in called the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI‚ but also referred to as Star Wars). This was a plan to arm satellites that could destroy soviet missiles from space. Not many people believed the plan would work and even if it did there would no longer be balance between the two superpowers‚ ergo in 1985‚ Prime Minister Brian Mulroney politely said “no”. President George Bush brought the idea back to life in 2004‚ and wanted Canada to participate in the new missile defence initiative‚ but it wasn’t
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The protagonist Nell attains an unyielding sense of place in her constructed environment and thus is unable to successfully connect to larger society. To fulfil her desire to belong she surrounds her cottage with barbed wire. The close up shot of the wire illustrates to the audience that extreme actions are undertaken to create an atmosphere in which she can belong. The barbed wire indicates that intruders aren’t allowed to enter her surroundings as they could severely impair her sense of place‚
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premier of Victoria‚ John Brumby‚ accepted an offer from the Prime Minister at the time‚ Kevin Rudd to dispatch members of the Australian Defence Force to provide assistance in that state. Kevin Rudd described the bushfires as an "appalling tragedy for Victoria‚" saying "Hell and all its fury has visited the good people of Victoria in the last 24 hours. After the bush fires the Victorian government developed better bushfire preventing techniques. More than 4‚000 fire-fighters from the Country Fire
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“America First.” This is Donald Trump’s expectation for future US international policies. In the recent interview with the New York Times‚ Trump referred to “America First” to be very modern‚ despite its appearance during the non-intervention movement in the US during World War II (Cole). Trump claimed that his is very different‚ defining it as “we are going to take care of this country [the United States of America] first before we worry about everybody else in the world.” Trump suggested that many
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were deliberately crashed into the Twin Towers in Lower Manhattan‚ New York City‚ killing thousands of people and injuring hundreds more. A third plane was flown‚ once again deliberately‚ into the Pentagon – the headquarters of the US Department of Defence – killing everyone on board. The fourth plane was bound for the country’s capital city‚ Washington D.C.‚ but the passengers managed to stop the hijackers from reaching this destination and instead crashed the aircraft into a field in Pennsylvania
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Question A: Likelihood of Kimberly’s claim being successful: With the central issue in Kimberly’s circumstance of being physically and mentally impaired due to the shutters of the Bed & Breakfast house flying off and as a result‚ hitting the plaintiff (Kimberly)‚ there is a high possibility that Kimberly’s claim will succeed. As a result of Elle being aware that months after the shutters were installed‚ she noticed splinters in the wood and damage in some of the shutters but took no precautionary
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To what extent and for what reasons did New Labour succeed in introducing a new and distinctive set of values to the conduct of Britain’s external relations between 1997 and 2010? Introduction As John Rentoul has observed in his biography of Tony Blair‚ “Prime Ministers always run their own foreign policy” (Rentoul‚ 2001: 420). This was certainly true of Tony Blair and New Labour. That itself is a reason why Britain’s external relations in the shape of New Labour’s foreign policy can only be properly
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TRESPASS TO THE PERSON Aims of Lectures: * OVERVIEW OF THE TORTS COVERING TRESPASS TO THE PERSON * DEFENCES TO TRESPASS TO THE PERSON * ALTHOUGH NOT A PART OF TRESPASS TO THE PERSON WE WILL ALSO ASSESS THE RULE IN WILKINSON V DOWNTON 1. OVERVIEW The aim/s of these torts: Protection from personal interference / protects your bodily integrity and your liberty. The trespass torts are actionable per se (there is no need to prove damage). A trespass to the person may
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September 11th 2001. The plan to destroy symbols of American power began when 19 Al Qaeda terrorists hijack 4 planes that were flying above the US. American Airlines Flight 11 was crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Centre‚ United Airlines Flight 175 was crashed into the south tower‚ American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the US military headquarters in Washington D.C‚ the fourth plane crashed into a field near Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania. In total‚ 2‚996 people died‚ 200 fell or jumped
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