... kind of character centre-stage and the beautiful best friend in the position of living horror.' Far from being eccentric, Paul J. Hogan's idea filts into a well-represented strand of Australian story-telling. A great deal of Australian stories focus on people who would normally be in the periphery. Physical types are often cast in leading roles, where in Hollywood films, they would ... ; Morris, Meaghan, 1989, Fate and the Family Sedan, East-West Film Journal, 4/1 (December), pp 113-134. • Neale, Steve, 1981, "Art Cinema as Institution," Screen, vol 22, no 1, pp 11 - 39. • O'Regan, T...

• Word Count: 7147
• Approx Pages: 29
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... newer communication activities at least monthly, if not more regularly. The most common activities include: email, used by 75  per cent news feeds (Really Simple Syndication or RSS), used by 39  per cent instant messaging, used by 29  per cent social networking sites, used by 22  per cent blogs, read by 22  per cent. This research also indicated that there is ... ...

• Word Count: 7869
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

... days surfing the outer islands in Hawaii. Also Mainland Mexico and Costa Rica. I think one of my favorite sessions was getting "restaraunts" in Fiji all to myself one morning for 39 of the best waves that I have ever ridden. Recently I had a wonderful day trip to Witches Rock in Costa Rica with Robert August, Wingnut, the Tashjian boys, Mark Martinson, and Alf ... ...

• Word Count: 2637
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... students agree or somewhat agree that reading is fun. And 43% believe math is fun. These scores are higher than most other nations. For example, in the United States only 39% of 15 year-olds agree or agree somewhat that math is fun and only 42% say they enjoy reading. When I examined the percentages of students in nations who agreed with ... ...

• Word Count: 1835
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... for eye, and tooth for tooth." But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn him the other also." Matthew 5:38-39 What Jesus is trying to tell us is that if forgiveness is essential when dealing with criminals. We need to understand that they may have gone through a great deal in ... ...

• Word Count: 1884
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... a strong dependence on a male figure in her life. She put up with a sexual-abusive relationship with her father and when she turns to her mother for guidance, Mrs Wishart turns a blind eye to Laura's plea, leaving Laura feeling betrayed. Women are presented as emotionally unstable and must reply on a male figure. Laura is portrayed as a disempowered figure who ended her life ... ...

• Word Count: 1328
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... Lanka, Fiji, Bosnia, Chechnya, Rwanda, Tibet, Isreal, Briton, Timor ect. Multiculturalism always produces conflict between group rights and individual rights. The small "l' liberal establishment, who so strongly support multicultururalism, seem blind to the fact that their philosophy of individual rights will disappear under the pressure of group, ethnic and racial rights in a multicultural society. Now we are being told that Australia ... ...

• Word Count: 2083
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... also do not have an external ear. There are over 2000 known species of snakes. They fit into ten families. The Typhlopidae are a family of small snakes known as the blind snakes. They are found in most warm parts of the world. They are all burrowers and look like worms. They are harmless and lay eggs. The Boidae family includes the ... ...

• Word Count: 2917
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

... rooms. But are these shows bringing us the honest truth? For example, the segment reported by Sixty Minutes, titled "The Lost Children", tells the story of children who were sent to Australia for the opportunity of a so called "better life". It would be there where they would be taken care of ... Brothers. However it was in this "better life" that the children were forced to work as labourers and were molested, beaten and raped. Was the story twisting words? After all, we are all guilty of exaggerating occasionally. But was it an act, tailored to stir up our emotions by using sly, ... p...

• Word Count: 1308
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... that simply brandishing a gun stops crimes 95 percent of the time, and other surveys have also found high rates, it is very rare to see such a story. No conspiracy is really needed to explain why an editor finds a dead body on the ground very newsworthy (particularly if it is a sympathetic person, like ... a victim of a gun shot). For example, a story in which a woman brandishes a gun and a criminal flees: No shots were fired, no crime is committed, and no one is even sure what crime would have ... been committed had a weapon not been drawn, nothing had actually happened. It is not emot...

• Word Count: 3029
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... you can see that the donkey's nose has been rubbed smooth.) The All Purpose ANZAC Legend - Museums Australia Conference 2 We tell children the story of Simpson, a stretcher-bearer who served during the first weeks of the Gallipoli landing and who with the assistance of a team of donkeys ... servicemen in the cloisters. We then move onto the Gallipoli Gallery, the scene of the birth of the ANZAC Legend. After briefly retelling the story of the landing, we move to contemporary reports of the campaign. Firstly is an excerpt of a newspaper report from British correspondent Ellis Ashmead ......

• Word Count: 2090
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

"When Dogs Cry" is your classical inspirational story about an un-achiever coming out on top. Written by award winning author Markus Zusak as a follow up to his previous successes "The Underdog" and "Fighting ... made up of Cameron, his father Clifford Wolfe, his mother Mrs. Wolfe, sister Sarah and his 2 brothers Ruben, the playboy and Steve, the oldest brother. This story shows the importance of brotherhood and love but also shows the consequences of it. Cameron Wolfe is the Main character in the novel. He is fed up with having to ... moments of alrightness", he is sick of being a loser, "...

• Word Count: 610
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... ceremonies; then dissapeared into the ground never to be seen, but ever present. The Dreamtime story has many ties to nature, infact it is the most evident thing found in the story itself. It seems that everything has to do with nature. The opening lines of the story tell about how nature and everything was barren, however, when Baiame came, he brought the ... Christ and understand that God is ever present and he is always watching. Rituals today are a way of reliving our beginnings, so we can honour our creator. In the creation story it says that Dreamtime is not over. Dreamtime is ali...

• Word Count: 793
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... things. Although the main theme in all Non Fiction books is the subject of life. Whether this might be the story of Ann Frank's traumatic life in concentration camps, or the story of John Eales talking about his triumphal life as the captain of Australian Rugby Team, all non-fiction discuss the ... to my Father by Vanessa Chang there is no exception. In this heart-warming tribute to a daughter's hero, Vanessa Chang tells the story of young Chinese Immigrant who was sent to live with Uncle and Aunt fleeing his war torn country and to flee the Japanese invasion. Analysing this fascinating...

• Word Count: 886
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... also had problems with alcoholism. He has been described as one of the greatest writers in Australian history. He also had a great believe in a new workingman "revolution" in Australia. This story takes place in the Australian bush, nineteen miles away from the nearest civilization. The landscape is also very monotonous. It is most likely sometime around the beginning of the 1900 ... 's. This short story is about a woman who is alone with her four kids when they encounter a snake. Among the four children there are two boys, where the oldest one is eleven, and two ... 't never go droving"...

• Word Count: 570
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... it. A.O. Neville had no like of Aboriginals and encouraged the removal of children. It was his idea to try and breed the Aboriginals out. A famous story of the removal of Aboriginals is called Rabbit Proof Fence. This story tells of three Aboriginal girls, the oldest girl is a half-cast (half Aboriginal, half white man) Molly her younger sister (the youngest) and her ... and her sister are taken at different times then their cousin. They never have to this day seen her again. On the sisters second try they make it home. The story shows the conditions the Aboriginal people were put in. T...

• Word Count: 585
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

When watching a film, I am often pulled into its story and plot, paying little attention to the great effort and art that is put into it. I"m sure this is the same case with many people. Little to some of us ... how everything seen on the screen has meaning and can trigger our emotions comes from Phillip Noyce's, Rabbit-Proof Fence. Set in Australia in 1931, Rabbit-Proof Fence tells the story of a government policy that required children that were half white and half aboriginal to be taken from their homes by authorities to be trained to work as servants for the ... whites. This is based on...

• Word Count: 1664
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... with the Dreaming through their dreams _ concept of time does not apply to the Dreaming _ Dreaming is seen as a "whole"; where past, present and future can merge _ when a story from the Dreaming is ceremonially re-lived, it is being spiritually lived _ Dreaming beliefs passed on to young people by a network of stories and ceremonies _ Dreaming stories tell of all ... and treated with respect _ Dreaming stories cover male and female roles _ stories cover sacred and public activities _ often not gender-specific until translated into English _ different versions of the same story common _ ...

• Word Count: 2422
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

A peace of salami; The "real" wogboy. It's only been two years since I arrived in Australia, but already my life has gone full circle. I know you"re expecting some story about a poor little wog who arrived in Australia with nothing and now he has it all - but no, that's not the case for me. I"m not the stereotype Aussie society has ... , my language and my hair amiss - much like George Robinson. Reminiscing about the good old days when I could be free, swinging around on the town oak tree, quite like the story of "Sky-High", where an old lady remembers her youth, but different in many ways, ...

• Word Count: 500
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... been no selfless act of valour, and no unifying event to bring the nation together. The young men of the day had had drilled into them by history, legend, verse, story and song that real nationhood is forged in battle. Within nine months of the outbreak of the great war, this forging had been done, and done with a vengeance, on the ... landed on the beach over the next two days to face a well organised, well armed, large Turkish force determined to defend their homeland. What followed the landing at Gallipoli is a story of courage and endurance, of death, and despair, of poor leadership...

• Word Count: 998
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... and respect the rights of the Aboriginal people. Therefore we stand proud as a nation that respects the land of ours, values Aboriginal Heritage and provides justice for all. This is a story of a struggle begun over two hundred years ago and continues today. In many respects it is a shameful ... ...

• Word Count: 1494
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... and respect the rights of the Aboriginal people. Therefore we stand proud as a nation that respects the land of ours, values Aboriginal Heritage and provides justice for all. This is a story of a struggle begun over two hundred years ago and continues today. In many respects it is a shameful ... ...

• Word Count: 1486
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... TV documentaries, all crop circles up to 1992 were made by two simple, elderly men called Doug and Dave. It has since been discovered by researchers such as that the D&D story may have originated at the British Ministry of Defense - in collusion with the CIA, among others. Evidence supplied, suggested that the government had every intent to "cover up" the phenomenon ... by putting forward two hoaxers in an effort to quell growing public interest in crop circles. When confronted to provide evidence on certain claimed formations, Doug and Dave changed their story, even reversing previous ...

• Word Count: 1158
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... emergents sprout above the dense jungle like huge umbrellas. Emergents are often about 115 to 150 feet tall, but some can reach up to 250 feet, as high as a 25 story building. The emergents are the oldest trees in the rainforest, but it is hard to tell their exact age. Because emergent trees are the tallest, they have a different environment than ... ...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... appeal the Skinhead movement holds for disaffected youngsters. Rompa Stompa, an Australian motion picture that depicts savage violence by Skinhead toughs, has brought worldwide attention to Australia's Skinheads. Although the story on which the film is based is fictionalised, there are indeed racist Skins Down Under and some of them actually liked the film. One such Skinhead has been quoted thus ... ...

• Word Count: 1089
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School