...Some of the most amazing and unique creatures in the world reside in “the land down under” known as Australia. People travel to see a variety of attractions that destinations offer like beaches and architecture. However, the country of Australia offers a plethora of sites, culture, history, diverse environments, and wildlife. Some of Australia’s wildlife include reptiles, marsupials, mammals, and marine life. Additionally, some of that wildlife is endemic to Australia, which adds to the exhilaration and beauty of the country. The country of Australia consists of six states and two territories (Kalman 2008). Many of the wildlife species live in their respective habitats specific to each territory just as any other animals or creatures. The reptiles of Australia include snakes. Many snakes exist in this country, and some of the world’s deadliest snakes live here. According to Rolf Smith, “thirteen of the most poisonous snakes and spiders in the world live in Australia.” (Smith 2010). Watching where one steps would prove to be most important while trekking throughout. Australia’s terrain makes it home to many snakes, which makes awareness so critical when visiting. However, the fact that so many reptiles and snakes live there certainly adds to the excitement of visiting. Marsupials are yet another species of wildlife that live in Australia. Some of the marsupials abundant in Australia include kangaroos, wallabies, and koalas. Kangaroos make up a large population...
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...Or any kind of attraction at that. But, surprisingly, the theme park did very well on receiving revenue. The website for Banksy's 'bemusement park' announced that it was unable to sell tickets online, with Banksy's spokeswoman saying that the site had over six million hits by Friday. A message posted on the site states that: "Due to unprecedented demand 'the UK's most depressing new visitor attraction' is currently unable to process online ticket sales." [1] Officials have also said the attraction was able to spark an interest in more than 150,000 visitors and £20 million ($30 million) to the seaside...
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...Immortal gods… please, I beg you to forgive me! Ships black as night carrying fated souls washed up onto my gleaming yellow shore. Out of the ships exited men with sandals of worn brown leather, dirty tunics and skin heavily tanned. What a sight were those exhausted men trying to maintain fierce expressions in the midst of their uncleanliness. I turned to the rest of my family only to see them staring at the unexpected visitors in amazement. Then, one of the men walked to the front of the group of sailors, introduced himself as Odysseus and claimed to have fought in the Trojan War. At the sound of this, immediately, I invited them into my home hoping to hear about the infamous battle. The exciting arrival of the visitors made it seem as if the kingdom was dormant. Everyone from the women to the smiths to the dancers was put to work. I made sure that every speck of dirt was scrubbed off their bodies and replaced the unsuitable attire. When it was time to eat, it seemed like I was...
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...Unvaccinated Children: Should they be allowed public schools? Deborah Toodle Stephen Webber English 215 18 August 2013 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to identify the problem that will be addressed with my proposed solution. It will describe the history and overview of the issue both medically and publicly as well as the current status of public and political opinion. Three problems will be identified in the course of this paper as well as support to show the true application of these problems. Finally a solution is proposed and discussed after a summarization of the problems. Unvaccinated Children: Should we allow them in public schools? Every day one of a parents greatest worries is the health of their child. As they get older and venture out of the house and out of a parents sight more often, children are exposed to an even greater risk of illness. The culmination of this is the day a parent puts a child on a school bus and sends them off for the first time. One of the biggest fears of the modern day parent is the health risks of sending a child to public schools. While they claim to be safer in the modern world, the exposure of children to one another in a confined place for days on end still continually results in easily contracted illnesses. Children are constantly reported as having flu’s or colds that can be traced back to an entire classroom of sick children. So why should they be exposed to extra illnesses and even sometimes...
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...----------------------- CODE OF CONDUCT 1. CODE OF CONDUCT: Rules of good conduct must take place and be honored by the security officers of a shift if it is to function effectively. All security officers will adhere to certain rules in order to enhance a climate of harmony and teamwork. Personal background qualities that need to exist in order to accomplish this are: a. Self discipline b. Self respect c. Loyalty d. Professionalism e. Team spirit f. Cooperation g. Good humor h. Pride 2. PERSONAL CONDUCT: Security officers are to conduct themselves in a professional manner while on duty. The following is a list of things that employees should not do: a. Use bad language b. Make abusive or demeaning remarks about race, religion and must make an immediate apology if offence is taken by any listening party c. Make physical contact with any other employee which may cause offence 3. COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW: Exercise compliance with all laws of Iraq. Immediate dismissal and appropriate prosecution will happen to all who do not. 4. MEDIA: Security guards are not to make any statements to the media. Any approach from the media must immediately be reported to a supervisor. 5. BRIBES: You are not allowed to accept or offer commissions or benefits from or to any supplier or third party. 6. DISCIPLINE: Security officers are required to conform to high disciplinary standards and to obey...
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...In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, there are two characters named Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff. Only one of those two characters is civilized, but in the beginning of the story they both seem to be civilized. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, civilized is marked by well-organized laws and rules about how people behave with each other. Using this definition, Rainsford can be determined the more civilized person compared to Zaroff. Rainsford is more civilized because he refuses to kill another person, he treats other people appropriately, and he uses the best of his abilities to get out of a bad situation. First of all, Rainsford is more civilized than Zaroff because he refuses to kill people...
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...Bay’s defeat of the season. The Broncos are still perfect, 7-0. Over 70,000 fans expected a much balanced game on Sunday night primetime. The Packers were a slight favorite, mainly because of Peyton Manning’s poor season and Rodgers’ excellent offense management. However, the Broncos’ defense was once again fantastic and limited the Pro-Bowl quarterback to only 77 passing yards, the fewest in his career as a starter. Peyton Manning started the game with an authority, connecting with his receivers relatively easy and pretty quick it was 17:0 on the scoreboard. Green Bay’s defense didn’t have any solution for Denver’s mixture of running and passing game. Ronnie Hillman finished the first half with two running touchdowns. Demariyus Thomas was deadly in the air and the injuries of the Packers’ defensive backs made his job easier. The best defense in NFL hasn’t recorded a sack or interception in the first two-quarters, but they rushed Rodgers all the time and constantly pressured him. His throws were pretty much unusable. Eddie Lacy scored a lone touchdown for...
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...ocusing on the issue, Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City vividly describes the conditions of 1890s Chicago, Illinois. In the book, the city is depicted as dirty, polluted, and crime ridden. It was so bad that the main character, Daniel Burnham, moved his family out of the city because, as he wrote, “I could no longer bear to have my children in the streets of Chicago.” In this assignment, we will analyze how The Devil in the White City describes the nearly destitute conditions of Chicago, and how the city has changed in over a century. Throughout Devil, Larson describes the conditions of Chicago many times. One of the reader’s first introductions to the city is “It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in...
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...WHEN IN ROME, SHOULD YOU DO AS THE ROMANS DO? Submit Date January 09, 2012 Table of Content Introduction 3 Meaning 3 Examples 3 Origin 4 Traveling by Country 4 Don’t write a person’s name in red 4 Follow the correct rules when exchanging business cards 5 If you pass something to someone else, use both hands 5 Avoid strong eye contact 5 In the UK, the V-sign with the palm facing inward is extremely rude! 6 In Italy, eat your pasta with a fork, spoons and knives are rude! 6 In various countries, you may be asked to remove your shoes before entering a home. 6 In the UK, stand on the right side of the escalator 7 Summary 7 References 8 Introduction We travel for enjoy, leisure, relaxation, escape, freedom, business, work and pilgrimage. So that, we must travel with open minds and engage with people in the destination because the travel make a differences to our experience and enjoyment. We live in a world of cultural and natural diversity, so we need to travel with respect and treat other people and their places and their environment with respect. Always we need to be conscious of how we feel as "the visited", tourists cluttering our streets and squares, photographing us, peering into windows of our homes invading and denying our privacy, coaches, engines running, outside our houses, groups of tourists aware only of themselves oblivious to others. people behaving badly because they are away from home; forgetting their manners, acting as though they have...
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...manifests itself, workplace violence is a growing concern for employers and employees nationwide. Problem Justification There is no specific reason where I can determine in both listed cases why the violence occurred in the workplace, but there are several reasons that can be listed generally that causes such a behavior. Work and life Stress: As much as companies attempt to dictate this, employees such as "Myles Meyer" do not leave their personal issues at the door. Stress, of a workplace and personal nature, can cause an employee to snap and lash out at whoever the perceived enemy is. Overworking employees can create a hostile work environment, and if the employee is also battling personal issues, the combination can have disastrous and deadly, results as it is shown in the case. Lack of Pre-employment Screening: Companies that do not conduct thorough background screenings on potential employees run the risk of hiring someone who could be prone to violence, or has a violent past. Although many companies are using psychological and psychometric tests during the hiring process in an attempt to weed out the potentially violent candidates, the test is not full-proof and should not be substituted for a thorough background check, but it is used as an indicator and minimizes any risk in the future. Denial: Companies, who take the approach that nothing bad, such as a disgruntled employee returning to do harm to his former boss, actually fuel the workplace violence fire. Ignorance...
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...Name: Pham Quang Vu Student ID: L9928865 Class: S61601A Word count: 641 SUCCESSFUL ADVERTISING REQUIRES CROSSCULTURAL AWARENESS. Advertising have long been an important introducer for every company product to their customer. As the world is focused on economic development, companies are racing for revenue resulted from high income and attractive image. Almost all companies want to have international business to get more profit. However, culture affects everything we do as to persuade people is “easy said than done”. Therefore, not only “know your audience” but also the need of crosscultural knowledge are the target of all advertising activities. This essay will examine why successful advertising requires crosscultural awareness. It seem obviously to be stated that language is key to effective crosscultural advertising. Firstly, the essence of successful advertising is how to use different languages convincing people what the product meant to them. Checking linguistic implication of company product name is important to avoid taboos and misunderstanding . In fact, the introduction of Ford for the car ‘Pinto’ in Brazil is one of examples of linguistic advertising blunders. After seeing sales fail, they soon realised that this name meant by residents in Brazil is ‘tiny male genitals’. Moreover, using suitable language for each country make advertisers show respect to their audiences, lead to increase revenue and increase the value of reputation. Language ...
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...Beijing No. 55 High School BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Investigation Subject: Geography Level: High (HL) Name: Stephanie Chinese: 姜智旻 Homeroom: 10-5 Word count: 1088 Student number: 4192 Supervisor: Craig Hamilton On 20th of August 2010, the oil drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, operating in the Gulf of Mexico exploded then sunk resulting to 11 deaths. During the 87 days, about 4.9 billion barrels of oil had already spread. An estimation of 42,000 gallon of oil is oozing from underwater. From then 75,000km2 was not allowed for fishing. Apparently, the blowout preventer device had bad managements and operations, and failed. Investigators said, “The problems with this blowout preventer were worse than we understood.” (Seth, 2014) In addition, investigators have stated that the cause of this explosion was because of the screw ups with cement, drilling mud, fluid pressure, mismanaged tests, and poor decisions. Therefore, this device should be improved so it doesn’t happen again. They have discovered that it has been the device operator’s fault in view of the fact that the blowout preventer hasn’t been tested accurately, there were problems in the wiring and dead batteries. In order to clean the oil excess, they used powerful chemicals, which they don’t know the effects of on the environment. It was from 1.6km down to the bottom. After this cause, the British Petroleum (BP) went into investigation, negotiating with more than 50 expertise from within BP and industry....
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...The Effects of Architecture on a Psychiatric Office Setting by Nicholas John Mabry Roberts For Dr. Jon Daniel Davey Southern Illinois University Carbondale Architecture 314i Fall 2013 My profession will be in the field of mental health, Psychiatry to be more specific. A Psychiatrist is typically a medical doctor (MD) and is someone who examines, diagnoses, and treats mental disorders with medications. Although a psychiatrist specializes in mental health, they could also, in theory, practice as a medical doctor. Many options open for someone in the field of psychiatry and therefore, they have many options for work settings. In my profession I will most likely spend some time working in a hospitals’ psychiatric ward. I may also work in a prison, a psychiatric hospital, or a combination of both. I could just choose to work as a typical Medical Doctor rather than choosing to work in psychology. I could do both if I chose and if it was required. But ultimately, the goal is to have my own psychiatric clinic to practice out of. The perfect setting for practicing psychiatry is obviously not a psych ward of a hospital or a prison. It is not a place that has all white walls, blue floors, fluorescent lights, barred windows, and strait jackets. It is not a building that is confusing, poorly built, poorly lit, offensive in any way, or just plain ugly. I believe a psychiatric facility should be built in a way that makes patients feel comfortable, at home, welcome...
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... fought in the military, and he even went all across the world hunting some of the most amazing game. Even though he had conquered many types of game that was not enough for him anymore. His life had become one big hunt and he needed to satisfy this thirst for the most dangerous game of all time. General Zaroff grew bored with hunting eventually because he was so good at it and always got his game. He needed a game with instinct and an animal just would not do anymore. General Zaroff finally new what game he wanted as his ultimate hunt. He needed to find a place where he could be free to engage in this twisted desire to hunt this dangerous game. General Zaroff needed something far away, remotely isolated but also a place where frequent visitors would come. General Zaroff made a new home on a tropical island in the Caribbean. Sanger Rainsford was a guest in General Zaroff’s home who had fallen off a yacht and needed to get back home. Zaroff tells Rainsford, “The island is called Ship Trap” (Connell). Zaroff had already invented a new game to hunt on the island. General Zaroff just had to find a way to get the game he wanted to hunt on the island. He installed channel lights, giving him the ability to turn these lights on and off as he pleased. "They indicate a channel," he said, "where there's none; giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with wide-open jaws. They can crush a ship as easily as I crush this nut" (Connell). The channel lights could lure ships closer...
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...Beijing No. 55 High School BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Investigation Subject: Geography Level: High (HL) Name: Stephanie Chinese: 姜智旻 Homeroom: 10-5 Word count: 1088 Student number: 4192 Supervisor: Craig Hamilton   On 20th of August 2010, the oil drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, operating in the Gulf of Mexico exploded then sunk resulting to 11 deaths. During the 87 days, about 4.9 billion barrels of oil had already spread. An estimation of 42,000 gallon of oil is oozing from underwater. From then 75,000km2 was not allowed for fishing.  Apparently, the blowout preventer device had bad managements and operations, and failed. Investigators said, “The problems with this blowout preventer were worse than we understood.†(Seth, 2014) In addition, investigators have stated that the cause of this explosion was because of the screw ups with cement, drilling mud, fluid pressure, mismanaged tests, and poor decisions. Therefore, this device should be improved so it doesn’t happen again. They have discovered that it has been the device operator’s fault in view of the fact that the blowout preventer hasn’t been tested accurately, there were problems in the wiring and dead batteries. In order to clean the oil excess, they used powerful chemicals, which they don’t know the effects of on the environment. It was from 1.6km down to the bottom. After this cause, the British Petroleum (BP) went into investigation, negotiating with more than 50 expertise from within...
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