Outback

“Oh what humour” “Comedy is Australia’s second nature” By Ainya Have you ever heard the saying, Comedy is Australia’s second nature. Well it’s true. Comedy is what Australia lives for. It’s how, we as a nation, survived the war, the great depression and every other terrible thing that has tried to conquer Australia? As American journalist Hugh Sidey once said “A sense of humour is needed armour. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a…

Ireland has just been the one that is most fascinating to me. However, I have watched videos that give me clarity around cultures in other countries, as well. A video about Australia told me that Outback has very little to do with Australian food, even as tasty as it can be to them. Also, I have learned that in Japan when you are ready to order at a restaurant you just yell at your waiter to let him know you are ready for him to come back to the…

as descriptive movie, as we hardly ever hear anyone other than the homeless and drunk Gonzo. Another thing that the director is able to provide to the movie is the small, less fortunate community in which Samson and Delilah live it. It is a small outback community in the centre of Australia, and is able to set the scene for some aboriginal communities. It is a scare, dirt town that has one inaccurately built shed that is able to cater to be a church, hospital and doctors service. For Delilah and…

year. But before this very special night, my mom and I would go shopping for a dress and then get my hair done all pretty. Now flash forward back to the big night. My dad would take me out for dinner to wherever I wanted to go. One year I went to Outback Steakhouse and another year I went to Olive Garden. After dinner we would go to a church where they decorated it to be the best night. Every year, there was lots of dancing and prizes (and I would win sometimes!). The thought of my dad…

Throughout Rabbit-Proof Fence the girls are seen trekking through the harsh outback landscape of WA leaving them battered and bruised. And through that time the one thing on their minds is getting back to their family. This is shown through the continuous efforts to keep moving even when causing them unbearable pain. On the other…

Amy Duggar and Dillon King: Sharing life’s precious moments together Amy Duggar met Dillon King for the very first time on July 11, 2014. The two of them knew from the start that their relationship was serious. They began courting in a way that was totally different from the way the rest of the family engages in a formal dating process. Amy and Dillon have become best friends and continued their courtship to get to know each other better. Amy says that Dillon is patient, loyal and makes her…

Since I was young, I have always been fascinated with the world, and the diversity that it holds. I became very fascinated with traveling and studying abroad when I was in Middle School. My grandparents are avid travelers and have gone to almost every continent and stayed for months at a time. In middle school, was the first time that I vividly remember hearing about one of my Grandparents trips, when they went to Peru. My grandmother took thousands of pictures, and while she was there she…

When I was a baby, we moved from St. Louis, Missouri to Mt. Juliet, Tennessee and we have lived there ever since. I do not know what it is like to live anywhere else but in the small town that is about thirty minutes east of Nashville. It is difficult for me to imagine myself growing up somewhere that is not good ole Mt. Juliet where everyone knows everyone and our most exciting event of the year is the Wilson County Fair that is held in August. I tried to imagine myself living in Australia…

Ksandra Earle 10G In 2014 John Pilger released a documentary called Utopia. Utopia is about the treatment of Aboriginal people in remote communities; it compares the wealth of white Australia to the living conditions of the original landowners. The main purpose of the documentary is to get viewers to feel empathy for the Aboriginal people, shame for being a white Australian who ignores their issues, and anger towards the Australian government for not providing the assistance needed. Pilger uses…

There are times where we enter a metaphorical rabbit’s hole, where we leave the surface of what is around us, and enter the abyss wandering through the depths and mazes of our beings into the darkness of the world before us. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown, a young man sets out away from his faith into the paths of the forest where darkness lies: Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street of Salem village; but his head turned back, after crossing the threshold, to…