... of Melbourne, residents struggle to retain their homes with the ever-increasing pressure of globalisation and economic rationalism. Globalisation looms in the form of the airport and the need to extend to make way for bigger, longer and more runways to stay abreast of increasing economic demands of the global marketplace, ... (Kerrigan) and the residents of Coolaroo were served notice that their houses were to be compulsorily acquired to allow for the extension of the airport to which they lived adjacent. Darryl answered the door and was confronted with Farouk's plea to read the letter w...

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... refers to them as, "monkeys," (66). His anger and referring to them as, "monkeys," making them the, "other," are results of him feeling displaced in the airport. After the incident with the young girl in Saigon, Andrew says that he, "went alone to a bar-an expensive, exclusive, air-conditioned oasis, carpeted and lavishly upholstered, with a guard ... ...

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Bone, a punk living in upstate New York, had finally found a safe place to settle in after running away from his abusive stepfather and oblivious mother. He was living in an abandoned, immobile school bus with I-Man, an illegal immigrant from Jamaica, and Froggie, a little girl he"d rescued from the...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate