Australian icons Flag of Australia Adopted • 3 September 1901 • The flag includes the Southern Cross‚ Union Flag (The Union Jack) and Commonwealth Star. The Commonwealth Star (also known as the Federation Star‚ the Seven Point Star‚ or the Star of Federation) is a seven-pointed star symbolising the Federation of Australia which came into force on 1 January 1901. Coat of arms of Australia Adopted • 19 September 1912 • Granted by King George V; an earlier design was granted by King Edward VII
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is the development of one’s distinctive personality due to particular reasons such as a new environment‚ a new culture‚ new language and new life style. During this process; we can either create or deny the bond with our own culture. Based on The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiris‚ this paper intends to explain and explore the process that we have to go thru in order to blend in the different culture when we come from a foreign country to the US‚ just like Ashima struggles through language and cultural barriers
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Have you ever imagined getting poisoned or killed while relaxing at a bed in breakfast? Well that’s what happened in the story The Landlady written by a famous writer of Ronald Dahl. Who he has also written the BFG‚ Witches‚ Matilda‚ and Rhyme Stew. The genre of this story is fiction/short story‚ and this passage is mysterious and puzzling‚ which can make you envision it all in your head. The theme is meant to be dotty and eagering‚ but also a little unusual about the landlady. She is nice at first
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World Literature Paper The Use of Symbolism and Irony on the cyclical nature of the Buendía family history in One Hundred Years of Solitude Throughout all works of world literature‚ certain passages will have exceptional meaning to the plot progression of the novel. This key passage essentially provides insight upon the overall theme of that work through characterization‚ symbolism‚ and imagery. In Gabriel García Márquez ’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude‚ the passage selected for
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who seems to always to catch students out of bed regardless of the time of night. Rowling persists with deepening her characters through the etymology of their names and their similar personality traits and behaviors to their classical mythological namesake. Fluffy‚ McGonagall‚ and Filch are only three of the many classical mythological allusions Rowling depicts throughout her detailed seven books. She must have put in a lot of time and research in order find and make these allusions‚ but she did
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The Killers initiated a movement in American fiction and had an great influence on the book of Raymond Carver and other authors. We can notice many good sentences. The first one can be noticed in the book of the setting. Hemingway says: Outside it was getting dark. The street-light came on outside the window. The two men at the counter read the menu. From the other end of the counter Nick Adams watched them. He had been talking to George when they came in. (The Killers) HE uses only few short sentences
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Mesa Verde in Montezuma County‚ Colorado is one of the most fantastic and thought provoking sites the United States’ National Parks has to offer. First inhabited about 9500 years ago‚ it is most well known for the feats that the Pueblo created at the sites across the park. With about 5‚000 archaeological sites and 600 dwellings‚ it is archaeological goldmine that gives us a glimpse into the culture and life of original inhabitants in the Americas. (nps.gov). Although we don’t know exactly why they
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other visual media. The Son of Man is my favorite piece of art. The Son of Man is a Belgian surrealist painting. It was painted in 1964 by Rene Magritte. The painting was originally intended to be a self-portrait. The painting conveys a man in an overcoat wearing a bowler hat and standing in front of a short wall. Behind this short wall are a cloudy sky and the sea. You cannot see the face of the man‚ since it is largely obscured by a floating green apple. However‚ you can see the eyes of the man
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straight way‚ and he turned to the see the appealing glow of the gas lamp that cast silhouettes on the walls‚ the shadows dancing with each flicker of the small flame. The wind blew quiet but harsh and found its way through the gaps in his woollen overcoat. He turned up the collar and regretted that there was no button to keep it in place. He scurried down the well-trodden path‚ passing withering plants and whatever else lay in the darkness. Without warning‚ the headlights of an approaching illuminated
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