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    Australia Post

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    Post is a governmental owned postal service operation. It is responsible for all Australia’s world wide delivery as part of its community service obligation. Post Master General Department was established in 1901 on the federation of Australia as part of Australia’s government. In the later years‚ Post Master General Department (PMG) was separated into two different sectors which consist of the Australian Telecommunications Commission which is to handle the telecommunication sectors and also Australian

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    "The Weary Blues" and "Lenox Avenue: Midnight" by Langston Hughes are two poems written as scenes of urban life. Although these poems were written more than seventy years ago‚ it is surprising to see some general similarities they share with modern day city life. Dilluted down with word play and irrelevant lines such as "And the gods are laughing at us."‚ the underlying theme is evidently urban life. "The Weary Blues" and "Lenox Avenue: Midnight" approach the general topic of urban life from two

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    “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” is a well-written poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow telling the tale of Paul Revere’s bravery before the battles of Lexington and Concord. Though a lot of the poem is accurate‚ parts of it are missing details‚ or the details have been changed‚ to make Revere look like more of a hero. At the beginning of the poem‚ Longfellow talks about how Paul Revere was standing on the opposite shore of the old North Church‚ ready to ride. However‚ what he failed to mention

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    Colonial Pennsylvania

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    One of the original 13 colonies‚ Pennsylvania was named and founded by William Penn as a place to go for his friends. Philadelphia combined the Greek words for love (phileo) and brother (adelphos)‚ engendering its nickname of “the city of brotherly love.” .Pennsylvania’s capital‚ Philadelphia‚ was the site of the first and second Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1775 .Now the largest city in Pennsylvania‚ Philadelphia served as the nation’s capital from 1790 until a permanent capital was established

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    Pre-Colonial Filipinas

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    especially those settled along the shore‚ did not like to give birth many times; they perceived it as being like pigs giving birth to huge litters of young. Because of this‚ they practiced abortion whenever the couple reached their desired number of children‚ as there was no concept of birth control then. In the family‚ husbands and wives were equal. Husbands treated their wives as companions and not as slaves or whores. The wife was also financially independent since she retained the property she

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    Similar feminist shifts happens in Kunstler’s trilogy‚ although the shifts in his novels are not so pronounced or dramatic. His book is the most subtle of these three nextopian novels. In World Made by Hand‚ the main character describes a town meeting and notes that “all the trustees were men‚ no women and no plain laborers;” the town “reverted to social division” that is unethical in today’s society (Kunstler 101). A return to clear social delineations is evidence of a slip back in time‚ toward

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    Early Colonial Law

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    jrank.org/pages/11887/Colonial-Period.html">Colonial Period - European Settlement Of North America‚ Factors Influencing Early Colonial Law‚ Differences From The English Criminal Justice System</a> ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form Other Free Encyclopedias » Law Library - American Law and Legal Information » Crime and Criminal Law Colonial Period - European Settlement Of North America‚ Factors Influencing Early Colonial Law‚ Differences From

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    Outline: I. Colonial Mentality A. Definition B. Symptoms of colonial mentality C. History 1. Cultures and practices shared by foreign countries a. America b. Spain c. Japan II. How colonial mentality is inherited by Filipino individuals A. Denigration of the Filipino self B. Denigration of the Filipino culture and body C. Discrimination against less acculturated Filipinos D. Tolerance and acceptance of historical and contemporary oppression of Filipinos III. Effects of Having Colonial Mentality

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    Midnight The clock made its chime. Darkness filled the air. Its three hours after nine And he was very scared. The air had no light. He was all alone. He was filled with fright‚ And couldn’t find his way home. With nowhere to go‚ He stopped and lay down‚ The woods were nothing he’d know‚ Which caused him to frown. then there was a flare‚ Coming from afar‚ Going to it was his dare‚ Like him following a star. He found the source of the light‚ Was a man with a light so bright And

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    in America’s newspapers in the first six months of 1754 was not good. England’s long-time enemy and challenger for control of North America‚ France‚ had‚ with the assistance of Native American allies‚ scored a series of victories over English colonial troops from the backcountry of Virginia through New England. Fear that France would soon make a move to drive all the English out of North America seemed ready to become reality. A distraught Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie had warned the colony’s

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