Essays Tagged: "Alice Springs"

Critical review on Rob Marshall's musical, Chicago starring Catherine Zeta Jones and Richard Gere

"Chicago"Title: ChicagoVenue: Alice Springs CinemaDate: Tuesday 25th FebruaryDirected by: Rob Marshall.Written by: Bill Condon; fr ...

(3 pages) 51 0 0.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

The Land occupies a distinctive time and place in the cultural experience of Australians, indigenous and non-indigenous

al life and custodial responsibilities. Namatjira grew up on the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission near Alice Springs and knew the Central Australian desert intimately.One of his most famous artworks is h ...

(3 pages) 40 1 3.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Representation of Men in Australian Films

three outgoing cross- dressers stick together through "thick and thin" and make it to their gig at Alice Springs.The traits of the typical Aussie Male are represented in Priscilla Queen of the Desert ... (short stubbies, bush hat etc.) takes a trip with them to fix up their pink bus as they journey to Alice Springs. "Well, I've had a look around and I think we can safely assume that I now know less a ...

(5 pages) 40 0 4.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History

A craft-based essay on John Cheever's short story, "O City of Broken Dreams" as it appears in "The Granta Book of the American Short Story".

ketch than a fully realized character. I think the story might have worked better were it told from Alice's point of view: she has as much potential for change, and is just as affected by the outcome ... ust as affected by the outcome of their precarious situation, as her husband.All the characters but Alice and Mildred-Rose are like variations on a facetious theme. From Bitsey's somehow threatening-y ...

(1 pages) 3934 0 3.7 Nov/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Nine days in Alice Springs.

At the end of last year, we (my fiancée and two friends) went to Alice Springs. We were excited about the trip, especially because it was our first time in a desert. ...

(1 pages) 1384 0 4.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions

The Australian Outback

ere are big watertanks and the children often have their own horses.Back on Stuart Highway we reach Alice Springs, where we find a waterhole in the desert,a cable station, a cultural center for Aborig ... a cultural center for Aboriginals and a lively small town in the red heart of this continent. ,,The Alice"is adapted to tourism. The station of the Flying doctors is here, which is a part of the austr ...

(5 pages) 39 0 4.6 Aug/2007

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Reverend John Flynn

agically died of cancer in Sydney on 5 May 1951 and his ashes were buried at the foot of Mt Gillen, Alice Springs. To commemorate his achievements to Australia, He is featured on one side of the Austr ... vice to not be as influential as it would be. In 1956, the John Flynn Memorial Church was opened in Alice Springs as a tribute to the great Australian whose compassion and vision transformed the lives ...

(3 pages) 13 0 0.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Australia - A Unique Continent

ry32.1Location due to plate tectonic theory32.2Pangaea32.3Gondwana33.Climate Case Study: Sydney and Alice Springs43.1Latitude43.2Distance from coast43.3 Ocean currents43.4Prevailing wind43.5Relief54.A ... ke up from Antarctica, and is not located in its current position.3. Climate Case Study: Sydney and Alice Springs3.1LatitudeSydney and Alice springs are located in totally different geographical regio ...

(4 pages) 16 0 3.0 Jun/2009

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The Kinship of Australian Aborigines

the music and dance, kinship systems, art forms and ceremonies varied considerably between regions (Alice Springs, 2010). These groups had underlying similarities that brought them together for ceremo ... es allowed the groups to share their myths and songs and trade goods that extended over vast areas (Alice Springs, 2010).The Aboriginal people used the resources of the land with expertise. Their move ...

(2 pages) 14 0 0.0 Dec/2010

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology