... deals with various Australian cultures and identities which cover patriotism, war, and Australia-England relationships. David Malouf brings his representation of patriotism in Australian culture to life in the early chapters of Fly Away Peter. His idea that Australia was a young but patriotic nation in 1914, when the book was set, is seen when he introduces a minor character, a young girl in ... two protagonists, Jim Sadler and Ashley Crowther. Nave and innocent Jim Sadler, is a stereotypical working class Australian youth, while Ashley Crowther is the Cambridge educated English gentlem...

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... rocket, combining ideals of sex and violence. Although the 1950s automobile was a "family" car, manufacturers aimed their sales pitch at the worker of the family, the man. Bracketing the various chapters of her book between Mamie Eisenhower's "New Look" and the Nixon-Khrushchev "Kitchen Debates," Marling is obviously concerned with the importance of popular culture as it relates to Cold War ... publications, Marling reconstructs and deciphers 1950s culture in new and interesting ways. Although As Seen on TV is a story of popular culture, it is a culture that belongs for the most part to...

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... abided by international law, and most importantly collective international security. Since history has been documented, the struggle to gain and maintain power has allowed writers the ability to create new chapters due to the changes in civilization that it provided. Conflict has resulted in the creation of new territory, ideas, and methods of governing. Over time the notion arose that this ... fails to include the association of women and/or men who are not the "political man" that his views are based on. The realist perspective lacks the motives of a large part of society, yet claims ...

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... of a republic, but as Natasha Stott Despoja put it, Australians were asked, if they wanted to have a president elected by parliament-and 55 per cent voted no. Australia still remains a part of the English empire and, more importantly, is still a country blindly following the world powers. Australia has always been the lapdog to whatever country happens to be the leading world ... , US Ambassador to Australia, 1973-5, said it. John Pilger addresses this issue in great detail in his book A Secret Country, now a standard on the high school curriculum. Pilger devotes two chapters, The Strugg...

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... gives Almasy a cocktail with a copious amount of morphine in order to extract the truth of his ethnic roots from memory. After consuming the drink, Almasy also reveals that he took part in a passionate love affair with the wife of his employer whilst mapping the desert. When the lens focuses on Almasy's true national identity, the picture becomes uglier with clarity. Through ... , Ondaatje explains the importance of nationality with respect to identity. Knowledge of occupation lends itself to the larger idea of nationality's importance to identity in the novels. In the beginning chapters...

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... , also know as colonialism, which predictably lead to major discontent with one another. The focus on expansion and colonialism is information that the textbook delves into very sufficiently, therefore the chapters focus on it heightens ones understanding of the extent to which World Politics grew, from such expansionist principles, becoming an initiating factor in the war. Given that the aim of ... seems to have been sufficiently covered in the explanation of the reasons and origins of colonialism. The author makes a good attempt at providing supplementary detail to one's knowledge on t...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate