Essay Question: Why did forced separation from the land have such a devastating impact on Australian Aboriginal culture? For an estimated sixty thousand years Indigenous people lived‚ surviving off the land‚ in what is now known as Australia. On January 26th 1788 the first British to settle Australia arrived at the location that is presently called Port Jackson near Sydney. This arrival marked the beginning of a new era in Aboriginal history that saw over the next two hundred years
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disarray and scared the more impressionable voters back to supporting the coalition. As well as impacting on Australian politics‚ communism and the fear of communism greatly affected Australian society‚ as evident in both long and short-term impacts. In the post-war period‚ the presence of communism in and around Australia was seen by many Australian people as a kind of threat to the Australian way of life. The concepts of the Domino Theory - that communism was spreading and making Southeast Asian
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have influenced the nature and identity of Australian society. The aspects of changing demographic characteristics affecting Australia’s nature and identity include multiculturalism; the ’ageing population’; decreasing fertility rates; the changing indigenous population and the changing population density of Australia. Australia has one of the lowest population densities in the world‚ with population spread occurring around particular areas of the Australian coastline. Australia is one of the world’s
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Question: Compare and contrast the ways in which the ‘natural environment’ influences the understanding of human beings as persons among Australian Aboriginal peoples and Balinese peoples. The natural environment is a key influence in cosmogonic and cosmologic conceptions of human beings as persons among Australian Aboriginal people and to a lesser extent Balinese people. Meyers (1987[1973]) asserts that personhood is socially generated and defined by culture; the conception of personhood in a
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to any society‚ especially America. When the first colonies were formed‚ each had a very distant environment because of their separation. Each environment influenced their economies and social structures. According to Olsen’s lecture on Life in Colonial Times‚ the southern colonies had warm weather and enough rain for a very long crop season. In turn‚ they had many slaves (so many that the whites were outnumbered) and a completely different society than the north. The northern colonies had long
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In 1676‚ Nathaniel Bacon rebelled and held a revolt in Colonial Virginia. High taxes‚ low prices for tobacco‚ and resentment against special privileges given those close to the governor‚ Sir William Berkeley‚ provided the background for the uprising. These factors made the rebellion inevitable. All of the chaos was precipitated by Governor Berkeley’s failure to defend the frontier against attacks by Native Americans. Bacon commanded two unauthorized but successful expeditions against the tribes
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Balny d’Avricourt‚ Adrien‚ L’enseigne Balny at la conquête du Tonkin: Indochine 1873. Paris: Éditions France-Empire‚ 1973. 324 pp. Armand di Biencourt‚ Au Tonkin‚ 1884-1885-1886. Paris: Imprimerie générale Lahure‚ 1898. 81 pp. Mark Philip Bradley‚ Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam‚ 1919–1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press‚ 2000. xiv‚ 304 pp. Pierre Brocheux‚ The Mekong Delta: Ecology‚ Economy‚ and Revolution‚ 1860–1960. Madison: Center for
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Hums assessment by Georgia Lancaster Draft: 30/8 Final: 6/9. Q1. Explain the main reason why the Australian colonials decided to federate in 1901. A1: There were worries that other nations with stronger military capabilities and larger populations could invade the colonies. The colonies felt that a unified defense force would better safeguard Australia. It took the various colonies 12 years (from 1889 to 1901) to draft and agree on the constitution. The Constitution of Australia was finally approved
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of troops to fight for Britain during the First World War between 1914 and 1918. Thousands lost their lives at Gallipoli‚ on the Turkish coast and many more in France. Both Australian victories and losses on World War I battlefields contribute significantly to Australia’s national identity. By war’s end‚ over 60‚000 Australians had died during the conflict and 160‚000 were wounded‚ a high proportion of the 330‚000 who had fought overseas. [1] By the time the Second World War came around Britain’s
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historical analysis of economic and cultural growth of the Virginia colony reverting to what the author calls “most basic tactics of sociology” (After the Fact 6). The early colony failures were identified by historian’s research of documents from Colonial Virginia such as Smith’s writings; land company charters‚ written policies‚ and letters all reveal details about the colonies economics; trade company involvement‚ survival rate for new colonists‚ and identify innuendo’s of slavery and indentured
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