Australian Dream

The given extract is a speech delivered by Stan Grant on Racism and Australian dream in 2016 at Ethics Centre, Sydney, Australia. He primarily targets the audience belonging to Australia. With the use sarcastic and confronting tone speaker expresses his disappointment and serve his purpose to inform the audience about the historical brutality suffered by the aborigines with the use rhetorical questions, anaphora, and juxtaposition. Stan Grant at the start of his speech uses rhetorical question…

1. What does the song tell us about what Australians value about their country? In the Australian song, I am Australian, it communicates the idea that Australians stand as one in their dreams and love for the country. Also, they are united by the Australian spirit that all possess from persisting despite the tough times. This idea that Australians can become unified, despite coming from all different walks of life, is expressed to be what Australians value most about their country. 2. Does it…

photographic self portraits ‘We Bury Our Own’. Invaded Dreams is one from a series of Thompson's works titled We Bury Our Own in which he created in response to the Australian colonial archive collection held by the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, England. The museum holds a collection of ethnographic photographs of Indigenous Australians made during Australia’s early colonial period. Thompson’s research coincided with a project initiated by the Australian Research Council to research and…

a crucial part when it comes to inspiring Indigenous youth in Australian society. The focus of this essay is to demonstrate how Cathy Freeman became a noteworthy Indigenous role model; examining her history and the key events that aided in her success and how these have contributed to Australian society. Catherine (Cathy) Freeman was born in Mackay, Queensland on the 16th February 1973, to parents Cecelia and Norman Freeman (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Islander Studies…

Freedoms and Rights in Australia and the USA Australian Freedom Rides The Australian Freedom Rides in 1965 were inspired by the 1961 Freedom Rides in the United States. Based in the University of Sydney, the students decided to use the same strategy to promote civil rights. Under the title of ‘Student Action for Aborigines’ or SAFA their tactic was to take the civil rights movement out in to regional Australia to actively confront as well as contest racial discrimination which was a major…

I chose to base my creative piece on the Australian short story – American Dreams by Peter Carey. The purpose of my piece was to highlight central themes such as Americanisation – an idea that claims that 'America has colonised our subconscious' and the delusion of the American Dream. These thematic aspects are prevalent in 'American Dreams' by Peter Carey, in which a remote and isolated town becomes influenced by the concept of living the American Dream and as a result of trying to conform to…

English Creative Task Rationale The American Dream is a complex set of ideas and beliefs that exhibits crucial lifestyles and factors that supposedly lead to the success of society. However, it does not recognise the evident tension within its ideology; meritocracy at odds with inherited status. This creative piece, in the form of a prose extract, aims to declare and demonstrate the hardships of this ideology. Focusing on an unnamed Aboriginal girl during the 1950’s when the White Australia…

Socio-Economic Status (SES) and healthy physical and mental wellbeing. The institutional discrimination due to past government policies for Indigenous Australians resulted in generations of uneducated, or partly educated, Indigenous people (Lowe & Yunkaporta, 2013). Educational policymakers should learn from the past educational experiences of Indigenous Australians and implement developed policies to overcome the poor performance of Indigenous students (Bonney, 2018a; Partington, Beresford &…

Despite living in a time of formal equality, Indigenous Australian youth still face many challenges growing up in contemporary Australian society. This essay examines the challenges Indigenous youth face growing up and the main cultural influences. Specifically exploring the ways in which Indigenous youth today are interdependent to both white culture and indigenous culture. Also including reasoning behind continuous marginalization and stereotyping of Indigenous youth while growing up in this…

Aboriginal Australians - Life within a Dream Before british colonization hit Australia, there was a unique way of life here. Aborigines were the members of the traditional aboriginal race of Australia. These people were hunters and gathers. Kinship represented their social structuring. Tribes formed along the male lineage were called the Patriarchal descent and consisted of 2 or more families, while the female led lineage was considered the Matriarchal descent. After the british…