South Sea Islanders worked for long hours under extremely harsh conditions while being underpaid on the plantations. The change in environment had a physical effect on them as they were introduced to new diseases‚ which generally resulted in death because the insignificant health care and no immunity. The new diet also contributed to the tragedy. An excess of 14 564 Islander labours died between the years of 1868-1906 as stated by the Queensland Government Department of Communities. Another issue they
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Year 12 English Oral; Foreign Aid mustn’t be cut Persona: Fiona Pearse (Board Member of World Vision) speaking at a foreign aid conference in regard to the Government’s recent plans to introduce a $4.5 billion cut in foreign aid over the next 4 years. Poverty‚ war‚ hunger‚ thirst‚ disease; these are all words the average Australian does not have to face. However‚ it is indeed what millions upon millions of people battle out every single day in so many countries we call our neighbours
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advantages like others‚ like Papua New Guinea they don’t have domesticated animals or good steel or immunity to fight diseases or a good agriculture or the right tools to make weapons‚ but the Fertile Crescent has all of them like domesticated animals‚ immunity to fight diseases because of the domesticated animals‚ good agriculture and the right tools to make sharp powerful weapons.. In Fertile Crescent they get a lot of good things like wheat unlike Papua New Guinea they get sago. Wheat is good
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programs. Basic health‚ Education‚ Climate justice. * Profile on each region Kenya. Caritas Australia and our partners provided food/cash for work to 40‚000 people and supplied supplementary feeding to elderly‚ children‚ pregnant women and new mothers. We provided water‚ sanitation and hygiene promotion sessions and improved sanitation through construction of pit latrines to prevent diseases. Improved access to clean water for households in North Eastern Kenya. China. Caritas Australia
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There were numerous factors that contributed to the overall victory of the Allies on the Kokoda track. Assistance from the native New Guinea people‚ nicknamed the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels‚ greatly contributed to the Allied victory at Kokoda as well as AIF troops who arrived in Papua New Guinea to assist the militia battalions after being recalled from the Middle East and General MacArthur becoming supreme commander of the Allied forces in the Pacific‚ along with Prime Minister John Curtin’s timely and
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Jon Kenney ANTHRO 2 Wisniewski "The Gebusi" Analytical Paper March 11‚ 2015 "The Gebusi" Analytical Paper 1A.) From the beginning of the text/story I found that Bruce was having the most trouble during his first visit to Papua New Guinea. However‚ as time passed by during those first few years he made some interesting discoveries along the way. One of the first challenges I found him having problems with was trying to learn their complex language. Their use of the phonemes and morphemes are the
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Personally I would start with the first recorded tsunami‚ which if wikipedia is right was as far back as 426 BC. To me that is shocking because I hadn’t heard of Tsunamis until late 1990’s‚ so the fact that this isn’t a "new" phenomenom is a little surprising to me. Then I would have a small paragraph on what causes tsunamis. Then I would decide since you only have 2000 words if I want to focus on the dollar destruction‚ the lives destruction‚ or the infrastructure destruction. You may be
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Public Disclosure Authorized WPS5394 Policy Research Working Paper 5394 Public Disclosure Authorized The Economic Consequences of “Brain Drain” of the Best and Brightest Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries John Gibson David McKenzie Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized The World Bank Development Research Group Finance and Private Sector Development Team August 2010 Policy Research Working Paper 5394 Abstract Brain drain has long been a common
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seven years old in the United States. He arrived in New Guinea at the age of 26 and he felt that it was love at first sight. Diamond started to make regular trips to New Guinea and ever since‚ he decides to be the leading expert on the bird life of the island. But in the course of his field work he becomes just as curious about the people in Guinea. Jared Diamond’s quest to uncover the roots of inequality began in the rainforest of Papua New Guinea. In 1974‚ a local man named Yali asked Diamond a
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Ongka’s Big Moka 1974: Granada Television Papua New Guinea The Kawelka: Ongka’s People‚ a tribe of about 1000 people Ongka: A big man of the Kawelka people Moka: A huge gift made up of pigs‚ money‚ and other items. Technically‚ the moka is the extra‚ the “interest” that you pay back. The moka sequence that Ongka is now involved in began with pigs given as payment for intertribal violence and death. 10 years ago‚ Ongka received 400 pigs from the neighboring people‚ now he hopes to give them
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