How the British ethnocentric view of the First Australians caused conflict between the two cultures

The British ethnocentric view of the First Australians caused conflict between the two cultures because the British believed that their culture and law was the right way and that the aboriginals need to be taught the right way. When the British first came to Australia, the aboriginals thought that the British were the devils and when the British first saw the aboriginal they wanted to kill them all because they were barbarous and savages. But luckily, Governor Phillip (british) and Bennelong (aboriginal), put aside their differences and began to learn the ways of each others culture. Although this did not end well for Bennelong, the aboriginals and the British began to understand each others cultures but this took a turn for the worse. The British began to think again that they were barbarous and tried to kill them all and later (when they stopped trying to kill the aboriginals) they began to worry about the half-caste (the half-aboriginals and the half-british). The british saw the half-caste children as an abomination and then intended to make them into slaves and then to breed them out until there is only the white DNA left. If the British had put aside their ethnocentric view on the aborigines then they would not have as much or any conflict with the aborigines.

The Rabbits

The Rabbits by John Marsden and Shaun Tan shows some of the negative qualities of colonization. An example of one of these negative qualities is when the colonizers brought different food to the colonized. Because the people who were colonized have never taste food like this, some became ill. Another negative quality is that not all of the people who were being colonized liked the colonizers coming in and taking over their land and they will try to protest against the colonizers that could lead to a war. Colonizations are neither good or bad but all of them have had some negative qualities.

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar is a play by William Shakespeare, and Beatriz and I have decided to act out Act 1 Scene 2 and I will play Brutus and Beatriz will play Cassius. In act 1 scene 2 during one of Caesars walks to the capitol, Cassius is trying to convince Brutus to join a crowd of conspirators who all want to kill Caesar. This passage is significant as this is why Brutus even have doubts about Caesar and will eventually lead him to join the conspirators and murder Caesar.

Act 1 Scene 2

CASSIUS

Will you go see the order of the course?

BRUTUS

Not I.

CASSIUS

I pray you, do.

BRUTUS

I am not gamesome: I do lack some part
Of that quick spirit that is in Antony.
Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires;
I'll leave you.

CASSIUS

Brutus, I do observe you now of late:
I have not from your eyes that gentleness
And show of love as I was wont to have:
You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
Over your friend that loves you.

BRUTUS

Cassius,
Be not deceived: if I have veil'd my look,
I turn the trouble of my countenance
Merely upon myself. Vexed I am
Of late with passions of some difference,
Conceptions only proper to myself,
Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors;
But let not therefore my good friends be grieved--
Among which number, Cassius, be you one--
Nor construe any further my neglect,
Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,
Forgets the shows of love to other men.

CASSIUS

Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion;
By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried
Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations.
Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?

BRUTUS

No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things.

CASSIUS

'Tis just:
And it is very much lamented, Brutus,
That you have no such mirrors as will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye,
That you might see your shadow. I have heard,
Where many of the best respect in Rome,
Except immortal Caesar, speaking of Brutus
And groaning underneath this age's yoke,
Have wish'd that noble Brutus had his eyes.

BRUTUS

Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,
That you would have me seek into myself
For that which is not in me?

CASSIUS

Therefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear:
And since you know you cannot see yourself
So well as by reflection, I, your glass,
Will modestly discover to yourself
That of yourself which you yet know not of.
And be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus:
Were I a common laugher, or did use
To stale with ordinary oaths my love
To every new protester; if you know
That I do fawn on men and hug them hard
And after scandal them, or if you know
That I profess myself in banqueting
To all the rout, then hold me dangerous.

Flourish, and shout

BRUTUS

What means this shouting? I do fear, the people
Choose Caesar for their king.

CASSIUS

Ay, do you fear it?
Then must I think you would not have it so.

BRUTUS

I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well.
But wherefore do you hold me here so long?
What is it that you would impart to me?
If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honour in one eye and death i' the other,
And I will look on both indifferently,
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honour more than I fear death.

CASSIUS

I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,
As well as I do know your outward favour.
Well, honour is the subject of my story.
I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but, for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.
I was born free as Caesar; so were you:
We both have fed as well, and we can both
Endure the winter's cold as well as he:
For once, upon a raw and gusty day,
The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,
Caesar said to me 'Darest thou, Cassius, now
Leap in with me into this angry flood,
And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word,
Accoutred as I was, I plunged in
And bade him follow; so indeed he did.
The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it
With lusty sinews, throwing it aside
And stemming it with hearts of controversy;
But ere we could arrive the point proposed,
Caesar cried 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'
I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,
Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder
The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber
Did I the tired Caesar. And this man
Is now become a god, and Cassius is
A wretched creature and must bend his body,
If Caesar carelessly but nod on him.
He had a fever when he was in Spain,
And when the fit was on him, I did mark
How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake;
His coward lips did from their colour fly,
And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world
Did lose his lustre: I did hear him groan:
Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans
Mark him and write his speeches in their books,
Alas, it cried 'Give me some drink, Titinius,'
As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me
A man of such a feeble temper should
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.

Shout. Flourish

BRUTUS

Another general shout!
I do believe that these applauses are
For some new honours that are heap'd on Caesar.

CASSIUS

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now, in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!
Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!
When went there by an age, since the great flood,
But it was famed with more than with one man?
When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome,
That her wide walls encompass'd but one man?
Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,
When there is in it but one only man.
O, you and I have heard our fathers say,
There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd
The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
As easily as a king.

BRUTUS

That you do love me, I am nothing jealous;
What you would work me to, I have some aim:
How I have thought of this and of these times,
I shall recount hereafter; for this present,
I would not, so with love I might entreat you,
Be any further moved. What you have said
I will consider; what you have to say
I will with patience hear, and find a time
Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this:
Brutus had rather be a villager
Than to repute himself a son of Rome
Under these hard conditions as this time
Is like to lay upon us.

CASSIUS

I am glad that my weak words
Have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus.

BRUTUS

The games are done and Caesar is returning.

CASSIUS

As they pass by, pluck Casca by the sleeve;
And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you
What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.

Re-enter CAESAR and his Train

BRUTUS

I will do so. But, look you, Cassius,
The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow,
And all the rest look like a chidden train:
Calpurnia's cheek is pale; and Cicero
Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes
As we have seen him in the Capitol,
Being cross'd in conference by some senators.

CASSIUS

Casca will tell us what the matter is.

I am a Logical Thinker with a Learning Type "B"

1. I learn best when...

I learn best when I focus on visual details and learn structurally. In a class room I learn better when I'm in the front of the classroom to the right because my left ear is my dominant ear. To learn I need to either see, speak or write. Under stress I can learn but my auditory does not function as well as when I am not stressed. I also seem to learn better when listening to music and writing about the subject.

2. I need to...

Understand and synthesize the whole picture, motions, movement and ambiguity. I find it challenging to see the whole picture and not to go literal while I'm annotating. I have a big problem with spelling and my math skills, but I am good at logical Equations.

3. The strategies that would help me in my learning...

Since my auditory skills are naturally not as good, reading out loud and listening to the lyrics and tones of music can help (I already listen to the lyrics and the tone, it's how I listen to music.) My spelling problem is something that I have since I was a small girl, but over time the spelling problem has decreasing over the years. My math skills are a down side, but I am finding new techniques that work with me with trying to solve math.

4. I would like my teachers to know this about me...

Even though I struggle to see the big picture and my annotations are to literal, my perspective sees it as just putting the facts together and see what message the author got across even though some people can not see what I see in my writing. Given that, I'm also a bad speller but I enjoy writing and especially to music because if I don't listen to music I sometimes think to hard and people can't see it through my perspective but when I listen to music it takes more time for me to think about my answers and I am able to write and communicate more affectively.

How Does La Primavera Mirrors Society During the Renaissance?

La Primavera was made by Botticelli in 1482 during the Renaissance. It is an oil on canvas and it is based purely on fantasy. This piece of art work mirrors society because it shows how men in the Renaissance thought about woman and how woman entertains people. This painting shows how men thought about woman because you see Venus (the goddess of love and beauty), you also see cupid, three woman dancing and a beautiful background. Venus shows that men want love and beautiful woman. The background is beautiful and it looks like the woods where Adam and Eve lived in before the got kicked out, this shows that men in the Renaissance where not only religious but they fantasized about stories in the bible. Cupid, who is the god of desire, further shows that Renaissance men thought about love and lust. It also shows how woman entertained them selves and others by three woman dancing . The three woman dancing wore a sort of silky god-like dress giving the impression that they where suppose to bewilder the people who watched them dance. La Primavera shows how men in the Renaissance thought about woman and how woman entertained people and this mirrors society because men probably would have been thinking about woman a lot and the dancing not only showed how they danced but how they kept people entertained.

The Driving Forces of the Renaissance

I believe that knowledge and curiosity is the most crucial part of the renaissance because without rediscovering ancient knowledge the renaissance would not have existed as people would still be in the power of the church. Near the start of the renaissance, Raphael painted a painting called, "The School of Athens." This painting shows some people gathered round in Athens, sharing and righting down each others knowledge of the world. It is later discovered that most of the people in the painting are philosophers (Plato and Aristotle), Raphael also painted himself in the painting in the right top corner. That shows that people must have been curios enough to go, learn and read more about the philosophers and their findings and it was this act that started and was the most crucial part of the renaissance.

Charges are Hard

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mohandas Gandhi

I believe that changing is hard no matter how small it is. When I cycled home from school on that Tuesday afternoon. Something has changed, I can feel it in the air. I parked my bike at the bottom of the hill and started to walk up the hill to our house. School has just started and the sun is shining on my back but I'm feeling cold. As I opened the door to my house it was dark inside, I heard noises from up stairs. I have felt this atmosphere before, it was when I was nine my grandfather died and the whole house felt wrong. This is the same feeling, the feeling that something has changed. I ran up stairs and shouted, "who died?" My parents looked at me like I was mad. It turns out that no one had died but my soul did a little, when I learned that we were moving. Moving to Malaysia. Moving away from home.

I went up stairs to my room to cry. I knew this was coming, we talked about it a few months ago. My parents must have heard me. The walls were so thin in this house, in my home. My dad came up to my room and gave me a hug, when he figured out that it wasn't working he took me to the local gas station for a muffin.

"It's not fair," I said to my father, "we just moved here a year ago and we moved houses again a few months ago, and now we're moving to Malaysia!"

I was right. I knew I was. The next day I told all my friends at school. They were almost as surprised as I was, you see I was suppose to stay here for 3 years not 1. A few weeks later we started packing. The days were going by so fast and time is running out. My friends came round every now and then to help, my best friend did this the most, she lived up the road from me and before I go home I usually go to her house for an hour or two and then go home but now it was the other way around.

The days were going by quickly, too quickly. Soon it was the last week in Norway. I was moving on the Saturday. My friends and I spent as much time together as we possibly could. But time was still going too quickly and soon it was my last Friday at school. I remember saying goodbye to my friends but I wasn't crying like I thought I would, I was stronger than I thought. My best friend and I cycled to my house for the last time. We hugged each other for the last time as I went up to my house.

When I arrived in Malaysia it was hot and sticky but it was also exciting to go and explore the new cultures and make new friends. Now I have adjusted well to the school and fit in well with the crowd. I still talk to my old friends but I also have new friends to talk to.

Moving to Malaysia was different to what I thought it would be, but it was still hard to let go of my friends. People go through many challenges in their lives and it changes the person for better or for worse. I hope my story has shown that even though your life may be changing, it will be okay and you will pull through it.

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