can anyone help me with this essay. I really want to get the most important facts in!

[Em1993]

The question is:

*** the view that by 1930 Australia was a more cohesive rather than divisive nation.

[boxtops]

Hi em,
please don't underestimate the older generations, it's a bit insulting to ask us to help you then to say "Us students ....are much more creative than the older generation. Clearly because we have a computer but also there is so much that was never taught back then." - What was never taught back then?, I for one had a thoroughly comprehensive education covering almost every topic that was available to us at that time! yes we didn't have the techonology but as Jem says we were taught to work things out for ourselves and to memorise, our research was all in legwork and libraries, and some of the greatest creativity took place in past times when art and technology was all manual. Quick fixes have often replaced rational thinking and memory, now we can look everything up as the click of a button. It's wonderful in so many ways, but also sad that so much info is gained only by on-line methodology - rather than for example talking to oldies like me who can remember people taking the assisted passages to Australia in the 1950s, to help boost the Australian workforce and economy.
I do wish you well with your research. How are your fellow students approaching this piece of work?

[123everton]

Without banging my own drum, I'd like to thank JNO, for pointing out what is arguably the essay's main function.
The disassociation of the Aborigine within Australian society, they were un-Australian, they didn't count so they don't feature.
The cohesiveness it mentions and aspires to, is a white cohesiveness which was expressed to the detriment and abuse of other peoples.
As JNO points out, this notion of a 1930s sense of cohesion is a myth, it's political nostalgia of a quite dangerous kind.

[Em1993]

Jenna I made an account on here so I can get help with my work and not someone to do it for me.

[Em1993]

I think the older generation should stop saying how the younger generation has it so easy these days. Yes, we may have it easier but can't you just be happy for your children, grandchildren and younger friends and not criticize them? And factor30 why are you sending me a link for wasting time on the internet? What are you using?

[Em1993]

Boxtops through out this whole thing people have pretty much underestimated my generation and that is upsetting. Ok maybe I was wrong in saying that there was much never taught back then but I was only referring to new technology. I only went on here to ask for help and not to have someone write my essay for me. I didn't expect to have people telling me that "rational thinking is hard" because I am not dumb, I just want to do the best I can.

[Em1993]

Because I am taught to use different resources and AB was just one of the many I used!