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Assignment 3: Major Essay Word Length: 1500 words Weighting: 40%
Due: Friday 4 October 5pm
Essay presentation
• Your essay must be submitted in Microsoft word format.
• It should be neatly presented.
• It must have your name and student number clearly stated.
• It must have the essay question stated at the beginning of the essay.
• It must be typed and double-spaced.
• It should have wide margins.
• It must have a bibliography/reference list, at the end of the assignment.
• You must use at least six (6) references.
• YOU MUST NOT USE ONLY INTERNET SOURCES / REFERENCES IN YOUR
ESSAY. You must use a variety of sources - books, scholarly articles, book chapters and other reputable reference sources.
Essay Questions:
1 Was the experience of convicts transported to Australia one of slavery?
2. ‘19th century Australian landscape painting does not represent the physical environment; rather it reflects European painting conventions and Imperial agendas'. Critically discuss.
3. What were the major classes that contended to shape Australian society and politics from 1815 to 1850? Who were the winners and losers?
4. How did the 1850s gold rushes change colonial society and politics?
5. '''Marvellous Melbourne'', like any authentic myth, interpreted the past, illuminated the present and offered a clue to the future’. (Graeme Davison) Critically discuss how marvellous Melbourne was in the 1880s.
6. ‘Up to the economic depression of the 1890s Australia was a workingman’s paradise’. Critically discuss.
7. ‘In the first decade after Federation Australians adopted a racist and insular nationalism and privileged equality and security over enterprise and initiative.’ Do you agree?
8. ‘World War I divided rather than unified the Australian nation’. Do you agree?
9. ‘Australia was born urban and quickly grew suburban’. (Graeme Davison). Is this an accurate appraisal of Australia's 19th or 20th century settlement pattern?
10. What
Assignment 3: Major Essay Word Length: 1500 words Weighting: 40%
Due: Friday 4 October 5pm
Essay presentation
• Your essay must be submitted in Microsoft word format.
• It should be neatly presented.
• It must have your name and student number clearly stated.
• It must have the essay question stated at the beginning of the essay.
• It must be typed and double-spaced.
• It should have wide margins.
• It must have a bibliography/reference list, at the end of the assignment.
• You must use at least six (6) references.
• YOU MUST NOT USE ONLY INTERNET SOURCES / REFERENCES IN YOUR
ESSAY. You must use a variety of sources - books, scholarly articles, book chapters and other reputable reference sources.
Essay Questions:
1 Was the experience of convicts transported to Australia one of slavery?
2. ‘19th century Australian landscape painting does not represent the physical environment; rather it reflects European painting conventions and Imperial agendas'. Critically discuss.
3. What were the major classes that contended to shape Australian society and politics from 1815 to 1850? Who were the winners and losers?
4. How did the 1850s gold rushes change colonial society and politics?
5. '''Marvellous Melbourne'', like any authentic myth, interpreted the past, illuminated the present and offered a clue to the future’. (Graeme Davison) Critically discuss how marvellous Melbourne was in the 1880s.
6. ‘Up to the economic depression of the 1890s Australia was a workingman’s paradise’. Critically discuss.
7. ‘In the first decade after Federation Australians adopted a racist and insular nationalism and privileged equality and security over enterprise and initiative.’ Do you agree?
8. ‘World War I divided rather than unified the Australian nation’. Do you agree?
9. ‘Australia was born urban and quickly grew suburban’. (Graeme Davison). Is this an accurate appraisal of Australia's 19th or 20th century settlement pattern?
10. What