- ‘BELONGING’ - Question: What does the Oodgeroo Noonuccal poem ‘We Are Going’ have to say about Belonging and Not Belonging? How does the poet use language forms‚ features and structures to convey ideas and feelings? The poem ‘We Are Going’ by Oodgeroo Noonuccal is about the displacement of the Aboriginal people in Australian society/culture and their confusion about where or what to belong to as their traditional customs are taken away/forgotten. The text raises the issues and themes of
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word as thunder is really the loud terrifying sound as a result of lightning. 9. They are in the fresh air of Australia near the Bora Ring and the mood is of sadness and subduedness because of how the Bora Ring is being mistreated. 10. ‘We are going’ are the three words in the title‚ conclusion and theme and portrays how the life of the Aboriginals would be as the Aboriginals are not welcome to their own homeland therefore they are
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Oodgeroo Noonuccal – We are going The poem “We are going” takes the form of a single stanza‚ featuring a mixture of short and long lines comprised of a short description followed by a lamenting monologue. The form ensures that all the information presented is treated equally by the reader‚ as there is no break in reading the poem. The language features revolve around the repetition of various concepts‚ words and syllables‚ however it also incorporates the use of similes. The repetition featured
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Belonging is explored in various modes‚ in particular the poem ‘We Are Going” by Oodgeroo Noonccal published in 1964. The text conveys the time of strife for the Aboriginal people as the white people colonised the land in the year 1606. The mode of poetry is used to express the voice for Indigenous people at the time of struggle and justice. Various techniques are used to convey the meaning of belonging and not belonging. The Aboriginal people have a sense of belonging as they have an original
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Strategic Leadership The world we are going to live By Masoud Noordeh Abstract To analysis the effects of some fields of the subject on each other living in the future makes it possible to prevent from unwanted scenarios which may be harmful for our future life‚ I account for all the fields such as demography‚ food‚ natural environment‚ research‚ and etc as a sub-system of human life in which their combinations make a system. I chose five of them that‚ in my view point‚ are
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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’ territory. Near the end of the poem‚ “gone” is used in repetition in lines
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“Kath and Mouse” Responding Questions 1. In my opinion‚ Kath’s bullying is motivated by her own fears. A lot of bullies were bullied before‚ so Kath may had been bullied before Helen came and was motivated by her past to bully the new student. Kath may bullied Helen because she did not want other people to bully her instead. Insecureness‚ jealousy‚ low self-esteem‚ pride‚ greed‚ and grudge could also motivate bullying to occur. 3. I could make text-to-text connections to the Disney film Lemonade
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2nd draft college essay What are we going to be when We growth up ? That’s a biggest question for any teenagers like me . I couldn’t even read when I was in tenth grade because learning a complete new language is the hardest part for most immigrant students including me. I moved from Vietnam to the United state three years ago . Everything I have seen has been new to me : From the detections to the locations‚ from houses to schools every
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there. The start of the reading explains the character’s beginning feeling about their trip to the aquarium.The feeling that occurred then‚ was uninterested. The text proves my statement when it says “Most of the class was excited to find out we were going to an aquarium. I was not.” The passage also reads “But something about the idea of spending the day looking at giant tanks filled
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(Hello students from St Aidan’s and Corinda High‚ welcome to the poetry exchange 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
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