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Welcome to Joshua Chang and Sang Yeup's wiki! Our area of focus on this wiki is Life's a beach Australia, Australian beach culture!


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 * We have selected this painting to represent life on the beach in Australia. The color used in this painting, such as the brightness of the sky and the warmth in the beach gives a welcoming feeling to the characters in the painting and to whoever sees this painting. A Holiday at Mentone symbolizes the multiculturalism by having people in different genders, people from different racial groups and people in different social levels enjoying their holidays on the Mentone beach. ||


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 * This poem "Sunday, Dendy Beach, Sunday" composed by Lee Emmett was published in the year 2007. The genre of this text is modern from seeing all the current technologies being mentioned in the text. The intended audience would be modern city-living beach goesr, such as adolescences who finish or still schooling, retired couple enjoying days on the beach or even kids at young ages. The purpose of this text is to allow readers to picture the Dendy beach, one of the most representative beaches around the city in Australia as a relaxing and casual environment, which subverts the stereotype  towards the beach culture in Australia.

The dominant reading of of this text is that a quiet day at the Australian beach can be very enjoyable to many people in various age groups. It relates to the Australian beach culture in a subversively stereotypical sense where the culture is introduced with facts that differ completely from major stereotypes towards the Australian beach culture. Stereotypically, a n  Australian beach is always crowded, busy with people coming from different towns, age groups, etc. Instead of choosing to simply describe the typical Australian beach environment, the poet creates a cultural identity to surprise and introduce the readers to a brand new perspective of a culture that they may have not heard of. The text may be read resistantly as it is representing the Australian beach culture in a surprising manner where readers may not recognize the existence of such environment, it's hard for them to believe that such a busy environment near the city can be so peaceful.

 This poem is structured in six stanzas, each stanza shows the main attractions of the beach in various perspectives, from introducing the people on the beach, "teenagers torosa bare" to telling us what they enjoy doing on the beach, "ipod music plays in ears". There is only one literal device that is used in the poem, rhyming occurs every even number line, which is to keep up the flow constantly through out each stanza.

The poem supports the Australian beach culture by introducing a new different perspective of the Australian beach. Quite a number of tourists visit Australian beaches to view the crowdedness and the passion in each human being on the sand, but I could not feel any in this text. However, I view Australian beaches differently now, this poem has shown that people still enjoy the peaceful side of the beach, and I found the poem pretty effective in meeting its purpose because of all the unusual things mentioned in the text, poetic device and the subversive description of the beach. ||

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