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History of Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS) Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS) was first proposed by Alan Walsh, later known as Sir Alan in 1955. Sir Alan worked in Melbourne for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (C.S.I.R.O.). This concept came to Alan Walsh in a flash of inspiration as he was gardening at his Melbourne home. This led to the invention that has since been labelled as one of the most significant achievements in chemical analysis for last…

Australia has a staggering 44% of adults who are classified as functionally illiterate (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2013). Functionally illiteracy is defined by Vágvölgyi, Coldea, Dresler, Schrader, and Nuerk (2016) as "a person who cannot use reading, writing, and calculation skills for his/her own and the community's development" (p. 1). This is more common than you would think, even amongst developed nations, with 750 million people in the world remaining functionally illiterate (United…

houses and buildings. The worst part of it all is that when the Loggers take down trees, they also take away tons and tons of oxygen. Much of the oxygen in the world today comes from the Amazon Rainforest. The rainforest use to cover about 6 million square miles now,…

Garcinia L. is a pantropically distributed genus with high species richness in south East Asia, and composed of 240 woody tree species. In India the genus represented by 36 species including 6 endemic to Western Ghats only. For Genus Garcinia Western Ghats is considered as secondary center for origin (Abraham et al. 2006). It includes G. indica (Thouars) Choisy, G. gummi-gutta (L.) Robs., G. hombroniana Pierre and G. xanthochymus Hook.f. ex Anders that provide important resources in Indian…

The Asmat are a group of village-living people from New Guinea. They are famously known for their woodcarving skills. When looking at their artwork, one can see how some features and themes are very prevalent throughout the pieces, while other times it seems as though the art was made by a completely different group of people. When looking at two specific pieces the similarities and differences really shine through. The two pieces that will be compared and contrasted are one of the Asmat…

Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, located in the southern Atlantic ocean. It is a very unique place that few people know about, and that is why I chose to learn more about this culture. It is truly interesting to see how the people on Tristan da Cunha live their lives, and how different their way of life is from our own. There are no airports on the island of Tristan da Cunha, so the only way to get there is by boat, across some of the…

prevalent in Australia can be supported by a rapid changing multicultural Australia. Through an examination of Linda Ng’s review Dead Europe and the coming of age in Australian literature: Globalisation, cosmopolitanism and perversity, the binary relationship between Europe and Australia will be looked at with a focus on ‘Cosmopolitism’. Alongside,…

The acknowledged traditional land owners of my area are the Gurung-Willam-Balluk people of the Wurundjeri tribe of the Kulin nation. History tells us that the Indigenous people roamed our lands long before Captain Cook declared Australia to be ‘terra nullius’ and claimed the land for the British Crown in 1770. It has been documented that prior to the first fleets arrival in 1788 there were 260 Indigenous communities and over 500 different dialects. But with the arrival of the European…

however, due to the growing the pursuit of individualism- an offshoot of secularism, it has caused a major increase in the population of people who choose ‘no religion.’ New age religions were part of the rapid growing faiths in the 2001 census in Australia, increasing by 140 percent in the 5 years since 1996 (Woodhead, 2016). New age religion forms an overall spiritual movement with no single unifying doctrine. Regardless, they share similar beliefs and practices which are often attached to…

Aboriginal Population development The estimates about how many Aborigines were living in Australia in 1788 differ. According to Blake (1981), it were about 300,000 Aborigines in Australia, divided into about 600 tribes with around 500 members each (Blake, 1981). However, according to Dixon, Ramson & Thomas (1990), their total number of that time lay between one and two million, divided into about 700 tribes. In 1921, the Aboriginal population was at its lowest level so far with around 60,000…