Perth

The sun, the sand and surf. Not a concern Lochie had to worry about since the school holidays started. Lochie was suddenly woken up by the stench of urine. “PHILLIP!”. Lochie screamed. Phillip woke up startled. “Oh no, not again”. Phillip said with a whiny tone to his voice. “Get changed please,” Lochie said with a tired voice. Phillip got up with a frown, slowly got some clothes and went into the bathroom with pee dripping down his wet PJ’s onto the polished wooden floor. Lochie sighed and…

“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertion and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Stride Toward Freedom the Montgomery Story - Chapter XI Where Do We Go From Here). Being born in the Dominican Republic was not easy. Smelling the hard work of daily struggle and seeing my parents sweat each and everyday to be able to provide for me and my…

This novel “In Ecstasy” was the second teenage novel by a Perth author Kate McCaffrey. It was published on January 1st 2008. McCaffrey’s target audience was the age group of 14-17 year olds. She does an excellent job on expressing the issue of peer pressure faced in a teenager’s daily life. The issue in the novel “In Ecstasy” by Kate McCaffrey was peer pressure. When you’re a teenager there is a lot of peer pressure which gets you to do a lot of crazy and dangerous things in life. In ecstasy is…

time when this integration of culture was far less prevalent, was the year that Sally Morgan’s ‘My Place’ was released. An autobiographical account of her personal journey to find her true identity in a predominantly white society. Taking place in Perth, Sally is surrounded by a heavy presence of aboriginal culture, through this she Uncovers the horrors her family endured in the past, previously shielded from her, a new founded pride is obtained in addition to the sad truth of the past and the…

model that he is today. He was a hardworking man, an excellent father and someone that was absolutely generous and kind to every person he met. Heath’s legacy that he left behind will never be forgotten. Heath Ledger was born on April 4th, 1979 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia to French teacher, Sally Bell and racing car driver, also engineer, Kim Ledger. He was the second child of the two, actually named after Heathcliff from “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë. As a child, Heath was…

Analysis: ‘Fritter’ is a modern Australian poem. It uses modern words which younger people can relate to. I believe that Nicolette Stasko uses symbolism throughout the poem. This is because at the beginning, how she explains that her mother told her not to “fritter”, and a fritter is a deep fried food. When a food is deep fried, it loses its originality which will happen if someone fritters, they lose who they really are and fritter their life away. The poem explains how everything slowly…

Before one talks about the effects of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, it is important to know the reasons why the Rebellion place and what happened during the Rebellion. The Rebellion happened because of religion differences and a power struggle between distant relatives, and essentially the Rebellion was between the Catholic Stuarts and the Protestant Hanoverians. The seeds of the Rebellion began in 1688 when the Catholic, English King, James the Second was forced to flee to France due to the…

Since 2002, Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, is called as the world most livable city and the term livability has become so widely and used differently due to numerous rankings of livability has been studied(ABC.au 2014). However, most of the surveys ( see for instance liveablecity.org 2014) use the livability term to describe the quality of life and characteristics of each city which makes it livable. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s global livability survey, there is a…

Schooling in Australia was first was established a year after the British first arrived on the shores, 1788. It only took a year to set up a social utility and order for them to expand their empire. During the talk with Dr. O’Neill that it was based on the idea of Tikum Olum which is Hebrew for “Schooling is established to repair the world”. One of the facts that stood out to me during his talk was that private education schools receive funding from the government, which is the opposite of the…

In a study done by AM J Public Health, they collected data from smokers, nonsmokers and people who quit smoking. They asked a series of questions involving smoking and smoking cigarettes containing menthol, a synthetically made organic compound that has been found to benefit public health if removed from cigarettes. 38. 9% of menthol smokers from the study said they would quit smoking if menthol cigarettes were not available, and only 13% of menthol smokers said they would switch to a…