contrasting a poem and song. The poem ‘No More Boomerang’ written by Oodgeroo Noonuccal and the song ‘I Still Call Australia Home’ composed by Peter Allen‚ are two pieces of writing which comment specifically on Australian society and culture. Oodgeroo Noonuccal‚ or also known as Kath Walker‚ was an Aboriginal Australian poet‚ political activist‚ artist and educator. Born 1920 on Stradbroke Island‚ she grew up as a member of the Noonuccal tribe. The theme for much of her poetry talks about the destructive
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‘A Song of Hope’ was written by Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal‚ at a time when Aboriginals were being distinguished against because of their skin colour and traditions. This poem speaks optimistically of a brighter future for the coming generations of people with different skin colour or traditions including the Aboriginals. The subject matter the poem is racism and freedom for the Aboriginals and others who have different colored skins from others or Native Australians. The theme the poem is the
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thought that perhaps‚ the only colour in real life is white? White light is indeed the bearer of all colours. The colours we see are reflections bouncing off an object or are the light source itself. The light sources change and the colours with them. Colour is not a stable affair. Colour is light alone‚ but our experience is so direct that we trust our eye and believe that a colour is inherent to an object. Imagine living in a world where everything is white in colour! However‚ the world we live
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Colours for living and learning The Universe is a magnetic field of positive and negative charges‚ constantly vibrating and producing electro-magnetic waves. Each of these has a different wavelength and speed of vibration; together they form the electro-magnetic sphere. White light when seen through a prism or water vapour splits into the colours of the spectrum. Of all the electro-magnetic sphere it alone can be seen. Radio waves‚ infra-red waves‚ ultra-violet waves‚ x-rays and gamma waves can
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Colours Imagine a world without colours. If you see only shades of grey around you‚ wouldn’t you find it dull and boring? Would it make you feel gloomy and that everything is ugly and uninteresting? I am quite certain you would say yes to all these questions. We humans love colours. We love colours because colours make our world beautiful. All things on earth have their own colours and hues. Even things of the same type may have many shades and colours. Flowers‚ for example‚ come
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Importance of Colour Published on May 18‚ 2007 at 4:59 PM Colour is an important part of our everyday lives. We judge how healthy we‚ our crops and our food are‚ with the help of colour. Our choice of decoration‚ furnishing and clothing is strongly influenced by colour. Colour is involved in almost every aspect of our lives. People and colour perception The human eye is the means that we use to detect colour and it is very sensitive at detecting colour and differences in colour. However
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Komagata Maru‚ the Japanese steamship left Hong Kong for Vancouver on May 23‚1914. The ship carried 376 Indian immigrants who set sail for Canada with the intent of finding a better living condition and opportunities. The passengers consisted of 340 Sikhs‚ 12 Hindus and 24 Muslims and all of them were British subjects since India was under British control. Upon arriving at Vancouver‚ the immigrants were denied entrance by the Canadian government due to the exclusion act that was already being held
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conference today) I’m going to introduce you to two very representative Australian poems. The first poem is ‘no more boomerang’ and the second poem is ‘we are going’. These two poems were both written by a native Australian poet Oodergoo Noonuccal in around about 1985. Noonuccal was a feminist and a political activist who concentrated mostly on how to gain the rights for aboriginal Australians‚ which also gives her a quite unique perspective of representing indigenous people’s view of Australia as home from
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Oodgeroo Noonaccal was an Australian poet‚ artist and educator. She was also a campaigner for aboriginal rights. Oodgeroo was well known for her poetry and in this analysis three of her poems will be looked into. The first poem that will be looked into that was written by Oodgeroo is called ‘We Are Going’. This poem is about the spirituality of the aboriginals. “We are the strangers here now‚ but the white tribe are the strangers” line 8‚ suggests that the white people have arrived in the aboriginals’
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My Favourite Colour Open our eyes and everything we see is colourful. We all live in a world where colour is often a part of us despite affecting us in our daily lives. Colour in everyday life is varies‚ from knowing that a fruit is ripe to eat‚ to understanding how colour can affect and influence our lives. Scientifically‚ colour is is known as light of different wavelengths and frequencies and light is just one form of energy that we can actually see that is made up from photons. We are all
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