4. A study of palaeontology and past environments increases our understanding of the possible future range of plants and animals Explain the importance of the study of past environments in predicting the impact of human activity in present environments: • The knowledge gained from palaeontology (fossils) and the study of past environments can help us to understand present day ecosystems • This knowledge can be used to predict and determine the future for Australia’s plants and animals • Palaeobiologists
Premium Evolution Natural environment Ecology
HSC Standard English Module B: Close Study of Text: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. Speech Assessment Task Christopher Boone is often challenged in understanding and relating to the thoughts and feelings of those around him‚ including his family. His inability to visualise the feelings and thoughts of those that are around him‚ meaning he cannot empathize. Because‚ Christopher cannot tell when a person speaks in a joking manner or guess a person’s mood by their facial expressions
Premium The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Exclusive Books Boeke Prize Psychology
‘Composers of texts use language to position responders to reflect on their own values‚ attitudes and beliefs in relation to the experience of belong” Explain how your values‚ attitudes and beliefs in relation to the experience of belonging have been challenged and enriched as a result of your studies. In your response‚ you must make a detailed reference to your prescribe text The Simple Gift and ONE other related text of your own choosing. Belonging can be recognise as an examination of self
Premium Interpersonal relationship English-language films Love
Script a speech to HSC students. With reference to ‘Disabled’ and one other poem‚ discuss the central themes and methods used to develop them. Good morning students‚ Wilfred Owen was a British soldier and poet in WW1. He was thoroughly shocked by the horrors of war and based his poetry on his various experiences. In his poem‚ “Disabled”‚ he highlights the loss and pity of war‚ while in his poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est” he emphasises that there is no glory or honour in dying in war. Through the
Premium Poetry World War II World War I
English Speech “The art of poetry” ------------------------------------------------- Beauty and the intensity of emotions are seen to be the basic characteristics of poems. Good morning/afternoon‚ ladies and gentlemen. Today ill be in sighting you on the “art of poetry”. Given its complex nature‚ poetry portrays humanity in a strong form. Closely looking at a famous poet‚ Robert Frost‚ poetry can easily be analyzed as a form of art‚ to communicate human ideologies and emotions. So
Premium Psychology Poetry
Good morning/afternoon members of the board from Penguin. I am here today to convince you why the three texts Dear Mr President by Pink‚ Magnanimous In Victory by Tim Collins and Nelson Mandela release speech deserve to be in your new book “ Protests that changed the world”. The first text that I would like to submit for your anthology is the song Dear Mr President as sung by P!nk. This song is a protest piece about war‚ poverty and societal classes. The song is full of rhetorical questions asking
Premium George W. Bush Iraq War
How have your set text and two chosen texts represented different perceptions of belonging or not belonging? Obtaining a sense of belonging is an intrinsic desire inextricably linked to our human nature. However‚ the inherent yearning to identify with a society‚ personality or context; can ironically lead to the compromising of one’s values that in turn hinges our sense of belonging. Such paradoxical interplay between a sense of connection and a loss of self is evident in Emily Dickinson’s poems
Premium Sociology Psychology Management
and care to charity or Malala Yousafzai‚ a young Pakistani school girl who stood up against gender inequality and Rosa Parks who fought against racism. These women are role models to all and without them; there would be no women independence. My speech: How do you know when a woman is about to say something smart? ... When she starts her sentence with ‘A man once told me’. The irony of this joke is not lost as we begin a new century with the implication that women are perceived as weak and are treated
Premium Gender
Marwa Hamidi 10WKP Bullying Speech Have you ever been called "ugly"? Have you ever been called "Fat"? Has someone ever made you feel totally insecure about your appearance? Everyone in this room has probably been bullied at least once in their life. It’s not the best feeling is it? It makes one feel insecure‚ humiliated and very uncomfortable. It has the power to destroy lives‚ mentally and physically. Studies have showed that 16‚493 young people aged 11-15 are regularly absent from school
Premium Bullying
stories are ebola‚ roast busters and the naming of Kim Kardashians child (Northwest if you lived under a hole) there is the one thing that the mainstream media continues to overlook‚ the effect of animals on our society. No‚ not in the good way‚ this speech will look at the no good‚ lousy and downright evil animals that grace the face of the earth. As I was looking through the news I happened to stumble upon a strange story in an alternative media branch‚ this story outlined the dirty deeds of one
Premium Human Crocodile Africa