that this
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thing was the ANZAC legend it created‚ and the evacuation‚ when the Aussies outdid themselves‚ creating self-firing rifles. The evacuation had NO casualties. The aim of the campaign was to defeat the Ottoman Empire by attacking Gallipoli‚ and taking the Dardenelles‚ thereby giving British aid to the Russians‚ which were getting smashed. However‚ the campaign went wrong from the start. The Ottomans had modern equipment which was contradictory to the Allies’s assumptions. The ANZACs standing for
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as well as being used to support the characteristics of the ANZAC legend. The fall of Singapore not only impacted the troops in Singapore at the time‚ but also impacted Australia and Britain in World War II by possibly endangering Australia’s safety. Many of the Allied troops that were captured during the fall of Singapore became prisoners of war‚ and endured harsh conditions‚ which have been used to support the characteristics of the ANZAC legend. There were three death marches between January and
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by Joseph Smit h‚ the son of a farmer (C. Bushman and R. Bushman 11-12). Ever since then mormons Mormonism however has been shrouded in controversy Joseph Smith was born on December 23‚ 1805 in Sharon‚ Vermont to Joseph Smith‚ Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith (C. Bushman and R. Bushman 12). He moved from farm to farm with his family because they were tenant farmers and did not establish roots until they bought a farm in Palmyra‚ New York (C. Bushman and R. Bushman 13-14). Due to the family’s transient lifestyle
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another watching a non-violent videotape. It is hypothesized that the participants who watched violent videotape would list down a higher number of aggressive associations to the homonyms in comparisons to those who watched a non-violent videotape (Bushman‚ 1998). The participants were 200 psychology undergraduate students who voluntarily participated‚ 100 of which are men and another 100 are women. One group of participants were tasked to watch violent videotape and another group of participants were
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