I stand before you today to argue that schoolies does deserve the bad reputation it has been given. To some people‚ schoolies week is seen as a week during the year where you can take the time to relax‚ to un wind and to just feel the weight being lifted off your shoulders after exams but to others‚ it is seen as a dangerous environment where nothing is achieved and numerous amount of brain cells die in the process of this vigorous celebration. Schoolies is promoted by a website that delivers the
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kitchen * Games room * Tennis court * Tropical pool * Vegas In paradise restaurant * Wi-Fi * The Islander Resort is located right in the heart of Surfers Paradise with the fastest access to all the action of all the schoolies fun. With the beach only 100 m away and more importantly Cavill Av only 86 m away! This Resort includes The 2-bedroom room: (7 people max) This bedroom is two separate rooms located next door to each other including Air conditioning‚ a balcony
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Schoolies week is becoming a major issue in Australia‚ with tens of thousands of kids going on holiday every year and enjoying the so-called ‘booze and drug fest’. In recent years however‚ students seem to be taking more care and responsibility during schoolies week‚ and their behaviour has generally improved. In the opinion piece “Parents who just won’t say ‘no’ to blame for schoolies scourge”‚ published in the Herald Sun on the 25th of September 2010‚ Rebecca Wilson contends in an alarming and
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taking a well-deserved break and going on ‘schoolies’. Charlotte York contends in her opinion piece titled ‘“Blame the “Toolies”‚ not the “Schoolies”’ published in The Herald Sun on October 12th 2015‚ that schoolies is being misrepresented and blackened by childish and immature minorities. This opinion piece appeals to those who read the Herald Sun and/or are parents or graduated high school leavers. York begins by establishing a case for the value of schoolies‚ presenting the argument of how school
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member of the ’National Task Force on the Role of Youth in Australian Society’ the team have decided to report on the issue that adolescents are represented in media in relation to ’schoolies week’. THESIS The media portrays adolescents as having no common sense and judge all youth that participate in schoolies events as being irresponsible. SCOPE The team will approach this issue by investigating in 3 different media texts; a newspaper report‚ a satirical article and a Visual article
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traditional Tiwi life in northern Australia were often separated from their tribe for up to ten years as they gathered the required knowledge and experience to participate in society as men. Example 2 * Modern Australia has seen the development of “schoolies week”. Since the late 80s‚ the Gold Coast has been marketed as the ideal destination for students to visit and celebrates completing the
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English essay In this essay I am going to look at two chunks of a transcript from a speech by Tim Fisher and compare them. I am going to analyse key language features that are within both of the pieces but also contrast them as to what is different about each of them. In the two extracts from Tim Fishers speech we understand that one of the functions of what Tim is trying to do is to interest and entertain the listeners. Within both of the pieces he uses the word “okay?” a lot. This is a marker
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Discuss the concept of adolescence as a social construct and its validity for different cultures. Adolescence describes the transitional stage in a teenager’s life‚ from childhood to adulthood‚ where an individual evolves physically‚ psychologically‚ emotionally‚ cognitively and socially. It is a defined social category that is expressed through immaturity and unpredictability and allows an individual to learn and discover their sense of self and identity. The idea of adolescence came into perspective
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Plan Proposal: Australian Defence Force Academy-- Public Relations Campaign Introduction: The Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) is a tri-service institution providing military and tertiary academic education for junior officers of the Australian Defense Force (ADF) (http://www.defence.gov.au/adfa/). ADFA has undertaken many public relations strategies to raise awareness of the opportunities it offers to young Australians. These include placing information on HSC study sites such as
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of peer pressure‚ parties and underage drinking. The second play is the popular "Blurred" by the playwright Stephen Davis; which offers a comedic and clever representation of perhaps the most famous Australian youth orientated rite of passage‚ "Schoolies". Both of these plays portray representations of the highest calibre of Australian youth culture. Both initially play to Australian stereotypes and colloquialism but as interrelationships develop audiences are invited to gain insight into the youth
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