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    George with an arrow. Then‚ Nullah rides home on his horse to his home in Faraway Downs. He hears people coming and is scared that someone will take him away from his family‚ so he goes into hiding. However‚ the voices he hears and people he sees are Drover and Sarah. The property of Faraway Downs is Sarah’s and her husband’s. When Sarah goes into her property she finds that her husband has been killed and he is lying dead across a table. Because of this Sarah decides she wants to sell her property to

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    prevailed in post-Blitz London. In ‘‘The Demon Lover’’ the main character‚ Mrs. Drover‚ confuses World War II with World War I. Returning home to collect some personal belongings during the aftermath of a recent bombing‚ she thinks of her long-dead fiance to the point where the reader does not know if this is a ghost story or simply a story of one character’s neurotic mental state. The Demon Lover Summary Mrs. Kathleen Drover has returned to London from her house in the country in order to pick up some

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    including camera angles‚ audio and symbolism. Characters such as the Drover in Australia display similar qualities to Australian men‚ such as their fighting back spirit. The Drover’s theme song helps the viewer to understand the type of a character he is in the film. Australian viewers would immediately come to realise his resemblance to a bushman. The theme song’s upbeat and lively tune enters the film mostly when the Drover does a heroic act‚ for instance when he successfully droves the cattle

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    and looking‚ but we do not see what he is looking for. Also he sings and know everywhere because he don’t use map and he always sings his through any obstacles in his way. For example‚ when the scene about “the never never” that scene shows even the Drover doesn’t know everywhere in the land. He tried to stop Lady Ashley from going through because he was scared and said no one has never gone through it. But when King George came‚ he believe that they could go through because he is a witch doctor and

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    Luhrmann’s attempt at the apology to the Stolen Generation. While Luhrmann makes a substantial effort at the apology‚ she seemingly looks at Australia’s hard past through rose-colored glasses. She over exaggerates the kindness and openness that Drover and Lady Sarah would have toward the Aboriginal people during this time. These softer hearted

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    HarperCollins Publishers‚ 1993. Henry Lawson. The Drover’s Wife. Australia: Text Publishing Company‚ 1998 Zhang Dong-rui “An Analysis of the Narrative line of the Drover ’s wife.” Journal of Shangqiu Teachers College 2010-08 Ma Xiaojing and Guo Jian (2011). “On Writing Techniques of an Artistically Ingenious Work——Henry Lawson ’s The Drover ’s Wife.” Science and Technology‚ 18

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    authors own life. It is very fair to say‚ that she is writing this literary piece about authentic very genuine phobias‚ not necessarily simply something as trivial as a ghost. It is important to acknowledge the stress that Bowen places on the past of Drover. The fact that a story this short has the deep personal examples and vividness also leads the reader to believe that the author is writing a lot of this from personal experience because stories this short rarely include this deep level of “random”

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    are about the bush. He wrote them so suburban people would know the lifestyle bush people were really living in. His narrative style and characterisation techniques enabled readers‚ to clearly visualise places and people. The atmosphere in ‘The Drovers Wife’ is partially responsible for the isolation and separation the drover’s wife is suffering. As her

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    sunshine. Henry Lawson’s the drovers wife‚ explores the perspicacity of the bush heroine with the use of a narrator. The narrators’ avoidance of using a name for the drover’s wife prevents the responder being influenced by their names and instead allows the responder to judge for themselves through the actions and events that occur in the story. This also shows the responder that the hardships and struggles faced by this woman are infact related back to all drovers’ wives. The purpose of the

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    Lilly Moore AGR199-R40-SP15 March 30th‚ 2015 Dr. Temple Grandin Many people have never heard of Temple Grandin. I was one of those people until I was introduced to her story in this class. She was diagnosed with autism as a child. Her mother worked very hard to find the best care for her and put her through much speech therapy. By the time Temple was four‚ she learned to speak. Despite the on-going struggles of autism‚ she didn’t let it keep her from doing anything children without autism experience

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