In both stories, this opposing group consists of indigenous peoples who function as the objects-in contrast to the agents-of exploitation and colonization. ... Both Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Gunga Din portray Europeans and indigenous peoples in starkly different ways. ... In Heart of Darkness, the dichotomy manifests itself whenever people are described. In a particularly salient example, the European chief accountant of a trade company is labeled "amazing" and his appearance painstakingly described by Marlow, the narrator: "a high starched collar, white cuffs, a light...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Bangarra provides the opportunity for people of all cultural backgrounds to be able share knowledge about the world's oldest living culture. ... This Company consists of sixteen professionally trained artists who each obtain an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander heritage from different areas across Australia and one artistic director called Stephen Page; he was born in Brisbane and is a descendant of the "Nunukul" people from South East Queensland. ... There is no such thing as a specific traditional "Aboriginal dance." One of Bangarra's theatre pieces I have watched is ...

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, which parallels the experiences of white Australians to that of the Indigenous. Keating urges society to acknowledge the Indigenous culture and enrich their experience of belonging by questioning "can we find just solutions to...the people to whom the most injustice has been done." ... Initially described as people who cannot keep track of their surroundings, the migrants' disorientation is compared to "a homing pigeon circling to get its bearings ", the simile indicating that they were united by fear, therefore stressing the human need of finding a community to belong to. ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate