Oodgeroo Noon Documentary Analysis

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oday, Julien is about to make a change.

Two years ago, he had a big reflexion, while watching a documentary based on how people lived all around the world. This opened-minding movie makes him realizes how is life is easy, beside others, who, sometimes, have to fight and work till death to be able to eat. After seeing those horrible condition where people are living, he decides to make a action In his mind, it couldn't be possible that person live like this. So he started searching informations, asking person and while his periods of research, he realize that only a minority of person know what is happening elsewhere. He was so frustrated by this situation that’s he decides to go n those country and meet those human who were forget by the

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