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    action hero film co-written‚ produced‚ and directed by Christopher Nolan. It is Nolan’s second film based around the DC Comics character Batman‚ and the film is the sequel to the 2005 film‚ Batman Begins. Christian Bale returns to play the role of Bruce Wayne‚ the billionaire who defends Gotham City as Batman. Other returning cast members include Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox‚ Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth‚ and Gary Oldman as James Gordon. The film introduces new characters‚ including Heath

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    Religious traditions? Bruce Dawe renowned for his amazing collective poetry has had many successful pieces of writing. One none could forget would be “And a Good Friday Was Had by All.” This historic poem is very controversial. The poet‚ Bruce Dawe uses persuasive language to show he is very strongly opinionated about the shift of the Australian culture away from the religious traditions. He highly believes that this shift is very well happening. It is plain to see that Dawe uses an Australian vernacular

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    Bruce Dawe – essay In your view‚ what social issues are explored in Dawe’s poetry? Explain how these issues are developed and represented in two of his poems that you have studied! Bruce Dawe is a contemporary Australian poet from the late 1960’s to the early 1970’s‚ writing poems protesting against the issues occurring in society that he didn’t morally believe in‚ these issues are still relevant in today’s society. Dawe comes from a catholic back ground and is passionate towards his religion;

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    Bruce Dawe‚ an Australian poet composed many of his poems focusing on entertaining as well as portraying the ‘common man’. His poetry presents and examines his dislike of authority‚ politicians‚ commercialism and consumerism and expresses concepts of modern and realistic themes. “Televistas”‚ composed by Dawe in the 1960’s entails the story of two personas that fall in love and develop their relationship in front of a recurring motif‚ a television. The poem dramatizes how human interaction and qualities

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    Bibliography: the poem ’Homecoming ’ by Bruce Dawe

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    written by Bruce Dawe. The themes these poems express include ‘strive for happiness and fulfilment and make the most of life. Another text that also displays these themes is ‘V For Vendetta’ directed by James McTeigue. The poem ‘Weapons Training’ written by Bruce Dawe is monologue from military instructor that is lecturing recruits on what to do in a battle situation. Dawe expresses his ideas about military life using techniques such as humorous tone and vivid imagery. Dawe uses humorous

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    The poem Homecoming by Bruce Dawe describes the significance of the strong negative impact the Vietnam War has caused. He portrays the emotions and effects surrounding the homecoming of soldiers who have perished in the war. The main concept extracted from the poem is a moral outrage at the hopeless and senseless aspects of war. The author explores the fact that the soldiers who return from the Vietnam War were not respected or acknowledged in any way and that they’re lives were wasted. The poet

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    Planning A Time Capsule Bruce Dawe As typical of these times I would include: a dirty needle and a rip-top can‚ pebbled glass from a windscreen‚ some spent cartridges‚ a singlet noose fresh from a prisoner’s neck‚ a pamphlet proving pornography is love‚ a flask of tears from battered women (laced with children’s blood)‚ a cassette-tape of cries from bitter tenants faced with rent-hikes‚ a food-voucher for the many hidden hungry‚ a door key to signify the homeless‚ and a colour-shot

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    control.. The poems used to study dialogue were ‘Weapons Training’ and ‘Up the Wall’ by Bruce Dawe‚ as well as the additional text of ‘……’ by . In my exploration of dialogue in the two poems and the related text‚ it becomes apparent that gender and power differences may be expressed through the presence of dominant and silenced voices along with a broad range of representational techniques. Bruce Dawe uses dialogue manipulatively and effectively in his poem “Weapons Training” it is an

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    feature. They all aim to get a message across and in doing so‚ engage their audience and inform them about a particular issue. Some protest poetry and songs which have stood out include; Beach Burial written by Kenneth Slessor‚ Home-coming written by Bruce Dawe‚ Six young men written by Ted Hughes and I was only nineteen which is a song by Redgum. Each of these poems or songs are written about war and its’ tragic effects however each poet or lyricist has engaged its audience in various‚ yet effective‚

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