enemy does not care who is in the firing line or what the opposition’s personal talents are‚ they are just there to win the war. So not only is war a tragic waste of life‚ but a waste of talent too. Eric Bogle’s hit single ‘And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ also backed up this idea. In the song he mentioned the “wounded and maimed.” This refers to those men like Archy‚ who had the potential to go far but war got in the way. Their talents were wasted or never had the chance to develop‚ because their
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Culture‚ way of life. Culture is different to many people around the world. It can be how and where you live‚ the clothes you wear‚ what you eat‚ the music you listen to and much more. It can be a particular society with different art and manners. Culture can be behavior and characteristics of a social group or organization. Culture is any and every way that people of a group (family‚ tribe‚ nation etc...) interact with each other. It is the internality of the distinct ways of their interaction
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The name of Australia comes from the Latin word Australis‚ which means southern. Since it lies entirely in the southern hemisphere‚ Australia is most commonly referred to as "down under". Australia‚ being a country‚ is also a continent. In land area it ’s the sixth largest for a country and the smallest continent.<br><br>Australia is a very dry‚ thinly populated country. Very few coastal areas receive enough rainfall to support a large population. The largest group of Australian people live in two
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Henry Lawson‚ Banjo Paterson‚ C.J. Dennis • Authors: Miles Franklin‚ Mary Grant Bruce‚ Rolf Boldrewood • Painters and artists: Arthur Streeton‚ Frederick McCubbin‚ Sidney Nolan • Architecture: Federation style‚ Queenslander style • Music: Waltzing Matilda‚ Slim Dusty‚ The Seekers • Heroes and heroines: Ned Kelly‚ Don Bradman‚ the ANZACs • Australian way of life: Bush barbeques‚ Australian Rules Football‚ Surf Lifesaving Clubs • Cultural icons: Vegemite‚ Akubra hats‚ gold prospectors‚ shearers
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This poem has a simple ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH rhyme scheme‚ meaning that every other line within a stanza rhymes. Example: The whiskey on your breath (A) Could make a small boy dizzy; (B) But I hung on like death: (A) Such waltzing was not easy. (B) The lines with corresponding letters rhyme. The B rhyme in this stanza is an example of a slant rhyme – "dizzy" sounds a bit like "easy‚" but isn’t a perfect rhyme. 2.Rhyme- a pattern of words that contain similar sounds
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Lloyd Jones is a story told by Matilda. It is set in the 1990’s on the South Pacific tropical island of Bougainville. The islanders are living in fear in the grip of a civil war rages between the rebels and the Redskins. Mr. Watts or “ Pop Eye” as the children call him‚ is the only remaining white man on the island and he volunteers to teach the village children. He reads Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations to the children‚ who are fascinated by it. Matilda is especially engrossed by it
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Lloyd Jones is set in the 1990’s on the war torn island of Bougainville. The story is narrated by 13 year old Matilda Laimo. Matilda’s mother continuously struggles to hold onto her young daughter as she becomes completely intrigued and connected with a fictional character Pip from Charles Dickens’ novel‚ Great Expectations. This causes a breakdown in their mother daughter relationship. Matilda and Delores relationship displays a convincing struggle between the beliefs of each of them that leads to the
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❖ CHARACTERS: • Narrator 1 • Narrator 2 • Narrator 3 • Narrator 4 • Madame Matilda Loisel • Monsieur Loisel (Matilda’s Husband) • Madame Jeanne Forester (Matilda’s former schoolmate) ❖ Scene 1: An apartment [Matilda mimes in concert with the narrators’ descriptions.] NARRATOR 1: This is Matilda‚ a pretty and charming young woman who happened to be born into a family that didn’t have much money. She felt so trapped by her circumstances that she
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father. This poem reveals the relationship between the narrator and his father when they were waltzing about the room when he was still a small boy. This poem creates what appears to be an incident of a son who is being abuse by his father earlier in his childhood life. It is obvious that the author choice manipulation of words in this poem is what clearly shows that the young boy is being abuse instead of waltzing with his father. Childhood experiences are usually something that everyone would
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In this essay I will group 2 texts (Matilda and The Jungle Book) grammatically. I have chosen to focus on a variety of grammatical features within the chosen texts and how they can be grouped together through similarities‚ differences and context. Firstly‚ the tone of Matilda is imperative-like‚ it consists of grammatical features which make the tone imperative-like. The main part of Matilda which supports the tone is ‘something had to be done about it’. In The Jungle ‘Wood and Water LAWS’‚ fulfils
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