Discovery

fellow teachers and fellow students. It is true that discoveries often challenge our assumptions and beliefs about humanity. Could it be said that as a resultant our faith and perceptions about humanity will change. Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall” and “Home Burial” is a display of such. The 2009 film Gran Torino details the story of a racist Korean War Veteran Walt Kowalski who is sick of modern society, but makes a confronting and emotional discovery of the changing attitudes of humanity.…

The process of discovery is a profoundly meaningful experience which involves moving into unknown realms, causing a re-evaluation of the known. Discoveries occur in a multifaceted fashion as part of a re-consideration of experiences and values, generating new perspectives of ourselves and our world. Rosemary Dobson’s poetry and Fitzgerald’s The Ice Palace position us to recognise the significance of time, change and its confronting challenges. The persona’s desire for creative freedom within…

Standard English Assessment Task 1: Discovery The prescribed text ‘Away’ by the composer ‘Michael Gow’ is a play that showcases personal discovery. The related visual text ‘On Loan’ by ‘Geoff Bennett ‘ and Jeannie Baker’s picture book “The Hidden Forest” are also demonstrating added personal discovery. “Away” is set in 1967-68 during the middle of the Vietnam War in Australia. It is based on three family’s lives in northern Australia: unexpected events see the families rendezvousing together…

explores is how discoveries can lead us to ‘new worlds and values and stimulate new ideas’ through the concepts of this world that the narrator attempts to explain to their child. The way in which discoveries may be questioned or challenged or questioned when viewed from different perspectives is another significant concept that Atwood explores in her poem, through lines such as, “this is an O/Or a moon, whichever/You like.” ‘You Begin’ also is suggestive of the capacity for flase discovery of…

engaged into making his discovery that he even forgets about his family. Nature no longer calms him, and he does not think of his health. In the story, Victor states, “…it gained strength as I proceeded, and soon became so ardent and eager, that the stars often disappeared in the light of morning whilst I was yet engaged in my laboratory…Two years passed in this manner, during which I paid no visit to Geneva, but was engaged, heart and soul, in the pursuit of some discoveries which I hope to…

The nature of discovery as a transformative process exemplifies the unique attributes of mankind, through the ability to shift or challenge our perspectives of an individual and our society. Whilst discoveries may be pleasing, it may also be provocative, in that an individual's values and ideas are confronted and challenged. This notion is explored by the SBS documentary, "Go Back to Where You Came From” directed by Ivan O’Mahoney and the novel, "Looking for Alaska" by John Green in which the…

Through undertaking steps of discovery can individuals expose things that are concealed within society to gain the ability to review their acknowledgement of the events that changed their perception of self and others. in challenging other perspectives of Caliban can he be able to transform self from a monster in captivity to liberty in nature in William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”, as well as the revelation of finding belonging and uniqueness in an indistinguishable society of the lost thing in…

The process of discovery enlightens and educates individuals with fresh, meaningful ideals about the physical and spiritual world, whilst also reshaping an individual’s perspectives of the world, themselves and others. Two texts which explore this dynamic of discovery is Simon Nasht’s documentary Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History (2004) and Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner (2003). Nasht’s documentary uses Frank Hurley’s expedition into the Antarctic as a vehicle to convey one’s…

Discoveries provoke a time of introspection, in which a further insight into the influence of an individual’s mindset occurs, shaped by their particular context. Throughout the well-known play ‘Tempest’ (1610) by William Shakespeare and the incredible story of resilience ‘Unbroken’ (aat010) by Laura Hillenbrand, we learn that individuals may uncover hidden revelations due to times of self-examination or reconsideration of past encounters. A discovery may affect a person in a way that leads…

When an individual’s assumptions are challenged by significant discoveries, their lives are often transformed. This perspective is represented throughout Ernesto Che Guevara’s eclectic memoir, The Motorcycle Diaries, which details his arguably metamorphic journey through Latin America in the early 1950s and the diverse discoveries he makes, which are personal and political in their nature. Guevara’s varied and confronting encounters throughout his travels challenge his preconceived views of…