The question that was posed for this essay was “What moral obligations do individual Australians have to the world’s poorest population?” However I want to change this from just individual Australians and make it “What moral obligations do individuals across the world have to the poorest populations?” My reason for this is because it is well-known that Australia is very multi-cultured so why focus on one country with so much diversity when we can focus on the entire world which has just the same
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troops‚ tanks and ships as “The access [an airplane] provides makes it a faster‚ more flexible‚ and more precise than any other form of military power.” Before the 20th century‚ nations had not held the power for aerial bombardments on such a large scale. First used by the Italians in the Italo-Turkish War‚ planes went on to have an important role in World War I which cemented their importance’s in warfare‚ and changed the way that wars were fought even on the ground. The use of the airplane was
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Eric Dorn Brose: A History of Europe in the twentieth century Chapter I: A Spectre is Haunting Europe (spectre=Gespenst) May 1899: The first European peace conference was held at the Hague. 20 European and 6 Non-European Nations attended it‚ their aim was to secure a lasting peace among the Nations The most important goals of the peace movement were arbitration (Schlichtung) and disarmament. The countries appeared however to have differing ideas/aims. Germany sent Baron von Stengel
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Progressivism was a movement in the early 20th century characterized by a combination of political and social ideologies that covered a wide spectrum of social aspects including civil rights social justice and also political movements such as liberalism and social democracy. The common denominator linking all these ideologies was the desire to curb capitalistic excesses‚ rapid urbanization and dynamic industrialization characteristic of the early 20th century (Ruiz‚ 1989). The progressive movement gained
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The Hardships We overcame for American Liberty In the twentieth century there was only a handful of people that got to enjoy what we call "American Liberty". Those who did were rich white business men‚ and those who didn’t were everyone who wasn’t them. People like African Americans‚ women‚ workers‚ etc. were all deprived of this "enjoyment". Sadly it wasn’t till the mid or late twentieth century that they were able to finally enjoy the liberty. African Americans were especially deprived at this
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Organisation‚ 2008) states that the indigenous peoples of Australia are one of the most disadvantaged indigenous groups in the developed world. The health of the Indigenous population of Australia is an increasingly pressing issue. Current research and statistics reveals great inequality in many areas of health care and health status between the Aboriginal people and the general population of Australia. Couzos and Murray (2008‚ p. 29) report that the Indigenous population has “the worst health status of
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1. Did Nietzsche believe that the nineteenth century and its art were an improvement on the past? Nietzsche did not believe that the nineteenth century and its art were an improvement on the past. He critical of his own time. He also rejected organized religion‚ attacking Christianity and other institutionalized religions as contributors to the formation of a “slave morality”. 2. Who were the symbolist poets? What were they trying to achieve? Symbolist poets‚ such as Paul Verlaine‚ and Arthur Rimabaud
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In today’s society‚ we generally see everyone as equal‚ but the vision of America at the turn of the 20th century‚ this particular view didn’t exist. Criticism have condemned a biggest part of that time. Women life was fully unprotected; their life was like an endless round of hard work. Even though women were working very hard at that time but still men were discriminated them in every part of their life. Their job was to stay home and busy with domestic chores like cooking‚ washing dishes‚ take
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Square dancing is said to have started in Europe with its first dances documenting in the sixteenth century. This style of dance was common and popular throughout the continent of Europe. The idea of square dancing was brought in the United States during the time when Europeans started to move and colonize to the thirteen colonies. The colonists that came from Europe brought along and carried their traditional folk dances with them. These traditional dances eventually spread through the United States
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Why were there so many violent pogroms in Russia in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Contemporary sources on this topic have often pointed to the Russian authorities claiming they incited the violence that was prevalent towards Jews in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In fact John Doyle Klier claims that “almost without exception secondary sources argue that the tsarist authorities actively planned‚ encouraged or at least welcomed pogroms”.[1] While there
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