The First Australians

In the DVD "The First Australians" and the book "The Rabbits", the English's ethnocentric views cause a lot of conflict between the First Australians and the English. For example in the DVD, the English take over the Aboriginals land as if the Aboriginals weren't even humans and as if they didn't even own the land. Once they took over their land they also destroyed the Aboriginal's crops and re-planted the fields with their own crops. The English didn't like what the Aboriginals were planting, so they just decided to plant their own crops, which the Aboriginals didn't like. The English felt that they had complete control over the Aboriginals. They thought that the Aboriginals were wild and uncivilized, and because of this the English thought that they could take their land because they were just animals. If the Aboriginals didn't think and act like the English did, then to the English this meant they were superior. In Bennelong's obituary in the newspaper, many things are said about him. Even though he had helped the English a lot so that they could interact with the Aboriginals, many negative things were said about Bennelong. Bennelong had chosen to go back to his Aboriginal life after being in England, and the English felt that no matter what they did, these Aboriginals could not be turned into civilized "normal" humans like they were. They believed that the Aboriginals were savages and that nothing could make them like English. All of these views that the English had created conflict, especially when the English took the Aboriginals land and planted their own crops. This created a war between the two groups of people. Many English people would also see the Aboriginals as savages who are good for nothing even if they have never actually met one. The Aboriginals would also feel a lot of hatred towards the English.

Julius Caesar Performance Blog

Act Three Secene 2 Lines 71-105

Context: Antony is giving his speech to the crowd to try to convince and persuade them to turn against the conspirators.

Significance of the passage: This passage is very important because this characterizes a character that hasn't been mentioned much yet, Antony, and we get to know a bit more about the crowd and the people of Rome. From this passage, we can see that the people of Rome are like sheep, they will follow whoever is speaking to them and whoever says something that makes sense to them. They were supporting Brutus a few moments before Antony made the speech and now after Antony has talked, the people of Rome hate him. This passage also introduces us to Antony, and what his personality is like. From this speech, Antony is charactereized as sly because he manages to make the crowd hate the conspirators and to begina mutiny against them. We also get introduced to the fact of a new conflict, between Antony and Brutus, and his speech is foreshadowing a fight that will happen, Antony versus the conspirators. The ideas that Antony gives in his speech about how he contredicts what Brutus said about Caesar can also have an impact on the audience, because his speech makes you realize that maybe Caesar wasn't such a bad person after all and maybe he wasn't the things Brutus said he was. Maybe Brutus made a mistake. Finally, this passage is important because we can tell that not everyone thought that Caesar was someone who was worth to kill.

Antony (lines 71-105) :

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

My Learner Profile

I am a logical thinker with the a FF profile. I learn best when I am sitting in the front of the room, where I can see what is going on well. I like being able to visually see what I am learning, and I learn best when I see the information I am learning in an organized, linear way. If instructions for a big task is only said, and not written down somewhere where I could read it, I will have trouble following the directions. I also learn best when I am not rushed, and that I can take my time to do a task. The more time I have, the better I will do on the task. I usually will learn more and work more if I am alone, because I tend to only listen to other people's ideas instead of sharing mine. I learn best when I brainstorm ideas before sharing them with others. I learn best if I also take notes, so that I can refer to the information I just took in.

I need to sit in the front of the class on the right side of the room and I should be allowed to doodle while learning. Some strategies that will help me learn are active listening and reading out loud as well as brainstorming and visualizing unusual images in my mind's eye. I should also try to say things in other words. I would like my teachers to know that I cannot concentrate well when people speak for too long, and I usually don't take any information in when it is just said to me. I also have trouble working in groups sometimes and I prefer working alone.