How does ethnnocentricity cause conflict?

The ethnocentric views of the British towards the First Australians caused conflict between the two because the British didn’t understand the aboriginie’s lifestyle. When the first few British people arrived, the colonizers didn’t have any knowledge about the culture and were very shocked about how they acted. When the two met for the first time, there wasn’t any conflict as they both met with positivity. The Aboriginals welcomed the British with open arms, but the British still thought that the Aboriginals were animals who can’t own land. But the British had to colonize Australia somehow, so they had to build a relationship with the Aboriginies. They brought a few Aborginies back to England but when they refused to stay, they travelled back to Australia to continue their lifestyle. One of the British government officials wrote in their obituary, constantly calling them savages and barbarians. After this, the conflict between the British and the Aboriginals started. The British grabbed as much farmland as they could, ruining all of the Aboriginal’s crops. The British tried to get rid of the Aboriginal population targeting the primary source - the women and their children. The aboriginals were considered as ‘uncivilised’ people that needed to be taken care of. Ethnocentricity drives you to not even try to understand other people’s culture. Because the British were so absorbed in their own country, they labelled the aboriginies as people that weren’t people just because they lived in different surroundings.

Julius Caesar

For our Julius Caesar unit,

we have to perform an act that we think is significant in the play. I have chose to do a duet with Shaz, and we will be doing Act 2 Scene 2, lines 58 - 105.

Lara: Decius

Shaz: Caesar

CONTEXT:

Calpurnia, Caesar's wife, just told Caesar about the horrific nightmare she just had about him going to the Capitol and she is begging him not to go to. When Caesar is persuaded not to go, Decius comes and changes Caesar's mind making Caesar feel like he needs to go to the capitol by turning Calpurnia's dream around.

This is a significant paragraph because it foreshadows Caesar's death. It shows that the conspirators are determined to have their plan go well and get him to the Senate House. By doing that it exposes two sides of Caesar; private and public. In public, he is portrayed as a hubris and arrogant person who isn't afraid of anything. But his private self is gullible and falls for flattery who is actually slightly afraid. This passage also brings out imagery of blood, symbolising Caesar's death.

Learner's profile

I learn best when I sit at the front of the class because I feel more pressured to do better when the teachers pay more attention to me. I also learn better when working with smaller groups because I feel that its harder to pay more attention with larger groups. I need to start paying more attention in class, and participate more in group activities instead of just relying on people that are more knowledgable do the work. I should also start reading to improve my vocabulary and so my creative writing improves and develops. The strategies that would help me in my learning is to sit where I can process internally, quietly and move without disturbing other learners. I would like my teachers to know that I work better with music, because it helps me focus. I also have trouble memorizing and understanding things during big group discussions. I love a bit of humor in class and bribery, I think the lollies are a goal to get to when I do better.

'The Anatomy Lesson' was an oil canvas painting painted on the 16th of january, 1632 by an artist called Rembrandt Harmenszoon. This piece shows one of many discoveries during the Renaissance. 'The Anatomy Lesson' shows that people were experimenting new ideas. This shows that the Renaissance was a time of questioning, people began to seek answers. The first dissection ever made was by Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. It was the first because the Catholic Church forbid dissection because they were afraid people would discover the souls location. This shows how the church was losing power and control over people. In the painting, you can see how that surgeons are focused on studying the human body. This painting is a reflection of the Renaissance because the renaissance was a time of discoveries and also because people were slowing breaking away from the church.

Driving Forces to the Renaissance

I think that the patrons were a big driving force to the renaissance. The patrons were people that invested in aspiring artists. Without them, artists like Brunelleschi and Donatello would not be as famous as they are now. The patrons were the people that brought new ideas and looked at things from a different view. Without them, Brunelleschi would not have come up with the idea of perspective. Cosimo De Medici challenged Brunelleschi to build the worlds largest dome, and when he was challenged to do this, he came up with the idea of perspective. Without the patrons, the renaissance would not have been what it was. They gave the artists an opportunity to emerge. I think that without the patrons, the renaissance would be a lot different.