Why do you think John Marsden and Shaun Tan chose this image‚ over all the others for the cover of The Rabbits? The Rabbits by John Marsden and Shaun Tan is a perspicacious insight into the colonization of Australia from the perspective of the colonized. The appropriated image of Captain Cook’s arrival in 1770 was an inquisitively chosen illustration as it provoked a provocative response from the viewer making it glaringly obvious as to why Tan chose this as the front cover. Through decisive
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SPEAKING IN TONGUES IN ACTS INTRODUCTION Speaking in tongues has been a very controversial subject for many churches for decades. The Pentecostal Churches have a positive outlook on this subject‚ but many other Churches believe speaking in tongues is not for today’s believers. THE DAY OF PENTECOST “When the day of Pentecost had fully come‚ they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven‚ as of a rushing mighty wind
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1) Topic: ”Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” Writer: Amy Chua‚ a professor at Yale Law School‚ USA. Reader: Parents from the Western World‚ who are also readers of The Wall Street Journal. Language: Well written text‚ with an extensive vocabulary. It is written to some extent with formal jargon. Circumstances: The writer’s home. She lives with her daughters and husband. There is a flashback into Chua’s childhood as well. Intention: She is trying to clarify the differences between Chinese parents
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belonging (and the desire to belong)‚ the long process of integration and establishing a sense of familiarity‚ security and friends. The story emphasises the isolation that is often experienced by many people arriving somewhere new and unfamiliar. Tan demonstrates the different aspects in which we may or may not belong to a particular group‚ be it a country‚ language or friendships. We begin to appreciate the optimistic features of belonging and the sense of self gained when this is possessed‚ as
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care and custody. Parents always play an important role in raising children.It is always the big question whether the father or mother is more important in the family. In my opinion‚ they are undoubtedly‚mothers. Women make better parents than men and this is why they have greater role in raising children in most societies. Firstly‚ the child was born of mother. The mother carried the child in her womb for nine months‚ which attaches both of them together. Furthermore‚ the child grow up by mother’s
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their seven-years-old daughter‚ Amy. They let their daughter to die because of their believes. Amy was diagnosed as having diabetes and she had to take medical treatment; but the Hermansons were christian scientists‚ and unfortunately‚ they decided to try to heal the child with prayer rather than seek a doctor’s aid‚ this situation ending with the Amy’s dead. They had better make another choose‚ but did not. They believed that by just praying‚ they could cure Amy. The freedom of religion is obviously
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The Culture Snatcher: The Extensive Lengths to Which Ethnic Americans Go to Avoid Being “The Other” In “A Pair of Tickets‚” author Amy Tan exposes the disastrous effects of Americanization on a foreign culture. Tan’s exposition lies in the protagonist‚ Jing-Mei‚ a young Chinese woman raised in America‚ refusing to adopt her Chinese Heritage. Tan uses the prevalence of stereotypes and internal conflict to present her theme effectively. As the protagonist and narrator‚ Jing-Mei and her father begin
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alternative point of view is the "sexual script" theory which states that sexuality is socially learned (Seidman 2003). In the film Chasing Amy‚ many features of the "sexual natural attitude" are both evident as well as challenged. The film also shows many of the characters to have "sexual scripts" which seem to be based on age‚ race‚ and class. The film Chasing Amy is based on a middle class‚ white male (Holden McNeil) who falls in love with a lesbian named Alyssa Jones. Holden is portrayed as a conservative
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“The Mother: Remember the children you got that you did not get” Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “The Mother” is ambiguous and totally unexpected. The narrator starts by speaking about abortion in a very accusatory tone. In the first part of the poem the narrator uses second person language and accuses mothers of getting abortions and talks about how all the mothers will be missing out on seeing their children grow. She is talking to readers about abortions in general. She talks to mothers and patronizes
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Throughout the book called The Arrival Shaun Tan added many symbols and hidden easter eggs that presented what the characters were trying to say. Tan’s story was about a family who lived in a very dangerous place where people were killed and there was no money to make because of this the father left to find a place where they could move to and live a better life. After a long journey of almost a year the father found a very magical place where everything was different and there were creatures that
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