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    Homosexuality in Australia

    So is allowing women to wear pants. It's inconvenient to remember and enforce all the sins nowadays. Just pick and choose the ones suited to your personal bigotry.
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    Homosexuality in Australia

    When you're likely about to die, or when your friends have all died in horrific circumstances, religious feeling is fairly understandable. How many times do people say "Jesus Christ!" without actually requiring his help?
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    Homosexuality in Australia

    You bring one contentious issue as an example into another. They collide, makes a mess.
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    Homosexuality in Australia

    "Defender of the Faith" is a laughable title. You do know it was given to Henry VIII by the Pope before he made a new church to suit himself and was consequently excommunicated, right? And that they later twisted it around to mean Defender of the Anglican faith when it became convenient...
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    2010 Philosophy Distinction course

    Hung up 30 seconds ago, got accepted. Got 92 for IPT two years ago, so wasn't expecting it, but phew! So glad. ;)
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    A Satire.

    Most English markers are middle-aged white women with liberal arts degrees. Most of them will like, if not love, Virginia Woolf. Bear that in mind, if you intend to be scathing towards one of the - no, the seminal feminist writer.
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    Class of 2010: Eng Ext 2 Roll Call

    Art & Literature. How it costs money, whether it's worth it, does the heightened humanity of a few justify the exploitation and suffering of many. Mostly texts from around Victorian/Edwardian era, the halcyon days of the British Empire, where most writers were funded by an Empire-derived income...
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    Books That Make You Cry

    Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure. But after your first Hardy novel you grow jaded towards everything else he writes.
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    The Great Gatsby

    To Kill A Mockingbird was great, but (even though I know it's an important part) I felt it was severely restricted by being narrated from the POV of a ten-year-old. You can tell Harper Lee kinda felt the same, from how incredibly mature Scout was. So The Great Gatsby was better for me, I think.
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    Mind and Morality at usyd

    You can transfer the 6 USYD credit points to other Australian unis, I think. Just a couple of forms and whatnot. It's a fun course; just make sure you like writing essays, because there's 4000 words of essay-writing altogether.
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    Nagative impacts due to choosing ESL english

    Because you're competent and capable of it?
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    worst/best english novel you have ever read in school?

    Not sure about best, but worst so far has to be One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Yeah, I know it's a classic, but I found his psychedelic writing style intrusive and annoying, his Christ-figure protagonist was a prick and every female character was either from a brothel or from hell.
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    Before School Classes

    I thought morning classes were pretty common in every school, unless a school is particularly good at timetabling and can fit everybody into perfect lines. They're well-known in ours, in any case, and I've been to morning classes for accelerated IPT for the past two years. And same with Week A...
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    China threatens Google for allowing porn searches

    Re: 回复: Re: China threatens Google for allowing porn searches China VS Google Where I get tickets?
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    top 3 sexiest jobs for the opposite sex

    Paratrooper Time-traveller Pie-maker
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    Most Loved, Hated and Boring Subject

    +cries+ Favourite: English Hated: Science Boring: Geography
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    Mind n Morality

    I'm doing it at NSG. A lot of my subjects (English, Ancient History, VA) are very analytical and essay-based, so I think it'll be useful.
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    Aboriginal children in care now exceeds stolen generations

    [here] Aboriginal Environmental Impacts By James L. Kohen Published by UNSW Press, 1995 ISBN 0868403016, 9780868403014 160 pages
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    Is western civilisation better than aboriginies of the past?

    He also admitted to their bias. EDIT: Also, I don't believe analogies are exclusive with facts. EDIT2: We've provided citation in the post up above, in case you didn't notice.
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