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The Fall Of American Dream In Great Gatsby
1,226 words'THE GREAT GATSBY AND THE FALL OF THE AMERICAN DREAM' The book 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald was an 'icon of its time. ' The book discusses topics that were important, controversial and interesting back in 1920 's America. The novel is 'an exploration of the American Dream as it exists in a corrupt period of history. ' The main themes in the book are the decay of morals and values and the frustration of a 'modern's octet. The Great Gatsby describes the decay of the American Dream and...
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Hereditary Claim Maori Tattoos
746 wordsWhen looking at Maori art, there is one thing that sticks out amongst everything else with me, and with most likely everyone that sees it for the first time, this is their tattooing skills. They are equipped with many other art skills such as their carvings, weaponry, and townhouses, but the tattoos represent the tribe as a whole and are visible on the people themselves. The art of tattoo was brought to New Zealand by the Polynesians when they migrated to New Zealand. Men of the tribe are more e...
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Genetically Modified Foods Gm Foods
1,183 wordsThe issue of genetic engineering has always been a very controversial one. The cloning of Dolly the sheep was hailed as a revolutionary breakthrough by scientists while many groups were sceptical about its repercussions. Only recently however has the topic of genetically creating and modifying foods come to public attention. Despite the relative youth of the issue, it has caused much debate among various groups worldwide. As of now, there is no legislation in Australia prohibiting the selling of...
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One Of The Greatest Northwest Passage
853 wordsCaptain James Cook~ World's Greatest Explorer Captain James Cook, an English Navigator and explorer, discovered Austria and the Hawaiian Islands on three famous voyages through the south pacific. Cook became an explorer because of his love of adventure and curiosity about distant lands and their people. Cook was born in Yorkshire, England in the year 1728. Then in the year 1755, Cook joined the British Navy. As a member of the Navy, he became an expert surveyor and astronomer. He was privileged ...
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South East Asia World War Ii
1,108 wordsThe Vietnam War had great political impact and led to deep division within Australian society. The Australian people were forced to take the issues about the Cold War, Vietnam and the arms race seriously because of Australias military involvement in Vietnam from 1962 to 1972. As a result, our fear of communism and of Asia increased dramatically. Australia, occupying a large mass of land, yet having a small population had always lived in the belief that they were threatened some way by the foreig...
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The Anzac At Gallipoli Campaign
528 wordsFor todays essay I will talk about why the Anzac involve in the Battle of Gallipoli. Actually the plan is planned by the British to attack the Western Front e. g. Germany by attacking Turkey, Germany's new ally. The plan is to force the battleships entering the Dardanelles strait and to attack Turkeys capital Constantinople. The Gallipoli campaign for the Anzac's is very important because they were helping their ally Britain to defeat Germany. They arrived at the Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915. The...
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Potiki Is Toko Maui
1,157 wordsShe blew his mouth and nostrils, and with two fingers lightly massaged his chest until the mucus began to drain freely. She took a pendant from her ear and put it on the blanket beside him. Tokowaru-i-te-Marama. Ko Tokowaru-i-te-Marama te into o teen, she said. (Grace 36) The passage above comes from the book Potiki. Its when granny Tamihana breathes life into Toko and gives him the name of her deceased brother. In Potiki, a novel written by Patricia Grace, we are introduced to a family that is ...
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Potiki And The Art Of Telling Stories
976 wordsThis is an exploration essay on the theme in Patricia Graces novel Potiki that telling and retelling stories is an important and valuable part of being human. An important theme in Potiki is the enduring idea that creating and sharing stories as a central part of being human is important. It is a significant theme because the novel is heavily imbued with Maori culture, in which the stories and spoken teachings are given prominence, and also because it is a popular belief that people need narrati...
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Snaps His Fingers Fire Which Would Pass Chief
1,855 wordsWe have seen that the Mikados food was cooked every day in new pots and served up in new dishes; both pots and dishes were of common clay, in order that they might be broken or laid aside after they had been once used. They were generally broken, for it was believed that if any one else ate his food out of these sacred dishes, his mouth and throat would become swollen and inflamed. The same ill effect was thought to be experienced by any one who should wear the Mikados clothes without his leave;...
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Industrial Revolution Labour Market
1,460 wordsFollowing the lead of Britain from where many of the original settlers came, workers in various occupations banded together to form unions. Ship writers, boat builders, tailors, bakers and carpeteners were among the first craft unions form in Australia before 1848. By forming an association workers could obtain better wages and working conditions. However the employers wanted the highest profit margins so wished to keep wages low and spend little money on the working environment. The law of supp...
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Gender Inequality Objective Reality
2,004 wordsThe Whale Rider (1) The rising popularity of so-called post-colonial literature is closely associated with the philosophy of New Age beginning to attract more and more White people in Western countries. In its turn, this can be explain by these peoples tendency to indulge in social escapism while growing increasingly uncomfortable with the factual realities of multiculturalism, these people are simply afraid of admitting this fact to themselves, which in its turn, prompts them to seek emotional ...
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Older Women Learning Disability
1,573 wordsSociology Of Disability A disability can be physically visible as with mobility impairments or non-visible which may include learning disabilities, hearing and visual impairments, chronic health problems and head injuries. According to statistics, nowadays in New Zealand the majority of people with disabilities have more than one disability. Forty percent of people with disabilities have a single disability. People living in residential facilities are more likely to have multiple disabilities. N...
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Harry S Truman U S Military
854 wordsThe Navy pilot whose bombs killed six people in a training accident in Kuwait had received the go-ahead from a U. S. forward air controller who then called out abort, abort in a belated attempt to wave off the misplaced strike, defense officials said Tuesday. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the controller, whose job is to direct a pilot to a ground target, said to the pilot as he approached, Cleared, hot, which is an unambiguous instruction to release the bombs. Seconds l...
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Returned To England Royal Society
454 wordsCaptain James Cook Captain James Cook was born in Marton-in-Cleveland, near Yorkshire, England. He was born on October 27, 1728. In 1759, after the fall of Quebec, Cook became master of the flagship Northumberland. He had had previous experience in this as an apprentice at a shipowners called The Walker Brothers. He attracted the attention of the Royal Society by calculating the longitude of Newfoundland. He also observed solar eclipses to discover things like this. First Voyage: Cook was made a...
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University Of Cambridge Alpha Particles
664 wordsRutherford was born on August 30, 1871, in Nelson, New Zealand. He was educated at the University of New Zealand and the University of Cambridge. He was a professor of physics at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec from 1989 to 1907. He was also professor at the University of Manchester in England. After 1919 he was professor of experimental physics and director of the Cavendish Lab at the University of Cambridge moreover held a professorship, after 1920, at the Royal Institution of Great Brit...
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Rest Of The World John Howard
991 wordsThe controversy surrounding and restricting the number of immigrants allowed into Australia each year has flared erratically since Australia opened it s gates to immigrants in the post world war II period. The issue simmered through the lower part of 1998 when the federal government once again considered acceptable numbers to be allowed into Australia in the near future. The issue was greeted with a wide ranging debate with in the media via editorials, letters to the editor and feature articles ...
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Couple Of Weeks Weeks Ago
1,014 wordsTo who ever finds this letter, My name is Ted Jones and I am 15 years old. I am writing to you to tell you what life is like in the 1990 s so you can compare it to your life. I am also writing because you may find it interesting to read about the past in the first hand. I have three sisters, Lucy who is 18, Hannah who is 13 and Jodie who is 8. Jeanette lives with her boyfriend and her daughter Nicole who is 5, so that makes me an uncle. My two other sisters are still at school. My parents names ...
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York Harcourt Brace Herman Melville
1,230 wordsMoby Dick: Comparing Whaling Now to the Occupation in the Nineteenth Century The whaling industry has drastically changed technologically and politically from the time depicted in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby Dick to the present. New harpoons, faster motor ships, and shore butchering stations have made whaling safer and quicker than Melville could have ever imagined. These changes are due largely to new technology and the increased value for whale products. The new methods of whaling have a...
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Auto Da Fay Fay Weldon One
891 wordsFay and fortune Auto da Fay Fay Weldon Flamingo? 15. 99, pp 366 When Fay Weldon leaves St Andrews with an MA in economics and psychology, she takes her scarlet university gown with her: it comes in useful later, she says, as a Father Christmas outfit, before moths claim it. The scarlet gown is perfect Weldon garb it sums up the teasing personality behind her autobiography, Auto da Fay. How much of what she writes is serious-minded and educated how much a festive charade? The delight of Fay Weldo...
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