MY COUNTRY: ANALYSIS Dorothea Mackellar’s ‘My Country’ is a poem expressing Mackellar’s deep passion and love for her country‚ Australia. The whole poem’s intention seems to evoke the sense of praising for the country and express Mackellar’s deep relationship and passion with her land. Mackellar attains this response from the audience by using numerous language techniques such as; Juxtaposition‚ personification‚ sound patterns including alliteration and assonance‚ imagery‚ and paradox. The use of
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My Country – Dorothea Mackellar My Country is an iconic nationalistic poem about Australia written by Dorothea Mackellar in 1908. Dorothea Mackellar was born in Sydney in 1885. Her education was comprised of private home tutoring until she attended University of Sydney. She travelled broadly with her parents and also become fluent in Spanish‚ French‚ German and Italian. She highly educated and lived an adventurous life. Though raised in a professional urban family‚ Mackellar’s poetry is usually
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“My Country” Persuasive Speech Have you ever wondered about what it means to be a ‘True’ Australian? Does it mean to be “Fair Dinkum’ or does it mean to be of Australian Blood? Does it mean to live in the bush or desert and wear an Akubra with jeans and an old shirt? Hello fellow students. Today I am standing here to discuss how and why ‘My Country’ by Dorothea Mackellar best represents Australia. Although some may argue that this poem was written in 1908 and since then Australia has changed in
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LTA Essay Dorothea Lange‚ The photographer that I did my research on was born on May 26‚ 1895 in Hoboken‚ New Jersey. She lived in New Jersey until she went to study in New York City to become a teacher but later on she decided to leave the teaching career and focus on Photography. While focusing on becoming a Photographer‚ in 1919 she moved to San Francisco and opened a portrait studio in the city. Later in 1935‚ Dorothea was invited to join the Farm Security Administration and after that
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land of Shiva and Krishna‚ the dream of the Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi‚ the nursery of temple and mosques is inside my country. She is first and foremost in my thoughts. I love India‚ my motherland. India‚ the biggest democracy and one of the oldest civilsations of the world is the second most populous country into the world‚ after chain. Indians are courteous people. My country has produced warrior like Puru‚ Ran Pratap and Shivaji and leasers like Jawaharlal Nehru‚ Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar
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"If I am cold‚ they are cold; if I am weary‚ they are distressed; if I am alone‚ they are abandoned." - Dorothea Dix Dorothea L. Dix and the Establishment of the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum Prior to the Industrial Revolution‚ traditional institutions like the family‚ church‚ and local communities were charged with the care of orphaned children‚ the elderly‚ the indigent‚ and the mentally ill. As the Revolution flourished it greatly evolved the economy‚ social structure‚ and political
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a DJosh Wang Mr. Raphael US 1 History Honors 23 March 2013 Dorothea Dix: Mother of American Asylums Dear Admissions office at the University of the United States‚ From 1824‚ Dorothea Dix has proved to be valuable to social reform in the United States. After visiting multiple prisons and seeing the mentally insane housed together with criminals‚ Dix began a national movement to treat the insane in more benevolent ways. Her religious beliefs also influenced her to recognize the need for rehabilitation
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It is very descriptive and aims to inform the reader of the vivid and unique Australian landscape. The theme of “My Country “is one of loyalty. Mackellar is almost romantic in her descriptions of the various natural wonders of the country; she acknowledges the beauty of England in the first verse but goes on to brag at the wonder of the contrasting beauty of her land. “My Country” is a deeply emotional poem with feelings of great pride in the reader. Mackellar speaks of rural Australia‚ where
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Poem Analysis – I am Australian by Bruce Woodley and My Country by Dorothea Mackellar The two poems that I have chosen to analyse are “I am Australian Written by Bruce Woodley and Dobe Newton and “My country” written by Dorothea Mackellar. Both poems portray the love for the country and the sense of belonging as both of these writers are Australian born bush poets. The poem “I am Australian” relates to the concept of belonging to and national identity. Repetition of ’I Am Australian’ reinforces
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In my country‚ unfortunately‚ teachers receive a small salary for their hard work. Of course‚ I would like that those people who teach us for many years will get a decent salary. However‚ I believe that it should not pay for how well a student has learned the subject for several reasons. First of all‚ all students studying in different ways and each students has their results so‚ in my opinion‚ teachers should not get extra paid according to how much their students learn. In the class the teacher
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