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    that it is not as great as you might have thought. As of today, the United States accompanies the non-developed Suriname (South America) and Papua New Guinea (Australia) in the group of the only three countries in the world that do not offer any kind of paid maternity leave, as reported recently by ABC News. If some American states, like California and New Jersey, are correcting that mistake with proper state laws, Colorado falls far behind. As the liberal state that allows you to grow

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    Among many natural disasters in this world, there are three natural things that are responsible for natural disasters. These three are earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanos. We humans call them Natural “Disasters” because they could destroy all of us or all our homes and important things we need to survive. Without humans, they would only be called natural events because they would not have anything to destroy. Starting with the earthquakes, they have the potential to cause harm and injury, cost loved

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    Topic: Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of participating in a popular Sport in your home country. Sport is any organised, competitive, physical and educational activity involving individuals or team. However, sports itself have its value in individual lives and country as a whole. A country has its own popular sports that can be played within their region. In Solomon Islands, there are few popular sports that are played in the country. The most popular sport played is soccer. It can be played

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    Bronislaw Malinowski is a Pole who died in New Haven, Connecticut at the age of 58. He traveled to the Trobriand Islands, east of Papua New Guinea, to reform ethnographic work on the native islanders. In The Argonauts of the Pacific West Bronislaw Malinowski captured his ethnographic works for Anthropologists to read and take in, for years to come. In his introduction, The Subject, The Method and The Scope of This Inquiry, he addresses his intentions of this ethnography and what he was studying

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    Unit Four Assignment One Women in Oceanic Art and Culture “I certify that I have read A Student 's Guide to Academic Integrity at the University of Oklahoma, and this paper is an original paper composed by me for this course. Except where properly cited and attributed, it has not been copied or closely reworded from any other source and has not been submitted as a whole, or in part, for credit in any other course at OU or any other educational institution. It has not been created or submitted

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    Year 9 English A — Opinion Article Comparative Commentary The article “The whole point of detention for asylum seekers is horror ,whether it is acknowledged or not” written by Waleed Aly, and “Turn back to policy success” written by Gary Humphries, both examine the issue of asylum seekers and the Australian government’s response. In Aly’s article, the main contention was to inform us on the immoral environment of detention centres. Humphries’ article discusses how the turn back policy is a success

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    containing the territory of the Australian landmass, the island of Tasmania, and various littler islands. It is the world 's 6th biggest nation by aggregate region. Neighbouring nations incorporate Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor toward the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu toward the north-east; and New Zealand toward the south-east.( reference "Constitution of Australia". ComLaw. 9 July 1900. 5 August 2011 ) The central government is isolated into three branches: • The council: the bicameral

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    The Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea have been a landmark of anthropological study since the early twentieth century. Anthropologists such as Bronislaw Malinowski and Annette Weiner have written extensive ethnographies detailing the patriarchal ruling structure and matrilineal descent style of Trobriand society. Different functionalist approaches to anthropology have attempted to give meaning to the complex Trobriand culture. Perhaps one of the greatest performances of Trobriand culture is in

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    early settlers also learnt self-subsistence farming and positive forestry practices that are still widely used today (Clarke, 1990). Researchers have found a strong linkage between population size and depletion of natural resources. For example, Papua New Guinea or PNG was heavily covered in natural rain forest until the 1980, after when it was severely logged (Filer, 2013). This essay will focus on the historical and contemporary issues surrounding logging in the South Pacific and relate it to the rising

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    Mental illness is a condition that is described by aggravations in idea, feelings, or behaviour. Emotional instability refers to a wide collection of disorders, running from those that cause mellow misery to those that debilitate a man 's capacity to work in every day life. Numerous attempts to make sense of the purposes behind emotional instabilities. These reasons have been taken a gander at and considered for a large number of years. The natural viewpoint sees emotional instability as a substantial

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