Sydney

Barriers are things that stand in someone’s way; they’re something to overcome. A person can face several barriers, from having trouble getting promoted to being themselves. I am different from most people, I always have been. I remember going to school for the first time. It was a small school, with only one or two classes per grade, and I went there through eighth grade. I entered my class the first day with the naive thought of everyone getting along. I tried to become friends with everyone…

“Free Personality Testing – Come This Way!” implores the sign outside Scientology’s Castlereagh Street headquarters in Sydney. The interior is what you’d get by blending a holistic healing centre with the control-deck of the Starship Enterprise. Images of erupting volcanoes, light-pierced landscapes, and Egyptian-looking Scientology symbols evoke a peculiar science-fiction-meets-self-help vibe. Zipping towards me, a uniformed female attendant offers help, and soon I’m looking down at…

Multiracial people are often seen as “watered down versions” of their ethnicities, who do not quite fit into society’s images of each culture they represent. They are half this, half that, a quarter this; they are never labelled as “whole.” Frequently asked the question: ‘what are you?,’ by anyone who wants to know, multiracial human beings can have a difficult time figuring out and understanding their own identity. Does one ethnicity dominate the other, simply because the features are more…

When people realize they have to leave everything they have known, loved and cared for twelve thousand miles away from them the impact is so great. Some people think it was easy for me to move from Australia to America, but really it is difficult to forget about. When someone moves from one house to another they don’t usually leave the country where their family, friends and memories are. As for me, in 2011 my family and I traveled to the United States to look for a house to live in. My dad was…

age and a year older. I grew up hanging out with the kids my age. I hung out and still hang out with a girl named Sydney, who lives about 13 houses down from me and a boy Named Eli, who lived 6 houses down from me. He and his family moved out of our neighborhood and over onto Sheridan Road. I also hung out with a kid named Aidan when I was in elementary school. All nice kids. Me and Sydney still hang out to this day. She and Eli are both my age and we would all sometimes hang out and other times…

Remember that your strength training is for you to become better in running and swimming, not for you to become a better weight lifter. If you don’t train your mind first, you’ll simply defeat thepurpose of getting help from triathlon coaching in Sydney (http://www.breakthroughtricoach.com.au/). This will also help you once you become a pilot in the…

Historian Richard White suggests that by the 1830s, those in England originally against migration, were beginning to soften to the prospect. Australia was beginning to gain ‘New World’ status, along with other countries recently colonised by the British Empire. Britain at the time was experiencing great hardship in it’s economy; which when combined with overpopulation, was resulting in a decreased quality of life for those living there. The recent industrial revolution, as explained by Peter…

Born on July 11th, 1911 and raised in Sydney, Olive Cotton was the first born in her artistic and intellectual family. Cotton graduated from Sydney University in 1934. Her father taught her all she knew about Photography as he worked away developing black and white pictures. A few years later she married Max Dupain and worked in his studio teaching to work as an assistant. They later divorced two years after being married. Three years later she married Ross McInerney, a farmer from rural farmer…

North Sydney Bears have completely dominated the Wests Tigers 26-8, while being in control for the entire contest. Cody Walker was simply outstanding for the Bears, while John Olive returned from a first grade stint to score two tries in the opening 15 minutes. This match saw the Bears welcome new recruit Paul Carter to the side, and they were further boosted by the inclusion of regular first graders Jason Clark and Cameron McInnes. Cheyne Whitelaw also returned from a long-term injury – so…

Australian Education unit has presented and exposed me to a lot of new knowledge in relation to Indigenous Aboriginal identity, culture and stereotypes. My own family identity is of non-Indigenous Australian nationality, born and raised in Western Sydney, NSW. My family race is of white-Caucasian Australian which can be stereotyped for culturally consuming beer regularly and wearing cork hats, which I categorically do not do; and using typical Australian slang phrases such as “g’day, mate, fair…