The Gammage Cup Essays

  • Early Memories on Reading

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    My earliest memories related to reading I can scarcely remember not being able to read. I do have one memory of looking at the cover of a paperback book. The background was yellowish-orange, and the illustration was a pen and ink drawing of a young man, climbing along some rocks and looking over his shoulder. I recall making up a story about how he was running away from someone who was trying to hurt him. Years later, I found the book: it was kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. I couldn't have

  • Exploring the Sixties

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    alive during the sixties and also people of my own age who weren’t. I will then compare these perceptions with the reality. Firstly we will look at my primary sources who were around during the period. The first person is my grandmother Mary Gammage; she was aged 30 at the start of the sixties. She lived in England throughout the decade. Her husband (my grandfather) was also 30 at the start of the sixties and lived in England. He shared her views on most things he too thought that there

  • Peter Weir’s film Gallipoli

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    embodies and projects a now... ... middle of paper ... ...es, Oxford: Routledge. Lucas, Rose. “The Gendered Battlefield: Sex and Death in Gallipoli”. Gender and War; Australians at War in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Damousi Joy and Lake, Marilyn. CUP Archive, 1995. 148-178. Web. 2 May 2014. MacLeod, Jenny. Gallipoli: Making History. Oxford: Routledge, 2004. Print. McFarlaine, Peter and Ryan, Tom. “Peter Weir: Towards the Centre”. Cinema Papers 16:4 (1981): 6-22. Web. 2 May 2014. Melksham, Trevor