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- 11531: Austrailian Aborigines
- Australian Aborigines Prior to the colonization of Australia by the British in the late 1600's, large group of natives called Aborigines lived there. They received the name Aborigine due to the translation of the word "the people who were here from the beginning" (Internet, Aboriginal history and culture). The Australian ... spiritual ideas. It is very important to understand the land of Australia, and the development of the government, which as change the way of life for these people. Australia is the smallest of the world's seven continents and the only one that is comprised of a single political unit. (See Map) The population of Australia is 1,8031,000 with an area of 2,971,081 square miles, (4,753 ... to Aboriginal land right 1970 James Cook lands at the cost of Australia where today there is Sydney. He takes possession of the land because he has the idea of terra nullius" (= land that doesn't belong to anyone). As they see "not one inch of cultivated ground" they occupy the land in the name of this concept. 1967 An addition to the constitution transforms the right to pass laws ...
- 11532: Surfing Has Been Around For Ma
- ... many years. As time went on the art of riding waves then developed into more of a ¡§leisure sport¡¨ than that of being a part of work. The first actual surfboarders originated in the 1920¡¦s where they rode large redwood planks that weighed around 126 pounds. As technology developed the boards became shorter, lighter and became better designed. The next surfboards to follow were made in the 1950¡¦s, this time the boards where made of balsa wood and then covered in a layer of fiberglass, these boards reached a length of about 9-10 feet long. In the 1960¡¦s the long board was introduced and was made of Styrofoam and again, covered in fiberglass. In the 70¡¦s the short board took over, which had a similar design to the long boards but ...
- 11533: Robert Frost
- ... farm failed, and it was abroad that Frost met and was influenced by such contemporary British poets as Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves. There are probably three things that account for Robert Frost's poetry. In his poems, he uses familiar subjects, like nature, people doing everyday things and simple language to express his thought. His poems may be easy to read, but not necessarily easy to understand. Almost all of Frost's poems are hiding a secret message. He easily can say two things at the same time. For example, in "The Road Not Taken", Frost talks about being a traveler, but the hidden message is about ... poem sets the picture of a boy swinging from the tree branches, but he really is talking about being carefree. He says that earth is the right place for love. He says that he doesn't know where he would like to go better, but he would like to go swinging from the birches. Another example of symbolic description comes from the poem "Desert Places" he talks about how he ...
- 11534: Battle Royal
- ... say that it moved me the most, I would have to say that the story would have to be "Battle Royal." The reason that the story did move me so was because of the author's keens use of symbolism. I intend to prove, using textual evidence, that through the use of symbolism, the author portrays a larger meaning than what is initially implied to the reader who does not thoroughly analyze the text. Initially, the story seems to be about one black boy's struggle to get ahead in a prodominetly white society. He tries' to accomplish this goal by adhering to his grandfathers dieing words. His grand father told him to "live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome ‘em with yeses, undermine ‘em with grins, agree ‘em to death and destruction, let ‘em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open." In other words his ...
- 11535: Rent Control: Pros and Cons
- ... lower-income tenants from landlords who overprice, and from being forced to move out of a neighborhood because they cannot afford the rent. Limiting the price that a landlord can demand helps maintain a city's ethnic diversity and prevents the creation of slums on the outskirts of the main city. Another thing that proponents say is that by linking rent prices to apartment maintenance and material improvements, rent control actually ... documented in New York and elsewhere, and go against the goals of rent control. Finally, rent control has the bad side effect of turning away new construction. This is because even if rent controls don't include new constructions, owners are afraid to build any new buildings if in a few years those too will be taken over by rent control. Rent control thus leads to less construction and an even greater unsatisfied demand. This, in turn, increases the rents of uncontrolled apartments even more. New constructions are also avoided because banks and insurance companies don't want to invest in areas where rent control is in effect, because they know that it is likely that landlords will not be able to pay for the building, and they will lose their ...
- 11536: Who Has Seen the Wind: Meaning of Life
- ... a very uncomfortable conversation with his dad, Gerald O'Connal, about where babies come from: Remember I told you the pigeon grows inside the egg, the mother lays the egg, and it hatches?...They don't with rabbits. Rabbits are different. The father plants a seed in the mother and the baby grows from it. When it's time, they come out. Is that what he is doing when... Yes Spalpeen, that's what he is doing.(161-162) This fascinated Brian very much. Unquestionably, everything that is born and lives, must eventually die. Death is an unavoidable fact of life, and cannot be escaped. The deaths ...
- 11537: Women In The Labour Force
- ... this percentage had doubled, and women are expected to make up more than 44 percent of the labour force by the end of this century. The increase in female participation started occurring during the 1970's. This increase also caused the largest baby boom that the Canadian female labour force had ever witnessed. In North America it is common for women to have part-time or summer jobs, and the participation ... their average hours decrease by 13 percent. Not only more women were working, more were working part-tim for only part of the year which meant more women on the unemployment rolls. In the 1960's the unemployment rate for females was 3 percent and ten years later increased to 7 percent. Since june 1982 the unemployment rate for men was 11-13 percent and the women's just above that rate which could also exceed that of the men near the end of the century. Only about 11 percent of women had part-time jobs because they couldn't find full- ...
- 11538: Digging By Seamus Heaney
- ... turf-cutters in his day. So when Heaney writes, ‘But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.’ This could be because of a number of reasons; one could be that he just doesn’t want to be a turf digger. He might not find it mentally stimulating enough. But he shows a lot of pride in what his Father and Grandfather do and did for a living. It may ... for some reason it also suggests to me that it was on a cold day. In my opinion that line is also quite interesting to read because it paints a clear picture in my mind’s eye of someone toiling and sloshing around in the mud. I think this is because the poet uses words like; soggy, curt, cuts and edge. Since those words are sharp words they make the phrase clearer and sharper in my mind’s eye. I think the poet’s attitute to work is that of a perfectionist. I get this impression because of how picky he is about describing the way his Father and Grandfather worked. For ...
- 11539: Walking Across Egypt: A Young Elder
- Walking Across Egypt: A Young Elder Mattie Rigsbee is the main character in Clyde Edgerton’s southern style novel, Walking Across Egypt. Mattie is a seventy-eight year old widow with two middle-aged children. Living alone in a small house, she makes sure that everything is taken care of. She ... her are not the words that she is ready or willing to hear. Although begins to display some signs of aging and her family is trying to convince her to slow down her lifestyle, Mattie’s character and mind setting prohibits her from becoming the stereotypical elder. She must make a decision in which direction to turn. As Mattie grows older, she notices that she is beginning to display some signs ... dogcatcher as he is leaving with a brown fice that showed up on her doorstep. “Besides, I’m slowing down,” she says to her son during lunch. The stereotypes of the elderly are influencing Mattie’s life. She is telling herself not to do things because of her age whether or not she is physically able to do them, simply because people associate age with inability and dependence upon others. ...
- 11540: What To Do?: Terrorism and the Media
- ... old Jerusalem, can be compared to the media of today. What better place to get the public informed about your reasons and purpose for attacks than the news. Albert gave a good definition of terrorist's objectives when he stated: "Terrorists try to exercise influence over targeted officials on nations through intimidation of the public and arousal of sympathy for the social and political causes they espouse. Without widespread publicity, terrorist ... political and social significance [their goals and motives], terrorism would cease to exist" (Nacos 48). With all the interaction between the media and terrorism an option being considered by many governments is censorship of media's coverage of terrorist events. During many terrorist incidents the police do not want all the information that they have gathered to be released, for fear of the publics safety, and the security of their future ... were not fully aware of what was going on. Government imposed censorship on news of… terrorism can, in our view, be a cure that is worse than the disease. (150) A total blackout of media's coverage of terrorist events is not necessary, if the media will reform its procedure for covering terrorist activities. A leader in this movement of self-censorship is CBS. CBS has set up a list ...
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