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Introduction Childhood obesity is a major health problem in the entire nation with one in four children being overweight or obese. Obesity in early life does not only cause health and social problems in the short term, but can also increase the risk of chronic disease later in life. One of the most affected regions of New South Wales is South Western Sydney including its seven rural and semi-rural areas. To understand why childhood obesity is more prevalent in these areas, we need to have a…

viewers with a serious yet humorous recount of the hard journey Anh and his family have faced, from being trapped on a small boat full of people which took them from Vietnam to Australia to being robbed of their very few belongings. Throughout the book, it is strongly reinforced that family is important and should be the number one priority. Furthermore, loving and supporting of each other regardless of the situation not only enhances the family unit financially…

If Ɵ1 is greater than the critical angle then light cannot refract across. The critical angle is the angle whose sin is n2/n1. (Davis) The refractive index of the medium is a number that characterizes the optical density of the medium in vacuum. It means the change in the speed of light that travels through a medium relative to vacuum. When a ray of light strikes the boundary at an angle greater than the critical angle, it reflects…

physical activity. The survey does not examine how these results may vary from one region to another or from one part of a city to another (ABS, 2013). 4.2. Physical Activity Guidelines in Australia The Federal Department of Health has issued recommendations for levels of physical activity that vary according to age. For 0-5 year olds it is recommended they have at least three hours of physical activity every day, either in a single block or spread throughout the day. For 5-12 and 13-17 year…

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…

the average cost of incarceration in Australia? Does it vary from an institution to an institution? Why? (4 marks) According to the 2015 Government Services Report, average annual cost of incarceration for an adult in Australia, is $111.325. Nationally, it costs approximately $219,000 to incarcerate a youth annually. The costs of incarceration in Australia vary from to institution and depend on several factors. These include the location of the prison, the number of prisoners, the programs…

McDonald’s All over the world, McDonald’s corporation has remained the largest chain of restaurants. This restaurant that deals with fast food can does a very large set of tasking in food production. In one single day, this restaurant can serve up to sixty eight million customers all over the world, in all the 119 countries that the chain of restaurants are set up. The corporation’s initiation can be rooted back to the year 1940 with its headquarters in the USA. The founders of the restaurant…

The subject of terrorism is a disturbing subject to discuss. We have been hearing and reading about terror threats, terror attacks, and terror groups through the media. Recently, the world has experienced a terrifying, exponential increase in the number of terrorist attacks; The Global Terrorism Database listed 1,395 attacks in 1998, a figure that has steadily risen since then, reaching a record high of 8,441 in 2012. The media plays a large role in manipulating the public’s understanding of…

reliability (Willemsen et al., 1998). In this task, the participants were presented, via a compact disc player, a series of single digit numbers and were required to add the present number to the number previously presented and report their answer aloud. They then have to remember the last number that they heard and add it to the next number presented. For example, if they first two numbers presented were six and four they have to add them together and call out the answer “ten”. They then have…

disagree where Homo-sapiens emerged and this caused the origin of the modern Humans to be a fervently debated topic in Palaeontology and Anthropology. There are two theories currently regarding the origin of the modern-day humans: 1) They emerged in one place which is Africa and then migrated elsewhere which is the “Out of Africa Theory” and 2) Is that Hominids spread out of Africa and evolved worldwide which is the “Multi-regional Theory”. We believe in the Out of Africa theory and ill prove…