“Feliks Skrzynecki” although a paean of admiration for his father‚ reveals a growing disconnection between the two. The poem reflects aspects of post World War Two life for migrants in Australia‚ providing a viewpoint from the influx of migrants from the war-torn countries of Europe and the racism they endured under the White Australia Policy. This racism is manifested through the clerk’s ignorant question ‘Did your father ever attempt to learn English?’ Ironically‚ it is the clerk who is demeaned
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Peter Block’s Presentation: Community‚ the Structure of Belonging Introductory Plenary Session We‚ learning and development‚ training‚ OD practitioners etc‚ are in the business of the restoration of humanity. Society is designed as a system of economic units. They extract our humanity. High performance is all about relatedness. Our humanity matters. Our organizations package it as outcomes and productivity. Our job is hard to do. We are told to sell ourselves by selling the bottom
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Belonging essay: ‘An individual’s sense of belonging is determined not only by their own choices‚ but also by the attitudes of others’. Belonging is an individual’s feeling or level of security and comfort relating physically or mentally to one’s social life. The ‘sense of belonging’ to a place‚ object or person‚ allows someone to express who they are‚ not only to themselves‚ but also to others in a comfortable way that is accepted. The prescribed texts that I have used to identify the power of
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For all of us‚ fulfilment is generally achieved through the act of belonging and the connections that we have with various individuals‚ groups and places. However‚ acceptance and belonging is not always reached. This idea of self-discovery and belonging is presented in various ways in the poems‚ ‘St Patrick’s College’ and ‘Postcard’ by Peter Skrzynecki and the visual text featuring a girl celebrating her 10th birthday. Despite our individual identities‚ everyone requires the sense of connection
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and significance of belonging broaden and deepen an individual’s understanding of themselves and their world? Refer to at least TWO of Skrzynecki’s poems and one related text. Through the study of ‘Ender’s Game’ by Orson Scott Card and the poems ‘Postcard’ and ‘In the folk museum’ by Peter Skrzynecki‚ an individual’s understanding of themselves and their world is broadened and deepened. These texts show that a sense of belonging can be difficult to find and that not belonging or uncertainty can
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Peter Skrzynecki is of Polish/Ukrainian background and was born in 1945‚ in Germany‚ shortly before the end of World War II. He emigrated to Australia in 1949 with his parents. Most of Skrzynecki’s poems are about his life and the change that he has experienced from moving to a different country. In 1951 the family moved to Sydney‚ to the working-class suburb of Regents Park‚ where a home had been purchased at 10 Mary Street. The poem “10 Mary Street” represents change as it shows the comparison
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needed‚ if there is a lack of understanding then belonging within ceases to exist. Peter Skrzynecki‚ the poet of the anthology Immigrant Chronicle and Robert Zemeckis‚ director of academy award winning film Forrest Gump both look at addressing the importance of belonging and the need for understanding in order to belong. The poem 10 Mary Street by Peter Skrzynecki exemplifies the lack of understanding the persona conveys and the lack of belonging in which is caused through this. This is seen through
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others. A sense of belonging can develop from the connections made with people‚ places and the larger world. These are shown in Peter Skrzynecki’s Immigrant Chronicle in two of his poems Feliks Skrzynecki and Migrant Hostel and an opinion article called Australia day to bring the nation together by Pino Migliorino through the use of techniques and statements within these texts‚ the themes and ideas relating to belonging to culture‚ place and people are examined. A sense of belonging comes from a sense
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Alienation Alienation. To alienate a person is to separate him; to make him feel alone. For as long as humans have existed there has always been one form of alienation or another. All it takes is one miniscule difference‚ and an individual can immediately become targeted and harassed; for years people with mental disabilities have dealt with this. Name-calling is a very prominent form of alienation by making a person’s differences his or her identifier. During the 80’s and 90’s the word ‘retarded’
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Alienation In society‚ we find that certain types or groups of people that do not fit a particular standard are usually turned away‚ often times‚ making them feel alienated. A person walking down the street who appears to be homeless is looked at and treated differently than that of a man or women wearing a business suit carrying a briefcase. We may not recognize it at this time‚ but pushing certain people aside‚ forces others to rely and associate with people of their “own kind‚” causing alienation
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