Gallipoli is an Australian Film set made in the 1981‚ directed by Peter Weir. Starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee‚ as Frank Dunne and Archy Hamiton. The film depicts the two young athlete runners journey with being enlisted in the Australian Army during the First World war. They are sent to the peninsula of Gallipoli in Ottoman Empire‚ where they are involved in the Gallipoli Campaign. Throughout the Film Peter Weir demonstrates the young soldiers start to lose their true innocent belief of war. The
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In both All Quiet on the Western Front and The Moon is Down‚ the soldiers deal with harmful effects from the strain of war and fighting. These effects are both psychological and physical. The Moon is Down places less emphasis on this because of the fact that it is a pro-war novel. All Quiet on the Western Front shows more examples of these effects‚ especially in its focus on the main character. In All Quiet on the Western Front‚ most of the characters are easily shown to be effected by the war
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identity was based on the characteristics of industrious Australians who worked diligently in the bush‚ showing discipline‚ endurance‚ hardiness‚ initiative and ingenuity. After the war‚ those same men returned home from fighting in Gallipoli and at the Western Front‚ with a new identity. A new identity that combined pre war and post war characteristics together to create a contemporary national identity‚ which defined Australia as a country‚ and affirmed its future as a federation. The qualities
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World War One. They were‚ supposedly‚ ’donkeys’: moustachioed incompetents who sent the ’lions’ of the Poor Bloody Infantry to their deaths in futile battles. Many popular books‚ films and television programmes echo this belief. The casualty list - one million British Empire dead - and the bloody stalemate of the Western Front seem to add credence to this version of events. But there is another interpretation. ...Haig’s army played the leading role in defeating the German forces in the crucial battles
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Tom’s purpose is initially to retrieve his son’s body. However‚ in a combination of grief and homage to his son‚ Tom decides to walk the ancient spiritual trail where his son died. While walking the Camino‚ Tom meets others from around the world‚ all looking for greater meaning in their lives. He reluctantly falls in with three other pilgrims in particular. Joost (Yorick van Wageningen) is an overweight man from Amsterdam
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Mr. Johnson opened his book and started talking about the Civil War. I could hardly concentrate on what he was saying. All I could think about was the mysterious note I’d found earlier. I made a plan to go back to the alleyway after school and do more investigating. As soon as the final bell rang at 3:00 I rushed out of my art class‚ grabbed my backpack and hurriedly made
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Beginning of the book: During the first chapters of the book only a few traits and quirks about him are revealed‚ we discover that he: • Is a gypsy • A thief by trade • Is a bit of a simpleton • Is Quiet • Doesn’t know much about the world. When he meets Uri on the street and the other boys later on he learns a lot about himself and the world he lives in‚ Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the soldiers or Jackboots as they are called throughout the book. Conflicts and challenges throughout the book
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The poems; • Flag by John Agard • The Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes • The Right Word by Imtiaz Dharker And the Novel All quite on the Western Front . Show us different aspects of the parties that are involved in the conflict. Flag by John Agard explores the patriotism and pride over sovereignty of the motherland. How a piece of cloth ‚ a flag can unite people from different ethnic backgrounds and cultures to fight for a mutual agenda symbolizes grandeur ‚the love of their country to such extent
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army refers to various military units recruited from‚ or used as garrison troops in‚ colonial territories. It all started on a callous summer day‚ on June 28th 1914‚ the Austro-Hungary Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife‚ Sophie‚ duchess of Hohenberg‚ were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb‚ Gavrilo Princep‚ in Sarajevo. Shadowing this dreadful incident‚ commiserations were given from all over the world. In the background‚ a pull towards combat began in the peaceful month of July. Austria-Hungary sent
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developed on the Western front By December 1914 stalemate developed on the Western front because of 3 main reasons‚ new weapons‚ lack of plans and the circumstances of the battle of Marne‚ race to the seas and the 1st battle of Ypres! The Schlieffen plan had failed by November 1914. It didn’t entirely go to plan.. What the Germans presumed wasn’t right. Firstly they presumed that it would only take 6 weeks to get through Belgium and that it wouldn’t take long at all‚ but in the end
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