The official correspondent and creator of the Australian War Memorial, Charles Bean is substantially responsible for the present perspective that Australians have of the Great War. However, by focussing on the Australian army nurse experiences, this conventional perspective of The Great War expands. They demonstrate that females endured chauvinistic constraints and agonising impacts while they succoured the injured soldiers. During The Great War, Australian army nurses were thought as inferior to military men so were largely marginalised and mistreated. "The female nurse did little towards the actual saving of life in the war although they may have prompted a more rapid recovery."…
Dale Robert Geddes, a soldier who fought and died seventy-two years ago in the Battle of Tarawa during World War Two, body was recently discovered and identified by means of DNA. He has been shipped back to his hometown in Grand Island, Nebraska where he will receive a full military honors burial, deserving of a hero. Geddes was born, February 21st, 1922 and graduated from Grand Island Senior High in 1940. After graduation he went to work for the Grand Island Independent, but left his job to work for the Cheyenne, Wyoming, newspaper in August 1942. On November 20th, 1942, in Denver Geddes enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves, and on November 20th, 1943 Geddes participated in the devastating Battle of Tarawa.…
The famous Australian play “The One Day of the Year” by Alan Seymour explores various conflicts over ANZAC Day in the 1950’s in a working class family from Sydney’s Western suburbs. Since then, opinions on gender roles and cultural diversity in Australia have changed and so have ideas about Australia in general. This is also closely examined in Ellen Connolly’s article ‘Burquini Hits the Beach’, written for the Sunday Telegraph on February 4th 2007. The text reveals a plan by Surf Lifesaving Australia to introduce new uniforms that conform to the guidelines of Muslim culture regarding women’s modesty. This was created by a program named “Call the Same Wave”, which was established after the 2007 Cronulla riots.…
The composer’s representation of people and politics are products of their own political motivations and perspective, which advocate discussion and awareness amongst the audiences by exposing the hidden fallacies embedded within historical past. Portrayed through personal and public agendas, the process of representation evokes awareness amongst readers by compelling them to revaluate their own perspectives in their political sphere. Inherent in Henry Reynold’s memoir, Why Weren’t We Told (1999) is a representation of society’s attitudes towards race relations in Australian history, reflecting flaws of the communal ‘white blindfold’ perception of Aboriginal past. Reynolds’ personal account exposes the need to revise such misconceptions that…
“Because she wasn’t listening. It wasn’t a war story, it was a love story.” Explanation: This quote is from “How to Tell a True War Story.” O’Brien is describing a woman’s response to his writing- how she doesn’t like war stories, but that she liked his. He has just talked about the death of Curt Lemon, the killing of the buffalo and the letter from Rat Kiley to Curt Lemon’s sister.…
In 1942, Australia and PNG were involved in the battle of Kokoda against the Japanese. The involvement of Australia in the Kokoda campaign was significant as the threat the Japanese imposed, the hardships the Australian endured and the characteristics the troops displayed all held impact on the nation of Australia. The tactics of the Japanese Aggressive Foreign Policy was a threat to Australia with its plans of invasion or isolation to gain Australia's resources. Australia's involvement in the Kokoda campaign was an experience of hardship and difficulty which required them to endure tricky terrain and harsh warfare. The characteristics of the Australians that fought in WWI, which helped build the ANZAC legend, was evident and displayed immensely in the…
The reasons for Australians enlisting to fight in World War One varied and were complex. These reasons may be categorised into two main sections: Intrinsic and extrinsic. Some of the many intrinsic factors included the sense of adventure, sense of duty to support fellow Australians and a sense of duty to defend Australia from a perceived enemy and finally a sense of duty to defend the “Mother Country”. These contrast with the extrinsic influences which include enlisting to escape poverty, unemployment, pressure from Australian society and the effects of propaganda. The study of a number of sources will reveal the extent to which Australians enlisted in 1914 to defend the “Mother Country” and that it was not the only reason to why thousands of men flocked to war.…
The “bush” is stereotypically Australian because the lasting image our nation has created from our pioneers’ beginnings is a rural setting and lifestyle. As a result, he has created stereotypically Australian characters. They have been put into a truly Australian situation. Drawing on the ANZAC myth, Marsden has put them into a fight for survival set in a war. They all show, as a result, strength, independence, quick-wittiness and adaptability.…
Government controls were also placed over the lives of the Australians, restricting them in many ways. Before the war, it was expected that a working man was the main source who supported its family. A woman who worked was thought to have been supporting her husband who couldn’t afford…
Chief Protector A.O. Neville, was not just a “man of his times”. He was much brighter than many other people of his era. He had big ideas for “improvement” as he was calling it. His circle of obligations was overwhelming, and he genuinely cared for all of the people of Australia. However, the way that he executed his ideas for improvement was not of the better of the people he supposedly cared about.…
However, the Anzac soldiers on the Western Front were equally as heroic as the soldiers on Gallipoli, yet still tend to receive less attention than them. While the commemoration of the Gallipoli campaign should be recognised, the significance of the Anzac legend on the Western Front should be further enhanced.…
The Black Diggers: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press for the Autralian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1997. Annotation Robert Anthony Hall was born in 1947 and is an Australian writer who wrote this book through his travelling around the country while he interviews Aboriginal, Islander and white Australians to explore the war effort of Aboriginal and Islander Australians during the second world war and the reasons their contribution has gone unrecognized for so long.…
This demonstrates that World War 2 opened up Australia to a more diverse way of life, and shaped the country’s…
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier is a historical narrative about Joseph Plumb Martin 's adventures and efforts while in the Revolutionary War. This classic read uncovers the thoughts and struggles of a soldier in the Revolutionary War during the year 1776. Plumb Martin enlisted in the Continental Army in 1776, and served in New York and Connecticut during the American Revolution. Joseph Plumb Martin was an American patriot for many different reasons. One of those reasons being that he went against his own will to enlist and continue to enlist until the end of the Revolutionary War.…
War is considered by many to be one of humanity’s central traits as an advancing species and as such it holds a heavy influence on our past, present and future. From warring tribes in Africa during the dawn of man to the great Empires of Greece and Persia warfare has always been present, whether this war is for defense of a homeland and families, to conquest for more power and wealth or freedom from persecution and oppression. These forces drive mankind and have pushed us technologically and socially. While war may be a central aspect of mankind it is something that causes deep felt feelings and views that bring forward strong emotions in many people. It is from these deep feeling and emotions that we see famous poems created and revealed that…