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    Residential Schools: “Where the Spirit Lives” 1. How did residential schools try to assimilate aboriginal children? Explain at least six practices which promoted assimilation. • They changed the children’s look by cutting their hair which in some aboriginal culture has spiritual meaning‚ gave them different clothes to wear‚ and took away their identity by giving them new Christian names. • Forced Christianity (When Ashtoh-Komi did the sweet grass ceremony during the beginning of the film one of the

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    Phonology and Morphology correlate with each other lexically and grammatically. Phonology is essentially the description of the systems and patterns of speech sounds in a language. Morphology is the study of words in a language. The interplay between the two categories has a mutual effect in the process of word formation. The relationship between the two systems can be attributed to Morphophonemics which is a branch of Linguistics that delves into the interaction between morphological and phonological

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    CONTEMPORARY THEORIES OF PLAY. Theory Assumptions Limitations Similarities Differences Psychoanalytic Theory. Progression through a series of psychosexual stages. Children could use play as means of shedding negative emotions related to events they can’t control in their lives. Children’s involvement in play is means of gaining control over events that they cannot control in reality. Children use play to help master events that they find traumatic or stressful. Mastery

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    and Liu go through a process of assimilation‚ they differentiate in the sense that Liu doesn’t mind having to change his ways‚ as were Anzaldua is against having to change the way she is to please the standards other people perceive to be appropriate about the dominant

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    Native American Assimilation into Western Culture Throughout the 1800s and the early 1900s‚ the American government attempted to assimilate Native American children into the Western culture‚ with all the best intentions (Marr Intro). Through primary and secondary sources‚ we learn how this was done and the mistakes they made in doing it. Primary sources‚ which are documents or other sources of information created at or near the time an event occurred‚ are an essential part in understanding

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    families and send to schools were they learned for hard labour and house hold servants By 1920 protectionism dropped and the missions and reserves were starting to be closed Assimilation: in 1937‚ the commonwe govenrmnt decided ensure that full blood aboriginal people did not absorb into cities and towns. Assimilation means that abori. Would lose their cultural identity but have their status raised. During war period. Aboriginal people had improvement in the society. In1941: child endowment

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    school‚ while students of Latino students struggle. There are three reasons that Asian students get good grades and seem to master English sooner and more effectively: Asians are eager to assimilate into white American culture while Latinos view assimilation negatively‚ teachers tend to view Asian students as hard working and disciplined while Latino students are viewed as not as hard working‚ and that both groups view learning

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    society developed since colonisation? Australia has changed in many since colonisation; the Aboriginal peoples were treated like flora and fauna due to new laws passed‚ as they were a dying race‚ women were given the rights to divorce and vote‚ the assimilation flawed was passed then destroyed‚ the commonwealth of Australia was forged‚ Australia became a multicultural country and much more. On the 1st of January‚ 1901‚ the commonwealth of Australia was formed‚ which later on‚ the first election was held

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    Moses Mendelssohn lived between the years 1729 and 1786. He was known as the " father of Haskalah " because of his contributions to the Haskalah movement. Mendelssohn was a Jewish philosopher‚ and got much of his education from his father‚ the local rabbi‚ David Frankel. Mendelssohn studied the philosophy of Maimonides. He had written the " Principally Leibnia "‚as an attack on the national neglect of native philosophers. Also published by Mendelssohn was the " Philosophical Conversations

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    In “The New Civil Rights”‚ Kenji Yoshino proposed that change is needed in our current civil rights. In recent discussion of civil rights‚ one issue has been seen that minorities are “covering” or toning down a disfavored identity to fit into the mainstream (Yoshino 479). On the one hand‚ some argues that “covering” is a vital part for a fluid social interaction and peaceful coexistence. From this perspective‚ we can see that the Yoshino’s “new civil rights” that should be based to individual rights

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