examples of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. One of the many extraordinary things that they do is put their lives in danger to help protect and save people and animals as well. An iconic image that remains in our minds after the 2009 bushfires is when fire fighter David Tree offered his bottle of water to a
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17. In Christo and Jeanne Claude’s Umbrella Project‚ what two factors connect the two different sets of umbrellas to their locations? _______ and _______. 18. What aspect of ancient Australian ideology did Erna Motna include in his painting‚ Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming? 19. Wu Chen’s landscape‚ The Central Mountains‚ raises an ordinary landscape scene to a higher level of beauty‚ what the Chinese call _______. Essay Questions 20. How did Christo and Jeanne-Claude conceive the
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from possible death. Another would be fighting against the bushfires to proect her home and the floods to protect a dam which her husband spent a long time digging out. She shows love and devotion to her children by defending them against the sanke. Although she is tired‚ she stays away to make sure that none of her children are attacked. Her willingness to keep the place in order is nothing short of amazing. She has fought off bushfires and floods just so they do not lose their possessions. Her
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Concentrations of greenhouse gases are now higher than at any ever in the past 800‚000 years with an average surface temperature rise of 0.7°C over the past 100 years. Climate change causes weather patterns to change resulting in long droughts severe storms‚ bushfires and rising sea levels. Climate change occurs around the world due to the greenhouse gases trapping the heat in our earth. E.g. global warming and climate change is occurring in north and South Pole due to a rise in the earth’s surface tempters causing
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of an effected community after a natural disaster or terrorist attack. The subject also provides insight into planning issues deployed to minimise disaster incidents. Areas of speciality within the emergency management guidelines such as floods‚ bushfires‚ etc‚ will be covered and tailored in each course to the majority of students working backgrounds A practical demonstration of emergency exercise planning relating to a building collapse is also provided. © 2003-2006‚ Faculty of Engineering‚ UTS
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emergencies. The effect of stressful conditions on human judgment is of importance to emergency managers; firefighting system and all system can be work under stress. This paper is going to give some hints for the stress effect on emergency managers‚ and Bushfire lesson learn from their experience of decision making under stress‚ exactly for issues that related to life or death od people. The decisions that are made in the first minutes‚ hours‚ and days are critical to successful mitigation; damage control;
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This essay will explore the ethical considerations and implications of routine journalism. This includes issues such as institutional and commercial pressures and unethical ‘cover-ups’ journalists commit. I will discuss the cases of the Victorian bushfires‚ the ‘Cash for Comment’ scandal‚ and the Pakistani cricket spot fixing scandal to illustrate how the ethical considerations have been handled. I will also attempt to illustrate the links between routine journalism and these specific cases to the
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agricultural land‚ using slash-and-burn techniques‚ is common around the Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park‚ and in some places the forest has been reduced to just a few metres wide. The southern border of the national park is also subject to annual bushfires. As this lemur is confined to this area‚ there is a lot of worry about the status of this little known species. A population around the village of Ankinajao is already believed to have become extinct due to lots of logging‚ and its total range is
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ustralian Aboriginal music is said to be one of the oldest forms of music on earth‚ as old as 60‚000 years old. It is an important part of the Indigenous Australian culture and is used by Aboriginal people to pass on‚ stories from the dreamtime‚ myths and family history from generation to generation. It is usually performed in the language native to the particular tribe or area of Australia‚ celebrating spiritual connections to the land and to their ancestors. Aboriginal people are taught to sing
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English essay Firestorm! “The way that a narrative text is composed is a sign of significance to its success as the subject matter of the story” Firestorm was an outstanding book which readers believe is an easy and interesting read. This book is believed to be a touching narrative about a family in a small town‚ wrecked by a firestorm. What makes this book original is the fact that not once does the
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