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Title: The Drover's Wife Composer: Henry Lawson Year: Text type: Poem In the poem, 'The Drover's wife', Henry Lawson, the author uses harsh descriptions to construct a representation of how tough Australia is. He also references the style of living, and the monotonous conditions of Australia. 'The Drover's Wife' conveys this view of Australia through his use of adjectives. For exam ple 'The gaunt, sun-browned bushwoman'; the effect of this is to demonstrate the harsh environment of Australia and how it can affect someone. Henry Lawson also uses a lot of imagery which are both negative and flattering to Australia; for example ' The bush consists of stunted, rotten native apple-trees. No undergrowth. Nothing to relieve the eye save the darker green of a few she-oaks which are sighing above the narrow, almost waterless creek.'. This imagery helps us to establish the setting and the surroundings involved in the story. Another way in which the concept of Australia is shown is by the way the children speak in the story. They have a distinct way of speaking and lingo. For example 'Shet up, you little ——! D’yer want to be bit with the snake '. The effect of this technique is to create a certain image of the family and to portray Australia in a certain light. The text portrays the identity of Australia to be a tough, but a somewhat welcoming place. = ABORIGINAL PERSPECTIVE =

I chose this image because it represents the aboriginal people. The black means the people, the yellow represents the sun which is the giver of life and the red represents the earth. All these things are important to the aboriginal people, and what they have been through. This represents their culture and almost everything about the Aboriginal people.

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__ NO MORE BOOMERANG BY OODGEROO NOONNUCCA __ No more boomerang no more spear, Now all civilised colour bar and beer, No more corroboree gay dance and din, Now we got movies and pay to go in. No more sharing what the hunter brings, Now we work for money and pay it back for things, Now we track bosses to catch a few bob, Now we go walkabout on bus to the job. One time naked who never knew shame, Now we put clothes on to hide whatsaname. No more gunyah now bungalow, Paid by hire purchase in twenty years or so. Lay down the stone axe take up the steel, Work like a nigger for a white man's meal, No more firestick that made whites scoff, Now all electric and no better off. Bunyip he finish got now instead, White-fella bunyip call him red. Abstract pictures now, what they comin' at Cripes in our caves we did better than that. Black hunted wallaby, white hunt dollar. White-fella witch-doctor wear dog collar. No more message lubras and lads, Got television now, mostly ads, Lay down the woomera, lay down the waddy, No we got atom bomb. End everybody. ======

==='No More Boomerang' by Oodgeroo Noonuccal is an Aboriginal poem about the culture that they lost when white people came. Oodgeroo believes strongly that they were better off before the whites. He compares the technology of his people to the technology of the white people. He shows the reader his perspective and about his culture. He talks about all the benefits of his technology and the simplicity of it, all the while the whites have the same things but more complicated, with no gain. Oodgeroo also tells us about how in his community they used to share whatever the hunter brought back, it was like a family, now they live for themselves, using the money they earn to pay for more things. He also conveys that they have lost part of their culture. In the line 'Now we go walkabout, on the bus to the job' he is talking about how his people lost the traditions of the walkabout and many other things like the corroboree to live a more mundane life doing just as everyone else.=== ===Oodgeroo uses many poetic devices like rhyming, every second line rhymes with the fourth. 'No more boomerang, No more spear, Now all civilized, colored bar and beer.' This creates a sense of rhythm and it makes the poem have more flow to it. His use of slang like 'white fella witchdoctor, wear dog collar' gives the reader a view from their perspective, because they are using their words rather than ' The priest is wearing a dog collar'. It gives the phrase more meaning and evokes realism. In parts of the poem when the author is talking about 'One time naked, who never knew shame, now we put clothes on, to hide whatsername'. It makes the reader feel guilty because the white people took away their freedom and naivety. The use of aboriginal traditions like 'woomera', 'corroborree' 'walkabout' gives us a view of their culture before the whites came in. It shows the reader about their way of life and their belief.=== ===I believe that this poem accurately displays aboriginal culture and the impact that the white people had on their way of life when they came to Australia and tried to make the Aboriginal's life better. It shows the reader that some things need to be done about the way aboriginals are being treated and also that Australians need to know more about the heritage of the land, and the culture of the natives. It may not have been a very long poem, with a whole lot of words, but it conveys its point perfectly.===

An Aboriginal Kid He’s just a black kid In the middle of any Australian town No livelihood Whites Put him down He walks and walks To the other side The dark side of town No whites there To Put him down He sleeps well Aided by alcohol Yet cries out to be sober Employed <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Noticed even <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">He’s just another black kid <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">We forgot <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">He’s an aboriginal kid

Stereotype: An Aboriginal Kid by Paul Buttigieg
===This poem is showing the negative stereotype of the aboriginal people. It shows this through 'aided by alcohol' and 'he's just another black kid'. These quotes show us that the aboriginal race have been stereotypes into all being bad and usless. They are never given a chance to prove these stereotypes wrong. 'Yet cries out to be sober' shows us that he doesn't want to be drunk, and he just wants to be noticed. This poem shows us the negative stereotype of the aborginal people and how they don't want to be in that situation, but cant see any way out because ' He's just another black kid'.===

Stereotype: How I fled when i was a girl by Molly Nungarrayi
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===This short story is telling us the story of how the Aboriginals were pushed off their land by the white people. This short story is showing how the white people were bad rather than the the aboriginals for example, 'We left our country because of the cruel whitefellas and their guns'. The story is innocent as the author was just a child at the time that the events in the poem were taking place. This short story shows how the white people believed they had power over the aboriginals, and how they thought they owned the land.===

=<span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cc3300; font: bold 1em/1.2em 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Proud Murri = <span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">by Dan Davis, Queensland code <span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.5em 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 60px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm proud to be a Murri, proud to be a true Australian. I'm proud of my culture, my heritage, that's what makes me who I am.

My father, he Kukuyalanji, my mother Baradah woman. But all we are family, we are all one of many men. I'm proud to be a Murri, I'm not ashamed of who I am.

I'm not one of those gammon Murris who think they're only half. When I hear people talk like that, I just look at them an laugh.

Did I tell you I'm living as a proud Murri, I'll die as one too. All the way from Bluff, real Murri through and through.

But ashamed I don't know my culture as well as I would like. I guess that's my regret, not knowing my language and ways of living, that's my right.

But still, I'll stand ten feet tall when someone says 'who here belong to this country?' I'll jump up and say 'that's me mate,' I'm proud to be a Murri. code

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #3c605b; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">**We Are Going by Oodgeroo Noonuccal ** They came in to the little town A semi-naked band subdued and silent All that remained of their tribe. They came here to the place of their old bora ground Where now the many white men hurry about like ants. Notice of the estate agent reads: 'Rubbish May Be Tipped Here'. Now it half covers the traces of the old bora ring. 'We are as strangers here now, but the white tribe are the strangers. We belong here, we are of the old ways. We are the corroboree and the bora ground, We are the old ceremonies, the laws of the elders. We are the wonder tales of Dream Time, the tribal legends told. We are the past, the hunts and the laughing games, the wandering camp fires. We are the lightening bolt over Gaphembah Hill Quick and terrible, And the Thunderer after him, that loud fellow. We are the quiet daybreak paling the dark lagoon. We are the shadow-ghosts creeping back as the camp fires burn low. We are nature and the past, all the old ways Gone now and scattered. The scrubs are gone, the hunting and the laughter. The eagle is gone, the emu and the kangaroo are gone from this place. The bora ring is gone. The corroboree is gone.

And we are going.'

Kathryn, Well Done katy you did a good job The information included in the analyzations were very imformative, and it gave the veiwers a good idea of what is happening. well done katy, you should be very happy with yourself
 * You have a good range of text types
 * You dicuss some of the literary/poetic devices in detail
 * You need to increase the length of your analysis - add detail and depth to your writing
 * "Aboriginal" is a proper adjective so it should be capitalised!

Act 3 Journal Questions

1. What does Banquo say at the beginning of this scene which suggests that he is suspicious of Macbeth? (Scene 1)

'and I fear, thou played'st most foully for't'… 'may they not be my oracles as well' shows that Banquo is suspicious because he thinks that ambition caused by the witches prophecy has made Macbeth play foul.

2. What does Macbeth mean when he says, “We have scorched the snake, not killed it”? (Scene 2)

He feels anxious/uncertain about the future -- his plan is not completed, he has not sealed his fate as king, until Banquo and Pleance are dealt with.

3. What does Macbeth mean when he says, “Things bad begun, make strong themselves by ill.” (Scene 2).

He means that they will complete their evil deeds properly after he kills Banquo and Pleance their hold on the throne will strengthen.

4. Why do you think Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo? In terms of the theme of this play, why is this apparition important? (Scene 4)

Guilt, anxious. Ghosts/supernatural/hallucinations.

5. Why does Hecate look angry? (Scene 5)

Hecate is angry because the witches spoke to Macbeth without involving her.

6. Read Lennox’s speech. Is he suspicious of Macbeth? (Scene 6)

'did he not straight, in pious rage, the two delinquents tear'… 'and wisely done'.

==== Macbeth seeks out the witches because he is worried about Fleance as he has escaped and he is worried about his plans. He is also anxious about losing the throne because Banquo's children were prophesized to hold the throne. ====

==== The three warnings that the apparitions give to Macbeth include to beware of Macduff, that the power of a man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth and also that Macbeth will be safe until Birnam wood comes to Dunsinane. ====