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Apology To A Secret Lover, Stephanie Swisher
Apology To A Secret Lover, Stephanie Swisher
The Messenger
Office of International Education, 2009 International Education Writing Contest, 2nd Place
England's Experimental Colony: The First Settlement In Australia, Frances M. Casazza
England's Experimental Colony: The First Settlement In Australia, Frances M. Casazza
Honors Theses
Almost 200 years ago, the first white settlers stepped on the shores of Australia. They were not there for freedom or opportunity, but rather for punishment. England's prisons were overflowing and their solution was sending the convicts away and forgetting about them. Australia's history and first eighty years of development began in this shadow. From 1787 until 1867 the English Government transported convicts to their penal colony in Australia. In all over 160,000 convicts were sent. The initial settlement and the reasons behind it were uniquel. England's attempt to establish a self-sufficient convict colony was the firs tof its kind. …