Dear Mr Abbot‚ My name is Matthew Wright and I am in year 9 at Turramurra High School. I am writing to you regarding the coalition’s foreign aid budget. In 2005 John Howard promised to double Australian aid and recently the Australian Labor Party promised to further lift it to 0.5% of our gross national income by 2015. Our foreign aid is still sitting on 0.34%. There are millions of people depending on developed countries like Australia to help them out. It is easy to ask why it has to be us‚ but
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This particular rock in Scotland is a huge and perilous rock which can be noticed in hot and sunny days but a ship could meet with an accident with the rock during storms because it is not visible at that time. Now this cat needed to be belled. The Abbot of Aberbrothok hanged a bell on the rock as a result of which the bell ranged continuously till the storm was present and thus the sailors avoided the way where the bell ranged. Sir Ralph the rover‚ a pirate decided to free the rock from the bell because
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Why did Urban II call for a crusade in 1095? In order to establish reasons for Urban’s call for a crusade in 1095‚ we need to look at many accounts of the time‚ and find out what was happening in the rest of the Christian world which influenced both what and when he said what he did to launch the first crusade. At the time‚ religion played a major role in almost everyone’s daily lives‚ and the belief system of the afterlife was extremely strong. It was true that every Christian had a very vivid
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From 1327 Bury St Edmunds was controlled by the Abbot and townspeople rebelled‚ and the Abbot regained control and rebuilt. The Black Death of 1349 devastated the village killing half of it’s population‚ and once again recovered. In 1539‚ Henry VIII closed the Abby and Bury St Edmunds was now free from the Abbot’s control
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During the early 1900’s a vast amount of people both immigrated and migrated to the United States in search of money‚ better jobs‚ new lives‚ etc. Yet‚ the people who immigrated and migrated to the United States were each a part of different cultures: from Italian to German‚ French to Jewish‚ Irish to African American (American Cities/New York/African American/Intergroup Relations/Color Lines). New York City was a prime location for the immigrants and migrants of the time to create their new lives
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Canon thirteen was constructed and written in the fourth Lateran Council in 1215‚ in which there were three sessions on the eleventh‚ twentieth and thirtieth of November. Pope Innocent III preached to over four hundred Bishops and eight hundred abbots‚ deans and others in this event . Canon thirteen can be suggested to have been proposed by Pope Innocent III and approved by the council‚ thus higher individuals in the church could arguably had responsibility for the manufacture of canon thirteen.
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Song. Kentish‚ the language of the Jutes and Frisians. The West dialect is represented by the works of kind Alfred (lived 849-900)‚ both original compositions of translations of Latin texts‚ also by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (till 891)‚ works of the abbot Aelfric (10 century) and sermons of Wultstan (early 11thcentury).: Translations of Psalms L-LXX and old charters .(псалма‚ The superiority of the West - Saxon dialect both in quantity and importance of the documents using it contirms its dominating
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reading. As cited by John Milton (Paradise lost‚ 1667) man only is for God‚ and woman is for the God in man‚ and reading would upset that. Agreeing is the late wife of Louis XIV‚ Madame De Maintenon‚ saying nothing is more displeasing to God. “The Abbot and the Learned Lady” states that a woman reading isn’t wrong‚ unless they try to read Latin‚ or the bible‚ which would not protect their chastity. Even though some people disagree‚ people like Castiglione (The Courtier) believe that women can
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Louis Pasteur was studying molecules of tartrate‚ which are salt molecules that tend to separate from a fermented product. While doing so he created a revolutionary hypothesis that tartrate was comprised of two salt molecules with similar physical and chemical characteristics‚ that differed in shape and also in their own solution had different light polarization in opposite directions. This told him that the spatial arrangement of these two molecules‚ that was made up of the same type of bonds and
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Extension history practice essay Section 2 2008 trial papers …histories have sought to challenge the monotone voice of traditional history‚ not only to find a place for other viewpoints and stories‚ but also to make historians realise how much they unthinkingly take for granted…. JOHN ARNOLD history a very short introduction To what extent do debates in your chosen case study reflect the view expressed by john Arnold? In your answer refer to at least one area of debate Case
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