Land use

The Following 15 years, the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement played a crucial role for constitutional change, equal wages, access to social service benefits and land rights. The year between 1960 and 1970 were very pivotal for the Indigenous Community. In the year 1962 the Commonwealth Electoral Act was passed which provided all the Indigenous people the right to enrol and vote for the federal elections. During…

Italian, English and Sand Script. The reason Eliot uses different languages in his poems is to lead the reader to some puzzlement and challenge the western mind. Eliot believed that the western society was intellectually lacking, so he carelessly switches languages to bring attention to this intellectual lacking. This also shows Eliot breaking the conventions of more accepted and traditional ways of writing poetry. In addition, “The Waste Land” is also abstractly long; it is about 450 lines long…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, color takes a center part in the novel. The story centers on young Dorothy, a farm girl in Kansas who is tired of her dreary life. Her home is dreary and gray. After her house get caught in a cyclone she wakes up in Oz, a land filled with beauty. She meets companions on her journey home and fights the evil witch of the west. Throughout the novel the reader is exposed to different colors. These colors are gray, blue, and green, and they symbolize different feelings and…

popular 1902 Broadway musical, as well as the iconic 1939 musical film. The Wizard of Oz film and novel had been widely translated due to being so well known and popular. The movie and book of The Wizard of Oz can be analyzed in the way the author made use of its characters, colors, and environment within the text in reference to several late 1800 political issues. The first character that can be analyzed is the main character Dorothy, who is played by Judy Garland. Dorothy is a teenage girl…

message of spreading Christianity during the Crusades. The composer of this piece intended for the song to be used by the Crusaders for their mission to spread Christianity throughout Europe and take the Holy Land back. The composer not only creates a song about praising God, but continually uses what the Christian followers considered the “divine number”, number 3. He refers to the number 3 throughout the score, syllable count, and its Cantus Firmus. It is also to be noted that while…

The statement “The god of Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy and Joshua is best understood as the family god of Abraham and his lineal descendants.” is better understood to be a factual statement than the alternative. This is due to the relationship God has with the Abrahamic family in these books and what the definition of “family god” makes the most sense of being. With family god meaning a god that caters to a specific family it is plain to see that the God of Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, and…

Israelites is so corrupt and stripped that they need a reminder of God’s divine judgment. Erisman argues that this is simply a symbolic marker of a new chapter in the story of the Israelites, as “implicit in the setting is an image of the promised land… (769).” However, this reaffirmation of the basis for the Decalogue, and the subsequent expansion found throughout the Deuteronomic Code, may be a subtle hint towards the universality of the Code. In introduction of Moses’ speech in Deuteronomy,…

believe that she is in a magical place. Dorothy is clueless on how she will travel back home. The separation from home causes her to value her family a little more. The Wicked Witch of the North, Dorothy's mentor, arrives to inform Dorothy about Munchkin Land. Glinda also warns Dorothy about the Wicked Witch of the West. Dorothy is wearing ruby slippers that belong to the sister of the Wicked Witch of the West. Glinda advises Dorothy to "follow the yellow brick road" and to keep the vivid red…

Though the events leading up to the Crusades can be identified as far back as when the Muslim had first conquered the Holy Land in 637 AD, the aggression of the Turks against the Christians and the Byzantine Empire in the late 11th century can be argued to be the direct proximate cause leading to the Crusades. For one, the Turks looked to expand their territory and unfortunately came across Jerusalem, which was, at the time, an established Muslim community with a mix of Christians who were…

Rahab The life story of Rahab is one that is unique. Her story is found in Joshua 2:9-13 and Joshua 6:17-25. She was a woman who was a prostitute. She lived in Jericho, which was the Promised Land and assisted the Israelites in Capturing the City. She is lauded as an example of living by faith while being justified by her works. In Joshua 2:1 When the Hebrews were encamped at Shittim in the Jordan Valley opposite Jericho, ready to cross the river ,we find out that Joshua sends secretly two spies…