Darwin

land-based bombers to bomb Darwin. This attack on Darwin happened 10 weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor under the same commander, Mitsuo Fuchida. The Japanese had 54 land-based bombers and around 188 attack aircraft which were launched from 4 Japanese aircraft carriers in the Timor Sea. On Darwin’s Harbour there were 46 ships docked there yet the boats couldn’t prevent the attack from the Japanese having around 900 Australians and its allied people lost its life in one day. Darwin was said…

What do Harlan Coben, James Patterson and Kathy Reichs have in common, besides being great writers? They are but just a few of the authors of adult fiction who have written books for teens. And what interesting and unique characters they have created. Harlan Coben’s protagonist Mickey Bolitar is the nephew of Myron Bolitar, who fans will recognize from an adult series of Harlan’s. In the first book of the series, Shelter, Mickey witnesses his father’s death. Not being able to cope with…

Darwin's theory of evolution was based on information that he collected during his voyage around the world in a ship that was called the HMS Beagle. During his voyage, Darwin noticed that different variants of similar creatures lived in different countries around the world. Darwin concluded that these creatures must have had the same ancestor. He stated that other animals of a certain species that had an advantage within a certain location survived whereas those with a less of an advantage did…

The theories presented in Darwin’s book the origins of species changed the path of science to what we know today. Darwin presented an elegant idea that explained the history of life up to the current time. His four postulates stated that individuals in a population have variability, those variations are hereditable and result in an increase in reproduction success. Finally, survival and reproduction are not random. Natural selection acts only on the individual not the species. These…

The second WARREGO was a Grimsby Class Sloop. She was built at Cockatoo Dock in Sydney, launched on the 10th of February 1940 and commissioned on the 22nd of August the same year. She was 266 feet 3 inches in length, 36 feet in the beam, her draught was 15 feet and she weighed in at 1,060 tons (standard). Top speed was 17 knots. WARREGO was armed with 4 x 4-inch guns, 7 x 20mm Oerlikons, Depth Charge Throwers and carried the 128 Asdic (later Sonar) set. After her initial work-up trials, the…

Reaction paper 1 The article, Darwin’s Rib, by Robert S. Root-Bernstein was fascinating to me. My personal reaction to the reading was one of surprise. When I read that the student in Dr. Root-Bernstein’s class believed that “males have one fewer pair of ribs than females” (Root-Bernstein 2010: 53), I was shocked. As someone who is invested in scientific information, I found her reasoning odd and unfounded. She had based her knowledge of scientific facts off a personal religious assumption. I…

complex genetic coding system believed to be an exquisite ‘language’ composed of approximately 3 billion genetic letters, an immensely complex instruction manual. Encouragingly, this finding goes light years beyond the controversial evolution theory of Darwin. Plausibly, the amount of information in a single cell’s DNA persists as roughly equivalent to 12 sets of The Encyclopedia Britannica, an incredible 384 volumes of detailed…

against England in the 1700s. Dr. Erasmus Darwin was probably one of very few British persons who was pleased with that outcome (Dunn Dr. Darwin). He likely would’ve smiled when President Abraham Lincoln paved the way for the extermination of slavery (Dunn Dr. Darwin). But who was this man, and--if he lived in England--why on earth would he be “pleased” by being on the losing side of what should’ve been an easy victory? How on earth does this “Erasmus Darwin” have anything to do with peculiar…

The Bombing of Darwin holds extraordinary significance in the Australian history due to its impact on the Australian war effort during the 1940’s and its shaping of the nation identity. There were issues that triggered the Japanese to bomb Darwin including key events throughout the war effort. There were also many short and long term effects after the bombings. Darwin was a key defensive position that was in the way of the aggressive Japanese forces in their push to claim as much land as…

inquiry. Two important people that stood out during the Europeans industrial age were Karl Marx and Charles Darwin. Both of these men developed new ways of processing knowledge that significantly altered previous ways of thinking. As Marx analyzed capitalism and expanded on the idea of inevitability of socialist revolution, he developed a systematic framework for exploration of human history. Darwin expressed how natural selection drives the process of evolution, developing a new structure for…