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    situations, an ability that can prove effective in a disaster situation. In Indonesia, human made disaster is an issue, whereby between 440,000 and 1.3 million people have been forced to move within Indonesia due to the separatist and ethnic conflicts in Timor, Aceh, Papua, Maluku, Central Kalimantan and central Sulawesi (Rahardjo, 2002). The local authorities are finding their resources pushed to the limit trying to look after the refugees, where little help has come from the…

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    Over the years, Australia has been developing relationships with different countries aiming to make progress in different aspects including politically, economically as well as several other aspects. When a spotlight is thrown on Australia’s relationships with other countries, many often underestimate Australia’s relationship with Canada. It is one of Australia’s most valuable allies. Ever since the 19th century, both countries have been cooperating with one another and that led to having a…

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    Describe the background of this person: Mary Mackillop was born on the 15th of January 1842, in Fitzroy Melbourne, the eldest of eight children. She was well educated by her father, who unfortunately lacked finial awareness so would often travel without a home. She was born into a catholic family. Her mother was called Flora and her father Alexander, both who had migrated from Scotland to Australia. Describe the context in which this person was living: The Mackillop children experienced an…

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    Ayesha Akhter Hist 173 Yuki Terazawa “Comfort Women” During World War II, when Japan waged the so called “holy war” to dominate East Asia, the Japanese government arranged a system for the government officials, police and military police, to force women into being a “comfort women” which in other words, a sex slave. These women were abducted, deceived and violently raped. The point of “comfort women” was not only to stabilize the army’s morale but also to prevent rape and sexually transmitted…

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    Have you ever thought about what it’s like to not have food or what it’s like to be hungry? We may think that most of us do not have to worry about being hungry every day, but in reality there are billions of people who are hungry. It is sad to think about all of those people who don’t make it through the night because of hunger. Some don’t have the energy to talk nor walk. What does hunger really mean? Hunger is a term which has four meanings according to the Oxford English Dictionary (1971).…

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    Neotectonics In Australia

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    The spreading of Seafloor stopped at c. 55 Ma, aside from in the south where Australia keeps on moving north far from Antarctica. Toward the north, a Tertiary to Recent active edge is being made by the Australian and Eurasian plate collision at the Timor area, which is reactivating and overprinting more established inactive edge structures. The geology of Australia consist of all common rock types and from all geological time span dating more than 3.8 billion years of planet Earth history. The…

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    The aim of this report is to examine the current and past strategies of Delta Cafés and identify potential markets for future international expansion. Additionally, it aims to further provide objective recommendations regarding an optimal improvement of Delta’s strategic prospects. By recognizing and analyzing possible development opportunities, the report endeavors to give clear suggestions concerning the most profitable entry modes suited for the new markets. In terms of methodology, the…

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    History. Let’s just say theres a reason its called history and not the truth. By dissecting its parts we realize that the word itself conveys its meaning. History is, his story. Taking into consideration that“his” is not always a male but the one thing that stays constant is that his story is never exactly the same as her story or the other guys story and most importantly not, your story. Everyone has different ways of perceiving what is seen, heard, felt and further more understanding those…

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    Between 1945 and 1976, 1.5 million migrants were born in places other than Britain. The Department of Immigration resettled around 95,000 Indochinese refugees in Australia between the years of 1975 and 1985. Refugees from the former Yugoslavia, East Timor and El Salvador were also given refugee in Australia during the 1980s and 1990s. Australia joined the Comprehensive Plan of Action in 1989, coordinating an international response to persistent outflows of refugees from Vietnam and South-East…

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    addition to those of their allies, and to silence radical opponents. In his biographical documentary Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, Noam Chomsky, a major critic of corporate media, brings to fore the Indonesian occupation of East Timor and the resulting genocide, identifying it as a prime instance of the media’s agenda-specific selection system. This conflict received very little domestic attention across virtually all major outlets due to the United States government’s…

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