Rabbit Proof Fence Persuasive Speech

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Good morning/afternoon fellow Australian Journalists,
Rabbit Proof Fence by Phillip Noyce is an adventurous, dramatic, and historical film, which, display the Stolen Generation and issues with Aboriginals. It tells the story of three aboriginal girls who are forcibly taken from their families and travel to find their way home. Rabbit Proof Fence represents, through characterization and setting, the racial discrimination, poor treatment and disconnection from the country that the Stolen Generation was subjected to in Australia’s ugly history.
Characterization is shown by the Aboriginal girls as they are being stolen from their families and being taken to the settlement as they are racially discriminated because of their identity, which results

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