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    Reader Positioning

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    Reader Positioning Narratives encourage us to feel a particular way about the events and people in them. They often encourage us to align ourselves with one character in a narrative and not with others. To align ourselves with a character means to be on their side or empathise with them. They might encourage us to feel sorry for character or admire them‚ disapprove of them or fear them. This is called reader positioning: narratives position reader to adopt particular feelings or attitudes.

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    stringed instruments like the banjo and guitar has changed and evolved over time due to: cultural movements‚ technological advancements‚ innovation‚ diffusion and migration. Certain stringed instrument designs and styles evolved independently in different cultures as inventions.  These instrument designs were a byproduct of the musical traditions of each society.  They evolved with the changes in that society and also due to diffusion and migration.  The banjo traces its origins to several

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    necessary for Aboriginal people to be multilingual to communicate. A separate British-influenced Australian culture is also said to have existed since the mid-1800s.Commonly recognised examples of Australian culture include; • Poets: Henry Lawson‚ Banjo Paterson‚ C.J. Dennis • Authors: Miles Franklin‚ Mary Grant Bruce‚ Rolf Boldrewood • Painters and artists: Arthur Streeton‚ Frederick McCubbin‚ Sidney Nolan • Architecture: Federation style‚ Queenslander style • Music: Waltzing Matilda‚ Slim Dusty

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    William Patterson

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    William Paterson (Patterson) was born in County Antrim‚ Ireland‚ in 1745. When he was almost 2 years of age‚ his family emigrated to America‚ disembarking at New Castle‚ DE. While the father traveled about the country‚ apparently selling tinware‚ the family lived in New London‚ other places in Connecticut‚ and in Trenton‚ NJ. In 1750 he settled in Princeton‚ NJ. There‚ he became a merchant and manufacturer of tin goods. His prosperity enabled William to attend local private schools and the College

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    What Effect has Stereotypical Contradictions had on Developing the Australian Identity? Jarrod Melmeth (c3202088) The University of Newcastle Tutor’s Name: Jennifer Saunders Due Date: 12 October‚ 2014 Word Count: Table of Contents Abstract 2 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………... 4 3 The Typical Aussie……………………………………………………………………… 5 3.1 The Rugged Bushman………………………………………………………………. 5 3.2 The Alcoholic……………………………………………………………………….. 5 4 The Landscape…………………………………………………………………………

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    William Paterson played a key role in creating our house of Representatives and the Senate because without his proposal‚ we would not have the governing system that we have today. He was prepared to create a system and compromise with other people’s ideas. He had gone to Princeton University and was a very smart man. After school‚ he had begun studying the law in the city of Princeton under Richard Stockton. When the War of Independence had begun‚ he had joined the vanguard of the New Jersey patriots

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    “Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic‚ ludicrous side of it‚ and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior‚” (Meyerowitz). Henry Ossawa Tanner was an African American pioneer of art who painted images that displayed tranquil scenes of religion and racial injustice. Tanner used his paintings as nonviolent weapons to fight against the stereotypes that characterized African Americans during the

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    homemade or sounded strange to me‚ like the electric banjo‚ drumitar‚ and synthesizers. There was a bit of scat vocals done by Victor Wooten as well. One thing I noticed in this song was the repetition. I think the bass line was constant throughout the entire four minute long song. The set looked very non-Western to me‚ especially the rugs that were laid down in the middle of the stage. Almost the entire song had a mixed meter and

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    line of each verse to create a faux chorus. There is only one singer and a secondary accompaniment‚ making this a homophonic texture. The accompaniment consists of two chordophones (banjo and guitar)‚ playing in duple meter. Although the singer does not tell a happy story‚ the combination of the

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    and Australians are fair and accurate or if they are exaggerated and inaccurate. The author Komninos Zervos wrote the poem ‘If I was the son of an Englishman’ in 1985‚ and later wrote the poem ‘Nobody calls me a Wog anymore’ in 1990. And the author Banjo Patterson the writer of ‘The man from Snowy River’ in 1890 with his other notable poems ‘Waltzing Matilda’ (1895) and ‘Clancy of the Overflow’ (1889). ‘If I was the son of an Englishmen’ expresses a stereotypical representation of Australia and Australians

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