Australian Dream

Subject Matter: The poem is a scenario about the inevitability of restlessness in the life of a transient-like family. This event is an Australian phenomenon, originated from shearers and rouseabouts (unskilled labourers, or odd jobbers) during the early colonial times. The family is constantly moving from place to place. A lot of Australian families went through similar situations during the time of economic hardship, including Bruce Dawe. The author of this poem that was written in 1999. The…

types of Sea Snakes, and over 1,500 different species of fish. Then there is the very unknown rock or should I say rock(s) called “The Three Sisters”. (according to this site http://www.bluemts.com.au/info/thingstodo/threesisters/) “The Aboriginal dream-time legend has it that three sisters, 'Meehni ', 'Wimlah ' and Gunnedoo ' lived in the Jamison Valley as members of the Katoomba tribe. These beautiful young ladies had fallen in love with three brothers from the Nepean tribe, yet tribal law…

Unfortunately the statistics in this domain too paint a grim picture. Results indicate that ‘Indigenous Australians have considerably lower numeracy and literacy levels than the non-Indigenous population, significantly higher school absenteeism rates, and lower school completion outcomes’ (Bandias et al., 2013, cited in Cuervo et al., 2015, p.8). Additionally, the situation in regional and remote communities is even worse. On the one hand there is a general decline in the quality of education in…

Tom Calma analyzes and comments on the northern territory intervention in his article It’s Not Our Dream. Calma states that the resources being used on the intervention can be harnessed and invested properly to solve the issues of aboriginal communities. The intervention could become a force of good to help Aboriginal people. The intervention needs to…

teach Standard Australian English (SAE) (Angelo and Frazer, 2008;). As such, it is important to support the use of Aboriginal English (first language) and also develop their awareness of the use of Standard Australian English (SAE) (Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (2014). Bi-dialectal education is an effective form of scaffolding that can be used to help students get from…

applauded by much of the left for taking a stand against a day that has apparently become a national embarassment. Australian of the year was won by someone who in his speech branded Australia as intolerant and that our attitudes are holding back anyone of a different race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. A speech from Stan Grant went viral of him saying that the Australian dream is built on racism and genocide and that we should basically all be ashamed. This was referred to as a…

Indigenous Australians and African American people lived out the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes from the 1950s to today. The purpose of the Ten Commandments is to point out sin as Paul informs us in Romans 7:7, and they also begin with our demonstrated relationship with God and end with our relationships with others. The purpose of the Beatitudes found in Matthew 5:1-12 is to inspire people to act in certain ways. In times of adversity and injustice morality existed, and civil rights and…

This expands into Social Determinants of ‘mixed blood’ Aboriginals who until the 1967 referendum did not have the same rights of what Australian did, this including the right to “vote, marry whom ever the chose, move to where ever they chose, own property where ever they chose, receive the same pay for the same work, this being enlisted and ruled by the Australian constitution. (Reference) This had huge repercussions on Aboriginal health, working opportunities, education and equal opportunities…

Death of a Salesman From the outset death of a salesman portrays the pitfalls of the American dream. The dream centred on the high chance that anyone can strike it rich in this Land of opportunity. Even in 1950s USA people were still taking a chance on this myth. Death of a Salesman shows the traps of the dream. The failures centred on poor Willy Loman This fine line between making it and become your average Joe becomes heavily apparent when Willy decides he has had enough and kills…

these as his benchmarks, Willy can never achieve the success he so desperately craves. Through a series of flashbacks in the play, where we witness Willy's persistent efforts to make the American Dream a reality for himself and his family, Miller launches a scathing attack on the very notion of the dream. He questions the values upon which American society is based and the way in which these contribute to the destruction of a man such as…