Arnhem

Canada aided the citizens through different approaches. On December 7th, 1944, the Canadian Army threw a St. Nicholas Day party for 3500 children. They had Santa, local bands playing, and food (Arnhem). The following spring the allies negotiated a partial truce, allowing the creation of a “truce corridor” , which meant if the fighting stopped, the Germans would allow food and transportation ,(Canada Veterans). On the first day, the allies delivered…

underneath me… He really left. He just went out and never came back. I continue to harbour great love for my father and still mourn his absence. Despite my father’s disappearance, there was a joy in my young life. Growing up in the Dutch town of Arnhem during World War 2, I had always loved ballet, which I began studying at the age of eleven. Dance was escape for me,…

A. P. Elkin felt as though Radcliffe-Brown’s model did not reflect the relationships to the land that he initially observed in the southeast of the continent or in the western Arnhem Land that did not seem to be based on patrilineal descent groups. In regards to his field work in 1962 L. R. Hiatt brought up the fact that many of the field reports from the first half of the century did not match up with the ‘orthodox model’. In…

Introduction The origin of operation Market Garden laid in the overwhelming success of Operation Overlord, in June of 1944. This operation, which included the Battle of Arnhem, not long after the D-day landings, became one of the largest Airborne battles in history. Other than operation Overlord, it was the only other operation by the allies to use airborne forces as a strategic role in the European front. The operation had a massive engagement. The main two combatants in this operations…

that Australian writers who are striving to illustrate a valid representation of Australian society must include Indigenous characters with a diversity of backgrounds. The passion in the author 's writings is clearly visible in her depictions of the Arnhem Land community that Rosie lives in. Set in the outback Australian landscape amidst the 2007 political agendas, particularly in relation to John Howards controversial interventionist policies, it provides readers with the opportunity to…

English colonisation of Australia was problematic due to the British lack of acknowledgement of indigenous people’s proprietorship of the land for thousands of years. When English settlers colonised Australia, their actions suggested the land was terra nullius; a legal doctrine claiming land to be ‘occupied by no one’ (Bailey, 1997). Under this principle the British government colonised Australia establishing British sovereignty and imposing their laws to govern the land under the Crown…

they had. By using mathematical reasoning he was able to create the tessellations, but he had to look beyond just mathematics to dig deep into his tessellated optical illusions. M.C Escher was born in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands, but he moved to arnhem young and spent most of his youth there. He was not the greatest student so after failing his high school exams he enrolled in School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem. After…

Glenn Murcutt is an Australian Architect. He works as a sole practitioner, where his main architectural designs focus on modernist houses that respond to their climate and surroundings. Most of his work are at small scale and are affected by the land and climate of his native Australia. His designs reflect the idea of maintain a harmonious interaction with the environment. Some of the materials that he typically uses are corrugated iron with the ribs laid horizontally and different types of…

Makeup can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn’t help if you’re ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up. – Audrey Hepburn Now flash back to 1929, Audrey Kathleen Ruston, who is know by film fans as Audrey Hepburn, was born near Brussels, Belgium to Joseph and Edda Ruston. Unknown to her parents, young Audrey would later become one of the best actresses across many countries, and would be considered as one of the most humanitarian helpers among all celebrities. At age…

I had already known about Geoffrey Gurrumul Yuppingu. Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunpingu's background has impacted him immensely, Gurrumul was born a member of the Gumatj clan off Elcho Island in a strong musical community which is off the coast of east Arnhem Land 560 kilometers off Darwin. Gurrumul's background has really impacted his career as he mostly sings in his native…