Eddie Gilbert 1 August 1905 - January 1978 Good Morning friendly citizens of the world. I, Eddie Gilbert was once a successful cricket player, but my golden days are over. I have witnessed and experienced the despair and hopelessness of many Aboriginal people living in Australia, as I myself was a victim of the Stolen Generation. Here today I am going to talk about why it is important for all Aboriginal people to receive the vote and citizenship in Australia. My parents were Kanju people from Cooktown, they gave birth to me at Durundur Reserve near Woodford in 1905.
Anita den Baars Student ID: 5548772 GEOG 219 Film Reflection: Rabbit Proof Fence (2002) Word Count: 725 Due: 4pm, Thursday 18th August Tutor: Adrian During the movie Rabbit Proof fence many of the different themes were portrayed. Two young girls fight against the persistent governmental forces for wishes to get rid of the ‘half cast’ (half white European and half aboriginal) generation so that a line could be drawn between the two ethnicities. One of the main themes for me was the fact that the sovereignty of many children living at the makeshift camps was taken from them. The way situated power was thrown around by the Europeans to do whatever they could despite the emotional, social and physical harm that was caused simply to achieve disposal of this “half cast generation” was sickening. Another point that I found quite moving is the strong use of ‘othering’ in the movie.
Good morning/afternoon ladies and gentlemen of the Board, I’m here to serve the purpose of informing you about Message Stick’s Program ‘Henry and Bee’ written by Bee King. The program is about a young Aboriginal woman who was removed from her mother at birth. As a teenager, brought up in a white family, she began to feel isolated and out of place as she grew a sense of not belonging therefore she set out to locate and reconnect with her birth parents. It was no easy search and eventually she tracked down her mother and father. Just to give you a brief outline of the production, Message stick is an aboriginal program; it is a constructed pro-aboriginal program.
Franklin was raised in the “all black town of Rentiesville, Oklahoma” (203), where he was exposed to racism at an early age. Society at that time was mainly based on race. After the Civil War ended and slavery was abolished, different races were broken into social classes with African Americans at the bottom and whites at the top. This meant that blacks were treated as inferior to whites, and they could not do any activities with other races. In the essay “A Train from Hate,” Franklin and his mother were escorted off of a train because they mistakenly got on the whites only coach resulting in them having to walk home through the woods.
Once returning home to Georgia she used her name Alice Walker not her Wangero her Ugandan given name. She states in the film that “ I was very interested in affirming that my parents had lived good and decent lives and that they had the name of their oppressor Walker “ ( Stitches ).Unlike Dee Mrs. Walker appreciates the struggle that her family had gone through to get the name Walker. Her great, great, great grandmother was born in 1795 lived for a century and a quarter greatest maternal ancestor had walked from Virginia to Georgia carrying two children received the name Walker from that journey. Ms. Walker express her dislike in the film how Dee had dismissed her name. She thought it just a disgrace to her family and their ancestors.
Based on real accounts of her upbringing, Larissa Behrendt’s novel Home is about the impact of Australia’s stolen generation era. Panned over 3 generations of a family, ripped apart by the governments polices, the novel opens your eyes to see how tragic the removal of Aboriginal children from their homes really was. The story following 3 families starts off with aboriginal teenager Garibooli. Garibooli is taken from her family by the police and is sent to become a servant under the wealthy Grainger and Lydia Howard. She was told by the welfare worker Mrs Carlyle that her family no longer wanted her.
Essay response- Is it only Georgiana that considered Australia to be “a paradise” discuss. The book Georgiana by Libby Hathorn, is set in western Australia in the 1830’s, when there was cruel relationships between colonists and aborigines, and domestic violence as shown by the Summerfield family. This book follows the story of Georgiana Molloy and her husband, Captain John Molloy in difficult circumstances and finally finding her happiness living in Augusta. There are many different characters in the book that find Australia a difficult place to live in, because of the harsh weather to be able to grow crops properly and the fact that it was a building colony and it wasn’t yet sustained. However, Georgiana still considers Australia to be a paradise.
PO Locked Bag 14 Werribee Vic 3030 Dear Julia Gillard, I am a member of the stolen generation who escaped twenty years back from Moore River and I am writing to inform you of the hardships I have faced with my sisters Daisy, Gracie and myself Molly. We were forcibly taken from our families in Jigalong, Western Australia in 1931. We were taken away to be trained as domestic servants at the Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth. This was with official government assimilationist policy of the time decreeing that ‘half caste’ children should be taken from their kin and their land, in order to be ‘made white’. Twenty years back when me and my sisters were taken away from Jigalong I had to not only be determined but also be very
Much like how Autumn shows the efforts for her sister to come home from college. A major theme that Paton shows is that family life in South Africa is broken. He demonstrates this mainly through the Kumalo family, but enlarges later it to show family life in South Africa. The story tells numerous times in which families are broken apart by migration to Johannesburg, in comparison to parents getting divorced in Omaha. The third and major parallel between Johannesburg and Omaha is
Oral Presentation (Persuasive speech) Visualize that you are a 5 year old child born in Afghanistan. The Taliban have invaded your village, and they executed all your family excluding your aunty and one of your older sisters. You hide for years in Pakistan and your sister marries an older man. Mind the fact that she does not love him, but she needs the safety and security he provides her with. She sells all her possessions to support you, until you eventually have an abundant quantity of money for a boat trip to Australia.