Essays on Half-Caste

Essay Plan

Introduction/ Thesis Cowlishaw may have a point, but it is understandable that the country would focus on the Stolen Generation rather than the generation before. This is because the children of the Stolen Generation were taken from their families from 1905-1970’s. Many of these individuals are still alive and can give first-hand accounts of their experiences. The ability to hear a person describe something that personally happened to them tends to resonate more than a story that has been passed down. This paper will discuss Gillian Cowlishaw’s fear that the memories of the older Aboriginal people regarding ...

Rabbit Proof Fence (2002): Three young native women are kidnapped by the Australian government and sent to boarding school but they escape and travel across Australia to return home.

Introduction

In 1770, the British settled into Australia and took note or gave no status to the native Aborigines. The natives were dispossessed of their land and became the Indigenous people of Australia. There were no rights given to them or treaties enacted considering their status as natives. The Aborigines were hunter gatherers with no permanent dwelling grouped together with kin. The British had no respect for these natives and ...

Australian Aboriginal Groups

The Aboriginal groups of Australia have long endured a painful struggle to maintain their ways of life since the arrival of The First Fleet. The Aboriginal (a word meaning first) people of Australia may well be the world’s first people as tools discovered in South Wales in 1971 proved that humans appeared in Australia at least twelve thousand years before similar human artifacts have been found in Europe. It can then be estimated that before the First Fleet arrived in Australia there were 18, 500 generations of Aboriginal people. These people are believed to have evolved into a way of living ...

The Dramatic Form and Riders to the Sea

A major difference between dramatic form and other literary forms is its desire to “embody the human experience not only visually and aurally but profoundly (as a true representation).” (Clugston, 2010, 13.3). This means that whilst it utilises poetic and literary techniques, it engages its audience through its presentation of setting, its actors’ portrayal of characters, the expression of language, emotions and its presentation of values which are implicit to the play and the human condition equally. This is presented in John Synge’s Riders to the Sea his presentation of his characters as being true representatives of Ireland in ...