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Privatisation Of Telstra
<view this essay>.... 2) increase funding for Networking the nation; and
3) pay off foreign debt left over by the previous government
However, this is not true as the Minister, Senator Alston already has the power to direct Telstra to provide services and upgrade infrastructure (points 1 and 2). If the USO (Universal Service Obligations Act) or performance standards under the CSG need changing, then the Minister should invoke his power to direct, and these changes should be made distinct from any attempts to sell Telstra.
Statistics also show that the sale of the first third netted a total of $0.37 billion loss to the Commonwealth. By the year 2000, it is estimated tha .....
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The Theme Of Genocide In Night
<view this essay>.... of a Jewish boy, being dehumanized by the holocaust. All genocides throughout history have ended up with mass murders of a civilian race.
Genocide is not a new 20th century phenomenon. Not all known instances of genocide have been recorded, but genocides have occurred many times throughout time. In 1637, the Pequot Indians were the unfortunate recipients of genocidal wrath when the Colonists exterminated them, and their village was set on fire in Connecticut. The colonists shot everybody; men, women, and children. In the 19th century, the Aboriginal population of Tasmania was annihilated. The Native Americans at Wounded Knee were another example of gen .....
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Monasticism And Intellectual L
<view this essay>.... seven times each day for prayer. These were all male institutions, however, Benedict’s sister, Scholastica founded monasteries for women. Many of the texts we have today are with us because of monks. Beginning in the ninth century, the monks used scriptoria, or writing rooms, to copy different manuscripts. Between the sixth and tenth centuries, the monasteries experienced what one might call a moral decline. The purity and poverty which was the ideal for monks was being abandoned. Simony, the buying of clerical positions, was common, as was the practice of priests being married. In 910, Duke William of Aquataine wanted to do something to correct this pr .....
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White Noise
<view this essay>.... of death fixes us a level above them all, but can also be thought of in another perspective that we are a level lower instead. Abundant amounts of explorers jeopardized their life in search of the so-called "fountain of life". The reason of this can be explained by the fear of death. As death is such a mysterious and frightful matter, in Don Delillo's , he agrees that "[at] some level everyone fears death" (p. 197) and this powerful fear can easily influence a person's behaviour and actions.
The depiction of how a man can fear death can be found in the protagonist of the novel, Jack Gladney. In the conversation between Murray and Jack in their long strol .....
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In Process Randd
<view this essay>.... ever will. For this reason, according to current accounting rules and standards, a company is allowed to write-off this part of the purchase price. The in-process technology can be a large factor in making the acquisition of a firm because reporting of earnings can be considerably influenced by the amount of purchase price allocated to an in-process R&D write-off.
Effects on Future Periods
Current and future results can be affected significantly by the allocation of the purchase cost of a business. When the acquired company is involved in research and development for products not yet developed, generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) allow the acqui .....
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Friendship
<view this essay>.... in life. Wanting is natural instinct, and for the most part there is no escaping in some form or another. If one is involved in community life, marriage, or plainly has a family in general, will cross the path.
Throughout our life we get into different kinds of relationships. Some relationships we cannot choose like family ties. These are relationships we are born in, and we cannot break them anymore than we can stop breathing. Even denying their existence does not change the fact that your mother and father, brother and sister, are who they are. Other relationships are not forced upon us but we do not have complete control over them, like who we fall .....
Number of words: 1683 | Number of pages: 7 |
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Carl Gustav Jung
<view this essay>.... father was a minister and attended many funerals, taking his son with him. Also, Jung saw many fishermen get killed in the waterfalls and also many pigs get slaughtered. When he was eleven, he went to a school in Basel, met many rich people and realized that he was poor, compared to them. He liked to read very much outside of class and detested math and physical education classes. Actually, gym class used to give him fainting spells (neurosis) and his father worried that Jung wouldn't make a good living because of his spells. After Carl found out about his father's concern, the faints suddenly stopped, and Carl became much more studious. He had to decide his .....
Number of words: 2766 | Number of pages: 11 |
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Driving In India
<view this essay>.... trucks, buffalo, jeeps, ox-carts, private cars,
motorcycles, scooters, auto-rickshaws, pigs, pedal rickshaws, goats,
bicycles carrying goods, handcarts, bicycles carrying passenger(s), dogs,
pedestrians.
ARTICLE III
All wheeled vehicles shall be driven in accordance with the maxim:
to slow is to falter, to brake is to fail, to stop is defeat. This is the
Indian drivers' mantra.
ARTICLE IV
Use of horn:
Cars (IV, 1, a-c): Short blasts indicate supremacy, i.e. in
clearing dogs, rickshaws and pedestrians from path. Long blasts denote
supplication, i.e. to oncoming truck, "I am going too fast to stop, so
unless you slow down we shall both die". In extr .....
Number of words: 609 | Number of pages: 3 |
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