Essay

To tackle the housing affordability, first of all, it is crucial to lift the supply of housing as it will release the pressure on the housing price. Nevertheless, the supply of housing is inelastic as it requires an adequate fund, time, approval from the Government. Besides, the housing system is heavily dependent on the private sector. Thus, the Government should provide initiatives for housing providers to shift the supply of houses in the market. Australia would follow the policies from other countries to tackle the housing affordability. However, it has to fit in the Australian context. These policies might work well in other places but it does not mean that it will be applicable in Australia. The Singapore Government has a public

Bonnie Green, Chief Estimator, agreed that in a normal year only slight delays might develop due to a shortage of labor. However, she pointed out that for such a large project, the company would have to use unionized employees and that the construction industry labor agreements with New York City were to expire on October 30, 2004. Past experience and current construction activity in the surrounding area indicated that any union tradesman would support a strike against the city. Since this is a public project, she estimates that there is a 50% chance that they would strike this project to gain the attention of the national media.

Policing is a very hard field and all aspects need to be remember. The oath of police officers is to protect and serve and that’s what every American expects police officers to do. “It’s one thing to let your enthusiasm for aggressive police work wane in the face of unjust criticism and treatment, but it’s your duty and your obligation as a cop to protect the innocent, even if it comes at great personal risk. You don’t have to recklessly throw yourself into harm’s way or take foolish risks, but you must be ready to do your duty and must never shirk it. Not everyone can be a cop or assume a cop’s burden — that’s what makes you and this profession so special” Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Mike Wood said. Meaning you chose to be a cop for a reason, yes there may be days when you second guess yourself because of all the crimes going on around you. God didn’t chose you for nothing. Don’t let the little stuff bother you, policing is a great thing to do just be cautions of your surroundings and don’t give up on the people that still believe. With all this hate with police officers there’s still people who support police 101 percent so

Stacking two photographs on top of each other, Emmanuel Radnitzky’s (Man Ray) untitled work could be considered unique, but also mind-boggling. Although it’s clear that the center of focus is of an accordionist’s performance, the tubes of the accordion are a jumbled mess, the majority of the photograph is a distorted blur (Radnitzky). Since it takes great scrutiny to view individual pieces of this art, some may wonder why Man Ray challenges us with a juxtaposed style. Although it may seem disorienting, he recreates a scene of the woman’s accordion performance by overlapping two photographs to allow viewers to reanalyze the gestures humans make unconsciously. In Radiohead’s Lotus Flower, the dancer suggests that human beings are prone to

The fifth field exercise, oriented around archaeology, allowed us to discover the field in the surrounding neightborhood. We were given block number 1, surrounded by Englewood Avenue, Snelling Avenue, Minnehaha Avenue, and Asbury Street. In our block, we noticed ten different buildings, the first being a Super America on the corner of Englewood and Snelling. In the gas station we noticed there were four cars and eight pumps, with only one of the cars filling up on gas. In the gas station we found eight pennies in the mulch by the sidewalk. We also found a crushed coffee cup and lid, along with some bottle caps. Continuing down the street, there was garbage and cigarette butts everywhere. We noticed there were a lot more cigarette butts

The year is 1940 and war has come to Great Britain, what the Nazis had started when they invaded Poland has now spread across Europe from Belgium to France and now the skies are filled with fire that rains down upon us. Everybody in Great Britain knew that the war would be on its way to Britain once France fell to the Nazis, only a strip of water was between us and the nightmare of the German Blitzkrieg. It was in June in 1940 that enemy planes started dropping bombs on our airports, and this continued all throughout the summer, but it wasn’t until September that they started falling on the city of London. This caused the city of London to change so quickly it felt like overnight, people were required to carry gas masks at all time in

And suddenly, it hit me. That moment where something slips right out of my hands like ashes flowing in the wind. As is seems unrelated to other controversies people have had in daily life, my moments are correlated with sadness since today’s date was June 4, 2007, and being the captain of my squad, I’m in charge my subordinates who follow my command, my orders, and my judgement on what I think is right, no argueing. But then comes regret, regret that I should’ve chosen something different so that it wouldn’t become detrimental to my friends. I’ve sent my prayers to the ones above to guide the roads we should take so that the safety falls in most importance with the lives of those with me. I’ve begged for forgiveness, trying to repent for

Mass-media coverage of citizens being shot by Law Enforcement Officers have caused outrage in the African-American and liberal communities. Some in those communities believe that the police are

Georgie and his presentation. Jesus christ. Seeing it all made her sick - even sicker than getting caught in the first place. Sicker than being tracked down like some low-life scumbag. Sicker than having to choose between her life or Sheridan's.

I’ve been struggling for many years with state of politics in America. Although I attempt to follow Biblical commands to pray for my leaders (yes, sometimes it’s just please let their term end with no re-election), over the last decade or so I’ve felt a growing discontent with the decisions that have been made in the name of tolerance with no tolerance or allowance for conservatives (and even some extremists) who don’t agree.

It had been 30 years since Antarctica had melted and society in the mainland was beginning to break down. Buildings lay dry and burned down, except for some places which got tropical storms almost daily. Minnesota had been washed out, all the rivers flooding. The buildings lay abandoned, sinking into the swampy marsh that the state had become, along with Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa. All this had been the result of the Great Lakes spilling over into the land because of rainfall. Living here was not possible. It was where you were sent to prison from the Ocean Districts. The prisoners never came back after they were sent to the Midwestern Marshes. Along the mainland, about 200 miles out in the ocean at the most, there were tremendous

Everyday objects are not something we typically pick up take a hard look at and then ask ourselves what they tell other people about us. If the person already knew you, how could that object be used to describe you in more detail? It is an interesting thing to ponder and not as simple as you might think. Maybe the object has a more complex meaning than one might think at their first glance. Perhaps it represents a tough time in your life and how you have overcome it. Ordinary things in one person’s life can mean so much more in another person’s. Like everything in life, it is all about perspective.

Slow. The slow droning of the dishwasher in the backroom of the diner. It hums like sleepy honeybees, it’s such a tiring sound. Yet, mixed with “80’s diner vibe” music, together they make the perfect melody. It’s late, past 1 am and yet I’m still here, writing as usual. The coffee tonight is strong, Priscilla, the head waitress brewed it slightly too long, enough to rid my headache. The sweet old crony probably fell asleep behind the counter as she is now. There aren’t many people in tonight, just the few regulars, Mr. Jones, who reads the faded yellow Sunday papers from months ago over and over (I have yet not figured out why still), Margaret Hodges, who sits stoically in the corner booth and stares out the window while

The fact that ProSAVANA was proposed by Brazil and Japan raised questions among civil society actors as to whether the programme is primarily motivated by political interests, despite the Brazil’s argument that its development cooperation is untied. Cabral et al. (2013) and Chichava et al. (2013) highlight that ProSAVANA has been a key foreign policy manoeuvre deployed by Brazilian bureaucrats to secure Mozambique’s political support for Brazil’s geopolitical pursuits in international fora. Mozambique’s backing was, according to both authors, pivotal for Brazil’s attainment of top positions in translational agencies such as FAO, as well as in the Community of Portuguese Language

Against all odds, fighting the legal system, the county, the city, the landlord, and the sabotage of the competition all the way. I had successfully opened the first and only dungeon club in Florida and operated it for sixteen years, which was the first of its kind in all of Florida’s history. Surely, the police departments and Court were aware of what had been going on in their city and county all through the 1990s and up until 2007, but they still didn't know what to do about it.