wide I roam‚ I still call Australia home.” Peter Allen. 24 million of us call Australia home. As we are gathered here in Sydney‚ our stories‚ voices‚ backgrounds and traits have bought us here today to be able to freely speak and acknowledge that each one of us share a special part in representing the diverse Australian voice. The diverse Australian voice is not typically depicted in iconic Australian text. If we were to base Australia’s modern identity off these ideas of the beautiful‚ romanticised
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1. In what ways and to what ends do authors create a distinct narrative voice? In the novel ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’‚ Muriel Spark uses a chronological narrative structure‚ running from the 1930s to the 1950s to tell the story. Within this framework‚ she creates a distinct narrative voice in a number of ways. There is much debate over who the voice is. One might argue it is the consistent and overarching voice of an omniscient narrator who can relate to the plot as a whole‚ moving back and
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When I first saw the movie "Good Will Hunting" I was impressed as a social science major. The movie provides a real world example to explain many tough social science concepts. In addition to the movie’s delve into psychology‚ the underlying themes of the film have much to do with the area of communication studies. These ideas can be seen through the relationship of Will (Matt Damon) and his therapist Sean (Robin Williams) through the progression of their relationship during the movie. In "Good
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The beauty and the strength within the black female body is one that is quite unique. W.E.B DuBois stated in his book Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil‚ that “she [the black woman] had to fight like a tiger for the ownership and possession of her own person and… when she reached maturity‚ all the tender instincts of her womanhood were ruthlessly violated” (100). Initially‚ black female slaves have played two distinct role in providing economic benefits for slaveholders‚ through house work and
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The emotions portrayed in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet play an important part in the composition of the play. The two crucial emotions that are introduced in Act One and used throughout the play are the antonyms of love and hate. Contrast between these emotions are used in the first act‚ which supplies us with a more realistic situation. The complicated and conflicting relationships between the characters in the play are explored and portrayed by these emotions. In Act One Scene One‚ the strong
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society status are lower than men. They are less free and have a great deal of unfair treatment‚ like‚ build a marriage. I hope to read some books related to Chinese women in the past few years to know more issue about them. I choose to read "Personal voices: Chinese Women in the 1980’s" to do a book report and know something about Chinese’s women. The authors of the book are Emily Honig and Gail Hershatter. Emily Honing is Assistant Professor of History and of Women’s Studies at Yale University‚ and
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Multiplicity of voices in Indian English novels:A Postcolonial study A foundational text in the discussion of postcoloniality is Edward Said’s Orientalism. Said identifies how the western world “spoke” for and represented the Orient‚ while the Orient was kept silent to maintain and allow this position of power for the westerner. In Said’s Orientalism‚ he gives a brief history of these phenomena he identifies and describes. He says‚ [t]aking the late eighteenth
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THE VOICE OF THE WOMEN QUAKERS‚ SHAKERS‚ PROTESTANTS AND BAPTIST MOVEMENT CHLOE KIRKLAND HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY JANUARY 18‚ 2014 Religion has always been a trivial topic. Who is right? who is the closest to the truth? Many excursions and quest have started with the intent to bring awareness to a "higher power" and entity called God. In the late fifteenth century before the protestant reformation America was intensified with the reform of the Catholic
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How do different poets use the voice of the speaker in their poems to reveal their ideas and engage their readers? The speaker’s role in a poet’s expression and engagement of readers is essential. It influences a story’s direction‚ the emotions invoked in the reader‚ and how themes are shaped into ideas. Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess contain many thematic similarities‚ despite portraying different scenarios‚ primarily spoken through a possessive and
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You are to assess the innovation of noise cancelling and voice enhancing “smart ear muffs” that is being introduced into the market by Sensear (www.sensear.com) and analyse how they relate to the theories. Q1: Please explain the stage of technology evolution of the Sensear ear muffs. What kind of technology is it (with respect to related theories)? What competition does Sensear face? Q2: Please review what markets have started adopting the product‚ and what stage of adoption/diffusion you
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