"The Day of the Swallows" I found this play to be beautifully written and yet‚ unusual and different to the rest of the play we have read. The storyline was really captivating and it spoke about a topic that is usually shunned by the Latino community. Josefa is a powerful character‚ a lesbian and a character that exposes the passions that lay inside human beings. Josefa is loved and admired by the entire town. She is thought of as an angel that gives light and beauty. Alysea is a young
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support‚ which in turn results in either the feeling of belonging or not belonging. In the three texts; “Swallow The Air” by Tara June Winch‚ the poem “Last of His Tribe”‚ and a Tropfest short film‚ “Missing Her”‚ the perceptions of belonging and not belonging are greatly associated with the connections to places and this is emphasized through a number of techniques. In the novel “Swallow The Air”‚ Tara June Winch explores belonging and not belonging through the journey of the protagonist May
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What makes a person significant? This is the question I struggled with when I started brainstorming ideas for this paper. I racked my brain for a profound moment that I shared with someone important to me and I came up empty. Part of me almost felt disappointed. Why couldn’t I come up with anything relatively interesting to discuss? After much contemplation‚ I decided that I needed to change my way of thinking. I was looking for some extraordinary‚ life changing moment‚ but perhaps my extraordinary
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How have the texts you have studied for belonging explored the concepts of identity and place? Belonging may be a way of acceptance‚ having security‚ fulfillment and/or a connection in association to people‚ places‚ groups‚ communities‚ and the world itself. There are different notions of belonging; however‚ they are recognized in cultural‚ historical‚ personal and social contexts. The poem Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost is a perfect representation of belonging in terms of identity
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Rainbow’s End‚ the protagonists struggle to gain a sense of acceptance within the White community but they demonstrate their willingness to challenge the social norms in order to define and protect their Indigenous community. In Tara June Winch’s Swallow the Air‚ the protagonist‚ May‚ communicates her adversities in trying to belong to the White society but simultaneously illustrates her strong sense of identity within her Aboriginal culture. And Warwick Thornton’s film Samson and Delilah depicts
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among individuals‚ families and communities; this is the Discipline of the profession of Family and Consumer Science. Throughout the history of this subject there have been major accomplishments for not only one type of people‚ but all people. Ellen Swallow Richards was the founder of the discipline‚ she was the first woman to graduate from MIT‚ and she was the first president of Adult Higher Education Alliance. These were huge steps for Home Economics and for women in general. This was only one instance
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‘Hard to Swallow’ is an adaptation of an award winning book (and film) “Catherine” which is written by Maureen Dunbar. The book is based upon her daughter’s battle with anorexia and her families struggle in coping and adapting their lifestyle to the illness. Although I knew the main symptoms and effects of anorexia well‚ the play helped me to see the illness in a different light. The characters in the play were easy to relate to as it was a typical family household‚ so it was easy for me to see the
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relationships and culture as our basic sense to belonging‚ we can choose to reject or to accept these connections. The understanding of these aspects of belonging has been demonstrated in the following texts “The China Coin” by Allan Baillie and “Swallow the Air” by Tara June Winch. Our sense of belonging are mostly based on our relationship to people‚ a good relationship can easily give you a sense of security and belonging‚ however a bad one can make us feel alienated and rejected easily. “The
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“Killing Time” by Ricky Swallow “Killing time” by Ricky Swallow is a Sculpture of a old table with all sorts of fishing utensils and types of fish on top that are all carved out of laminated Jelutong‚ maple and is 108 x 184 x 118cm and it is relatable by the audience of 1970 because that was the time that inspired him‚ when he’s dad would come home and put a whole heap of fish on the table from the days catch. Ricky is a fantastic sculptor he has one prizes such as Contempora Prize in Melbourne
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Tom ’s Midnight Garden and Swallows and Amazons How do ‘the lure of the real’ (Bogan‚A.2006) and the ‘power of the fantastic’ (EA300‚Block 4) work together in any two of the set texts in Block 4? ‘The lure of the real’ (Bogan‚A.2006) and the ‘power of the fantastic’ (EA300‚Block 4) are used to create dramatic effect and depth to narratives‚ in interesting and diverse ways. The two concepts are not mutually exclusive. When the real and the fantastic combine‚ truly delightful and often informative
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