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It was the bright morning of Thursday 19 February 1942 just before 10am. Since the attacks on Pearl Harbour, Darwin was the base of the 7th Military District of Australia and Port Darwin had become an important staging point for ship convoys and aircraft on their way to the fighting in the northwest. A fleet…

Marijuana is a mixture of leaves and the flowering tops of the Indian hempplant Cannabis Sativa, smoked or eaten for its hallucinogenic andpleasure-giving effects. The psychoactive ingredient of marijuana,tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), is concentrated in the flowering tops of thehemp plant; hashish, a drug prepared from the plant resin, has about eighttimes more THC than marijuana. Hemp…

A State chart shows all the possible states of a class, from the start to the end. In each of the states, the action is also labeled. UML uses state charts to model states and state dependent behaviour for objects and for interactions. A state chart can be seen as a description of all the…

Secrecy: The American Experience? By Senator Daniel P. MoynihanAccording to a survey performed for the Defense Department in 1996, it was found that the majority of U. S. citizens believe that the government withholds too much information by classifying it as a secret. In this book, ?Secrecy: The American Experience?, Senator Daniel P. Moynihan reinforces…

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in early August 1990. Egypt called on the United States and other Western nations to intervene, which started the first Persian Gulf War. The conflict in the troubled region led to a second Gulf War (also known as the Iraq War) that began…

Romeo and Juliet is a play based mainly around the theme of love. This theme is good for building a play around because if there is love then you can have hate to contrast it, and many other emotions can be brought in. Love also makes the story interesting to an audience of Shakespeare’s time;…

Societal expectations are certain standards that one should abide by in their lifetime to be considered to fit the characteristics specific to certain groups. When some individuals step out of that barricade of expectations they are looked upon differently and possibly discriminated against by their peers. Racial prejudice and sexism has been a focal point…

The idea of a contact zone and a community is distinct from one another, yet they can both be used to define the characteristics of the same group. Mary Louise Pratt believes that communities are often seen as the more dominant viewpoint to the general public but she also argues that we need to develop…

    While we want our children to believe that everyone is good, “children know they are not always good; and often when they are, they would prefer not to be”1. Stories of this type often contain coded messages about “civil behaviour, good sense, right and wrong and how to survive”2. The tales deal with…

On Thursday, October 23rd 2008, we saw a production of ‘It’s not all Black and White’ written by Hannah Philips at the Birmingham Library Theatre. The play is set in England, in the late 17th century, where a ship had travelled to. On board were black slaves and white masters. It was written in honour of…