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    villains, two world wars and a bunch of poems describing them, it makes it difficult to conclude on what being an ‘Aussie’ really is. Thankfully, the two thought-provoking poems Nobody Calls Me a Wog Anymore by Komninos Zervos, and My Country by Dorothea Mackellar both use their discerning selection of themes to reflect modern attitudes in some extent. Along with their themes, Nobody Calls Me a Wog Anymore and My Country both use their story to capture the attributes modern Australians possess to

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    Blue Mountains and beautiful beaches. In Dorothea Mackellar’s poem (My Country), she expressed how much she loves the natural landscape. Te imagery of ‘the sapphire-misted mountains’ highlights Mackellar’s appreciation of the mountainous areas of Australia. The line ‘I love a sunburnt country’ highlights the diversity of the landscape in Australia. Therefore, Australia is still a lucky country because of the natural landscape, which is highlighted in Dorothea Mackellar’s poem. Even though Australia

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    Humanities Mod 2 Benjamin Dyck Rasmussen College Author Note This paper is being submitted to the Humanities course on 12/11/2017. A Bar at the Folies-Bergère Artist: Edouard Manet (1832-83). Subject: Suzon, according to the recollections of Manet's friends: a young woman who worked at the Folies-Bergère, one of the great Parisian cafés-concerts , a kind of beer hall with music, circus acts and other entertainment. Analysis: This painting, which was actually painted when Manet was critically ill

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    Dix’s life changed in 1841, when she began teaching Sunday school at the East Cambridge Jail, a women’s prison. She discovered the alarming treatment of the prisoners, specifically those with mental illnesses, whose place of residence had no heat. She immediately went to court and ensured an order to provide heat for the prisoners, along with other advancements. She began traveling around the state to research the conditions in prisons, and ultimately arranged a document that was presented to the

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    photograph usually have a very meaningful and emotional story behind it. A photograph has its own significant meaning, which communicates through the details of the photo. The photograph on the left that I have found is Migrant Mother, taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936. In 1935, Lange and her husband, Paul Taylor, was transfer to the Resettlement Administrations, one of Roosevelt’s New Deal programs designed to help the country recovers from depression. She began working as a photographer and took

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    showed her story of survival. Alison set up ‘Faces of Hope’ Fund what helps provide medical care and education for children in the world who are in crisis or poverty. Wright was influenced by work of photographers such as Lewis Hine, Eugene Smith, Dorothea Lange, Sebastio Salgado and Henri Cartier Bresson. However, Wright’s own documentary style showed where she has worked on personal work projects, working for aid organizations such as Unicef, BRAC, CARE and Women for Women, working close to the victims

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    Dorothea E. Orem is a nurse from the United States who greatly contributed to nursing theory in the modern medical world. Her newly established theory was known as the Orem Model of nursing or the self-care deficit nursing theory. The Orem Model of nursing emphasizes the importance of self-care as a basic human need and how self-care can be provided or managed to allow patients to recover more effectively. ==Young Life and Education== Dorothea Elizabeth Orem was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on

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    Semiotics, Authorship and Viewers are all producers of meaning. These critical terms/parts of visual culture are important in understanding the signs of the particular cultural context. Semiotics is a critical part that provides important tools for understanding meaning of things. These mediums include images, film and television among others. These mediums can all be decoded in a variety of ways. Also, to understand meaning it is important to understand the signifier and the signified. Lastly, semiotics

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    Coles’ Ideas in The Tradition: Fact and Fiction “The documentary tradition as a continually developing “record” that is made in so many ways, with different voices and vision, intents and concerns, and with each contributor, finally, needing to meet a personal text” (Coles 218). Coles writes “The Tradition: Fact and Fiction” and describes the process of documenting, and what it is to be a documentarian. He clearly explains through many examples and across disciplines that there is no “fact or

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    survival.In the same manner, Kevin Starr in his excerpt titled “Endangered Dreams” tells of a family and their daily troubles. Both taken place during the great depression they both depict the hardships of migrant families trapped in poverty. While Dorothea Lange helped readers perceive the poor living conditions of the 1900’s through her photo, John Steinbeck helped evoke the most empathy through his descriptiveness, straightforward style, and listing of dramatic events. To begin with, Lange helped

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