Hickman+Samantha



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HI! My name is Samantha Eloise Hickman, and I was born on 23rd of May 1994 at Monash Medical Centre. When I was young I was very sick and was in and out of hospital for years with calcium problems, and kidney problems. I have this condition called hypoparathyroidism and it means that my body does not produce it's own calcium, I have to have tablets every day and have regular check-ups. But it's not too hard to manage. When I was about 2 my sister Megan was born, years of rivallary followed, but we had a heap of fun playing in sandpits and picking up worms. When I was young we lived near the city in Armadale, near Chapel street, I went to this cute little childcare and made heaps of friends(including the childcare's rabbit who was also called Sam) We then moved to what I knew as 'the green house'. (which was a green house that we rented for about a year), it was so cool, there was a cubby house that had a ladder and everything. I got my first bike in that house, and I started watching Teletubbies in that house as-well. My sister Charlie was born about 2-3 months after we moved in to the green house. Then mum and dad felt that we needed something bigger. So we upsized to a nice white weather-board house that we are in now, even if it's not the best looking, it has everything we need, a big garden, shops close to us, our backyard walks out onto the park and there is some cricket nets and an oval there as-well, where i play cricket for South Croydon cc. I learnt to ride my 2 wheeler bike when i was about 7. I went to school at Tinternvale Primary school for all my school years. Then my brother was born in 2001, we called him Pierce. I went on my first camp in grade three, to Camp Maldon.In grade five i went on a camp that took me away from home the longest i've ever been, which was 10 days. It was called Somers Camp, and it was so fun.In grade 6 i went on my third camp to Paynesville, where on the way our bus was hit by a huge delivery truck and we had to wait for ages to get a new one to come, luckily no one was hurt badly, apart from a few bumps and bruises.I designed our graduation placemat and d.v.d cover with my friend at school and everyone ate off really colorful and groovy place-mats at graduation. :DWe have two chickens called Parma and Kiev, they are evil, but they give us eggs, so thats okay.We used to have a stray cat that came to our house and we fed it, we called it Butch, it slept under our house. It was the first cat I liked. Then it disappeared. I think it's dead.My favorite foods: pasta of any kind, fruit (especially apples), veggies, chicken, home made burgers, cheese, vegemite and a heap more, I will pretty much eat any food.Once I ate a full sized raw onion in less than 9 minutes. I got $8 for it. :DI used to eat peanut butter with a spoon out of the container. I once got peanut butter and covered myself with it (i was about 3). My mum and dad say it was pretty funny.

HOBBIES My dad has always played cricket and we used to watch him every week when he went to play cricket for Powerhouse near the city, we always used to drink cuppa-soups with the team and explore the ovals and climb the trees. I started playing when i was 10 in the under 10's team. I was ok when i started, but definitly not great by a longshot, i worked at it over the next few years and i started to take it more seriously. Now i play in regional competitions, local, and state championships. I haven't always loved to draw, but when i was about 9 i won this musical chairs game and they gave me this notebook. This was my first sketching book. I started copying things, like Dr.Seusse, and all those pictures of cartoons in the papers. I practiced and got better. Then I started to paint pictures, I still have the copies of my first paintings and drawings. I also love to cook, I make my own recipes and cook dinner all the time at home when i can. I am hoping when i am older i can get a job that combines art, sport, cooking and cricket. I'll see how I go. I collect figurines and have a huge collection, there are all kinds, like disney and simpsons and a heap of older cartoons. I love to read and read all the time. My favorite books are longer ones, and I like mystery and crime(but i will read any really). I also like to write stories, and poems. I have swum since i was young, i started in lessons and progressed to squads. I love to run as well, it is so cool just to be out on your own! Just quiet. When I am older i am going to travel the world and go everywhere.

Family tree. My parents- My mum and dad are Evelyn and Stephen Hickman. My brothers and sisters- Pierce(7), Charlie(9-10), Megan(12-13), Samantha(14-15) My Grandparents- Christine Hickman, Raymond Hickman(dec.), Joyce Gellender(dec.), ??Gelender.(dec.) My aunties-(great) Auntie Valerie, Sylvia Brown, Susan Gellender,Great Auntie Jaqui Hickman. Uncles- Stephen Brown, Uncle Robert,(robert Hickman), Great Uncle Robert Hickman. Cousins- Robert Brown, Ben Brown Second cousins- Paul and Barry Hickman, third cousins- Guy Hickman

**//Q1(2)- COLONIST- A settler or inhabitant of a colony. //****//SETTLERS- A person who settles in an area with typically no or few previous inhabitants. //****//INVADERS- Armed forces that invade an area that is already owned and plan to occupy. //****//BRITISH- People who live or come from England or united kingdom. //****//WHITES- People who have a white complexion/skin color. //****//EUROPEANS- Relating to or inhabiting country in Europe. //**  **//Q4(2)- I think that a word to describe the settlers could be every single one of those. //****//The one that most fits would be invaders to me. Because they ended up doing exactly that, except they put the aborigines in a false sense of security and then pounced. They were evil. //**  **//Q5(2)- The settlers/invaders that the english were would have probably thought themselves as heroes. Thinking they were saving these people from there own death. They realized that they were alot more independant and would have to fight them if they wanted to take over.
 * Q1- After watching the first episode of the first australians i have come away with a new understanding of how the aboriginals would have felt. The way they were treated and looked down upon even though they owned the land. It was theirs. They lived there and it was their home. They reacted to the foreigners the only way they knew how, it was the way they lived and they didn't know any better. I even think that they reacted very generously to these people that came and settled on their land and took all that was theirs away from them. There own kind were even killed and they did not react straight away. It was only when the English overstepped the line, and started doing it regularly that the aborigines felt they had to act and show them they it was not right to do that. **
 * Q2- An insightful documentary on the feelings and thoughts of the aborigines as they experienced the first settlers taking over their own land. ****Q3- The message in this show is that the aborigines are not in the wrong. They accepted the English and they could have been a lot more difficult about the English. But they chose to see who they were and try and help. The English overstepped the line and tore the relations with aborigines. They are trying to get you to see how the aborigines felt and it does a really good job at showing it. ****Q4- The commentary and information of the episode was very good. The illistrations really gave you an idea of the way it looked and the emotions that the aborigines and the english felt. The people who they got to talk on the show really gave a good opinion and kept you interested. You could see they cared about what they were talking about, and they had good view points from many opinions. ****<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: rgb(206, 18, 18);">Q5- The question in 'Thinking about the period' that I thought was answered in 'The first australians', How did the two groups react initially to each other?. ** <span style="color: rgb(206, 18, 18); font-family: 'Courier New';">

//** //****//<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 255, 0);">INDIGENOUS INHABITANTS OR PEOPLE- People who originate from a particular place. FIRST AUSTRALIANS- The people that were born and bred here after 1901 when Australia was called a nation. AUSTRALIANS- People who are born and bred here after 1901.
 * //<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 255, 0);">Q6(2)- ABORIGINIE- A person place or thing that has been around since earthly times.

Q9(2)- I think that the definition for the first Australians is the best and most accurate.

Q1(pg.7)- Paul Keating words about non-aboriginals were saying how when we destroyed these peoples lives we didn't think as to how we would feel if the same thing happened to us. We felt we had the right to destroy a way of life because we wanted something that wasn't even ours to take in the first place. He acknowledged the advances but with the advances came setbacks and we were the ones that murdered, disowned children, took children from their own parents. We did all these things and Paul Keating is saying that we can't change what we have done, but we can recognize our disgrace and say sorry.

Q2(pg7)- I think all the things that Paul Keating says are completely true. He is right in saying that we can't change what we have done but we can help make the prejudice that surround aborigine disappear. We can help them become more accepted in society and give them as much opportunity as us. They are our equal and we should let them be treated the same way we are.

Q4(pg.7) I think that we should accept the past and do our best in the future. We cannot change what the first settlers did. It was not 'our' fault. So we should try and amend the horrible job the first settlers did rather than express guilt for something that 'we', (the 21st century) did not do. (This is in response to John Hirst's comments)

1ooAD- Indian and Malay traders came. To trade with the chinese on the Australian coast. 12-15th century- Chinese came. To collect sea slugs from the coast of Australia as they were a highly prized item of trade and very expensive. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; color: rgb(231, 85, 231);"> 1606BC- The dutch settlers discover the land. They came to look for places to find things to trade and places to trade at, but deemed it unpromising and left without claiming it. 1500BC- The portuguese were also said to have come in the 1500's at some point. They made the Dauphin map and it showed evidence of them sailing the coast of Australia, they came to explore. !688-1700- The english made trips to Australia. They came to look for land to claim as their own, so they could cement their dominance other countries, but they were unimpressed by the reports that came back from the captains who ventured there. 1770- Captain Cook sails there and maps his route. He landed first at Botany Bay on August 23 and claimed it for Great Britain. He named this place New South Wales.

William Dauphin

//** Ahoy there me’hearties! I go by the name William Dampier. I was born in the year 1651, and a good year that was too, Early on in m’e life m’e mam and dad died, so I was an orphan, I have no memories of m’e mum and dad, but I do remember my early years of travelling of sailing, my first voyage I was taken to Newfoundland. As I found my independence I made the decision to serve in the Dutch war. I was going fine until I fell sick, and had to be left on the shore. After my abandonment I became interested in coasting trading. It was here that I learned the ports and bays of islands and sought out the tricks of the scurvy sea. My life really started in 1679 when I became a pirate. What a life I had, plundering and robbing the Peruvian coast. After all this I found a nice man called Cook, we sailed the seas on a privateering voyage. Passing Juan Ferdanez, skimming the coast of south America while taking a few treasure baskets while we were at it. We made a voyage to Cape Blanco, this was where my mate Cook died, the captains place was taken up by Captain Davis and we went on with life and raided the west American shores with French and English vessels joining in as well. I then chose to leave Davis’s ships, those were the times of yesterday! I needed something new, change, so I went to Captain Swans ship. I sailed with him for quite a time. We found ourselves running very low on food rations, so we had only one choice. So Swan had to go, we ate all our leaders and sailed away. I stayed with my crew for a little while longer, then I requested to be left as I wanted to establish trade in ambergris(wax like substance). I sailed with 2 other Englishmen some Porteguese and some Malay. A lot of the men died as they were too weak for the nature of our voyage. I then acted as a gunner (a person who specializes in guns) for the English fort of Benkulen. From there I decided to go back to England and I returned in 1691. In 1699 I was sent by the English to comman the sea ship, ‘Roebuck’. Twas a fun time, I was given all these rations made to supply me for 20 months! I was on a special mission to discover Australia. I went there and found I was to be disappointed. There was no water! There was no food! No harbours! Nothing that would interest the English! I went back around the coast and I must say overlooked some important places, they were found by this other man. Well I wrote a book all about it, it was pretty famous, people like the way I wrote my observations and all that malaki.
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1819- The name Australia was regularly used. 1827- Britain officially claimed the whole Australian continent.