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Necropolis Gully

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  Necropolis Gully Ancient Fertility  The only sound in the deep quiet of the crevice was the crunch of my boots on the debris-strewn ground. Towering stone walls, draped in vibrant green moss , rose on either side, making me feel like an intruder in a forgotten tomb . My matte-black suit , a product of a future this place could never have imagined, felt profane against the ancient rock . Then I saw it: a weathered, silent figure standing in the path. It was a statue of a woman , carved from the same stone as the gully but shaped with clear intent. Moss crept up its base and clung to its form like a second skin. This impossible artifact, an architectural anomaly in this raw, natural fissure , stopped me. My steady, determined posture belied the storm of questions raging in my mind. The statue stared forward with blank, unseeing eyes, a silent witness to a history I had just stumbled into. My mission was to find my crew, but this place, this silent, stone woman , was a new, un...

Deep Sea Bug - It is not about maintaining balance

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Title: Deep Sea Bug  - It is not about maintaining balance Year: 2014 Medium: Autodesk SketchBook, Samsung Note 2 Artist: John Bennett jjfbbennett Series:   Calligraphy Bug series Image version: png Influence: Paul Klee -  Fish Magic 1925   Ashile Gorky -  The Liver is the Cock's Comb Henry Moore -  Mother and Child 1936 Description There are moments in life when melancholy grips in. In the pursuit of achievement, when worthiness is implicitly questioned by peers and outwardly demonstrated by the actions of authority; when overt praise is is actually an ambience of sarcasm;  when attacks are protected by status; when attempts are denied by priority; when  innovation is denied and a holding bay is fabricated;  Deep rooted micro questions emerge from depths where loneliness and emptiness abide. Degenerate logic, scratch and scrawl and scrape at sublime minds whilst authority and pe...

The Challenge of Global Learning Australian

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Topic Theme: eLearning and Global Learning Table of Contents Executive Statement Summary Overview 21st Century Global Learning Service Contextual problem Opportunity Final Statement Introduction: Call for a Quality Global Education Service  Discussion Paper Relevance Penal Colony: Education and Internal Threat Quality Education: Private Secondary Schooling Secondary Schooling Cultural mind-set Global World: Restructure International Achievement Data and Quality Teaching Free Trade and Protectionism Free Trade since 1957 Communities of Global Inclusivity eLearning Recommendations Bibliography Executive Statement Summary This Executive Statement summarises  Key concepts in Global Learning discussion paper . It succinctly identifies the essential key issues associated with global competitive education markets, global work skills, past and present protectionist and free trade endeavors, the shaping of Australian education, and requ...