Drover

inherited from his uncle. Paterson spent most of his childhood on his farm and loved to watch the drovers on horseback make their way around the Murrimbidgee and Snowy Mountains. When Paterson was able to ride a horse he began going to the local school where he learnt about pioneering stories from others, until he was ten and was sent off the Sydney Grammar School. Paterson achieved well academically and became a lawyer for a firm in Sydney. Paterson missed his early life of the horses and bush life. He began to reflect on his love for the bush and characters he met their in his poetry. He began to send his poetry for it to be published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, under the pseudonym of “Banjo”, his favourite horse. Paterson is well known for establishing the romanticized view of country life, the figure of the drover and that Bushmen are national heroes.…

English SACE STAGE 1 Bridget O’Brien Women play a central role in “The drovers Wife” by henry Lawson and the film, ‘Australia’ by Baz Luhrman. With references to the narrative elements and cinematic conventions, discuss how women were portrayed in both Genres. Both the text ‘The Drovers Wife’ and the movie ‘Australia’ focus on the independency of Australian women and the aboriginal society. In the short story "The Drover's Wife," Henry Lawson acknowledges the hardships of Australian women…

In the film, Australia, Baz luhrman focuses on the power of belonging. This is shown through Nullah, Lady Sarah Ashley and Drover as the film progresses each character finds their belonging and identity. Baz Luhrman uses different camera techniques, such as different camera angles and music to intensify different scenes and represent different points of the film. Through these three characters Baz Luhrman explores the idea of belonging in Australia and how each person’s identity is important and…

After his brother is killed, a drunk goes after his brother, who committed the murder and kidnapped his niece and nephew. BRIEF SYNOPSIS A young Tossabout King watches as his abusive father buries his mother and young sister. Both have a single bullet in their heads. Tossabout’s brothers Drover, and Pap also watch. Tossabout finds the rag doll that his dead sister clutches and takes it with him. Years later, Tossabout is a drunk, who still has his dead sister’s rag doll. Drover is an outlaw,…

The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen encapsulated me with its eerie tone and, occasionally, sinister plot. The majority of the credit towards the advancement of said plot can arguably be given to the short story’s main protagonist, Mrs. Drover. The prosaic, anxious, and insincere qualities of her personality steered the plot into a direction that ironically could have been avoided. Currently living in the country to avoid the German blitzkrieg, Mrs. Drover grew increasingly anxious to visit her…

Film festival selection panel for 2016, I present to you an amazing and accurate representation of Australian culture and community, the film directed by Baz Luhrmann, Australia. The film Australia was set in 1939, Lady Sarah Ashley played by Nicole Kidman travels from Britain to Australia to meet her husband Maitland Ashley played by Anton Monsted in northern Australia as the business is failing at Faraway Downs Farm. Maitland sent his Drover played by Hugh Jackman to collect Sarah from…

Leading an Experiment in Police Body Worn Video Cameras Paul Drover and Barak Ariel Roman Mota In the article, Leading an Experiment in Police Body-Worn Video Cameras by Paul Drover and Barak Ariel the authors seek to address the uses and the consequences of police officers wearing Body worn videos (BWV). This experiment took place in Wolverhampton during the time between March and August 2014. This research will be conducted through a Random Controlled Trial, which is where…

early 40’s Kensington area in London, where the main character Mrs. Drover being introduced while returning to retrieve the articles for herself. She returned to her house, she saw the WWII cracks and troubled times, the piano, the struck clock and the letter K. (on the letter from her demon lover, which becomes dear to the reader and represent how the life can bring the past to revenge and haunt the mind). Bowen ultimately uses different literary elements within her story to develop the…

Revenge of The Demon Lover A promise is a promise, in return to a failed promise revenge will always take place. In the short story The Demon Lover, Bowen uses the primary character Mrs. Drover, to depict how far one person will go for revenge and the internal conflict of a memory. Mrs. Drover is murdered by an ex-lover who wants his bitter revenge after a failed promise. Elizabeth Bowen was born in 1899 and died in 1973, she was an upper middle class writer, from Dublin, Ireland. The turn of…

Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context. After the war, Kathleen Drover returns to her home in London to collect her families items that they left behind. As she is in her old, broken down home, she notices a letter on the table but convinces herself that her soldier lover has come back for her because he told her to wait for his return from the war. “On the supernatural side of the letter’s entrance she was…