The Japanese living area is Chinatown shows the reader that perhaps whites have put the Japanese into their own little area. Chinatown contains houses that are far smaller and in general with little fortunes unlike the white Australians. ...

• Word Count: 540
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Characters in "The Divine Wind", written by Garry Disher, live in a society where prejudice is present in everyone. Although the characters try to overcome this prejudice, it is impossible due to surrounding and distant pressures. The lifestyle in Broome in the late 1930's, early 1940's was a stru...

• Word Count: 581
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the past few hundred centuries, the terms racism, and it's discourse, have reared it's ugly head upon society after society all over the earth in one way, shape or form. Racism is a concept which refers to the assumptions, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours of individuals as well...

• Word Count: 1028
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The narrator in the story names Pang is a man of thirty-five years old who "for the past nine months [has] lived with [his] mother in a federally subsidized high rise in the lower reached of Chinatown (Louie 57)" fits this image. ...

• Word Count: 1245
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School