North Stradbroke Island

and unknown creatures and foods. They discard your beliefs, belongings and way of life. They take you away to be brought up like them and treat you unfairly, or even worse getting murdered. Imagine this happening to you, all because of the colour of your skin. As sad as it is, this was all a reality for the Aboriginals when the European settled in Australia. The Aboriginals strived for the day where they could be treated like white people. This is the topic of the poem “Song of Hope” by Kath Walker, or, Oodgeroo. The poem was published in the 1960’s. It was set in Australia around the time it was published, as Aboriginals were discriminated against quite freely at the time. Oodgeroo was born on the third of November, 1920, on North Stradbroke Island. She was part of the Noonuccal tribe. Although known best for her poetry, she was also a political activist, an artist, an educator and a campaigner for Aboriginal rights.…

Mt Tamborine Protection Strategy 1.0 INTRODUCTION Tamborine Mountain is a 28 square kilometre plateau (8 km long by 4 km wide) and is located in the Scenic Rim local government area of South East Queensland. It is approximately 600 meters above sea level and about 80km South of Brisbane. Mt Tamborine is a hot, moist and humid part of Australia with no extremes of temperatures. Trees and plants such as ferns, cycads and pines are found on Mt Tamborine. This mountain was called Mt Tamborine,…

Introduction North Stradbroke Island ( NSI )is the second largest sand island and it consists almost entirely of sand, with rocks ar Point Lookout and small remnants of sandstone at Dunwich. in 1827 by Captain Henry John Rous named the island Stradbroke island after his father, the Earl of Stradbroke. NSI is a cherished and endangered land with even a rainforest at Myora Springs near Dunwich. There are more than 15 types of mammals including wallabies, kangaroos, echidnas, koalas, and…

Many world leaders throughout history have attempted to compose the great society, or as they believed, utopia. On these occurrences, they in some way try to subdue the creative and free thinking side of human nature. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Mustapha Mond achieves universal stability. As we see in the New World society, stability is made the first priority at the expense of most of the people 's intrinsic human faculties. Mond explains eloquently and quite persuasively to John and…

argument using a theory of convergent evolution. This hybrid five-part inductive argument allows Coyne to explain some attributes of island species that remained puzzles for Darwin. Secondly, this hybrid…

How close is modern America’s government to controlling all, if not most, of our society today? Our current government gradually begins to take over the lives of people like that in Brave New World. Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World depicts a futuristic society that utilizes science to control the lives of mostly everybody by categorizing them into specific castes. The author’s vision of a utopian society in his novel is relatively, but not entirely, close to modern American society.…

A Response to “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas The whimsical city of Omelas is a beautifully portrayed utopia, or model of a perfect society. Everyone who is anyone would love to live in this place of joy and happiness. This futuristic society has no ruler and no laws but everything seems to work in perfect harmony. But there is one simple, yet disturbing rule. One must suffer for everyone to have this perfectly happy life. I would be one to walk away from Omelas , reason being in my eyes…

southern Atlantic ocean. It is a very unique place that few people know about, and that is why I chose to learn more about this culture. It is truly interesting to see how the people on Tristan da Cunha live their lives, and how different their way of life is from our own. There are no airports on the island of Tristan da Cunha, so the only way to get there is by boat, across some of the roughest waters on the planet. Boats from South Africa only travel to the island eight or nine times per…

Is social stability worth the price of giving up your individualism in exchange for a life filled with nothing, but joy? Is this not what everyone thrives for? In the book Brave New World the society that everyone is accustomed makes sure everyone is happy, has a role and title, and there is no crime nor religion. For a society to become a utopia in my opinion, must have these essentials: a society that everyone can be themselves without any worry, crime is a thing of the past, everyone…

Greetings Why citizens stop looking for work. Please read the complete short article(URL below) regarding unemployment statistics in Nevada. I experienced this in LA, I had tenants, in my rental units, that were on welfare that were making more tax-free money than I was making on one of my regular full time jobs. And.... They did not want to pay the rent to the white man. Oh... did George make a racist remark?... Call the PC Police... I need to seek asylum in my safe place so I do not have to…