Kevin Plank

It was former Prime Minister John Howard who once said during the launch his 2001 election campaign: “We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come”. It was in response to the Tampa crisis where Norwegian freighter MV Tampa rescued 438 refugees off a sinking fishing boat named the Palapa (Doherty, 2011). It was an event that ushered Australia into what is now more than a decade of constant failures to meet humanitarian conventions and international laws…

Politics hold one truth and that is, there is no simple truth. Political truth is adaptable, mutable and most of all relative. Sometimes it is even absent and even worst sometimes irrelevant. This is difficult for people as it is not the way we live our lives and this is perhaps the reason there is such a big wedge and difference between politics, politicians and people, for most people a sense of honesty underpins the way we deal with each other. Prime ministers ask the public to place their…

On 13 February 2008, the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, delivered his apology to the Stolen Generations on behalf of the parliament. This is considered as an important point in current Australian history as it revise the past which would influence the relations between Australian groups in present and future. (Nobles, 2008).In order to understand how he tried to create an imagined community in his speech, I will analyse the apology on two faces: rhetoric and content. Firstly, I will point…

Kevin Durant otherwise known as “KD” is a well-known NBA basketball player. KD was born in September 19,1988 in Washington D.C. He grew up in Seat Pleasant, Maryland, a small town near D.C. KD was raised by his mother, Wanda and his grandmother, Barbara. His father, Wayne Pratt left KD’s family and divorced his mother. It was when KD was ten that he decided he was going to start playing basket ball. It was then, that his father returned to support KD in his games. Kevin Durant relevantly has two…

The historian and author John Dickson, one of Australia’s advocator for Christianity, has dedicated his career trying to present the Christian faith to the public in a clear, measured and respectful way (Centre for public Christianity n.d.). John has devoted himself to support and strengthen Christian values by contributing with a vast amount of academic work and historical research; which has brought flawless evidence to one of the World’s most controversial beliefs that have shaped our world…

Victor Frankl was a man that found joy during all phases of life. He was a man that worked his way through struggles and found a reason to live. One of his greatest reasons to live was to finish writing the manuscript. Frankl had his life’s work written in a manuscript. Since the Nazi soldiers were searching people and removing their belongings, he sewed it into his jacket, but eventually had to throw it away. His main goal now was to write a new one, which had the same context as the old. The…

‘Let’s go back in,’ Constable Lumina said. ‘Sure.’ Sarah butted out her cigarette and picked up her bag. Constable Peters came back, followed by Sarah and Constable Lumina. The two women were carrying half empty mugs. They smelt of nicotine and mint. Constable Peters set up the recorder and turned it on. ‘So,’ he said, ‘tell me what you and Ashleigh did once you left the house.’ His voice was softer now, it reminded Jo of Grandpa Tom, of sitting on the back veranda with him when she was little…

It’s common practice for movie studios to greenlight sequels, even sequels to movies that few people particularly ask for. This is that grey area in Hollywood where box office success supersedes creativity - and as it pertains to Neighbors, which currently stands as Seth Rogen’s highest grossing film to date (live-action role, at least), it makes perfect sense for there to be a sequel. Right? The 2014 summer box office hit grossed $240 million against a miniscule $18 million production budget…

“A Republic is the last step in our journey of departure from our colonial origins. And it cannot be achieved as a truly significant step ─ a moment of re-funding ─ unless it also represents the end of the colonial experience for Aboriginal people.” (2004, p.20-21) This argument is at the heart of Mark McKenna’s book “This Country a Reconciled republic? “, that was published in 2004, only a few years after the failure of both the 1999 republic referendum and the reconciliation movement. This…

As a man’s marriage begins to deteriorate, an overhanging object in the sky slowly starts to descend onto the their town. In Kevin Brockmeier’s The Ceiling, this black ceiling in the sky is symbolic of the protagonist’s failing marriage with his wife. A prevalent theme that surrounds the text is the idea of love, or lack of it, which leads to separation or feelings of detachment. This struggle evokes the feeling of loneliness and a total neglect towards the narrator’s surrounding world. The…