“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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My Little Bit of Country In ancient times man lived in union with nature. Gradually human being became less connected to nature and in our days most people have sought away from wild nature in favour of urban life. The essay “My Little Bit of Country” written by Susan Cheever deals with two different ways of living: the intense‚ humming and multi-cultural city life‚ and the classic family suburb life. It puts the main characters eternal love for New York and especially Central Park in perspective
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A love letter to my country: from a transgender Filipina InterAksyon.com The online news portal of TV5 Mga minamahal kong kababayan (To my beloved Philippines): I know that it has been an emotional three weeks to all of us who have been affected by the death of Jennifer Laude‚ the 26-year-old transgender woman whose lifeless body was found with her head in a motel toilet in Olongapo City‚ Philippines on October 11‚ 2014. I know‚ too‚ that Jennifer Laude’s story has divided us as a nation. While
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My Little Bit of Country What would the ideal lifestyle contain? Would it be a busy life‚ surrounded by tall buildings and lots of people or would it be on the country‚ enveloped in the uncontrolled nature and with a small society? Some would argue for the city-life‚ while others would argue for the country-life. It might be impossible to conclude which lifestyle is really the best‚ but there is definitely both cons and pros to each of the two lifestyles. In an article called My Little Bit of
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Living My Country Life I could not imagine growing up in a different neighborhood. My neighborhood was an amusement park full of fun and games. Every day in our neighborhood was an adventure in itself. Our home was a wooden‚ traditional one-story home with a built on porch. The aged wood made our home look like one of those haunted houses shown on television around Halloween. The porch was lined with horizontal‚ parallel beams that my grandfather referred to as a “banister.” On rainy
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My Little Bit of Country The text is about a woman called Susan Cheever‚ an essay from 2012. Susan was born in 1943‚ and later on‚ she became an American writer. The text is Cheever’s memories from she was about 3 or 4 years old‚ and up to her older years in 2012. In the beginning‚ the telling takes place in New York City‚ until Cheever’s parents decide to move her brother and her to the country. Susan Cheever is a 1st person narrator with access to her very own memories. Her father went home from
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If I could create a country of my choosing‚ I would create a Union State similar to the defunct Soviet Union with some important changes. The country I would create would be composed of the same countries that formed the former Soviet Union: Armenia‚ Georgia‚ Azerbaijian‚Tajikstan‚ Uzbekistan‚ Kyrgyzstan‚ Latvia‚ Lithuania‚ Estonia‚ Belarus‚ Moldova‚ Kazakhstan‚ Turkmenistan‚ Ukraine and Russia. This state would also be a one party country dominated by the Socialist Union Party. This is where the
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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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on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination is it! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now?" (Hamlet‚ William Shakespeare‚ page 252: line 158-165) Function: Hamlet and Horatio venture into the graveyard and have a short conversation with the gravedigger. The grave digger holds up a skull sitting nearby and informs them that it is the skull of the king’s old jester‚ Yorick‚ who Hamlet was very close
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It could be said that The Skull beneath the Skin is quite typical of the crime genre‚ however P.D. James has somewhat subverted the genre. The novel incorporates a combination of Intuitionist‚ Realist and Hard Boiled styles of crime fiction. Usually crime novels fall into one of the three afore mentioned styles. Although obviously an Intuitionist or classically styled crime novel‚ Skull beneath the Skins as I have previously stated incorporates all three creating a unique novel while still following
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