Thursday, May 20, 2010

Rabbit Proof Fence




The movie rabbit proof fence is about the story of the stolen generation. The stolen generation is the Aboriginals “Half castes” that were taken from their
families to be trained in white ways – to outbreed the aboriginals. The story is about Molly, Gracie and Daisy. Two sisters and their cousin Gracie –
they’re taken and after about two or three days they left the white camp to walk home with the trackers following them. Gracie is captured but the sisters
arrive home safely.
The eagle as it shows at the beginning of the movie is the spirit bird, which will guide the way and look over Molly. The Government at the
time were very racist, but they wouldn’t have realised about the fact of this racism. It was very wrong what they did to the children. It would be a
difficult story for Molly to tell as it recounts the horrible events and it would have been hard for her to go through that again. It would be terrible to explain
it – to make others understand.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

History of Noble Prizes



The noble peace prize – A history

In the 1890’s, Norwegian, Alfred Nobel donated his large fortune to the Nobel prizes.

He dedicated the award to “The person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of
standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congress”.

The united nations General Kofi Annan (Left) were chosen.

“ For their work for a better organized and more peaceful world...achieve peace and security in the world and of international mobilization
aimed at meeting the world’s economic, social and environmental challenges”

Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, shared the first Nobel peace prize in 1901 with Frederic Passy, a leading international pacifist of the time.

In addition to humanitarian efforts and peace movements, the Nobel peace prize has been awarded for work in a wide range of fields including advocacy of human rights, mediation of international conflicts, and arms control.

The nobel peace prize has been awarded to 120 laureates – 97 times to individuals and 23 times to organizations.
Of the 97 individuals awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 12 are women.
The work of the Red cross has been awarded 3 times. Others such as Amnesty international and International Panel on Climate change.