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    Rabbit Proof Fence Early 20th century, the Australian government began to implement a plan for the Aboriginal, the whites who left the tribe of mixed Aboriginal children forcibly from their mother taken away, sent to the Moore River Camp, will they transform the Anglo-Australian. On the surface, this seems only to train more cheap labor, but in fact this cruel plan also hidden behind a more sinister purpose. Indigenous Australian Government regards as inferior race, is bound to be eliminated under

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    The movie Rabbit Proof Fence directed by Hollywood based Australian director Phillip Noyce and released in 2002. The Screenplay of the movie is written by Christine Olsen on adaptation of Doris Pilkington’s book. Film is fiction based on fact, tells the real life story of three Aboriginal girls, Molly, Gracie, Daisy, who made 1500 miles nine weeks on food journey from Moore River Settlement to Jigalong. They fallowed the rabbit proof fence in order to return home to their mothers. The policies

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    Elyse 1 New Jersey City University Prof: Lisette Cultural Class Movie: Rabbit Proof Fence Through research, you can learn that postcolonial discourse is an “academic discipline that analyzes the cultural legacies of colonialism and of imperialism.” It is made up of theories found amongst “history anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, film, political science, architecture, human geography

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    religious and theological studies, and literature.” An understanding of postcolonial discourse could be what colonized societies handed down to succeeding generations after them that has become significant to their culture. In the movie “Rabbit Proof Fence,” the health of the girls was affected by colonialist attitudes within the culture. The story was about three young half caste girls who were forced to live in by the English government. The three young girls were half caste children which means

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    Philip Noyce`s film ‘The Rabbit Proof Fence’ (2002) and Jill Ker Conway`s autobiography ‘The Road From Coorain”(1989), discuss and compare many of the same themes which express the importance of ‘home’, and its significance to the protagonists of the texts. The Rabbit Proof Fence follows the journey of three young indigenous girls who were taken from their homes in 1931, as apart of the stolen generation. Conway’s autobiography is a personal reflection of her up brining in rural Australia, and how

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    talking about the representation of politics in both Brave New World and Rabbit Proof Fence. Both of these texts share the same views in which society, or the government, is so afraid or frightened of transformation, that they mask the difference. They attempt their best to hide what isn’t the norm, even when a group of people would prefer to have changed. While Brave New World stands as an exaggeration of today, Rabbit Proof Fence was what used to be. Paragraph 1 Brave New World was originally written

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    Molly and Gerry Leadership create change. Boaz Yakin’s film ‘Remember the Titans’ and Philips Noice’s ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’, both show the protagonist’s leadership creating change in a number of different ways. Remember The Titans shows that leaders can create change within people and change their view of other people. Also the plot in Rabbit Proof Fence explores the ways leaders can help change, and create better futures for those around them. Also leaders and others can still be successful without

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    The Drama film Rabbit-Proof Fence, directed by Phillip Noyce, was based on the book by Doris Pilkington which retold the true story of how three young Aboriginal girls escaped the Moore River Native Settlement, after being kidnapped from home. In Western Australia, there was a government policy that would send half-caste children to this settlement to "save them from themselves" because they did not want a third unwanted race. Half-caste is referred to mixed-blooded children. Mr. A.O. Neville, played

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    Rabbit-Proof Fence For this book review I chose to read the novel called The Rabbit-Proof Fence by an Australian author named Doris Pilkington. I really had no other reason why I chose this novel other than the fact that when I saw the title as The Rabbit-Proof Fence from the lists of books we can choose from, I immediately thought of the State Barrier Fence of Western Australia also known as the Rabbit-Proof Fence that was originally intended to contain rabbit population on one side and the farmer’s

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    tribes together as being united. PK is one person, but with help of a few he unites us the audience as one with those in prison. People in a position of power can and will abuse it. This is demonstrated in the film ‘Rabbit proof fence’ (2002) directed by Phillip Noyce. Rabbit proof fence tells the true story of three half cast aboriginal girls who are taken from their families in 1931. Those in power at the time felt that since they created the government policy, they could do whatever they wanted

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