Stephen Robert Irwin was born in Essendon, Victoria on February the 22nd, 1962. He spent his early childhood living in the Upper Fern Tree Gully area. When Steve was eight years of age his parents -Robert and Lynette, his two sisters - Joy and Mandy moved to Beerwah, a rural town in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast Region. Moving to the Sunshine Coast as a young boy was a big deal for Steve, and it was here that his parents established the “Beerwah Reptile and Fauna Park” in the year 1970. This meant Steve had Australia’s most native wildlife in his own backyard.
Robert raised Steve around all sorts of crazy wildlife, educating him mainly on reptiles, with him getting involved physically with crocodiles at just 9 years of age. In his late teenage years Steve worked as a volunteer for Queensland’s East Coast crocodile management program, where he captured over 100 crocodiles, and this was where his passion for reptiles had begun. In 1991, Irwin took over managing the wildlife of the Reptile and Fauna Park and titled it “Australia Zoo”. Australia Zoo is a wildlife animal protection property, where in excess of 1000 animals are taken great care of. Australia zoo is filled with happy, healthy animals, from the frightening and misunderstood to the cute and cuddly. This conservation park is a stable and
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Steve was to grow up following in his father’s footsteps. Robert Irwin’s passion, enthusiasm, skill and greatness with dangerously venomous snakes and virtually all wildlife are natural, God-given abilities, which Steve also had in his veins, heart and soul. Steve started by mimicking his mother and father, his own instinctive ability with wildlife began to develop. Little did Steve know that his parents were his mentors, and all those early years when he was a child, they were gearing him up to become a wildlife guru just like
‘’Jeffrey Smart was born on July 1921 and pasted away on the 20th June 2013. He was an Australian painter known for his clear depictions of urban landscapes. Jeffrey Smart was born and educated in Adelaide where he worked as an Art teacher. After departing for Europe in 1948 he studied in Paris at La Grande University and later at the Academia Montmartre with great success. He returned to Australia in 1951, living in Sydney and began exhibiting frequently in 1957.later in his life he moved to Italy in 1971 after a successful exhibition in London, to continue his art career until his death. His art well reflected his art form.
“It was the best, worst thing to happen to me.” claims Ian Keith Tyson of his military career. Mr. Tyson is a veteran Marine who served in both Operation Iraqi Freedom (later renamed Operation New Dawn) and the war in Afghanistan from the years 2009-2011. Born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 31st,1985, he eventually enlisted in the Marine Corps at the age of 24. After interviewing with each individual branch, he decided that the Marines simply fit. This was a decision that would permanently alter his life, for the better.
Ernie Barnes: Research of the Football Artist Ernie Barnes was and still is one of the most popular and well-respected black artists today. Born and raised in Durham, North Carolina, in 1938, during the time the south as segregated, Ernie Barnes was not expected to become a famous artist. However, as a young boy, Barnes would, “often [accompany] his mother to the home of the prominent attorney, Frank Fuller, Jr., where she worked as a [housekeeper]” (Artist Vitae, The Company of Art, 1999). Fuller was able to spark Barnes’ interest in art when he was only seven years old. Fuller told him about the various schools of art, his favorite painters, and the museums he visited (Barnes, 1995, p. 7).
For centuries, war has broken families and caused scarring both physical and mental. Consequently, the futility of war has been universally accepted and Bruce Dawes powerful poems ‘Weapons Training’ and ‘Homecoming’ reveal this. Dawe creates an Australian insight to the training and consequences of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was a long conflict Beginning in 1954 and ending in 1975. More than 3 million people were killed in the tragic War. Dawes ‘Weapons Training’ demonstrates the guidance of an abusive Sergeant whilst ‘Homecoming’ illustrates the shocking consequences and impact of war. Bruce Dawes powerful war poems, paired together, showcase a journey. One filled with harsh and vulgar training whilst the other proves that even training
During the War for American Independence, 78 men were commissioned as general officers into the Continental Army by the Continental Congress. Many of these generals commanded troops with differing levels of competence and success. George Washington is typically seen as most important general, however throughout the war a number of his subordinates were able to distinguish themselves amongst their peers. One such general was Nathanael Greene. At the end of the Revolutionary War, Greene would become Washington’s most important subordinate, as demonstrated by Edward Lengel’s assessment of Greene as “the youngest and most capable of Washington’s generals.” Washington and Greene developed a strong, positive and close relationship between themselves. Greene began his life in the military after having been raised a Quaker. With limited access to literature and knowledge in his younger years, Greene became an avid reader which equipped him with the knowledge necessary to excel as a general during the war. Through his devoted study of military operations, firsthand experience and natural abilities as a soldier, Greene became an excellent military commander. He would become known for his successful southern campaign, during which, he loosened British control of the South and helped lead the war to its climax at Yorktown. Throughout the war, he was involved in a number high profile battles where he built a reputation of being an elite strategist who also understood unconventional warfare, logistics, and the importance of military-civil affairs and had a natural political/social acumen. The thesis of this paper is that Greene’s proven reputation of being a soldier, strategist and statesman would cause him to become the second greates...
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Australia Zoo is a 1500-acre zoo with over 500 staff located in the state of Queensland owned by Steve Irwin. It was first opened in 1970 by Steve’s parents under the name of ’Beerwah Reptile and Fauna Park‘(Australia Zoo, 2013). Today, Australia Zoo has become the biggest and the best wildlife conservation facility in Australia.
Irwin was born near Melbourne on February 22nd, 1962, son of Bob and Lyn Irwin (Baker 15). Not shortly after he was born, Irwin’s parents decided to open Beerwah National Park to fulfill their dream of opening a wildlife park. “In 1973, when Steve was 11, the wildlife centre, then known as the Beerwah Reptile Park, opened up for the first time. What a contrast it was to today’s slick Australia Zoo venture, but as Steve was to so often point out through his career, his parents had to start somewhere, learning all the way” (Shears 70). Irwin went to...
The poem of Sir Patrick Spence is a ballad from Scotland originating around the fourteenth century (“Origins”). Like most ballads the author of Sir Patrick Spence is unknown. One other thing that this poem has in common with many other ballads of early Europe their are no historical records of a person called Sir Patrick Spence. Since this many historians have come to believe that the poem is based loosely on Sir Patrick Vans, that was sent by King James VI to retrieve his new wife Anne of Denmark (“Origins”).
Steve had no educational qualifications in wildlife conservation, he worked at the Beerwah Reptile and Fauna Park. His parents opened in 1970 and after his parents went into retirement he laboured endlessly to develop and expand the park. In 1998 Steve renamed the park Australian Zoo and it soon became a famous tourist attraction (www.australiazoo.com.au).... ... middle of paper ...
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Steve Rogers was a gauntlet fine arts student growing up at the time of the Great Depression. His alcoholic father died when Steve was a kid, and his mother died from pneumonia after Steve graduated high school. In early 1940, shocked at Nazi Germany’s horrific atrocities, Steve tried to enlist in the army. Failing to meet the physical requirements, he was invited to volunteer for Operation: Rebirth, a project designed to augment US soldiers to the height of physical excellence with the inventions and discoveries of Professor Abraham Erskine.