Grammar Gazette- Issue 1, 1997

01^' on one piece of toast at a nine. As the old saying goes: true friends are like diamonds. precious and rare. false friends are like autumn leaves. found everywhere if you try and don't succeed try, try try again. Being rejected is the fastest train to Destination Rockbottoni but don't surrender. So you're down in the dumps Relax and take advantage of your despair. Have a bubble bath and eai some chocolate. You need no excuse; yoLi desei've it. Feel good about yourself. There is nothing to be ashamed of

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a context of co 'timent s sacrifice ...... live in a very different Australia. Ruth Faney I just one World War 011 dio@er On the 23rd April Assembly at had survived he would be about 98 BGGS was called to attention with years old. Suppose he had three the words: children they would b in theirlat 'of, ,ice elderDrum eslp, updrill, ,,, OJT'. now sixties. if. his children each had wedi a, ,di, o61fjtis to diefoi' o11 '. CUI, ,,- three children, he would have nine In. " Agroup of Year girls then led the schoolthrouohasombrecejebratj ' ' ''gger Would have 27 gre, grandc ildren, who would now be of the ANZAC rindition Throtioh aboutih age of the students a this poetry, music and freeze franies. school That's thinv they shared with the assembled nine descendants of each soldier. f the students a tragic of a ICIU Maths were done, a figu e of two cam atgn fraught with unforeseen million, three hund d and one problems and dangers that few of thousand will be reached. Two the young men involved could hav million, three hundred and one Imagined thousand Alls"analis who were never born. One million five Suzanna Nisbet-Sriiith pointed out hundred and ninety three thousand that the ANZACs did nor achieve a Australians owl'age who don't exist glorious victory but the unined becaus of tile war. Manly of them troops displayed the couraoe, could be at this school now. bravery. conrradeship and self Sacrifice which, as sj A1b 'lagine Australia if those people Abbott President of Brisbane RSL ''' lived- How different would it be? What influence would the Club) said wrote the word havehad on the society in which we ANZAC in letters of blood on the live today? Who knows what pages of history". Alexi Drennan would have been? Two nthon prompted us to remember "in the people can make a big difference. darkness of that fateful Sunday morning, the GaUipoli campaign gran children ill their late thirties each of 1/1e, ,I had three child en,

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She who despises herself esteems herself as a self-despiser". Do not think because Susan Sontao is an esteemed feminist and writer that the aforementioned quotation was easy for her to writ in 1967. Do not believe that even dunn@ those mystifying years they call 'the sixties' our teenaged parents, who claim to have been free wheelin, , eace-loving and protest marching

Think healthy and you win be healthy Being healthy plays a big part in feeling good, physically and mentally. To get in a healthy frame of rinnd you should try exercise regularly. Exercising is not just for your outer serf but cleanses your insides simultaneously Those who exerdse set goals. "I must, I

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hippies, were always happy. Believe it or not, there were times when our parents wallowed in self pity or teenage angst. However, not much has changed over thirty odd years - adolescence remains a hardship and to remain confident is a problem. So wha is it that makes one feel confi Grit about onesel . is it Ihat delightful nine dimple on your left cheek? Or those perfectly plucked and positioned eyebrows? 0, neither of the above. Well what is it then? The appropriate analogy is a spring roll - a number of tasty little ingredients wrapped up to create, a delicious little package. To begin with, to feel o00d about yourself you need the right friends. I'm not referring to the bestlookino or the most popular - just friends who understand you, can Ginpathise with you and basically 10v you for whoever you are. Do not choose to be friends with people who think that you can be used all the time. Do not choose to niake so many friends and have to spread yourself too thin, as you are not ajar of Vegemite. Take advantage of beinc yourself and spread yourself thick

must make that last sit-up". "I can do that last push-up". "I can niake that final kilometre. " The achievement of goals such as these may seem in vial and even frivolous, but they boost self esteem. Setting and attaining goals can become habit-fomiin@ and transfer across to your academic and personal lives True beauty is more than skin deep as it is the reflection of your inner re f. If you think beautiful thoughts, then these will show on your face. If you are in a great mood. then it is going to radiate froni your cheeks. There are few people who call hide all their true teenn@s. Stop trying to decide what to be or how to change and be happy with what you have and the person you are. No one can maintain a false facade for life. it is unfortunate that there will always be GOPle who do not understand or like you. They may say it is because of your monobrow, but it is probably that special something that you have that they want. What is that you ask? Your self-assurance, your serf esteem and your confidence

ANZ. I Service - Ginde 11 able"11 which lasted only nine nionihs students it be caine obvious that began Australia's of a though their first thoughts of the test nation hood". of Ih students had been touched by different if those sol iers hadn'I the wars of the past. Many had died? Emma Prior reniinded us of fathers and grandfathers who had the impact of losing ifty nine been in wars and they valued the thousand young men in a single courage and self sacrifice they had campaign. 11 s a figure seen ill shown textbooks and quoted from rim to time. But the fifty nine thousand The implications of World War were not Just numbers, they were One stretch beyond the fatten people - mainly young men at the soldier on the battlefield all those beginning of their lives, n, any of years ago. They reach into our whom would hav gone on to marry lives all these years on. We live in and have children had their lives not the Australia of today. because of been cut short by war. in fact, if the men of yesterday and their those men had survived, we nitght tomorrow that never was. word ANZAC were someiinies of biscuits and holidays. the majority How would AUStr 11a be

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