Jack Davis’ revolutionary play No Sugar challenges the perception that colonisation is an acceptable part of Australian history. He utilizes drama as a powerful medium to successfully engage the audience and make them reflect upon what is being presented. Here Davis can effectively initiate an attitudinal change towards the situation of the Aborigines through the manipulation of staging‚ symbolism‚ characterisation and dialogue. The play seeks to expose the racist attitudes experienced by Indigenous
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Topic sentence Identity is crucial for the survival of aboriginal people. Explanation Jack Davis shows different techniques of spoken language to maintain the identity of Aboriginal people. The mixture of Nyoongah has effectively used to show the white people how the aboriginal people hold on to their own unique culture‚ even though their society has been overtaken by whites‚ and their customs and traditions have been influenced and combined with the new society. Example “Ay! You…dawarra
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SOCIAL SCIENCE 101 (Society and Culture with Population Education) Unit IV. Social Stratification Meaning of Social Stratification When sociologists speak of stratification‚ they are referring to social inequality and social ranking‚ thus‚ stresses the differences among people. Is an institutionalized pattern of inequality in which social categories ranked on the basis of their access to scarce resources. Is the hierarchy arrangement and establishment of social categories that evolve
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Assess the clam that Marxist theory no longer has any relevance for understanding modern societies. [25] Marxism was developed by the German philosopher Karl Marx and is a radical alternative to functionalism. Functionalism‚ developed by Emile Durkheim‚ was very influential in the 1940’s and 50’s but started to decline in the 1960’s. Marxism had the answers functionalism failed to give. Marxism is based on the idea that we need food‚ shelter and products in order to survive. We enter in to social
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they were displaced from their homes and taken to white settlements. In No Sugar‚ Jack Davis introduces the Millumurra family who reside in Northam and were then moved to the Moore River Native Settlement. No Sugar is a play that is hard-hitting and realistic. As the sergeant says in Act One Scene Two‚ "I know exactly what they’re like" - the mindset of people who tend to label others into stereotypes. Jack Davis has thus chosen not to construct realistically perfect characters‚ but characters which
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Empirical Test‚" Information Systems Research‚ 17‚ 3 (2006)‚ 228-246. Davis‚ F.D.‚ "A Technology Acceptance Model for Empirically Testing New End-User Information Systems: Theory and Results"‚ doctoral dissertation‚ MIT Sloan School of Management‚ Cambridge‚ MA‚ 1986. Davis‚ F.D.‚ R.P. Bagozzi‚ and P.R.‚ Warshaw‚ "User Acceptance of Computer Technology: A Comparison of Two Theoretical Models‚" Management Science‚ 35‚ 8 (1989)‚ 982-1003. Davis‚ F.D. and Kottemann‚ J.E. “User Perceptions of Decision Support
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Social stratification is the separation of huge numbers of people into strata according to their relative power‚ property‚ and prestige. It affects to both nations and to people within a nation‚ society‚ or other group. Although they may argue as to which structure of social stratification they employ‚ all societies stratify their members. Bovee‚ Thill‚ and Tumin talk about social stratification in some way in their papers‚ which will be addressed below. Melvin Tumin recognized three problems with
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In the play "No Sugar"‚ Jack Davis uses language effectively with the clever use of techniques. The language is used by Davis to construct the characters and present the issues regarding the discrimination of aborigines during the Great Depression. Davis uses a range of different types of languages techniques in the play "No Sugar"‚ which include the Nyoongah language‚ formal English‚ informal English‚ and tone to shape the readers response. The native Nyoongah language is used frequently throughout
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No Sugar Character Analysis Jimmy serves as the voice of protest throughout the play. Make a list of the ways Jimmy fulfills this role. In Davis’ drama the character Jimmy serves as a voice of protest against the works highlighting of discrimination against Aborigines between 1929 to 1934. Jimmy is an Aboriginal man who despises the fact he is not equal in society to the white man and is not regarded as a ‘person’ by the government. Through Jimmy’s words and actions we see him openly stand
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Sociology of Education Unit 08 What have traditional explanations of education suggested about attainment in schools? Learning targets: • According to Functionalists‚ education has three roles - socialization‚ skills provision and role allocation. • Education helps to support society by the socialisation of young people to cultural values. • Education categorizes people to the posts to which they are best suited according to their talents through the use of examinations
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