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‘Why conflict happens is less important than how it affects people.’
I wrote a persuasive article
Conflict is always around us in many ways and it is not why it occurs that shows its importance but its consequence or effects on people. This is exemplified in the 1970s were all half cast aboriginal children were talking out of their homes and put in “white camps” , the reason this happened is less important than the action itself it is from the action that individuals can learn. In Kate Grenville’s Secret River the book shows how the aboriginal people were treated like outcasts and the effects of miscommunication. It is these effects that show what is important and where there is room for growth. It is through such incidents such as the violence that occurred at Thornhill point that individuals learn from the affects not the origin of the conflict. Conflict always has an effect but there can be no effect without the conflict. Therefore conflict and outcomes are interrelated, they both need to be evident to occur.
The removal of all half cast children in the 1970’s has recently caused uproar following Kevin Rudd’s decision to apologise to the aboriginal people. The apology can give closure but it will never heal the effects that it has had on the aboriginal community in the Northern Territory. It is the issues of drug and alcohol abuse that reinforces the extent to the mistreatment and the extent of the atrocity that had occurred. The reason why the conflict occurred is less important that the cause, we, as Australians need to focus on rebuilding the relationship between aboriginal and Australian people. As Kevin Rudd said “For the pain, suffering and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry.” This reflects the past yet it is the future we should be worried about, the past can’t be changed it is through the effects that we can change and build a better Australia. This shows that the outcome of the conflict can instigate growth and change and this has been perused by Kevin Rudd. The effect or the outcome from this feud that is vital to building a better nation something that we as Australians pride ourselves upon. It is for our children that we build a better nation and it is through organisations such as Amnesty that we fight for equality. What if it was you, would you want to be unheard, would you want to be undermined because of your heritage this is what it felt like to be an aboriginal, it is this that we much change and it is through the effects that we can fight for equality.
It is through William Thornhill that we learn of aboriginal inequality. It is the miscommunication that occurs and instigates the conflict and as a result an outcome is evident. The miscommunication upon Thornhill’s point is exemplified when the aboriginals steal Thornhill’s crops however the aboriginals believe in sharing but their idea was not shared by everyone and hence there was again a clash between the two races. It is this clash that instigates the massacre, it is through the original clash that starts the massacre but it is from the effects of the massacre, effect of the conflict that the true importance is shown. Thornhill is left at the end looking for an aboriginal to purge his guilt for his role in their dispersal. Thornhill’s guilt is emphasised when he adopts long jack an Aboriginal elder, “long jack eat its good tucker”. It is the conflict that causes the outcome but it essentially the consequence that shows us what is really important. The outcome gives the chance to change and become a better person, it is through Thornhill’s immense guilt and sorrow that the consequences importance is emphasised.
Conflict will result from two or more conflict views or opinions and it is from the conflict that there is a consequence. There can be no consequence if there is no conflict and it is from the consequence that people change or are given the change to change. It is through this that the vital importance of conflict is shown. It is the conflict that allows for an outcome to occur and therefore it can be said that we learn from the conflict not the outcome, therefore the conflict can be more important, however to grow and learn you need both and this is exemplified through Kevin Rudds sorry speech and Thornhill’s involvement with the aboriginal people.
Conflict is all around us it is what we can learn that makes it important, conflicts important lies with the individual, conflict will bear no important if it is disregarded and no action is taken for the future. The consequence is important and it is Thornhill and Rudd who show that their actions to the conflict make the consequence truly important. It is the individual’s action towards the outcome that identifies the importance.
properly not very good but trying to get up to a 6-7 for the exam.
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