Miles Franklin Award Essays

  •   “In Cloudstreet, Winton shows that the effects of grief are rarely short-lived or easy to resolve.” Do you agree? 

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    The presence of sorrow is ________ in Tim Winton’s novel, Cloudstreet. The impact of this anguish proves to be neither manageable or momentary, with various factors ensuring that the characters take a while to overcome or accept their grief. These factors include the complex nature of disputes and the lack of right and wrong. The unwillingness to tolerate or empathise with others, maximising the hatred that inspires misery. The consequence of grief can dislodge someone’s identity and it takes time

  • Tim Winton Analysis

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    Vision and lines of sight in literary texts not only serve as a guide for the journey the reader is going to take but also as a barrier in which directs the lives of the characters in the story. In this essay I will be discussing two novels ‘’the turning Tim Winton’’ and ‘’Carpentaria Alexis Wright’’ and the vision theme that is involved within them. Vision as a theme in novels gives the reader an opportunity to create their own image giving a deeper understanding of what the scenery is like and

  • Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career

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    Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career Topic: Give a detailed analysis of a key scene or passage from "My Brilliant Career" by Miles Franklin. The focus and essence of My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin is centred on the relationships and interactions of Sybylla Melvyn (the key character of the novel), towards other characters. The ways in which she reacts to different people and why she reacts in a particular manner, are perhaps more crucial and intriguing to the reader, than any distinct

  • Space Exploration During The 1960's Essay

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    One of the pups was given to Jacqueline Kennedy. Who was the wife of former president John Franklin Kennedy. The dog was given to Jacqueline as a we beat you there gift by the Soviets. This was very aggravating to the Americans because the Soviets had beaten the United State in almost every space exploration thing during the Cold War. Strelka and

  • Thomas Alva Edison: The Invention Of Thomas Edison

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    to invent a type of light source. Thomas Edison went through many downfalls, one being the amount of time it took him to create the light bulb. He also with through many achievements, like people around the world started buying light bulbs and the awards that were given to him. "I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000

  • History Of The Albany International Airport

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    but the big difference is they don’t flash unlike the PLASI lights,” Christopher said. 10-28 also has center line lights and edge line lights. The Albany Airport also wan the Balchen-Post award in 1996. The Albany International Airport website say, “The airport was awarded the prestigious 1996 Balchen-Post Award for Outstanding Achievement in Airport Snow and Ice Control for U.S. Medium Commercial Airports.” The airport on average has 90 commercial arrivals and 90 commercial departures. The Albany

  • Apollo 11: The First Spaceship on the Moon

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    10 Dec 2012. Web. 20 Feb 2014. Schraff, Anne. American Heros of Exploration and Flight. New Jersey: Enslaw Publishers, Inc, 1996. Print. “Space Exploration.” Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, 2014. Web. 4 Mar 2014. Watts, Franklin. American Astronauts and Spacecraft. David C. Knight, 1970. Print.

  • The Martian Chronicles

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    Martians point of view. In this work, the humans from Earth are the aliens from outer space. Bradbury has won many awards including the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the Aviation-Space Writers Association Award, the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, and the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Bradbury supported his awards with The Martian Chronicles, keeping with the theme of giving his readers something to enjoy. His thoroughness in

  • Kim Scott's Novel 'That Deadman Dance'

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    That DeadMan Dance (2010)portrays the lively fascination felt between Noongar and British Colonists.That DeadMan Dance is Kim Scott‟s third novel, and wins the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize (South East Asian and the Pacific) Regional Award and the 2011 Miles Franklin Award. It escalates a new fictive expedition into what is known as the friendly frontier in the south west of Western Australia in the early 1800s. It speculates imaginatively about the nature of cross-culturalrationality in the early

  • Hubble Telescope Research Paper

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    The telescope was launched in 1990 by NASA. Hubble is about as long as two school busses (43.5 feet) and weighs about the same as two full grown elephants (24,500 pounds). It travels at about five miles per second. The telescope is 353 miles above Earth. Hubble faces towards space to take pictures of the stars, planets, and other galaxies. The telescope has a 94.5 inch aluminum-coated glass mirror. It observes light that is infrared, visible, and ultraviolet. The Hubble

  • Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail Research Paper

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    Registered Nurses, 2007, para. 3). Besides poor education and employment opportunities, Yellowtail also documented the death of some babies, because the babies could not receive health care in time as the Native American women had to walk several miles to the next hospitals (Voda, 2012, p. 3). Consequently, Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail “advocated for social services, better educational opportunities and healthcare on reservations” (Voda, 2012, p. 3). Additionally, Susie Yellowtail

  • Jane Goodall: A Brief Biography

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    Jane was born in London, England on April 3, 1934 to father, Mortimer, who was an engineer, and mother, Vanne, who was an author (“Jane Goodall”). She was raised in a big house on the ocean near Bournemouth, England- about 100 miles outside London- living with her parents, sister, and two aunts (“Jane Goodall”). Jane expressed her admiration for animals at a very young age, treasuring stuffed animals given to her as a toddler. Inspired by Doctor Dolittle books, written by Hugh Lofting, they just

  • Civilian Conservation Corps and the Great Depression

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    government itself, treating the task as we would threat the emergency of war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and recognize the use of our national resources.” Franklin D. Roosevelt March 4, 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt indeed turned the lives of many young male Americans around. During a time when our economy was in the greatest depression in U.S. history, he gave them hope and a light at the end of the tunnel by providing them

  • Senior Celebrity Banquet

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    bachelor’s degree, she plans to attend University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy to obtain a doctrine of Pharmacy Degree. Ellie had as her guests her parents Derrick and Donna Caffee and her most influential educator Josh Hurt. The male Athlete Award for 2018 is Ryan Clemmons. Ryan is on the football and baseball teams. He is also a part of the bass fishing team. Ryan is a part of the National Honors Society and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Ryan has been selected as a member of the 1st

  • How Did Franklin D Roosevelt's Effect On Japanese

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    "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt (Roosevelt 1). On December 7, 1941, the United States encountered a change that would be irreversible. Japanese empire fighter planes launched bombs on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, destructing up to two hundred airplanes and twenty naval vessels. Two thousand were immediately

  • Denison Texas: Main Street the Past, Present and Future.

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    .Mar. 2010. "History of Denison Texas." Small Town Big Art. Denison Art Galleries. Web. 24 Feb. 2010. . Holcomb, Billy. Theater Row Movie Palaces of Denison, TX. Denison: Denison Heritage Inc, 1999. Print. Hunt, Donna. "Old Settler Association Award: Topic Main Street." Personal interview. 15 Mar. 2010. Maguire, Jack. Katy's Baby: the Story of Denison, Texas. Austin, Tex.: Nortex, 1991. Print. McLeRoy, Sherrie. Black Land, Red River: a Pictorial History of Grayson County, Texas. Virginia Beach

  • The Cause Of Helen Keller's Illness

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    How would you like to be born a healthy baby, contract a disease, and no longer have sight or hearing? This happened to Helen Keller. She changed the lives of millions of people, as well as the course of history through this illness. Helen Keller, though blind and deaf, was an incredible woman that changed the course of history through her early life, mid life, and later life. Helen Keller was born June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, a healthy baby, to Arthur H. Keller and Katherine Adams Keller. In 1882

  • A Brief Biography Of Mary Mcleod Bethune

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    white girl who said that Mary couldn’t read at that time in South Carolina, it was illegal to teach a black person. This made Mary mad, and she wanted to do something about it. When it came time for Mary to go to school, she often walked several miles everyday to get there. The McLeod family owned a family mule that they loved but sadly, the Mule got older. When it died, money was now needed to support their family. Unfortunately, their family quickly grew into bankruptcy and debt. Even though

  • Chains: Annotated Bibliography

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    This was one of those books for me. Benjamin Franklin is an extremely interesting, and well researched figure in American history, especially political history. However, this books dives into more than just his history as a statesman. This book will tell you about Benjamin Franklin and his life as a whole. He tells how he worked as a young boy in a candle shop, and how he was the youngest of 10 boys, but was from

  • Cry Liberty: The Great Stono River Slave Rebellion of 1739 by Peter Charles Hoffer

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    On September 9, 1739, as many as one hundred African and African American slaves were living within twenty miles of Charleston, South Carolina. This rebellious group of slaves joined forces to strike down white plantation and business owners in an attempt to march in numbers towards St. Augustine, Florida where the Spanish could hopefully grant their freedom. During the violent march toward Florida, the Stono Rebellion took the lives of more than sixty whites and thirty slaves. Ranking as South Carolina’s