Dimensions Of Oranges And Sunshine

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Analysis of Oranges and Sunshine – Records and their Dimensions The movie being analyzed for the assignment is “Oranges and Sunshine” which narrates the true story of Margaret Humphrey, the only socialist back at that time who stood up to a deportation scandal by the British and the Australian Government. Children, aged 8-15, were illegally imported and once they heard about the movement started by Margaret they were eager to identify their own identities as well as to reach out to their families, if alive. It was estimated that around 130,000 children were deported and Margaret stood-up for each of them in order to help them identify who they are. The discussion hereafter is about the records identified in the movie along with the dimensions in which they were identified and in order to comprehensively understand that, a brief background of the movie was required. During the course of the movie, 6 different records were identified, and a thorough discussion of each record’s dimension is presented in this report. Record 1: Personal Notes Each of the individual who lost their families due to the scandal and was unable to identify themselves created some documents in order to write down of their life they remember and then hand it over to Margaret. McKemmish (2001) pointed out that such records lie in the create dimension where the evidentiality is defined as “trace” in which a document is created as part of minimal and immediate information process. The act which resulted in