Hobart Essays

  • The Missing Aboriginals of Hobart

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    Much has been written concerning the origins of Hobart, Tasmania, but little of this would include its local aboriginals. Hobart was considered a home to the nomadic Mouheneer tribe (Asia Rooms, 2011), very little is written about them except in brief passages in most sources that detail the history of the area. Generally, what follows after the Mouheneer is that Hobart was first settled by the English for purposes of using it as a penal colony. The impact to the natives would best be viewed from

  • Cooper V. Hobart Case Study

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    proximate relationship to. The test set forth in Anns is important to understand when discussing Cooper v. Hobart, which was adopted as the test for the duty of care for the government and its agencies after Kamloops v. Nielson. This is because Cooper v. Hobart is the case which is said to have redefined Anns into the current standard, the Cooper-Anns test. Facts of Cooper v. Hobart Cooper v. Hobart is a case involving the Registrar of Mortgage Brokers, a statutory regulator of mortgage licenses. In

  • Sandy Bay Essay

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    Looking for mortgage brokers in Sandy Bay, Hobart? All you have to do is call us by dialling 1300 510 045. We are available every day until 9pm. Professional Assistance from Reliable Mortgage Brokers When investing in a property, the whole process can become difficult and energy-consuming especially when paired with the other responsibilities you are juggling every day. To avoid experiencing such inconvenience, all you have to do is get in touch with us here at Select a Broker. We offer free mortgage

  • The Future of Literature in the Age of Technology

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    call it [an] oral rather than illiterate [society]" (Borgmann 38). Before Homeric epics like the Odyssey and the Iliad were transcribed into the large volumes we read and study today, these tales were told orally by a bard during daylong festivals. Hobart and Schiffman, authors of Information Age: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution, contend that the purpose of storytelling in this era wasn't, as many literates believe, to preserve the cultural history. Instead, memory served as a form

  • Similarities Between Waiting For Superman And Tow Shakespearians

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    Film Responses to Waiting For Superman and The Hobart Shakespearians “Waiting for Superman” and “The Hobart Shakespearians”, Tow great eye-opening documentaries of the American public school system and the struggles in the lives of the students and their families. “Waiting for Superman” Featured students from America that have been negatively affected by the public school system. Each of these students and their families have great hardships to overcome yet have a strong will to succeed and a

  • Martin Cash Research Paper

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    Martin Cash Early Life Martin Cash was baptised on the 10 October 1808 at Enniscorthy, County Wexford in Ireland. He was George and Margaret Cash, and came from a rather wealthy family. He was literate and had a reasonable education. However, his father was indolent and the boy's education was often neglected. Until Cash was 18, he worked as a farm labourer next door. He also began courting the young woman who lived there, Mary. Mary earned a living by making straw hats and bonnets, and her family

  • Uniform Crime Report

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    alarming and yet shocking. The areas I researched for violent crimes are Merrillville, Gary, Hammond, East Chicago, Portage, Hobart, and Crown Point. These are the areas that I have some relationship to such as my living space, where I frequently visit to see friends and family members and where I catch the train at for work. According to the webpage Neighborhood Scout, Gary, Hobart, East Chicago and Hammond have the highest crime rate for my area (Neighborhood Scout, 2015). This is not surprising to

  • Causes And Effects Of No Child Left Behind

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    Cause and Effect Writing: No Child Left Behind For years, the No Child Left Behind program and parents have gone head to head. Some parents believe that their children are not ready to advance, while the NCLB believes the students are ready to progress. The law does not care if the students does not understand the curriculum, just as long the child is meeting deadlines and passing the states standardized tests. This type of learning system only causes stress for teachers, students, and can be very

  • The Concert Experience and the Song as Oral Tradition

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    were created as spoken pieces, and because listeners lacked an alphabet to commodify them (separate them from their performance), the tales had to be heard and experienced first-hand. This group experience of the spoken epic involves what authors Hobart and Schiffman term commemoration: “In the world before writing, memory is the social act of remembering” (15). The way pre-literate media (speech) shaped culture includes this commemorative act. Pre-literate cultures had no other way of storing

  • Two Ways A Woman Can Get Hurt Jean Kilbourne Summary

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    and the student received the backlash. Instead of her peers supporting her, or questioning the school’s court, she was ridiculed. Rape is the largest form of violation. It takes an immense amount of courage to come forward, as it seems embarrassing. Hobart and William Smith Colleges is not the first university where they dismiss rapists. College is meant to offer solace. The last thing a rape victim deserves, is to not see her rapist be accountable for his actions. This damages the woman severely; it

  • Gender Stereotypes In Amc's Mad Man

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    Mosbacher is saying now a days if for some reason some negative actions come through there ways, they'll will show there strength and the power the all women have. But, his talking about this the twenty-first century, and not as much as before; not many women what say what they stand for as, AMC’S Mad Man. Mad Man is dramatic series about the birth of America advertising.In season one, the episode “shoot” capture the traditional gender codes of the time period depicted in the show. In the show

  • Devil's Den Research Paper

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    General John Henry Hobart Ward and four 10 pound Parrott rifles from the 4th New York Independent Battery where under the command of Captain James Smith occupied Devil’s Den and its surrounding area. The Confederate 1st Texas and 3rd Arkansas brigades under the command of Brigadier General Jerome B. Robertson attacked to the west of Devil’s Den and the 44th and 48th Alabama brigades under the command of Brigadier General Evander Law attacked to the east. Brigadier General John Henry Hobart Ward called upon

  • Welcome To The World of Literary Theory

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    Welcome To The World of Literary Theory Literary theory. Just the name sounds boring, ancient, and predictable. The concept may make you cringe or even hide behind an education filled with far less intimidating subject matter. As a student you picture some tenured teacher attempting to enlighten you with his or her knowledge of authors who have been long gone or nearly there. You think of endless hours slaving over an anthology of stories you have already read. You do not understand how all

  • Cardiovascular Disease In Australia

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    These eight areas with the highest admission rates were ranked in the top three of ten socioeconomic categories of disadvantage. In contrast, local government areas such as Kingborough, Hobart and West Tamar, had admission rates below 39 per 10,000 people. The results showed that there is a direct link between the hospital admission rates and the socio-economic disadvantage in some areas. Risk factors for heart diseases are more in Tasmanian

  • Duty of Care in Kamloops v. Nielson

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    The case of Kamloops v. Nielson was a landmark decision for tort law, since it established the duty of care principle in Canadian private law, which prior to this case was used in the Anns v. Merton case and expanded the scope of duty first identified in Donoghue v. Stevenson. In the historic case of Donoghue v. Stevenson, duty of care was established to include anyone that could be foreseeably harmed by someone’s actions, creating the neighbour principle. The Anns v. Merton case expanded the scope

  • Rex and Rosemary Walls: Really Bad Parents

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    There are many different kinds of parents. There are parents that are nice to their kids, spoil them and give them anything they want. On the other hand, there parents that are mean to their kids, make them do all the house work and provide bad living conditions for their children. The Walls parents would fall on the bad of the parent scale for many reasons. First both of the Walls parents are out of touch with reality. Second the parents act like kids and the kids have to act like responsible adults

  • The Walls Family In The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

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    They had gotten a small broken down house on Little Hobart Street that they comfortably fit in, but it came with its own troubles. Jeanette's parents used the stove to get warm, but she still managed to freeze despite her efforts, “no matter how many blankets I piled on top of myself, I still felt cold,” often times she got no sleep trying to get warm, “rubbing my feet with my hands, trying to warm them” (Walls 176). Their quaint house on Little Hobart Street had no insulation, and neither of her parents

  • Supervisor Reflection

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    This essay will discuss how I have personally managed some of the difficulties of transitioning between the positions of constable on a shift, moving to the position of a shift supervisor (acting sergeant), returning as a member on the same shift and working beside the same shift colleagues. I will discuss the issues that I have faced, such as the leadership transition, human resource management and how I was able to influence my peers, both inexperienced and experienced. I will reflect on leading

  • Invention Of The Mixer

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    standing mixer, which was created to be an at-home and industrial appliance allowing mixing ingredients to be much more convenient than other by-hand methods. In 1908, Herbert Johnson created the first electric standing mixer for the Hobart Company and in 1919, Hobart Company presented the KitchenAid Food Preparer, a free standing mixer for homes throughout the United States. According to "Vaunt Design Group; Mixer History; Invention of the Mixer" the first 5-quart counter top KitchenAid mixers were

  • Boundaries In The Glass Castle

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    tried pushing it.  The house on 93 Little Hobart Street exemplified the said boundary.  It “was a dinky thing perched high up off the road on a hillside so steep that only the back of the house rested on the ground” (Walls 150). In color, the house was gray, and Jeannette decided she wanted to paint the house to try and spruce it up a bit. By doing that, she thought “people might be more accepting of us if we made an effort to improve the way 93 Little Hobart Street looked” (157). All through the memoir