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This report will give historical information about Dorothea Lange, who photographed the “face” of the Great Depression. The project will audit her early life and photographs. It will also examine her role during the Great Depression. Dorothea Lange took pictures of anything that caught her eye, which is why her photographs do not have a particular classification. If her technique did have a vague analysis, it would be social realism, which is a style of painting, used in the 1930s, in which the scenes

My Country is a cherished, timeless poem by Dorothea Mackellar that clearly describes the Australian landscape. I am your host for today, Abbie Jennings. Landscape is a significant part of identity and is important to Australians because of its diversity. Dorothea Mackellar, author of the poem, My Country, “was born in 1885”, and wrote My Country when she was 19 (B.Kingston, n.d). She grew up with three brothers, a mother and a father. As a teenager, she ‘travelled extensively with her parents’

When you hear the words Australian identity, what images instantly pop up in your head? Is it the diversity, the landscape, the mate-ship, the beaches or perhaps it’s the stereotypical aussis’? Personally, I believe the Australian identity is what each individual interprets and envisions Australia to be. The Australian identity is really what you love about Australia! One way we can express ourselves and the love we have for our country, is of course by, you guessed it, poetry! Poetry is not just

MY COUNTRY: ANALYSIS Dorothea Mackellar’s ‘My Country’ is a poem expressing Mackellar’s deep passion and love for her country, Australia. The whole poem’s intention seems to evoke the sense of praising for the country and express Mackellar’s deep relationship and passion with her land. Mackellar attains this response from the audience by using numerous language techniques such as; Juxtaposition, personification, sound patterns including alliteration and assonance, imagery, and paradox. The use of

their experiences. The German film, ‘Run Lola Run’ written and directed by Tom Tykwer, focuses on the experiences of the protagonist Lola to explore the themes of the inevitable force of time, and the issue of freewill verses determinism. Similarly, Dorothea Mackellar, in her poem ‘My Country’, relies on her experiences of the Australian landscape to convey her love and passion for the country using the language of the distinctive visual. The distinctively visual techniques employed by Tykwer in

the Great Depression, many photographers captured the scenes of poverty and grief. However, there was only one photographer that truly captured the souls of Americans. According to Roy Stryker, Dorothea Lange "had the most sensitivity and the most rapport with people" (Stryker and Wood 41). Dorothea Lange was a phenomenal photographer that seized the hearts of people during the 1930s and beyond, and greatly affected the times of the Great Depression.

Dorothea Lange was born May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey, was an American photojournalist and documentary photographer. Her most recognizable work was from the "Depression-era for the Farm Security Administration (FSA)" (Dorothea). With her photographs it brought an open eye to the nation about how bad the Great Depression really was. Her work in these areas of photography develop the way we see photojournalism today. Lange was born, Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn to parents Heinrich Nutzhorn

a wave of support for federal child labor regulations in the U.S. (Cade, 2013). Gordon Parks’ photos of black Americans from the 1940s to the 1970s made the struggle against racism relatable to TIME Magazine’s mostly white readers (Mason, 2016). Dorothea Lange’s photos of migrant workers and families humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and invoked the government to provide aid against starvation (Taylor, 2014). While each of these circumstances are very different, they all share one

People were shocked to hear everything the elderly lady, Dorothea Puente, was capable of. Investigators weren’t suspicious of her even after corpses were found on her property because she didn’t fit the typical serial killer profile. The average serial killer is a white male in his mid to late 20’s. More than 90% of serial killers are men according to research done by criminologists James A. Fox and Jack Levin, and among these 73% were white. Only 4% had graduated with a bachelor’s degree. Victims

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits By Linda Gordon - Summary Lange had been hired by the Farm Security Administration, to document the trouble of farmworkers during The Great Depression, which covered everyone from sharecroppers to refugees to Mexican American migrants from ¬Texas to California. Lange’s territory covered the entire state of California, which she covered by driving across the state. Driving one day, she passed a sign reading “Pea-Pickers Camp” near Nipomo. When Lange was driving