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    Good after noon fellow students and teachers I am here to talk to you about my choice of two texts that I have chosen that are related to adaptation. The two texts I have chosen are the novel looking for alibrandi by Melina Marchetta and the film Shawshank redemption by Frank Darabont. Adaptation is a movement from a previous state to a new state which will cause people to react differently depending on what the change is. Adaptation is expressed throughout life in many different aspects and formats

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    ‘Looking For Alibrandi’ by Melina Marchetta leads the reader towards the theme of lost identity and the pursuit to find it. The protagonist‚ Josephine Alibrandi‚ displays the importance of self-acceptance through a riveting odyssey of belonging. Marchetta highlights the significance of relationships and the effect that they have towards the outcome of emancipation. The novel journeys the idea of cultural acceptance through a series of events that displays the impact of family enigmas. Josephine

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    University of the Fraser Valley Department of Psychology Psychology 101 AB8 (2014-3) Introduction to Psychology I Instructor: Wayne Podrouzek (Ph.D.) Office Hours: Tuesday 1730 – 1850 (D117)‚ or by appointment Contact: On Campus Phone 604-504-7441 Local 4608 (I am almost never there and don`t check voice mail) Preferred: e-mail at wayne.podrouzek@ufv.ca (Please put class and topic in subject header) Welcome to Psychology 101. These pages constitute the course syllabus and provide

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    TOPIC: Josie Alibrandi goes "looking" for herself she discovers she needs to create herself. In the novel "looking for Alibrandi‚ written by Melina Marchetta‚" there are many different situations and feelings that Josephine Alibrandi goes through‚ in order to figure out who she really is as a person. Josie also has to deal with the normal up and down roller coaster ride of being a teenage girl. At the end of her journey she has very different views on certain topics to the original thoughts

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    looking for Alibrandi written by Melina Marchetta published 1990. The book is about a stubborn‚ insecure and judgemental teenager who feels like she doesn’t fit in society because of her illegitimacy‚ ethnicity‚ status and family history. We can also see this from the poem Refugee Blues written by WH Auden and Neighbours by Tim Winston which both show perception off fitting in and not fitting because of ethnicity and status. Josephine Alibrandi is the main character in looking for Alibrandi she a teenager

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    “Looking for Alibrandi” by Melina Marchetta provides useful and valuable insights into cultural misunderstandings between Australian and Italian families‚ relationships and prejudices particularly between Josie‚ her friends and family. Cross-cultural issues are explored in depth in “Looking for Alibrandi”. The novel shows the family traditional values within Josie’s family‚ one of these being Tomato Day. This cultural tradition is important because it fosters greater unity between family members

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    world-wide hit in the late 1990s‚ Author Melina Marchetta wrote a manuscript about a teenage girl searching for herself and the way she is to live. Her name is Josephine Alibrandi who is a 17 year old Italian Australian or ‘wog’ as some know it‚ in the novel and film of ‘Looking for Alibrandi’. Much of the discussion of Alibrandi has centred around this portrayal of the multi-cultural society of Australia‚ although remarkably‚ the novel has managed to largely avoid the negative and superficial "issues"

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    The period of Adolescence is a very important in forming one’s characters and has a great influence which may lead to take risks as one experiences something new. In “Looking for Alibrandi” by Melina Marchetta the protagonist‚ Josephine Alibrandi is experiencing the periods of adolescence‚ during this period she deals with the friendships and relationships between John Barton and Jacob Coote(Marchetta‚ 1992). There are many differences between John and Jacob‚ whilst the social classes; personality;

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    Crumbling Between Tolerance and Intolerance The more different choices we have‚ the more we appreciate our decisions or at least we have more the chance of replacing our habits to “better” ones. On the other hand‚ so much of differences may lead to conflicts as well since perception of “different” changes from one another and to some; it is not always something desirable. This is why only when combined with tolerance‚ moral‚ religious and ethnic diversity in societies‚ colors the scenes of our everyday

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    ------------------------------------------------- ESSAY During the course of her H.S.C year at St Martha’s‚ Josephine Alibrandi changes her understanding of the people around her‚ the people whom she loves including Nonna‚ Christina‚ Michael‚ John and Jacob in many ways she never thought possible. Throughout the novel‚ Josephine or Josie to the people close to her also changes from a selfish‚ uncaring teenager to a caring‚ more sensitive young woman whose feelings towards others become more apparent

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