(Feldman, 2001 p. 54) Arabella was full term, fully developed, and ready for birth, her mother’s body released the protein CRH which started the process of birth. Her labor seemed like it was an eternity, but was only 8 hours of contractions and hour and a half of labor, before Arabella was through the birth canal and into the Mid-wife’s hands. Following Arabella was the placenta and umbilical cord, which was still attached to Arabella. (Feldman, 2011, p.61-62). Arabella Dawn Barker’s mother welcomed her into the world on October 13, 2012.
Caroline Chisholm knew well before publishing the pamphlets about the troubles and dangers of living in Australia but she carefully omitted them from the pamphlets. Hundreds of letters were received by Caroline requesting the desire to immigrate to Australia. She continued to preach the beauties and fantastic opportunities that lie waiting in Australia. Caroline Chisholm believed that women were the key to success for civilising Australia. Through the civilising effect of marriage and family, she believed it would improve and refine society.
The book explores themes and issues raised as a part of growing up in a multicultural socitey in australia. Its also deals with changes and experience of the main character Josephine Alibrandi. A change in perspective often means a new way of looking at life. “Looking for Alibrandi” is a novel that mostly deals with this nature of change and its effects on each individual. It recounts a teenage girl, Josephine Alibrandi’s last year of high school where she discovers who she is through both positive and negative circumstances.
Her memoir “Unpolished Gem” tells the story of young Alice Pung as the main character and her family couldn’t fully belong to the Australian society because of some barriers. Alice is a Chinese Cambodian immigrant who went to Australia. In her early childhood in Australia, she even wet her pants because she was not brave enough to ask permission to go to the
Book Review: Marchetta, M 1992, Looking For Alibrandi, Orchard Publishing, Australia. Looking for Alibrandi – written by Melina Marchetta is a wonderful book aimed towards an audience of young adults. It is a book set in a modern time and is a coming of age story about the struggle to fit in in a prejudiced society. This book tells the story of Josie Alibrandi, from her point of view, as an Italian girl with a scholarship at a prestigious Catholic girls school, struggling to come to terms with who she is, whilst growing up in Sydney. Josie's mother, Christina is one of the sole figures of Josie's life, exempting her Nonna Katia.
Even though she faced numerous hardships and setbacks, she was known for her enduring optimism. Agnes Betty Jeffrey was born in Hobart, Tasmania. Her father, an accountant at the General Post Office frequently transferred interstate to set up new accounting methods so the family were always on the move when the family finally came to live in East Malvern, Victoria where Betty stayed for the rest of her life. My grandmother loved caring for others and always wanted to begin a career in nursing, but had not been impressed with hospitals interstate and set her mind on the Alfred Hospital. In 1941, Betty was posted to Malaya to join the 2/10th Australian General Hospital.
Germaine Greer: discuss on how Germaine Greer’s effort in infancy of the woman’s liberation Movement and how she maintained this focus throughout her life. Germaine Greer has had one of the greatest impacts on women liberation for Australia than anyone else. Germaine Greer was born in Melbourne in 1939, she was lucky enough have been well educated for a girl in that era as still then women didn’t really have the need to. The biggest thing that she had probably had done was, her on book on the idea of liberation called “the Female Eunuch” which was published in 1970. And the main argument of the book was that women where then starting think of themselves imperia to men that there importance was as important as a man.
Alice Pung addresses the idea of multiculturalism in her novel ‘Unpolished Gem’. Two of the themes in this novel where she portrays her culture are through personal identity and the impact of the past. ‘Unpolished Gem’ is the story of Alice Pung and her Chinese-Cambodian family as they migrate to Melbourne to pursue the “Australian Dream”. Alice experiences Melbourne life through school while her mother becomes an outworking jeweler and her father opens an electrical appliance franchise. Alice moves between the family with its Chinese-Cambodian values and her Australian school in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray.
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.
In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant. The author’s background plays a vital role in delving into the author’s work in any attempt to come up with meaningful explorations and interpretations. Butler was born and raised in Pasadena, California. Since her father Laurice, a shoe shiner, died when she was a baby, Butler was raised by her grandmother and her mother (Octavia M. Butler) who worked as a maid in order to support the family. Butler grew up in a struggling, racially mixed neighborhood.