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this year, nearly 50,000 children will finish school having almost no swimming skills. With this, the children will grow up in high school and adulthood with not even the basic necessities to swim. These kids won’t be able to swim non-stop for 400 metres nor be able to stay afloat with their head above water for more than two minutes, fully clothed. Learning to do swimming, lifesaving and survival skills during the secondary school years, including basic rescue and CPR, will assist in reducing…

creating mountains. The creation of Uluru began over 500 million years ago. Uluru is made from Arkose which is a coarse grained sandstone rich in the mineral feldspar. Arkose was eroded from high mountains combined mainly of granite. Uluru rises 348 metres above the desert plain but it…

These drugs may make you look really good and smart but are they really worth the risk, or do you want to look cool? These drugs are known as Performance enhancing drugs. They are drugs that make you smarter, and make you perform better in your sports, academics and almost anything else you want to get better at. These drugs are also known as PED’s, is using PED’s worth the risk, they can ruin your life, also, most people see it as a form of cheating. Although using PED’s really worth the risk…

probably be taller than you, then you realize how short you are. The giraffe is the tallest terrestrial mammal in the world, a true beauty amongst the animals that roam the savannahs of Africa. The average height of a giraffe is between 4.3 metres to 5.8 metres with the adult female weighing about 800 kilograms and the male weighing 1,250 kilograms. This beautiful animal was first referred to as a camel with leopard spots and was once seen as a pet for the rich and influential, even being…

Usain Bolt,born 21 August 1986) is a Jamaican. He is the first person to hold both the and since became mandatory. He also holds the world record as a part of the . He is the reigning world and Olympic champion in these three events. Due to his unprecedented dominance and achievements in sprint competition, he is widely considered to be the greatest sprinter of all time.An eight-time , Bolt won the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay at three consecutive Olympic Games, although he subsequently…

In the early hours of August 29th 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and surrounding areas of the United States. Whilst moving towards land in the form of Florida on the 25th of August 2005, Katrina started of as a tropical storm then slowly turned into a category one hurricane. After passing Florida, the hurricane gradually increased to category two and then three and then, when around 300 or so miles out from New Orleans(8), it reached a category five level when winds amounted to…

With Sweden being the top country in waste management, Avfall Sverige is the Swedish’s primary waste management company with 400 members from both the public and the private waste management and recycling sectors, representing 99,9 per cent of the Swedish population. It is a representative for its members in addressing politicians, other decision makers, authorities and media, both in Sweden and internationally. Founded in 1947, it remains a stakeholder and trade associate in waste management…

The moisture can into the steel frame if we assume steel are not insulated, and then dewater on wallboard directly. The interior walls will reach a cold spots of moisture behind the wall. It is very expensive to maintain. Steel conducts heat 300 to 400 times faster than wood, that’s occurs the thermal bridging, in which heat takes the most conductive way. Nevertheless the most conductive way in a steel frame is by…

Over the years, as humans we have constantly built monuments and structures with different purposes. I am going to concentrate on why monuments such as Stonehenge and Avebury may have been built, and how they may have been used in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, when these monuments were often built in clusters of similar topographic location (Richards 1996, 190). I am going to explore the possibilities of their social, religious and scientific purpose. To do this, I will analyse a variety…

The Kokoda Campaign is one of the most famous and well-known battles faced by the Australian soldiers in World War II. The battle continued over a four month period thought New Guinea and surrounding islands. The main purpose of the campaign from the Australian side was to protect New Guinea from the Japanese whose plan was to invade and claim their land as their own. This is known to be one of the bloodiest campaigns of the World War with the trail being extremely narrow and no where to hide…