Essay 1 – ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ ‘How are the differences between Australian and Italo-Australian culture displayed by Marchetta and what effects do they have on the protagonist Josie?” Melina Marchetta’s cult text ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ looks at many issues of growing up in Australia torn between two cultures. The main protagonist Josie Alibrandi was born in Australia into a family with strong Italian cultural links and her battle to ‘find’ herself and her ethnicity is one that I will explore
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Tradition Against Freedom "The Boat" by Alistair MacLeod is the story told from the perspective of university teacher looking back on his life. The narrator relates the first memories of his life until his father’s death. The story focuses on the conflicting relation between the mother and the father‚ and their different perspectives on how their children should lead their lives. MacLeod uses features of setting to present the tension between tradition and freedom. The contrast between the father’s
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Came on a Boat is a stunning picture book with a story‚ illustrations and backdrop like no other - people escaping war and violence in search of a new land. And with it‚ they hope for freedom. The setting in the story is a boat somewhere in the middle of an "endless" ocean. Ziba‚ a little girl‚ rides it with her mother and a group of other people. You can’t help but notice the gray and blue colors on the pages‚ and the sorrow-filled expressions on the faces of the people riding the boat leading
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In the short stories the "Open Boat" written by Stephen Crane and "Cathedral" written by Raymond Carver‚ tell a tale about different groups of people who go through life changing experiences and come out in the end as a stronger community. Everywhere we look communities surround us all. From our families and friends to the people we go to school with. Communities make up the essence of our everyday life. The four main characters in the "Open Boat" are the captain‚ the cook‚ the correspondent‚ and
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creativity‚ and in applying content knowledge to real world problem. My artifact is a picture of an aluminum foil boat (The Richest Boat) that we had to create on Dr. Narayan’s class EDEE 4330. At first we were asked to create a boat with a piece of white paper‚ and we had to tape it on the board. Then we had to create the richest boat with an eight by eight aluminum foil and our boat had to hold as many pennies as possible while floating on water. Dr. Narayan provides us with the material such as
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large crowds are gathered and seek the arrival of the boat. Marching bands are prepared to play a song in its honor and reporters are eagerly trying to know more of the project. Shortly the audience is presented to Joe‚ Queenie‚ Magnolia and Gaylord. Show Boat is the first mixed-race-cast musical in which African American performers play three dimensional‚ sympathetic characters. Segregation is seen as an easy way to keep citizens safe because the whites see the colored individuals as a threat. Even
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“The Open Boat” “The Open Boat” is a short story written by Steven Crane about four men stranded on a dinghy after their boat had sunk over night. The men were struggling to stay alive because it seemed as if they had no hope for survival. The four stranded shipmen were a correspondent‚ an oiler‚ a cook‚ and a captain. The theme of the story is that man has no control over his destinies and that nature controls everything. Naturalist themes prevail in Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” as it demonstrates
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example of culture clash begins. Josie feels the need to rebel against the stero-typical female in an Italian culture. This determination stems from her education and desire to step away from her Italian life and responsibilities‚ breaking away not only from her family and their narrow mindedness but also the entire Italian culture. This is a major leap for Josie who aspires to be the first Alibrandi female to take control of her life. This motivation of freedom is strong in Josie and her rebellious
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Dinghy vs. Nature In his short story‚ "The Open Boat‚" Stephen Crane shows how an inanimate object can be very unconcerned with whether you live or die. In this case‚ it is an ocean‚ which man has to struggle to survive. The characters in the story come face to face with this natural disaster and nearly overcome by Nature’s lack of concern. They survive only through persistence and cooperation. Crane shows the reader how not to give up when something so uncontrollable is present. Crane shows how
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Comprehension Test Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome 1 Match a number from A with a letter from B to make complete sentences. A 1 The people in the maze were angry with Harris ... 2 George said it was most exciting to let girls tow your boat ... 3 The three men decided to go home early ... 4 Five different men said that they caught the fish ... 5 One morning George got up very early ... B a ... because his watch stopped the night before.
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