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    whole world‚ also known as a one-world government‚ seems like a very unconvincing idea. Though‚ as we advance into the future‚ signs of a one-world government are beginning to show. One sign that a one-world government may be coming is the forming of multi-national governments and international organizations. So how likely is it that a one-world government will occur? The possibility is highly likely that a one-world government will occur. A significant scheme involved with the one-world government

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    replaced by women. Women filled many jobs brought into existence by wartime needs. As a result the number of women employed increased from 3‚224‚600 in July‚ 1914 to 4‚814‚600 in January 1918. Nearly 200‚000 women were employed in government departments. Half a million became clerical workers in private offices. Women worked as conductors on trams and buses. A quarter of a million worked on the land. The greatest increase of women workers was in engineering. Over 700‚000 of these women worked in the

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    Australian Culture Imagine a place where you can start a new life‚ a place which also embraces and celebrates where you come from. That’s Australia‚ one of the most multicultural societies in the world. Australia’s diverse culture and lifestyle mirror its liberal democratic traditions and values‚ geographic closeness to the Asia–Pacific region and the social and cultural influences of the millions of migrants who have settled in Australia since World War II. Migrants have contributed to almost

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    World War 1 was a war that started off just because of the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife‚ beneficiary to the Austro-Hungarian throne in Sarajevo on June 28th‚ 1914 by Gavrilo Princip whom was one of a gathering of six professional killers (one Bosniak and five Serbs). The Black Hand (A Siberian patriot mystery society) carelessly set in a train of arrangement of occasions that inevitably prompt the world’s first worldwide war; "One thing lead to an alternate." After years of engaging

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    Imperialism is one of the main causes of the First World War. Imperialism is the increasing competition and desire for larger empires. The British empire was by far the largest of the empire in the late nineteenth century. Many leaders during this time saw a race to acquire the last territories open for colonization. This urgency to colonize led to several diplomatic incidents and fuelled rivalry between France‚ Germany‚ and Britain. In 1908‚ Austria-Hungary took over the province of Bosnia which

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    turn century Britain’s predominant position in the world was being challenged by: a. German‚ Japanese & American industrial & commercial competition threatening Imperial trade. b. French & Russian Imperial threats (with Japan growing) to territory eg Egypt‚ S. Africa‚ Persia‚ Far East & India. c. Nationalist ‘stirrings’ in Ireland‚ S. Africa‚ India d. The Boer War of 1890’s had shaken the Br belief that they held power over the world. The alliance between Russia & France in 1894 could

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    Before the events of world war one the main European powers had made a series of alliances. The Triple alliance included Germany‚ Austria Hungary‚ Italy(later switching sides once the war starts) and the Ottoman empire. The Triple Entente included Britain‚ France‚ and Russia (1914-1917). These Alliances stated that in the event that one nation would be under attack‚ the other nation would aid them. These alliances systems set the groundwork for the events that would follow effectively dragging all

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    1965‚ the Australian government sent an infantry battalion to Borneo‚ to assist Britain and its Commonwealth partners to secure Malaysia’s borders from Indonesian invasions. Three months later‚ the government announced it would send another battalion overseas‚ however this time to help the United States‚ in order to protect the Republic of Vietnam (known as South Vietnam)‚ against the posed threat by insurgents reinforced by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). Australian commitment

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    [Writer Name] [Supervisor Name] [Subject] [Date] The Effects of War on Women Thesis Statement The prime target of the consequences of the World War I and World War II was the women population kept in detention‚ sexually assaulted and imprisoned for no reason Topic Sentence I. Women’s resistance has involved a range of strategies of active nonviolence (Yellin‚ pp. 399-409). a) This was not intended to harm those whose power‚ policies or ideas‚ involves significant risks

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    the government made the work force open to women to help contribute to the war from home. The women mainly served clerical jobs such as farmers‚ canteen servers‚ Red Cross nurses‚ and in the war industries. A few years after‚ the National Defense Headquarters began allowing women to work in uniform such as the air force‚ army corps‚ and naval services. Since the women took on such a strong role during the war as workers‚ and in uniform‚ it impacted women then‚ and now‚ pushed women’s rights‚ and drove

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