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    Freedom Rides and 1967 REFERENDUM 12th February 1965‚ 30 university students from Sydney set off to campaign in country towns of NSW for the improved rights for Aboriginal peoples …Student action for Aborigines. Charles Perkins (born 1936) was the first indigenous person to graduate from a tertiary institution; he was also a talented soccer player who had turned down an offer to play for Manchester United. His childhood was spent away from his family in NT in a boy’s home in Adelaide. He suffered

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    To what extent do cognitive and biological factors interact in emotion? Example exam approach: In this answer I will discuss the interaction of cognitive and biological factors with reference to three theories. Psychologists have long debated the role physiological‚ cognitive and behavioural factors play in emotions. Originally believed to be a physiological experience‚ research now suggests that emotions are an interaction of both physiological and cognitive factors. Different theories debate

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    To what extent do you feel sympathy for Lady Macbeth? Refer to at least two scenes from the play in your answer. In the play “The Tragedy of Macbeth” written by William Shakespeare‚ we see a very complex character which is Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth’s character throughout the play changes as she experiences the misfortunes that are brought to Macbeth and herself. This essay will explore how we as an audience feel sympathy for Lady Macbeth throughout the play‚ and how this feeling changes as we watch

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    Scottish oil and natural gas will last for well over one hundred years MONDAY‚ 11 MARCH 2013 03:06 63 COMMENTS   By William C McLaughlin BA(Hons)‚ MBA Let’s dispel once and for all the myth that Scottish oil and natural gas reserves are declining and will run out for good in another forty years.  The Scottish North Sea has been ’pumping’ out oil and natural gas for around forty years.  The current projection is that there is around forty years of oil and natural gas reserves remaining

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    Introduction The word Lied has a long history going back as far as the 12th Century‚ and is connected with folk songs and Lutheran church hymns. The great age of German Lieder‚ however‚ came with the Romantic Movement. The Romantic Movement developed in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries‚ and was particularly influential in Germany. It was more of an intellectual than directly political movement‚. With the poets and authors who led the movement came the composers who eternalised much of the

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    The 1967 Referendum was an extremely momentous event for Indigenous Australians; it signified that legal discrimination towards Aborigines would end soon‚ and promised full and equal citizenship to them. The Referendum not only affected their rights and freedoms‚ but also indicated that the nation was prepared to embrace Indigenous people as a part of their society and culture. On May 27th 1967‚ the Holt Liberal government held a referendum to determine whether or not two sections of the Constitution

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    Referendums should be used more widely in the UK‚ Discuss. A referendum is a general vote by the electorate on a single political question‚ which has been referred to them for a direct decision. In the UK since 1975 there have been seven major referendums. The last being the Scottish independence that was only a few weeks ago on the 18th September. The result was a ‘NO’ to independence winning by 55% to 45%‚ with a turnout of 84.6%. To see if referendums should be used more widely in the UK the

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    What do biologists do? What do biologists do? Biologists study many things. The three main things that they do are that they hypothesis‚ they make observations‚ inferences and they record data. Without hypothesizing‚ biologists can not experiment or create scientific laws. Being able to hypothesis is very important in the world of science. Some evidence that I have‚ to prove that biologists hypothesis‚ are the activities we did in page 17 and in page 28. In page 17‚ in our notebook‚ we

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    Pınar Yazıcı 11223025 ‘’What do sociologists do?’’ Summary What do sociologists do? In Collins article‚ it is told that‚ as the modern industrialism has developed and options are enlarged societies started to differ too. Sociology is interested in those social institutions and how they should be studied. One of the sociologist’s job is‚ to show the reality which is already seen but from another point of view. The other is‚ to show things which we think we know. Human beings difference from

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    Should referendums be more widely used? Referendum can be defined as when the citizens either all or those in specific regions vote on a specific issue of public importance and it is conducted nationally‚ regionally‚ and locally an example of a referendum is the 2011 referendum on changing the current first past the post system to proportional representative. The public have one vote each on a specific issue and the referendum focuses on a single question with a yes/no answer. Many countries such

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