... no real power today, as evinced by the resignation of The Right Reverend Dr Peter Hollingworth, which was essentially the decision of the Australian people and their government. An unprecedented event such as this only demonstrates Australia's detachment from the English empire, and it seems laudable that ... manipulated political events through the CIA in the Menzies era to ensure that the right people were elected. What is worse is that the Australian government has shown a willingness to accept control by following the US blindly into unpopular and, at times, immoral wars. Wherever th...

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... more I realized that I was a natural at understanding it's rules and concepts. In 1999, when I was in my junior year, the Royal Australian Chemical Institute held the Australian National Chemistry Quiz in Vietnam. I registered, participated, and won an award with a High Distinction Class in the Junior Division. I continued to participate in the ... Australian Chemistry Quiz in my senior year and won another award in the Senior Division. Right after my family and I moved to the United ... home self-studying English during the day and go to the Vietnamese USA Society " English Training Se...

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... , engendered by their government on the basis of race."" Some might think that there's something wrong with African-American culture, that they have had 120 years to get their act together. Of course there's something wrong! African-Americans have no great culture in which to fall back on, to be proud of, to hold up high and proudly call their own. They ... have only slave names and only know slave ideologies. They were stripped of all dignity and culture being taken from Africa. They couldn't keep their culture because there are so many different tribes in Africa and they all spoke diff...

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... . The global media, unfortunately, is primarily controlled by a handful of powerful manipulative firms. The six biggest include AOL Time Warner(U.S.), Disney/ABC(U.S.), Vivendi-Universal(French), Bertlessman(German), Viacom(U.S.), and the Australian media giant Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. To give you an idea of how much further these companies are expanding around the globe, since 1990, both Time Warner and Disney have ... mad income from 15% by and additional 30-35% in the year 2000. To me it seems as though the U.S. media has a death grip on the globalized media market. American...

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... definition of an American. He says, "An American is English or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani, or Afghan (Ferrara, par 3). Americans come from all different descents and backgrounds, originating and living in very different parts of the world. Americans all ... products and using them in their daily lives. American's do not want to benefit from other peoples successes, but rather, improve their daily lives in some way, and help the culture ...

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• Grade Level: High School