Springbok Tour Focus Question: What was the background to the 1981 Springbok Tour of New Zealand? For 56 days in July‚ August and September 1981‚ New Zealanders were divided against each other in the largest civil disturbance seen since the 1951 waterfront dispute. More than 150‚000 people took part in over 200 demonstrations in 28 centres‚ and 1500 were charged with offences stemming from these protests. To some observers it might seem inconceivable that the cause of this unrest was the visit to
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لیست فیلم ها : |Rank |Rating |Title |Votes | |1. |9.2 |The Shawshank Redemption (1994) |573‚228 | |2. |9.2 |The Godfather (1972) |445‚689 | |3. |9.0 |The Godfather: Part II (1974)
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amazing story of survival. A young girl had been driving on the causeway during the eye of the storm. Lived through this car wreck‚ was rescued‚ and gave birth to her baby on the causeway. 12. Many cars can be seen stopped in the flood water. The waterfront was flooded by 3-5 ft of water and every building in the downtown district of Miami was damaged or
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One viewer described their tape of The Shawshank Redemption as ’like a friend in the sitting-room‚ who talked to me and picked me up when I was down’. And from such intimate encounters came the quasi-religious readings which would transform The Shawshank Redemption into a latter-day Gospel for some viewers. David Bruce‚ of the ’spiritual’ pop culture website HollywoodJesus.com observes: ’It’s an example of film as therapy. The Shawshank Redemption gives you hope; you can go on; you can go forward
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Dramatic Changes have taken place in Sydney ’s cultural and economic landscapes during the past two decades. These changing landscapes have been linked in both political discourse and the popular press to Sydney ’s emerging role as a global city ’. Evidence supporting this theory has come from some academic analyses of globalisation in the 1990s. Global cities are identified by their role as command centers for organising the global economy. Such cities have been characterised by their openness
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Introduction Mangrove swamps are a type of coastal wetland found on five out of seven continents between the latitudes 30ºN and 30ºS. Mangrove swamps are rich communities of both vegetative and animal species. The swamps are unique in the fact that they are a highly vegetated area found on the edge of marine coasts. The major vegetation in this area has adapted to absorb its water from the sea‚ and its oxygen from the air as opposed to the soil. This environment serves as home to many animal species
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around the slums and getting a real feel of what it would be like to live in India. Some of Mumbai’s main attractions include the Gateway of India‚ Bolly wood and Haji Ali. The gateway of india was built during the British Raj and is located on the waterfront in the Appolo Bunder area. The structure is a basalt arch‚ 26 metres high and it is open to the public. Bollywood is a large film industry used for the Hindi language. Bollywood actors are as big or even bigger then some of the best actors in the
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CAUSE OF FLOOD IN JAKARTA Flood is a familiar event for the cities in the North Coast of Java‚ including Jakarta. Jakarta‚ which was built by Jan Pieters Z. Coen in the early 17th century with the concept of city water (waterfront city) is a city that is very familiar with the problems of flooding since the beginning of its establishment. But other than that there are other factors that cause flooding in Jakarta. First‚ cause of natural factors. Flood can happen because always happen the
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I have lived in Mandeville‚ Louisiana – a waterfront city north of New Orleans – my whole life. Mandeville and New Orleans rest on opposing sides of Lake Pontchartrain‚ a brackish body of water known for its brown-grey hues and occasional corpse. Bisecting the lake is a 24 mile long bridge that once held the Guinness World Record for the longest bridge over water‚ dubbed the Causeway‚ which provides a 40-minute drive from one city to the other. Mandevillians will tell you they are from New Orleans
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Water‚ environment and sanitation Issue The combination of safe drinking water and hygienic sanitation facilities is a precondition for health and for success in the fight against poverty‚ hunger‚ child deaths and gender inequality. UNICEF works in more than 90 countries around the world to improve water supplies and sanitation facilities in schools and communities‚ and to promote safe hygiene practices. All UNICEF water and sanitation programmes are designed to contribute to the Millennium
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