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Dreamtime Stories English Laws Aborigines
431 wordsThe making of a nation is a slow and painful process. It needs a people who identify with each other and with the land they inhabit. Australia began that process on 26 January 1788. This essay will attempt to describe the Pre-European Customary law which existed in Australia in 1788. When the first fleet arrived in Botany Bay in 1788, It brought with it all the laws of England. English laws were seen as being every Englishman's birthright. The coming of English laws was to have disastrous conseq...
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Good And Evil Due To The Fact
1,586 wordsThe use of hallucinogenic plants dates back thousands of years. Over the years, many different cultures and civilizations have used them for different purposes. The common belief that similarities exist between cultures that rely upon the use of herbal hallucinogens is greatly exaggerated. The cultural variables between these cultures are often so significant that the only major similarity between them is the fact that they use hallucinogens. The common generalization by society that every cultu...
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The Early History Of Sheep And Wool
1,712 wordsThe Early History of Sheep and Wool The history of the sheep industry began in Central Asia about 10, 000 years ago. It's the nature of sheep to flock together. Early man could take sheep in his travels, because they are efficient grazers, and able to survive on sparse vegetation. Man had discovered the value of the sheep as a two product animal even then. It could provide two of life's essentials, meat and milk for food, and hides for clothing and shelter. The earliest sheep producers used the ...
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Unique Photographers Their Lives And Art
1,924 wordsFrom 1979 to present there have been many famous photographers, but there are three who really stick out: Jerry Uelsmann, Freeman Patterson, and Annie Slivovitz. These three photographers had very distinct photography and viewed photography as more than pictures but as pigments of emotions and feelings. These photographers are very famous for their pictures and one photographer is known for her help in third world countries. The first photographer that I would like to mention in my research pape...
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Term Effects Water Pipes
904 wordsDrugs in Youth Drugs in young people are one of the major problems concerning the younger generations. Drugs effect the youth of Australia greatly and they are one of the major problems in society today. In this assignment I chose to focus on Marijuana because it is the most commonly used illegal drugs in teenagers. Marijuana is made from the dried flowers and leaves of the plant Cannabis Sativa. Marijuana can look like dried herbs or tea it can be green grey or brown. Marijuana is usually smoke...
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Iron Ore Nineteenth Century
1,315 wordsIntroduction If you look on a map of global population density, you can see four or five major concentrations of people: East Asia, South Asia, North America and Europe. Many of the cities that developed in Europe grew on coalfields as a result of the industrial revolution. But today the factor coal become more and more unimportant and the people in the coal industry are facing huge problems. The highest rates of unemployment can be found in former coal and steel making communities. Their mines ...
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People With Disabilities Indirect Discrimination
1,464 wordsThis paper will discuss disability discrimination and the legislative and non-legislative tools used to combat it. The major piece of federal legislation, the Disability Discrimination Act (1992) will be examined in considerable detail, and an attempt will be made to analyze its strengths and weakness, with reference to various opinions put forward by individuals and organizations concerned with its implementation. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the compliance of the Act. The issues tha...
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Piece Of Paper Patron Saint
1,056 wordsSt Valentine's Day was supposedly started in the time of the Roman Empire. In Ancient Rome, the date of February 14 was a holiday to honor the Queen of Roman Goddesses and Gods, Juno. Juno was known as the Goddess of women and marriage. The next day February 15 was the first day of the Festival known as the Feast of Lupercia. On February 14 is was said that the young boys and girls of the villages would write down the names of every girl and place these names in a jar of which each young man wou...
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Joint Venture Trade Show
2,032 words... here there are only few competitors present in the show and the companys brand name or products has been well known by the customers, they do not necessarily need to conduct very intensive marketing activities, a simple method of marketing activities, i. e. Hand out company brochure, is competent enough to win the battle as well as cutting down their cost. Once the company has ended their exhibition, they will generally measure how well the outcome achieved from trade show by conducting vari...
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Flexible Work Arrangements Reduce The Amount
1,589 wordsIf the workplace of today could be characterized by a single theme, it would most likely focus on the continual presence of change. Dramatic changes in technology, the marketplace and the workforce have compelled organizations to re-evaluate not only the competitiveness of their products, but also the core ways in which work is performed. It is out of this pursuit for continued survival that organizations have been faced with the notion of varying work-schedules beyond the traditional hours of n...
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Plato Mass Media
1,442 wordsTHE MEDIA AS AN INSTITUTION? ? ... it will create forgetfulness in the learners? souls because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written words and not remember of themselves. They will appear to be omniscient, and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality. ? Plato? s Phaedrus The media has become the institution that it is today because of the associated commercial concerns. Mass media is financed due...
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Dominant Culture Cultural Beliefs
735 wordsThe Last Wave SOC 118 The Last Wave-Peter Weir dir. (1977) In the film, The Last Wave, the director is trying to communicate the idea of a culture within a culture or sub culture. The dominant culture in the film is the white members of society living in Australia. The subculture in the film is the Aborigines who were natives to the land before the white people settled in Australia. The natives sustained their cultural beliefs and ideologies while living in largely populated cities. The dominant...
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Solar Energy Heat Loss
1,744 wordsDesign of Structures in respect to heat efficiency OUTLINE Introduction Problem What materials are better for insulation? What designs are better for insulation? PurposeBackgroundOrganizations Researching ProblemMaterialslustrousdulldarklightDesignWindows EnclosedHypothesisMaterialsProcedureSummaryMateria ls that Work Best in Heat Efficiency Designs that Work Best in Heat Efficiency References Introduction Heat efficiency in any architectural design is always a topic that must be addressed. With...
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Low Self Esteem Domestic Violence
2,099 wordsDomestic violence is a significant social issue that has a major impact upon the health of women in society. Discuss this statement and identify the factors that may contribute to domestic violence. Domestic violence is known by many names including spouse abuse, domestic abuse, domestic assault, battering, partner abuse, marital strife, marital dispute, wife beating, marital discord, woman abuse, dysfunctional relationship, intimate fighting, male beating and so on. McCue (1995) maintains that ...
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Nobel Peace Prize One Of The Worst
2,134 wordsEast Timor is half of an island in Indonesia, about 300 miles north of Australia. In the 1500 s, Portugal colonized the island of Timor, and its inhabitants today are primarily Catholic. The Dutch colonized much of the area, eventually including the western half of Timor as part of the Dutch East Indies. Before 1975 it was a lush paradise that had remained virtually untouched by the western world. In 1975 Indonesia invaded and annexed the now defenseless East Timor. It was an act based upon gree...
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Lung Cancer Mother Died
1,168 wordsCathy Freeman was born in Mackay in Queensland in 1973. She is a very good runner and won a scholarship to boarding school where she was able to have professional coaching. Freeman is the first Aboriginal sprinter to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games (1994). She also won a silver medal in the 1996 Olympic Games. She is very proud of her Aboriginal background and has carried the Australian and the Aboriginal flags around the track after winning a race. She has often appeared on televisio...
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Rest Of The World Rocky Mountains
1,394 wordsGive An Overview Of Life Through The Give An Overview Of Life Through The Tertiary, In Relation To Changing Paleogeography And Climate The tertiary consisted of two main epochs. The Paleocene, the Eocene and the Oligocene, which make up the Paleogene; and the Miocene and Pliocene, which make up the Neogene. The close of the Cretaceous Period marked a major transition in Earth s history. Ammonoids and marine reptiles disappeared from the sea. Marine taxa that persist as familiar inhabitants of mo...
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Theatre South Australia State Theatre South Australia Alan
943 wordsMartin Dysart, child psychiatrist, is on a quest to discover why a confused, passionate 17 year old boy named Alan, has savagely blinded six horses with a spike. The discovery of this forms Peter Shaffer? s brutal play? Equus? . ? Equus? , meaning horse in Latin, was performed by State Theatre of South Australia and directed by Marion Potts. Although written in the 1970? s many of the issues raised are highly relevant to today? s audience. The emotional impact of the play remains intact and cont...
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London Stock Exchange Development Projects
1,660 wordsQuality Issues In System Development The period between the 1970 s and 1980 s was a time of great advancement in computer hardware technology which took an industry still in its infancy, to a level of much sophistication and which ultimately revolutionized the information storage and processing needs of every other industry and that of the entire world. However, it was also during this period when the shortcomings of implementing such technology became apparent. A significant number of developme...
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London Stock Exchange Development Projects
1,655 wordsThe period between the 1970 s and 1980 s was a time of great advancement in computer hardware technology which took an industry still in its infancy, to a level of much sophistication and which ultimately revolutionized the information storage and processing needs of every other industry and that of the entire world. However, it was also during this period when the shortcomings of implementing such technology became apparent. A significant number of development projects failed which resulted wit...
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