Sandpit

AFTER THE SWEET HEREAFTER The Sweet Hereafter written by Russell Banks is in part a story about what happens to characters and a community in the small town of Sam Dent in New York after a bus crash that can only be seen as tragic, kills fourteen children and leaves the town and people in turmoil. This event begs the question as to who is to be blamed and how can one recover from a heavy loss like that of a child, like narrator Billy Ansel, or reputation as is the case of the first narrator,…

External Maddington primary school (MPS) is a small, metro, government school located on Albany Highway south of Perth. The school is situated on 4.98 hectares and shares the site with the Maddington Education Support Centre. It was established in 1914 and parts of the buildings architecture still reflect the time, but also has a new Early Childhood centre built onto the school. Staff MPS has a total of 15 teaching staff on site with 12 having a full time equivalent. There is also 15…

Enemy from outer space YEAR 2075 After 3 straight days of attacks, the buildings stopped crumbling, smoke began to lift, silence overcame the city. As Katherine sat in fear, exhaustion overwhelmed her and she began to sleep. YEAR 2065 Katherine waited for her father, Dr. Terrance Harris, to arrive home from work. She was excited for him to get home since it was her 14th birthday and she was promised a very special gift from her father. The doorbell rang and not seeing her father out the window…

A new discovery was released in 2016, when a bulldozer operator in northwestern Oklahoma uncovered a Columbian Mammoth skull. Mammoths lived during the Paleolithic Era beginning 2.6 million years ago until roughly 10,000 YBP. This time period was also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, which was later followed by the current stage we live in today, the Holocene Epoch. According to the sixth threshold, 200,000 years ago mammoths were hunted by neanderthals, (early homo sapiens), which were used as…

Maurice reached his early developmental milestones without concern, however at the age of four after commencing kindergarten it was recognised that he demonstrated social and behavioural delays, along with significant speech and language delays, which inevitably resulted in the diagnosis of Autism. Maurice is a male child who is 4.9 years of age, he is the fourth child born in a nuclear family of seven siblings. Two of Maurice’s elder siblings have also been diagnosed as being on the autism…

In a class of 2.5 - 3 years old, there is a boy who comes to the day care with tears in his eyes. Morning separation time is very hard for him and he does not want his parents to let go. As soon as his parents departs, he starts crying, hitting children next to him, pushing them and throwing toys towards children as well as his educators. He also used to bite children when they approach him to play or share toys. He doesn't like to play or share toys with other children. His mother has a baby at…

The first key feature is authorization, this makes managers accountable for their actions/spending and helps prevent fraud in an organisation (Atrill, McLaney, 2011). For an organisation it is important to make the right choice between a centralised control of the budget, where the organisations overall aspirations are at the heart of any decision making, or to delegate the responsibility to subordinates who will have a better understanding of their local environment. Usually a mixture of…

his collection, but does not return. He went to a sandy area in search of a beetle, but instead, finds a village. It starts to get late, so he stays in the village overnight and expects to leave the next day. They do not allow him. He stays in a sandpit with a resident woman who tells him about life there, and her husband and child, who died in a storm. He tries various ways to escape, including faking illness and injury, protesting work, and escapes at one point, but is captured. He eventually…

An entire city was nearly obliterated, as well as the lives that lay within.Hiroshima was the first victim of the atomic bomb. At a time where bloodshed raged during World War II, America’s enemy could have never foresaw the tragedy that was about to obliterate upon it. Japan sought world domination, and America needed a way to stop them. Franklin Delanor Roosevelt began the construction of The Atomic Bomb before he passed away, and Harry Truman stepped in as his vice and finished his work.…

Take for example the 100% Pure (Tourism New Zealand) tourism campaign that uses commercials and still images to emphasise New Zealand’s natural landscape and an ‘outdoorsy lifestyle’, (Stahl, 237) or the Mitre10 Sandpit commercial which explicitly states that “DIY is in our DNA”. Skellerup’s advertisement, through signifying practicality and ‘usefulness’ ties into this notion of DIY, and, gumboots are a form of interacting with New Zealand’s natural landscape. These…