... spotlight Since he is exposed, it becomes obvious that his character changes Unlike any other character inthe novel, Nick undergoes a change from the beginning to the end Even the "Great Gatsby" ... and society even accepts affairs -the ultimate dishonesty in relationships At the beginning of the story, Nick tries to become part of the rich society by accepting Jordan's dishonesty He rationalizes ... trouble and their carelessness Nick comments that " (The rich) (are) careless people, Tom and Daisy-they (smash) up things and creatures and then (retreat) back into their money or their vast carelessness...
... illustrated using plenty of detail, and the characters were develloped to be as beleivable and genuine as possible Inthe end it is the realistic recognition of life's imperfections that give TheGreat ... end it is the realistic recognition of life's imperfections that give TheGreat Gatsby its continuing appeal ...
... compare the banking crises in 2008-09 and intheGreat Depression, and analyse differences inthe policy response to the two crises in light of the prevailing international monetary systems The scale ... several months after the early signs of the banking crisis, such as the drying up of liquidity in inter-bank deposit markets in August 2007 and the run on Northern Rock inthe UK in September 2007, ... before the failure of Lehman Brothers, after which output declined precipitously ABEOR show that the decline in manufacturing globally inthe twelve months following the global peak in industrial...
... reduces the tidal asymmetry and the natural self-scouring effect resulting in siltation of mangrove channels The vegetation generates small-scale turbulence maintaining the sediment in suspension in ... they can glue onto them and entrain them downward to their death The water circulation over the mud shoals fringing the mangroves encourages the recruitment of prawn larvae spawned offshore The ... is not good for maintaining existing seagrass meadows or inshore coral reefs inthe GBR Quantifying the sediment-induced degradation of seagrass and inshore coral reefs is also the focus of Fortes...
... to the bigger basins, in particular the Fitzroy and the Burdekin, substantial conversion of woody vegetation to more intensive agricultural use is taking place inthe interior of these basins ... undertaken inthe lower Herbert River catchment, commencing in 1992 Numbers in figures refer to sampling points shown in Figure Dotted lines indicate the 95% confidence intervals for the regressions ... intensity greater than 50 mm dϪ1 The samples were collected either by lowering a bucket from a bridge at a point above the centre of the flowing part of the channel, or more directly by wading into the...
... runoff have increased severalfold since the beginning of European cropping and pastoral activities inthe catchments adjoining the GBR CATCHMENTS ADJOINING THE GBR Continental drainage basins with ... entering at the upper end In contrast, the integrated flux of DON at Ingham is circa 87% of the nominal input flux Particulate N fluxes at the downstream site are approximately 1.8 times the input ... occurred inthe Fitzroy River since 1991 The largest flows in all catchment types are most frequently associated with intense rainfall derived from tropical cyclones coming from the Coral Sea or rain...
... nutrient against light limitation of seagrass growth, the light condition bringing about the elevated amino acid content inthe plants 13 In response to shading and increased water depth, the carbon ... pp Brown, B.E & Holley, M.C 1981 The influence of tin smelting and tin dredging on the intertidal reef flats of Phuket, Thailand pp 214 in Proceedings Fourth International Coral Reef Symposium, ... apiculata seedlings living at the edge of progressing mangrove forests at the study sites inthe Philippines and Thailand is directly correlated to the nutrient and silt contents within the sediments...
... the moving indicator on the graph The changes between algal and coral dominance are portrayed by the varying proportion of the two scenes at the bottom Initial conditions were set to be low in ... oligotrophic for the first half of the time period (t ϭ to 500), and then linearly increase to moderately eutrophic for the remaining time Sediments and nutrients on inshore reefs are initially moderately ... to 500), then increase linearly to strongly eutrophic by the end of the time period Disturbances (e.g., cyclones, coral bleaching) are uniform in timing and frequency across the continental shelf,...
... is similarly defined as the distance to the northern end of the GBR divided by the sum of distances to the northern and southern ends of the GBR This has the effect of mapping the GBRMP to a rectangle, ... cover was greatest (~30%) inthe area covering the Whitsunday to Palm Islands groups (Figure 10) It was low in- shore inthe area extending from south of Townsville to the Daintree River inthe north ... edge of the GBR at increasing levels of turbidity Although such decrease in visibility is hypothetical, the model nevertheless points at the importance of protecting the water quality inthe wet...
... the main driving influences on the fate of the plume water were the discharge volume of the river (in the near field, that is, less than 100 km from the mouth) and the local wind forcing inthe ... influence from rivers intruding into the GBR from Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya The mainland catchments have been divided into 35 drainage basins The two largest basins in this region are the ... every 79 years In contrast, the catchment areas farther north of the Burdekin lie within more rugged and mountainous terrain resulting in more river systems transversing the region draining significantly...
... explained by the changeover periods from southeast trade winds bringing cooler water in April, to the northwest monsoons in October bringing down warmer waters from the north The prevailing hypothesis ... estuaries, the tidal movements which bring deep ocean water in and out of the calmer and narrower waters within the Barrier, and the winds and weather systems, are probably all indispensable to the maintenance ... research and management of the GBRWHA is needed, especially inthe poorly known “inter-reef” and through the coastal fringe into the catchments ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In developing the themes presented here...
... habitats rather than inthe more accessible inshore edge of the reef shoal and inter-reef The rationale for these increasing costs was the increased fuel required, loss of fishing gear inthe rougher ... to the inter-reef habitat, and M endeavouri straddled both habitats The trawl fleet could fish in both the inshore lagoon and the inter-reef but the cost of fishing increased farther offshore into ... biomass to the system) was included Turtles are harvested by indigenous communities in northern Queensland, therefore this catch together with the trawl bycatch was included inthe “Fleet” fishing component...
... was instrumental in distinguishing the late evening, far-grid community The relevance of these key taxa in defining fish associations is evident from the composition of the four sample groupings ... across the shelf isobaths, flooding to the southwest and ebbing to the northeast (King & Wolanski, 1996), modulate the persistent southward flow pushing the resultant current more to the east during ... retention were inthe south and southeast sectors where aggregations of fish generally remained at or above the concentration of the incident plume DISCUSSION The findings of these two independent...
... around Old Reef inthe central region of the GBR This view also shows the mooring sites The view is from the north looking south Australia is to the right and the Coral Sea to the left The view is ... visualisation of the measured currents at the mooring sites during neap tides and calm weather The red arrows indicate the tidally predicted currents and the blue arrows the wind-driven currents (the latter ... size was 500 m, the resolution at which bathymetric data were available The forcing includes the tides, the wind, and the East Australian Current, the latter being forced by prescribing mean long-shelf...
... During the winter (the dry season) the dominant winds are the southeast trades, which can create a northward current over the shelf During the summer monsoon, the winds can be more fickle In ... frame of the animation The date associated with the 3-day animation is also indicated at the top of the key inthe lower left of the screen As shown in Animation 3, the beginning of the warm ... low winds only a week later, but unlike the northern section, this coincided with a maximum inthe tidal range inthe south, effectively maintaining mixing and preventing any significant heating...
... process itself In hinterland and coastal land use that affects the GBR INNER REEFS Land clearing inthe river catchments draining into the GBR has been rapid and is still continuing, and the landscape ... Senate Inquiry into Hinchinbrook was under way In her foreword to the final report the Chair of the Inquiry wrote: Inthe committee’s view the management of development proposals at Oyster Point ... “would you kindly advise whether Oyster Point and the rest of the Hinchinbrook Channel is within theGreat Barrier Reef Region” (letter obtained under Freedom of Information legislation) The Attorney...
... furnishing them information and associating with them, and even receiving them into their families, while they were yet public enemies, and in arms against the country CHAP XIV SABBATH EVENING IN INVINCIBLE ... for the poorest quality of intoxicating liquors They had been collected together from the various country towns inthe Southern part of the State, where they had been PART INTHE 42 in training ... moment, with their own fellow citizens pulling at the spring, willing to involve them in general and complete ruin willing to subject them to the ravages of such bloodthirsty villains as the inmates...
... of music inthe cathedral He married in 1546, and had several sons, but in 1551 was again in Rome, where he held the position of teacher of the boy singers inthe Capella Giulia, inthe Vatican ... Another writer shows us Paganini in his lodgings "Everything was lying in its usual disorder; here one violin, there another, one snuff-box on the bed, another under one of the boy's playthings ... found; they were hid under the trunk; the handkerchief lay in one of the boots; the coat inthe box; and the waistcoat inthe drawer of the table Every time that Paganini had found one of his things,...