Archive for December, 2008

Alcohol - Health and Social Aspects

Posted by Manny Mazda on 31st December , 2008

Alcohol, or Ethyl Alcohol, is an intoxicating ingredient found in alcoholic beverages. Alcoholic beverages can be categorised into three generic classes: beers, wines and spirits. Ethanol is a psychoactive drug that is found to have a depressant effect on all human beings.
Everyday millions of people around the world suffer from negative after-effects of drinking alcohol [...]

Alcohol Advertising in the Mass Media

Posted by Manny Mazda on 31st December , 2008

Advertising and the promotion of alcohol in the media and through sport sponsorships is a major contributing factor to the ongoing alcohol problem in Australian society. Teenagers are especially at risk from campaigns that mix sexual attraction with alcohol.
Advertising that appeals to teenagers, links alcohol with sexual and sporting success, and encourages questionable standards of [...]

Australian Weddings - Traditions and Etiquette

Posted by Manny Mazda on 31st December , 2008

The marital union of, usually, a man and a woman is a life cycle event celebrated in all cultures and is the focus of considerable folklore. This begins with beliefs and customs that may be observed in the lead-up to the wedding day.
For example, in many Christian or European societies it is widely believed to [...]

Unpretentious Melbourne: Australian Football Capital of Australia

Posted by Manny Mazda on 31st December , 2008

As so often in Australia’s history, Melbourne was founded through fraud when adventurer John Batman, an Australian fluent in several aboriginal dialects, made a “deal” with aborigines to lease land on behalf of speculators.
While offering the Aborigines any compensation at all was progressive in a colonial culture that preferred to simply run them off the [...]

Modest Melbourne: Australian Football Heartland of Australia

Posted by Manny Mazda on 31st December , 2008

As so often in Australia’s history, Melbourne was founded through deception when adventurer John Batman, an Australian who spoke in several aboriginal dilects, made a “deal” with aborigines to lease land on behalf of investors.
While offering the Aborigines any compensation at all was progressive in a colonial culture that preferred to simply run them off [...]

Booming Taipei: Capital of the Republic of China

Posted by Manny Mazda on 31st December , 2008

After climbing 508 metres up the Taipei 101 tower, the highest structure in the world, it can be seen easily from anywhere in the city, one can look down on the genuine Taipei amidst all the modern buildings: temples, markets, the National Palace Museum and in between them, the many old streets and lanes where [...]

Glorious Vilnius Lithuania: City of Churches

Posted by Manny Mazda on 30th December , 2008

The Lithuanian city of Vilnius exudes southern charm under the northern sun. Positioned in the natural amphitheatre of the surrounding Lithuanian hills, Vilnilus has much to offer Australian tourists interested in classical architecture.
Vilnius, which can look back on a thousand years of Lithuanian history, can boast one of the largest historical town centres in Eastern [...]

Stimulating Mumbai: Home of India’s Commercial Heart

Posted by Manny Mazda on 29th December , 2008

Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, is one of the most populated cities in the world. In 1533, when the Portuguese set up Bom Bahia, which means “good bay”, no one could have predicted what Mumbai would end up like.
In India there is no official system in place to register people and addresses. This makes any [...]

Unforgetable Vienna: Baroque Centre of Europe

Posted by Manny Mazda on 28th December , 2008

Located in the centre of Europe, Vienna is both a lively modern metropolis and a destination famous for its cafes, historic districts, lovely parks, elegant squares and romantic courtyards.
Vienna means cafe culture, music and wine. Where else can one so happily spend all day sitting in a cafe, reading a magazine, sipping a Viennese [...]

Copenhagen Capital of Denmark

Posted by Manny Mazda on 27th December , 2008

Almost everyone who comes to Copenhagen visits the little mermaid harbour. Hans Christian Andersen’s popular story is about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince.
Love is capricious. In the end, the unhappy [...]