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    Sound and Music Name: The Doppler Effect Read from Lesson 3 of the Sound and Music chapter at The Physics Classroom: http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/sound/u11l3b.html MOP Connection: 1. TRUE or FALSE: Ken Fused is standing on a corner when a police car passes by with its siren on. Ken hears a different pitch when the police car is approaching him than when it is past him. This is because the siren on the front of the car is set to a higher pitch than the siren on the back of the car

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    towards others as we reappraise our former thoughts‚ attitudes change. This is illustrated in the novel Looking for Alibrandi and the poem “My Father Began as a god” by Ian Mudie. Growth is inevitable and change must happen whether it is physical or emotional. Once change happens‚ there are many unexpected events and experience that happens gradually. A key event in the novel Looking for Alibrandi that

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    One of the most significant relationships in the novel is between Josie Alibrandi and John Barton. The relationship changes in various ways at different stages. It’s through this relationship that Josie learns much more about what is important in life and learns to accept her identity. Initially they were the best of friends‚ but Josie wanted to be with John Barton because she thought he was the best man she would ever meet. She sees him as an upper class man who is witty‚ charming and everything

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    The film "Looking for Alibrandi" begins light-heartedly‚ and the viewer gets a very quick understanding of Josie’s character through her interactions with her friends and family. As the film progresses‚ the glamour that is initially associated with Josie begins to fade as we watch her struggle to cope with her final year of school (especially the racist attitude of one girl in particular‚ Carly Bishop (Leeanna Walsman)‚ the suicide of her crush‚ John Barton (Matthew Newton)‚ and meeting with Michael

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    Essay: The film ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ traces Josephine’s Higher School Certificate year. Select four people and/or events from Josephine’s final year and discuss how these people or events changed Josephine’s perspective. Melina Marchetta’s "looking for Alibrandi" is a story which resembles change internally and externally. In her final school year‚ Josephine Alibrandi is confused and angry. She is continuously confronted by issues that question who she is as her true sense of identity is clouded

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    She was the vice school captain of St Martha’s‚ has the support of friends such as Sera‚ Anna and Lee and her close relatives‚ her mother and grandmother‚ and most of all her boyfriends Jacob Coote and John Barton. Italian Australian Josephine Alibrandi‚ 17‚ says life has become “crazy” at this year because of the events at school especially the HSC coming up. She has been learning to resist and overcome the selfish social and racist people calling her an ethnic and wog and is dealing with controversial

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    belonging‚ hence forcing them to reevaluate their own identity and their ability to experience a sense of belonging. This notion can be seen in both‚ The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and Looking For Alibrandi directed by Kate Wood. In the namesake‚ the character Gogol’s abnormal name forces

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    IMMIGRANT CHRONICLES By Peter Skrzynecki STUDY NOTES *** Studying poetry Poetry appeals to our understanding through our imagination by making us see what the poet has seen‚ hear what the poet has heard and experience the poet wants us to feel. Useful Literary Terms Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds close together – for a special sound effect and/or emphasis | Allusion | a reference to something from history/ literature/ religion that adds meaning to the

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    Peer and family relationships help to change and shape both the identity of Josie and Amal from the novels Looking for Alibrandi and Does my head look big in this? Identity is who someone is and their characteristics. Everyone has an identity though finding that identity can be a challenge but something that has to be done. Identity often changes for the good and is necessary in life. Positive and negative relationships are a key to changing someones identity. Learning from negative relationship

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    Marginalized New Australians Looking for Alibrandi is an Award-winning contemporary Australian teenage novel written by author Melina Marchetta‚ which highlights cultural‚ age and social boundaries that were evident in the earlier periods of Australian society. In this book a number of characters were discriminated and marginalised due to their culture‚ gender and social class. Marginalisation is when people are being separated

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