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High Ground Practice Essay 2
High Ground Practice Essay 2
principles. Discuss.
Power is the idea that all seek but nobody truly seizes in the movie “High Ground” directed by
Stephan Maxwell Johnson. When the Westerners landed in Australia, they used their superior
weaponry and their self intitled viewpoint to invade and push their practices onto the first nation
people. The Anglo-Saxon people stole the First Nation people’s children away from their homes
robbing them of their cultural upbringing fuelling Gutjuks hunger to rebel and re-join his people.
Gutjuks desire to realign himself with his culture lead him to take a stand against his kidnappers and
take back the power taken from them.