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    The Rabbits is an award winning, children's book written by John Marsden and illustrated by Shaun Tan. Uncovering the history of colonisation in a rich allegorical fable using marsupials and rabbits as symbolic groups, along with simple and sparse dialect. Both the text and illustrations convey marsupials being invaded and colonized by foreign rabbits. There is a curious and harmonious first encounter of the two groups, but this is soon replaced with fear and resentment as the rabbits begin to change

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    power. The Sandleford warren is a warren where power is those with a title. The Watership Down and Cowslip warrens are both warrens where power is those with wit. The Efrafa warren is a warren where power is strength. Power is distributed between the rabbits by those with wit, strength, and a title. Additionally In the Sandleford warren power is given to those with a title. For example in the sandleford warren fiver and hazel go to the Threarah to suggest that everyone should leave but he turns them

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    The rabbits, an illustrative book by John Marsden and Shaun Tan, is a visually intriguing piece that evokes empathy toward the Indigenous Australians; using a wide variety of visual literary techniques to create a captivating, historical story. The story follows a historical look at the European colonisation of Australia and it’s devastating aftermath on the indigenous people and the land itself. Shaun Tan has really brought the book to life with his use of visually interesting aspects such as anthropomorphic

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    with very emotionless rabbits. The rabbits were hopeless in Bigwig’s eyes, for they didn’t have any steam to come out and rebel against the Efrafa officials. The rabbits that resided there were probably always expressionless and powerless because they lived in a very orderly warren. Most of them probably had lost all hope in trying to escape since they hadn’t had luck in the past and hadn’t been able to formulate a new plan.

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    and I both looked at each other and gushed about the cuteness in the cage. Inside, were about 5 rabbits that were going crazy, bouncing off the walls of the two story metal cage. My eyes instantly fell on the two bunnies that were a honey brown color. The other bunnies were white with black spots all over but the brown ones took my interest. I had a perfect fantasy planned out, the golden brown rabbit with floppy ears will be mine and I’ll name her Bunbun. This was in my mind the vision of a perfect

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    Journey Portfolio Mountain Sound Of Monsters and Men Song September 2nd, 2012 “Mountain Sound” is a song performed by Icelandic indie pop band Of Monsters and Men which was released as a second single from their debut studio album “My Head is An Animal.” Written by Arnar Rósenkranz, Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar Þórhallsson, it tells the story of a character who commits a crime or action that opposes the values and cultural norm of his society. He then flees from the area to

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    Cogito, Ergo Sum For Descartes, the only absolute truth is that we are something that exists and thinks. “I think therefore I am.”(Soccio pg 163) All other things that we are human, male, female, have a body, etc. could be just an illusion created by a dream or a deception created by a demon or God. The only thing we can be certain of is that we are some sort of thing and that we think. If this is all a dream, how do I know if I am truly awake? perhaps I am in a dream within a dream. There was

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    Zootopia is an animated movie featuring a rabbit cop named Judy Hopps, the protagonist, and a hustler fox called Nick Wilde, the deuteragonist. This animated film – Zootopia – displays how negative themes can impact society, these themes are stereotypes, discrimination and prejudice. Stereotypes is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Stereotypes played a significant role in the important themes symbolised throughout the film Zootopia.

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    Watership Down Analysis

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    the harsh life of a group of rabbits that is in need of a home. One day Fiver gets a vision that the Warren will be in danger and the whole field will be covered in blood.This causes a group of rabbits to flee the warren and search for a new home. The group of rabbits consist of Bigwig, Hazel, Fiver, Dandelion, Blackberry, and Silver. These rabbits needed certain skills in order to survive their dangerous journey throughout the book. The Warrens that the group of rabbits come across have different

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    Out of the 9.5 million Jews in Europe, 60 percent of those people were innocently murdered from January 30th, 1933, to May 8th, 1945. Fascist dictator, Adolf Hitler, led this horrendous genocide, well known as the Holocaust. The Nazis believed that they were superior to others, and their goal was to eliminate people who were different. Many people attempted to go into hiding, living in abandoned buildings, or with non-Jewish families. Sadly, many non-Jewish resented the idea of rescuing the Jews

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