Snowy Mountains Scheme Essays

  • The Maze in the Heart of the Castle

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    the maze is much larger than he ever thought. It takes him a good 3 days just to get to the end, and even there he has to use teamwork to get through the end. Out of the maze, Colin finds himself in a desert type area, where he can see snow-capped mountains many miles away in the horizon. Colin travels many miles through the desert, almost perishing before he finds a huge cliff. He then learns an entire civilization rest inside of the rocky cliff called the Talmars. Talmar history tells of a time, hundreds

  • Australian Alps

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    degrees. The relevant water system in the hydrosphere of the alpine ecosystems is the Snowy River. This is because it is a major river that runs through the Australian Alps in south-eastern Australia. It originates on the slopes of Mount Kosciuszko, Australia’s highest mainland peak, draining the eastern slopes of the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales, before flowing through the Alpine National Park and the Snowy River National Park in Victoria and emptying into Bass Strait. Introduced animals

  • The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester

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    “Should I jump?” Piper McCloud thinks to herself, “will I just fall and die?” Piper McCloud is a girl who lives in Lowland County, she has mud brown hair, tan skin, she is ten years old, and 4’7’’ tall. From the time she was born on the farm, she mysteriously floated around the house. Piper knew that she floats, but she wanted to see if she could fly; so one sunny day, Piper goes on her roof and jumps. Right before she was about to hit the ground, Piper suddenly starts to fly. Piper’s parents, Betty

  • Murrumbidgee River Essay

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    to the junction of the Murrumbidgee River and the Murray River It starts in the Australian Alps and regulated by Burrinjuck Dam located near Yass at the junction of the Yass and Goodradigbee Rivers. The valley also receives water from the Snowy Mountains Scheme which is stored in Blowering Dam on the Tumut River. Downstream of Narrandera the major effluent of Yanco Creek leaves the river, feeding a series of regulated creeks that flow southwest to eventually join the Murray River. The lower end of

  • Analysis Of The Well-Known Australian Poet Banjo Patterson

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    distinctive perspective of Australia because it was written by an Australian city lad who was able to connect with the land. We need to ponder his view point of Australia when reading this poem and understand where he is coming from. “The Man from Snowy River” relates to “The Bush Myth” as it explores the historical portrayal and depiction of Australian

  • Immigration Problems of Australia After World War II

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    from Europe during the 20 years after the end of the war. Australia actively sought these immigrants, with the government assisting many of them and they found work due to an expanding economy and major infrastructure projects like the Snowy Mountains Scheme. Similar progress was being made in respects to women post World War II. Women were seeking a more outspoken stance in relations to equality. Demands of equal pay, no discrimination and a more prominent role in the workplace were issues

  • Critical Analysis Of 'The Splendor Falls On Castle Walls'

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    the walls of the mountains but also how those memories can also be lost like how an echo eventually loses the sound. While he says the echo is dying, it could be interpreted as someone not only dying but leaving in a different way such as moving away and the memories fading just from not seeing them. The speaker also appears to be alone while talking about everything so maybe

  • How Does Jindabyne Impact Indigenous Australians?

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    film Jindabyne was a name of a town known for being flooded in order to make dams, power plants, and Lake Jindabyne. Tens of thousands of immigrants came from different parts of the world in order to have enough workers to run the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Power scheme but building this power station led to the loss of social and spiritual sites that belonged to the Indigenous Australians. In white-dominated parts of Australia racism negatively impacted Indigenous Australians since they were more

  • Multiculturalism In Australia Essay

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    adopted multiculturalism as a national identity. My essay explores how Australia appreciates and accepts many different ethnicities and cultures. The multicultural society in Australia has been shaped by different events. The production of the Snowy Mountain Scheme is one of the events that led to multiculturalism. The phenomenal project brought people of different cultures and races to work together and led to the growth and development of multiculturalism. This multiculturalism had a major effect in

  • The Theme Of Regeneration By The Welsh Poet Henry Vaughan

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    hardships in it already. This spreads to give the poem an intensity that would be absent without such imagery. Displayed in lines 41 through 44, it says, “The unthrift sun shot vital gold, A thousand pieces, And heaven its azure did unfold, Checkered with snowy fleeces” (ln. 41-44). This specific description gives the weather that is present during this time. Weather is an important factor that can imply the tone to a poem or even be a key factor that indicates foreshadowing of what is to come

  • Arguing for Authenticity: A Comparison and Contrast of Two American Modern Poets, Robert Frost and Langston Hughes

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    as a whole. Robert Frost and Langston Hughes are regional writers that focus on specific places but have similar qualities in their poems that transcend the locale. Two poems will be discussed that exemplify these qualities: “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” with “Birches” by Robert Frost and “Theme for English B” with “Visitors to the Black Belt” by Langston Hughes. Modernist Poetry involves a movement away from the self and the emotions of the individual. Typically, the focus of Modernist poetry

  • Compare And Contrast Rosalie Gascoigne And Contemporary Art

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    Contemporary art is the art that has been and continues to be created during our lifetimes, which can include and represent the Australian culture, politics and music as well as in art forms such as portrait and landscape. Contemporary art is defined as art that is current, offering a fresh perspective and point of view and often employing new techniques and new media. Current art means work by both emerging and also established artists. Rosalie Gascoigne and Imants Tillers are honoured for their

  • The Importance Of Landscape Paintings

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    balance through the placement and variation of aspects. While the sides of the paintings were far from symmetrical, the busyness of each side was fairly equal, creating a balanced appearance. Size variation between features also created balance. Mountains were often the focal point of the paintings, and therefore painted very large in comparison to the other aspects (“Chinese Paintings” 1920, 30). By doing this, the artist balanced the focal point of the piece to the other smaller aspects that would

  • Doves And Olive Branch Visual Analysis

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    Beautiful Birds Throughout the history of art, birds have appeared in many different masterpieces. The birds may not be the same species and they may not live in the same habitat, but the works of art still offer unbelievable amounts of resemblance. Dabbling Ducks is a painting created by Ricky Montilla that depicts two ducks in their natural environment. Doves and Olive Branch was created by Steve Simon and it illustrates three doves flying in the sky. Swan Lake was painted by Terrece Beesley and

  • Analysis Of Pieter Bruegel's Painting Hunters In The Snow

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    Pieter Bruegel’s Painting Hunters in the Snow The painting Hunters in the Snow, also known as The Return of the Hunters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder is an oil on wood painting. This Netherlandish Renaissance work is one of five of the series of works that survived. Some of the series include; Gloomy Day in early spring, The Harvesters in late summer and a couple others. The purpose of this painting is to portray what country life used to be or what they wished it to be. Netherlandish Renaissance

  • Water Pipes

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    The History of Water Pipes The earliest known evidence of a pipe being used for plumbing was found in Mesopotamia it is estimated to have been made around 3000 BC. The pipes were made from clay mixed with short lengths of straw. This was the first type of pipe to be used to transport water from different places. Both brass and copper pipes have been found in Egypt believed to have been constructed close to 2500 BC. The Romans used lead pipes, extensive use of lead pipe by joining sheets of lead into

  • Robert Frost

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    Volume 2. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1998. p.713-729. Hart, James D. "Frost, Robert." Oxford Companion to American Literature. 5th Ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Hochman, Jhan. "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." Poetry for Students. Vol.1. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998. Oster, Judith. Toward Robert Frost: The Reader and the Poet. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing Co., 1994. Poirier, Richard and Mark Richardson. "Robert Frost Biographical

  • Post World War Two Racism, in Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Australian Communities

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    Australia. White Australians still felt that they were superior but they needed these immigrants to populate Australia. Over the five years following the war, about 171,000 immigrants came to Australia. The government introduced the assisted passage scheme which gave immigrants temporary accommodation in Australia in exchange for two years of labour. Most immigrants came from places such as Poland, Yugoslavia and the Baltic States and then later Germany, Grease, Italy and Malta. The immigrant families

  • SMOKE CITY: A STORY OF REDEMPTION

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    sparsely populated area even by the Native Americans. At best it was a rendezvous point for trade, claimed by no one due to the difficulty in traversing through large waterways and steep hills. For colonists, the trek over the Appalachian and Allegheny Mountains was enough to make the Pittsburgh region almost unreachable. On November 23, 1753, an officer of the Virginia Militia—Major George Washington—sent to give warning to Britain’s enemy, the French forces, on the Ohio river a warning as a precursor to