Henry Lawson uses a variety of language techniques‚ colourful characters and strong personal voices in his stories ‘the drovers wife’ and ‘in a dry season’ to give off a negative image of the bush life and the gender inequities of the time. Similarly‚ Banjo Patterson writes about the bush in his poem ‘Clancy of the Overflow’. However‚ unlike Lawson‚ Patterson focuses on portraying a positive view of the bush whilst at the same time suggesting a negative view of the city life. Frederick McCubbin
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Cattle Herding – A Brief HistoryArticle Selections: The Origin of Cattle Driving & Beef Trade – Pre/Post Civil War | Origin of Cattle Driving Figure [ 1 ] Drovers about to start a drive As early as 1836‚ ranchers in Texas began to drive cattle along a "Beef Trail" to New Orleans. In the 1840s‚ cattle drives expanded northward into Missouri. The towns of Sedalia‚ Baxter Springs‚ Springfield‚ and St. Louis became principal markets. The Shawnee Trail‚ also known as the Texas Road or
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Henry Lawson (1867-1922) I. Summary of the story The drover was away with sheep‚ so his wife‚ four children and a dog‚ Alligator‚ were left at their isolated wooden house in the bush‚ alone. One day‚ one of the children saw a snake while playing around the house. He shouted and called out to his mother. Both mother and the eldest son‚ Tommy‚ tried to hit the snake. The dog too tried to catch it. However‚ it was not successful. The snake disappeared into the cracks in the floor. While the children
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create detailed setting‚ characters and place. Through the distinctively visual Henry Lawson and Tim Burton convey interesting views on environment and human interactions‚ and their affect on people and society in Lawsons “The Loaded Dog” and “The Drovers Wife” and Burtons “Alice in Wonderland. Good morning markers and peers. These texts develop our understanding of persistence‚ mental and physical strength and mateship through survival in an unforgiving environment. Lawsons “The Loaded Dog” conveys
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Distinctly Essay A distinctively visual text influences our view of the world‚ and object or a person by the composer presenting us with new ideas and emotions that let us see from another point of view. Henry Lawson is an Australian writer that has the ability to twist his readers into his stories so they understand the true feelings and emotions of the characters. He presents us with the idea the bush is a negative place to live. But all Australians have a connection with it. Distinctly visual
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Discuss the statement. “Where you live defines your sense of Belonging” The statement‚ “Where you live defines your sense of Belonging” implies that the location and setting in which you live‚ defines your sense of belonging. This is not wrong in saying this‚ but it is not the only aspect to belonging. The ideas of belonging‚ or of not belonging‚ vary. They are shaped within personal‚ cultural‚ historical and social contexts. A sense of belonging can develop from the connections made with people
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them as he was able to identify himself with loneliness and isolation. He knew the feeling of being alone during his unhappy childhood. “He felt things deeply and wrote with his heart’s blood”. He brings in the aspect of isolation in the story “The Drovers Wife”‚ in the instance when the drover’s wife rode nineteen miles carrying a dying child to civilization to get assistance to try and save him. The nineteen miles to civilization point up how remote bush citizens were and how dependant and resourcefulness
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Jorge Luis Borges THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK (1970) Translated by Norrnan Thomas di Giovanni in collaboration with the author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)‚ an outstanding modern writer of Latin America‚ was born in Buenos Aires into a family prominent in Argentine history. Borges grew up bilingual‚ learning English from his English grandmother and receiving his early education from an English tutor. Caught in Europe by the outbreak of World War II‚ Borges lived in Switzerland and later
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There is a sense of isolation in the description of the Drovers Wife‚ a sense that she and her family are cut off from the rest of the world also that the house they live in reflects this sparseness. “the two-roomed house is built of round timber‚ slabs‚ and stringy-bark‚ and floored with split slabs. A big bark kitchen standing at one end is larger than the house itself‚ veranda included” The vivid description of the bare outback setting makes the reader feel as if though this woman is cut off
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Banjo Paterson is far and away the best known of Australian poets - and not just for his ubiquitous masterpiece "Waltzing Matilda". His poems of the Australian bush capture the ’feel’ of country (at least from my perspective) vividly - the wide open spaces‚ the sweep of the sky reaching down to the horizon‚ the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended‚ And at night the wond’rous glory of the everlasting stars are what I mostly associate with the Australia of song and story. Clancy of the
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