ways to excape from reality is through litreture. This was one of the best times for Australian poets as people wanted a way out‚ some ulternate universe where everything ends in a happily ever after. One of the later poets‚ Bruce Dawe saw this and reflected this in his poems‚ Life-cycle and homosuburbiences. He did this by portraying a man in homosuburbiences‚ who retreats to his garden‚ taking all his worries with him. ‘One constant in a world of variables’‚ Dawe writes. There are many reasons for
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In “Homecoming”‚ poet Bruce Dawe uses vivid visual and aural poetic techniques to construct his attitudes towards war. He creates a specifically Australian cultural context where soldiers have been fighting in a war in Vietnam‚ and the dead bodies flown home. However the poem has universal appeal in that the insensitivity and anonymity accorded to Precious lives reduced to body bags are common attitudes towards soldiers in all historical conflicts. Although Dawe makes several references to the Vietnam
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2. How does the poet utilise aesthetic features and promote particular ideas‚ attitudes and values to represent a theme or topic in a particular way? Many of Bruce Dawe’s poems have a heavy message and a bleak meaning relating to society’s weaknesses and downfalls. In his free verse poem “Homecoming” Dawe promotes his ideas‚ attitudes and values about the Vietnam war to represent his negative perspective of war as a whole. This is evident through Dawes representation of war as a dehumanising conflict
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Why do College Students Drunk so Much? "Alcohol abuse on college campuses has reached a point where it is far more destructive than most people and today realize and today threatens too many of our youth." -Senator Joe Lieberman Why do college students drink so much? This timeless fad has effected this generation in high percentages since the beginning of college education. Today in America it is estimated that approximately 29% of college students are regular alcohol abusers. Another recent
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Just recently I have been able to articulate something that I have been thinking about for years‚ but have never been able to put together. No one in my family so far has gone to college. My mother‚ father‚ and sister have all gotten degrees online from community colleges. This is not a feat I am trying to undermine: they all worked very hard and earned their degrees. That being said‚ there is a huge difference between working on a degree from home and actually going to a college to study. A gigantic
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Bruce Dawe is strongly opposed to consumerism‚ as shown through his poem‚ Americanized. The poem is written in a predominantly bitter and ironic tone. The title itself is ironic. Bruce Dawe is Australian and has spelled the title using American spelling rather than Australian spelling‚ with the s’ being replaced by a z’. Stanza one is set in the morning at breakfast time. It involves the mother and her child. Instead of the usual loving mother‚ we see a cold mother and one that is doubtful of
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Interestingly enough‚ specific characters offer different ways in which they express their traditional way of life. House Made of Dawn‚ by N. Scott Momaday‚ introduces Francisco‚ Abel’s grandfather‚ who took on the role of being his guardian. Winter in the Blood by James Welch shows a grandmother that is neglected by her grandson because “distance” was very much relevant in his life (2). The Round House by Louise Erdrich speaks of Grandma Ignatia Thunder‚ also referred to as the medicine woman
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supports the notion of college graduates earning more money‚ on average‚ than people who don’t have a degree coining this concept as the ‘college wage premium” (Cassidy‚ John). An article entitled "Why College is Still Worth It Even Though It Costs So Much" written by Time states that the vast majority of college graduates polled‚ approximately 30‚000 post graduates‚ recently say their education was worth the cost. They admit that not everyone necessarily needs a four
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you in the poems”-Robert Frost. This is the unfortunate answer that kept popping up as I began doing my research for this paper‚ but thankfully after doing a lot more in depth research and a few mental breakdowns I finally started to get some actual answers. Everyone knows that Robert Frost’s poems are timeless classics that have been famous forever and will still be famous years from now. That being said‚ where did all of this fame come from‚ and what is it that makes all of his poems so popular?
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Biography of Christopher Bruce Christopher Bruce was born on the 3rd of October 1945 in England‚ he started studying dancing at 11 years old‚ and he began with tap and ballet. After studying at the Rambert School Christopher Bruce joined Rambert Ballet in 1963‚ where he quickly became the leading male dancer. Bruce appeared in works such as Don Quixote in 1964 and Coppelia in 1966. Then the company began to experiment with ballet and modern‚ combining them to form‚ specifically the Martha Graham
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