Port Moresby Essays

  • Papua New Guinea Nurses

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    Papua New Guinea Nurses THE Papua New Guinea Nurses Association (PNGNA) wants the Departments of Labour and Employment and Health to shut down the Lorengau hospital. Their call is based on the report of a health inspection conducted by the Department of Labour and Employment in February this year which condemned the hospital. The February health inspection followed a safety inspection request by PNGNA in November last year. In a letter to the Acting Secretary, Occupational Health and Safety

  • Diary of a Soldier Fighting Against the Japanese

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    keeps hammerin' down and its muddy everywhere. I hope that everyone else is doing better. Geez I 'aven't heard from Jack in ages. I wonder what he's doing nowadays. God I miss dem days. These Japanese just don't give up. They tried to capture Port Moresby but we fought em off. The Japs will be here soon and then they'll see. We'll overcome their great numbers and send them back to Japan. We'll show everyone what these "choco" soldiers can do. That's what their calling us back home because everyone

  • The Australian Kokoda Campaign During the World War II

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    plunging to deep valleys, to dense rainforests with dripping moss and leeches. The kokoda track is a footpath across the Owen Stanley ranges in Papua New Guinea. It runs from the highland town of Kokoda to the Sogeri plateau about 25 miles east of Port Moresby. During the war neither the Japanese nor Australians had proper maps of the track over mountains, the tr... ... middle of paper ... ...om.au/2011/10/04/kokoda-coin-marks-australias-most-significant-wwii-campaign/ state libaray. (2014). kokda

  • Papua New Guinea Case Study

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    investment opportunities in Papua New Guinea. Introduction Papua New Guinea, occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean, North of Australia. The capital is Port Moresby. The Western half of New Guinea is a part of Indonesia. Papua New Guinea is one of the worlds most ethnically and naturally diverse countries in the world. There are more than 800 languages, the population is very rural where only 18% of the population

  • The Kokoda Trail

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    The Kokoda track was the site of a four month battle between Japanese and Australian troops in the Papuan capital of Port Moresby in the July of 1942. With Japanese strategy put in place they began attempt capture of the city via a track over the Owen Stanley Range, prompting battles at Kokoda, Deniki, Isurava, Eora, Efogi, Templeton’s Crossing, Ioribaiwa and Oivi-Gorari, of which Kokoda was the most famous. It’s significance for Australia was huge, as was the role it played in the future of our

  • Port Cities Case Study

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    historical and contemporary roles of Singapore, Hong Kong and Port Louis as ports have indeed been drivers of economic and social change. For many years now these three cities and many others have thrived off the revenue generated by their ports. The growth of a port has ongoing economic and social ripple effects that change not only the shape of the city but the country as a whole . The aim of this essay is to show how the role of port cities contributes towards such changes. The three cities mentioned

  • The Regeneration Of Waterfronts

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    for their port characteristics. In the course of urbanisation, port cities initially began to act as the core of all economic activities. This part of the city represented the core of the city, its main marketplace and its identity. Through concentration of production activities at collective centres, globalization trends entailed the need for greater ports and this way followed by relocation of harbour activities independently far from central areas of the city. The relocation of port activities

  • The Contribution Archaeological or Written Evidence Have Made to Our Understanding of the Harbour’s Significance in Alexandrian Life and Society

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    primary harbours since the 4th century AD, the Great Harbour (Megas Limin) and the Eunostos, of which the Western one was the chief commercial centre and the site of the customs house and numerous warehouses for cotton, grain, sugar and wool. ‘The ports of Alexandria flourished during the Hellenistic, and the Roman periods up to the last decade of the 4th century AD.’[1] Indeed, the harbour established an enclosure as described by Strabo, but was essential in ensuring Alexandria’s control over

  • Russo-Japanese War

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    course, was home to the nearly ice-free Port Arthur; Russia’s other naval ports were frozen for a large part of the year. In addition, “control of Port Arthur gives [Russia] a large measure of control over the water approaches to Peking.”<<2 Asakawa, K. The Russo-Japanese Conflict. (Port Washington: Kennikat Press, 1970), 49.>> Moreover, by controlling the southern coast of Korea, “Russia would not merely possess a truly ice-free, and the best naval port to be found in East Asia, but also at last

  • An Inside Look at Modern Seaports

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    of transportation. It can therefore be referred to as a center of combined modes of transport. It is a point where transportation routes on land and sea meet. A port is also where the exchange of goods and passengers take place between ships and land transportation vehicles. A modern seaport is a supper – harbor. It is a deep water port that assists in handling the largest tankers and transportation methods. These seaports are controlled by harbor masters. The harbor masters control them from a high-tech

  • The Fishing Industry in Gloucester

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    The Fishing Industry in Gloucester Gloucester Massachusetts is known for its fishing industry. Over 1200 people’s jobs in Gloucester lay in the fishing industry. The fishing industry first derived when people from Europe came over looking for a better life. Gloucester is America’s oldest seaport, and now it is fighting to survive. Now with new rules, and diseases in the sea, the fishing industry will never be what it was decades ago. One of the earliest settlements, Gloucester, Massachusetts

  • Asymmetric Threats

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    nuclear weapons, chemical weapons are less damaging, but are easier to acquire. Both threats could be delivered in a containe... ... middle of paper ... ...ked, the port customs team will be required to inspect the shortfall. An automated system would track the status (checked/unchecked) from beginning to end. At the port of embarkation a US customs team will work in conjunction with local customs officials to ensure the accuracy of the program. The current technology being used for screening

  • THe beginning of Seattle history

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    citizens, it was the logging industry that started it all. In this paper, I will discuss the growth of the logging industry, specifically in relation to Seattle, and the resulting extension industries in the development of what is now our nations largest port city. I. The early industry: The laborers who sat idle during the fur trading off-season were of great concern to George Simpson, resident governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1821. As he sat in his newly transferred building situated on

  • Freight Market Equilibrium Theory

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    are involved simplifies the establishment of a freight rate for this particular movement. To the capital charges of ownership and the expense of administration and overhead must be added the cost of running the ship, handling the cargo, and paying port fees and harbor dues. Against this total is set the number of tons to be hauled, and the resultant figure is what the tramp must charge, per ton of cargo loaded, to break even on the contemplated voyage. If competitive conditions permit, a margin for

  • The Cruise Line Industry: Overview and Recommendations

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    cruise vacationers while maintaining the market that already exists. There are numerous ways to go about this. Royal Caribbean is being creative in its methods. Generally, Key West is one of the most frequented ports of call. However, as Phillips (2005) states The Sentry is canceling 26 port calls next year, and the Rhapsody of the Seas normally goes every week while next year it will only go every other week. RCL has had the same schedule for a long time and now they want to try other things. This

  • history of the port of long beach

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    History of the Port of Long Beach The San Pedro Bay breakwater began construction in 1899. This was to facilitate the building of the Port of Los Angeles. It served well as a breakwater for both ports. In 1909 the Los Angeles Dock and Terminal Company purchased about 800 acres of marshes and mudflats at the mouth of the Los Angeles River. On June 24, 1911, in a grant from the State of California, the City of Long Beach was given the tideland areas in trust for the people of the state. The theory

  • Description of the Yokohama Port

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    Yokohama Port is a top-class port in Japan, which has a long history over 150 years since it was opened to foreign trade in 1859. Japan's sharp economic boom changed the way many of its markets worked, including the Port of Yokohama. There are a variety of industries in Tokyo, Yokohama and its surrounding area. In fact, the area has a nearly 30 percent share of the shipment value of product of Japan. Typical cargo types for this port are nonferrous metals, crude oil, steel, cars. In addition, 40

  • The Management of Seaports

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    productivity aspect. 2.0 Location According to the information of Matitime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), the strategic location will be the important element for the success of seaport. The strategic location of seaport can let the port have a well connection with global as transportation network, market accessibility, global meeting place and extensive communications network. Ports are heterogeneous, differing considerably, depending on their location, in the types of vessel

  • Edwige Danticat’s Tones in We Are Ugly, But We Are Here

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    Edwige Danticat’s Tones in We Are Ugly, But We Are Here When I first read “We Are Ugly, But We Are Here,” I was stunned to learn how women in Haiti were treated. Edwige Danticat, who was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1969 and immigrated to Brooklyn when she was twelve years old, writes about her experiences in Haiti and about the lives of her ancestors that she links to her own. Her specific purpose is to discuss what all these families went through, especially the women, in order to offer

  • The Gospel In South Africa

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    It was the year 1820 when a ships from Britain came bearing a squashed group of 4000 hopeful English came upon the shores of Cape Town. A land of hope lay ahead of the these familes, who had been selected out of a group of some 90 000- all of whom fleeing the rising unemployment facing Britian after the Napoleonic wars. On the ship was a young Methodist minister whose longed not to escape England, but to preach the gospel.Little did he know how powerful a impact he would have in history. The Cape