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relationship with strong western powers, such as the United States. An Australian Academic Dr. Alison Broinowski made a statement in 1988 that “Most Australian’s seem not to have noticed a shift in gravity from the declining west to the dynamic, modernising East has been going on for some years. Our minds are in the wrong time zone. It is important we make friends with our neighbours.” In the past especially during the Vietnam War, Australia may have overlooked any Eastern relationships by…

Promise of sun, although there was not a cloud in the sky.” (London) Jack London’s short story starts out cold, bleak and rather miserable. The story is about an unnamed man traveling the Yukon with a native wolf-dog. They are set to get to an old mining camp off Henderson Creek to meet up with the boys a little after dark. Unfortunately, due to the man’s ego by not following the old man’s advice and his lack of common sense, he ends up freezing to death on the trail thus, never making it to…

London’s East End in the 1880s was the neighborhood of the urban poor characterized with severe overcrowding, an acute housing crisis and as the location where railway terminals, jails and the East Indian docks were situated. It was a world apart from the spaces inhabited by the middle and upper class Londoners and was thus conceived of in imperial terms as the foreign, dark and forbidding other, the opposite of the West End which represented the triumph of imperialism…

the League and occupied a region around Manchuria called Jehol. The League lost its most powerful member in the Far East and Japan as a result of its rebellious act united with Germany and Italy; two other nations that broke the League rules. U.S President Roosevelt ordered a trade embargo on American scrap steel and oil hoping it would force Japan to end its military expansion in East Asia. Without imports of steel and oil, the Japanese military could not fight for long; without oil, the navy…

image of the Ripper is completely different than the working-class images of ‘Leather Apron’ or the ‘mad butcher’. The idea that the serial killer could be a member of the upper class horrified the people of the East End and led to the expansion of the search for the Ripper to the West End. One witness testimony stood out from the rest. Israel Schwartz identified the body of the deceased as a woman he saw just before the time of the murder; He said she was with two men, both of whom had dark…

For a very long time women have been suffering in the middle east, with restrictive rules and laws women are forced to surrender to the men who control their lives. Could you imagine a world where women aren't allowed to do basic everyday tasks like drive a car, vote in political elections, or choose which outfit to wear that day. Life in the middle east is significantly easier for men, men get to make the decisions, they have authority over any females in their life. “In Saudi Arabia, every…

Saturday, April 7th, four days after her death: “On Thursday the London Hospital informed the coroner of the death of Emma Elizabeth Smith, aged 45, a widow...she was set upon by some men and severely maltreated. The men made off, and have not yet been apprehended. She was subsequently conveyed to the hospital where she died.” This shows Smith’s death was not regarded as extraordinary, because in “1887, two hundred brothels in East London were closed…render[ing] thousands of women homeless,…

Introduction London already hosted for three times for the Olympics Games event and London is the city that hosted the most Summer Olympics. The London Olympics Stadium is located at a diamond shaped island. The design of the London Olympics Stadiums need to design against some basic needs of the large games stadium such as long term, limited land and develop the architectural language of venue design. Because, sustainability is one of a favorite development method in nowadays and as one would…

Abstract The present paper deals with Ved Mehta’s first novel – Deliquent Chacha. It is a short satirical novel set in London and Oxford. Ved Mehta has proved to be a shrewd and observant commentator on Indian society. He has brilliantly satirized Indians who insanely ape the foreign and are still unable to cast away the cloak of Britishers. The touch of satire is turned as much on British as on Indian – because human nature everywhere is same. No nation is unaffected by self-deception, vanity,…

Museum. He was an artist and made this painting during his visit to India in 1865. William Simpson was born in 1823 and was interested in art since he was twelve. He was a painter and an apprentice to a lithographer in Glasgow and later on he came to London in 1851. “He became well known for his paintings with commissions by Queen Victoria to paint various important events in her reign” . His journey towards fame was started when he acclaimed the title of the war artist during his time in…