Black Saturday Black Saturday was a series of bushfires that ignited and burnt in Victoria from Saturday‚ 7th February 2009 - 14 March 2009. As many as 400 individual fires were recorded on 7 February. Following the events of 7 February 2009 and its aftermath‚ that day has become widely referred to as Black Saturday. The majority of the fires were said to be started by fallen or clashing power lines‚ lightning‚ cigarette butts‚ and sparks from a power tools. They burnt over 4‚500 km² of land. Background
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The Woman in Black is a gothic novel written by Susan Hill. The characters in the novel mature and grow throughout the story mentally and emotionally. Reading about the characters the audience becomes aware of the text’s issues. The issues in the text are supported by the protagonist Arthur Kipps growth and the antagonist Jennet Humfyre. Two issues in the text include: The fight against good and evil and Revenge. Arthur Kipps is the main character. He goes through the most changes emotionally
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“Marriages and Families” and “Diversity and Change” by: Schwartz and Scott What does marriage in the United States and other countries around the world mean? Debunking has five myths about marriage 1- The Universal Nuclear Family‚ 2-The Self-Reliant Traditional Family‚ 3- The Naturalness of Different spheres for Wives and Husbands‚ 4- The Unstable African American Family‚ and 5- The Idealized Nuclear family of the 1950’s. The Universal Nuclear Family is basically everything under the sun. It
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illustrious‚ yet short time in this spectacle we know as life‚ has compelled me to think of the color black. The color “black” in turn equals strength‚ power‚ and hard work due to unsaid experiences in my adolescence. When searching for a picture to properly vindicate how I feel about the African- American woman‚ I was hard struck not to choose this picture that was taken during “The Great Depression” of a black woman working in the field. A sneering grin is uncontrollably etched between my cheeks when
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This is a good question because prevention of terrorist attacks is determined almost entirely by knowing when and where they will happen. In his book “The Black Swan”‚ Nassim Nicholas Taleb uses the terrorist attacks of September 11‚ 2001‚ to illustrate the importance of what he has termed a “Black Swan” event. A Black Swan is an event with three attributes‚ quoting Taleb: “First‚ it is an outlier‚ as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations‚ because nothing in the past can convincingly
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“The Black Cat” "Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives‚ than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart--one of the indivisible primary faculties‚ or sentiments‚ which give direction to the character of Man" (Poe). Humans always seem to have a dominant evil side that can slowly creep up in any situation. This wickedness is prominently displayed throughout Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat.” In this short story‚ Poe uses many literary elements such as foreshadowing
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practitioners of the Theater of the Absurd started in the fifties. In “The Black and White”‚ absurd‚ one of the many different aspects of his works‚ functions as a method of getting into the reality that Pinter has been concerned. In the skit‚ the settings are from sheer realistic life – the familiar scene of people’s daily life and the over-naturalistic dialogue between the characters. What we can read about in “The Black and White” is two ladies‚ simply known as First and Second‚ sitting down
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Black holes are the most mysterious objects that modern physics predicted. Event horizon is the edge of the black hole. If anybody attempts to cross the black hole he or she will never come back. The holes are involved in a broad range of astrophysical occurrence‚ including majority of the active events in the space. John Michelle‚ a British mathematician‚ initially visualized black holes in 1783. He called them dark stars and his explanation was based on Newton’s laws of gravity. Employing Newton’s
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Black holes are one of the most fascinating and unrealistic seeming objects in the world to many people. They seem to be right out of a science fiction novel‚ along with white holes‚ and wormholes. So far white holes and wormholes are still only science fiction. A white hole is a reverse of a black hole. And a wormhole is a combination of a white a black hole said to be a place of time travel. However‚ even quite a long time ago some members of our society realized that the black hole is not science
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either negotiated‚ broken-through or redefined this line and by doing so‚ have trampled fixed and absolute notions of blackness and black identity. Black nationalism/seperation came about as a belief that blacks would never be accepted as anything other than second class citizens and destined to remain under the exploitation of white power structure. In order for blacks to attain complete freedom in a society where they were unwanted‚ they had to stop pleading for acceptance into white institutions
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