Aboriginal Histories and Aboriginal Perspectives Essay QUOTE: “I would not hesitate for one moment to separate any half-caste from its Aboriginal mother‚ no matter frantic her momentary grief might be at the time. They soon forget their offspring.” C.F. Gale‚ Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia‚ 1909‚ quoted in Tatz‚ C. (1999)‚ Genocide in Australia. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Research Discussion Paper number 8‚ Canberra: AIATIS
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Avatar was created after Disney’s animated film “ Pocahontas.” It cost around $237 million to make the movie. Imperialism is a policy of extending a country’s power influence through diplomacy or military force. The age of imperialism was around the 1870s. The regions assumed control of other regions were British‚ French‚ German‚ Belgian‚ Italian‚ Spanish‚ Portuguese‚ and Independent. They took over most of Africa for a very long time. Imperialism is thought of negative because it was to denounce
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Destroying Avatar "The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented" (Roger Ebert‚ Chicago Sun-Times). Many have sat through and watched The Last Airbender‚ directed by Shyamalan‚ while others have ravished over Avatar: The Last Airbender‚ the Nickelodeon cartoon. Both of these have the same concept and story line‚ but yet still vary completely. Shyamalan altered the setting‚ plot structure‚ added and deleted ideas and details
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Avatar Allegory By: Brian L. H. Alderson Don’t you think that the movie Avatar is very similar to how the pilgrims treated the native Americans? The movie Avatar is an allegory to how pilgrims treated the native Americans because of what took place and where it happened. When the movie opened up into its exposition‚ it mentioned the planet Pandora‚ which was inhabited by these natives called the Na’vi who use bows and arrows which seemed just like how the native Americans were when the pilgrims
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However‚ in spite of the many differences‚ there are similarities between the two stories. Romeo and Juliet and “Teen Couple Executed by their Parents…for daring to fall in love‚” both involve the deaths of the couples all happening at a young age‚ all of them dying before the age of 19 before any of their parents died. Throughout both stories a common factor is that the couples were forced to make adult decisions about their lives and love lives; while‚ the adults around them were making many poor
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Lesson 6: The Aboriginal World View There are numerous details included in the essay that indicate that the author is Aboriginal. For example‚ in the leading sentence of the essay‚ he states that he was “born on a trapline” and learned to speak Cree as his first language. This clearly shows right from the start that he was raised in an Aboriginal environment. The fact that he lived on a trapline also demonstrates the hunter-gatherer way of life that many Aboriginals lead in order to utilize the
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The slave laborers were exhausted. They lived in camps infested with disease. The Nazis used gas tanks to murder the weak. There are many similarities as well as differences between The Holocaust and The Crucible. The Holocaust can be compared to The Crucible for a number of reasons. In the beginning of the Crucible‚ a scene told the audience how a teenaged girl‚ Abigail‚ helped her employer‚ John Proctor‚ commit adultery. She knew she had grudges toward some people‚ including her mistress‚ because
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Avatar James Cameron‚ the director of Titanic‚ is innovative and intelligent. Cameron is a man that knows exactly what variables are necessary in creating a movie. About 12 years after the release of Titanic‚ Cameron creates yet another smashing‚ breath-taking‚ mind-boggling film. One that initially raised suspicion but later proved to be an extraordinary film. The name of that film is Avatar. Avatar is a sensational piece of work. It has a clean cut message about earth preservation and anti-war
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Similarities between Creon and Antigone In Sophocles’ play Antigone‚ Creon was engaged in a conflict with Oedipus’ daughter Antigone. Creon and Antigone did not see eye-to-eye the entire play due to extreme differences. Creon and Antigone had many similarities despite their enormous discrepancies. Having as many differences as they did‚ it made them uniquely similar in numerous ways. The similarities that Antigone and Creon shared were independence‚ loyalty toward their views‚ cruelty and arrogance
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Avatar Ethics An avatar is a physical shell controlled by forces from the outside. In the film‚ paraplegic marine Jake Sully’s mind/soul is placed inside the body of a genetically modified alien creature. He can control the massive and beautiful body‚ and is sent to infiltrate the native people on the lush planet of Pandora. They control the precious metal unobtanium‚ worth billions to the humans. In this grim future‚ Earth has been destroyed and is uninhabitable. Jake embraces this new life
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