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Re: 2007 Federal Election - Coalition or Labor/Howard or Beazley? If you're talking about current account deficit, which was a very big issue with the Libs under Keating, it's actually gone up (massively) under the Liberals. If you're talking about government debt due to spending, there is...

Bear in mind that these aren't confirmed changes, but proposed ones. The Nationals are shrieking blue murder about it because Gwydir, one of their seats in western NSW, is proposed to be abolished, but if it's approved the redistribution gives them opportunities elsewhere. (Calare, which is...

Not really, come to think of it, just a bit on the Resistance in Europe, which isn't exactly the home front.

I've done a bit of study, not an enormous amount as yet. I'm hopeful that I'll get more done, and that the rest will come from just reading over stuff. (I have a good short term memory for a lot of school stuff, thank god.) My main worry is 3U Maths, which I went terribly in during...

Re: 2007 Federal Election - Coalition or Labor/Howard or Beazley? Any doubts I had about voting Labor have been removed by reading the current issue of The Monthly's interview with Greg Combet (head of the ACTU, closely connected to the ALP). His view of IR policy and economic policy generally...

The textbook we're using for this unit is a British one from the Access To History series. It's called Europe at War, 1939-45. It's not written from the NSW Syllabus, so it doesn't cover the leadup to war from 1935 onward, but the war itself is covered in a decent amount of detail. The only...

I got a copy of a sample paper today. The questions are: 1. Describe the rise to prominence of the Twentieth Century personality you have studied. (10 marks) 2. 'Those who are inspired by an ideal rather than self-interest make the biggest impact on history.' To what extent does the study of...

Hmm. Adam's not really an Ext Hist person, then.

Roughly 20 at ours. Two classes.

Shame. The bit before is really interesting.

When does this topic begin? I barely know anything about the conflict after the establishment of Israel, but I did the bit before it for a case study in Year 11 and I believe that Sherif Hussein was certainly aiming at a unified Arab state in the Hussein-McMahon correspondence.

We use Jones and Couchman as well, and their error rate is pretty high everywhere. They also have no consistency in how they present their answers, which is irritating, but also irrelevant to this topic. Shall I stop rambling?

I'd do those ones as well, but anything involving both calculus and trig will just make me want to cry (it's my pet hate), so I won't.

a) v = dx/dt = 4 - 10t + 6t² So v = 0 when 6t² - 10t + 4 = 0 (t - 1)(6t-4) = 0 t - 1 = 0 or 6t - 4 = 0 t = 1 or t = 2/3 So velocity is 0 m/s when t = 1s or t = 2/3s b) a = d²x/dt² = dv/dt = -10 + 12t = 12t - 10 When a = 0 12t - 10 =...

I find that brief diversions spoken in a different way to the rest of your speech work well in keeping the audience's attention. For instance, an Ancient speech from a while ago: "Blah blah blah Spartacus ... [becomes more casual, makes a brief comical remark about the Kirk Douglas film and how...

I'm planning on doing Arts at Usyd next year, but lately I've been having second thoughts about doing Arabic, which I've been planning for ages. Can anyone tell me what they thought of Arabic (considering that I'm a person who dropped out of the relentlessly grammar-and-rote-memorisation-based...

Re: So its the holidays before trials... Am I the only one who isn't planning huge five-hour study days every weekday, but is just hoping to sort of go through stuff and learn the bits I don't already know?

We're doing Churchill. For no reason I can see, and I'd much prefer to be doing one of the Ancient ones. But we have posters of Churchill up everywhere in our classroom, so I suppose there was never really much choice in the matter.

I think it really depends on what your question is. If your question involves methodology or the basis of theories (like mine does), then you'll have plenty of stuff on methodology and the process of history. But if you're doing something a bit more comparison-based, like representation of...

Re: Major Project Due Date It's not actually a Board-marked Major Work, as many people at my school seem to think it is. It's an internal assessment like any other, it's just that it's far more strictly proscribed in the syllabus than your usual "10% - spoken" or so on. Therefore, the schools...