“A CRITICAL SOCIETY MAKES IT DIFFICULT FOR CHILDEREN AND TEENERGERS FROM MINORITY CULTURES AND GROUPS TO FIND A WAY TO BELONG” Good morning ladies and gentlemen Today I’d like to discuss and persuade you that a critical society makes it difficult for teenagers and children from minority cultures and groups to find a way to belong to a foreign country. I am discussing three characters( Simon tong‚ Hoa pham and Diana ngyuen) in Alice Pung’s text Growing up Asian in Australia and experience of my
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‘Our sense of self is very vulnerable to external pressures’ In everyday life‚ humans are surrounded with pressures that can influence the formation of their identity. External pressures such as the environment we live in‚ the culture we belong to and the presence of other people‚ are often uncontrollable and can have a crucial impact on our sense of self. This idea is explored in great depth in Ray Lawler’s classic Australian play‚ “The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll”‚ where it is reflected how
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people easily assume that she is black by her appearance. So families who we come across initially in life have a huge impact on us and shaped our identity and make who we are and what we become. Without them‚ there is no me. On the other hand‚ the belonging to a wider society determines our identity. Sometimes‚ it plays a more significant role on determining who we are than what our family gives us. My cousin as an Australian born Chinese‚ in the white society‚ she is considered to be an Asian‚ but
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REPORT: 26.10.12 Winterbourne View:- Care Home for Adults with learning disabilities and autism. Concern and problems were raised at Winterbourne Home on 1 June 2011‚ when footage was released of abuse‚ neglect and many more problems were shown and released to the public. Reporter Joseph Carey went undercover as an employee for 5 weeks secretly filming the carers and nurses in the home abusing and neglecting residents. The footage exposed abuse‚ gross misconduct‚ and neglect amongst other
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Holland Sweetner versus Monsanto1 Aspartame is a low-calorie sweetner marketed by Monsanto under the name of NutraSweet. It was a major impetus to the rapid growth of Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi during the 1980s and 1990s. A scientist at the G. D. Serle & Co. first discovered aspartame in 1965; Serle received a patent for the product in 1970. US regulators did not approve its use in soft drinks until 1983. In 1985‚ Monsanto acquired Serle—and with it a monopoly on aspartame. Monsanto’s patents
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* ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- Lester R. Brown * ------------------------------------------------- guardian.co.uk‚ Tuesday 24 July 2012 12.21 BST * ------------------------------------------------- Jump to comments (205) Food riots in Algeria in 2008. Photograph: Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images In the early spring this year‚ US farmers were
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(Unit HSC 028) Handle information in health and social care settings Criteria Ref Outcome 1 Understand the need for secure handling of information in health and social care settings. 1 The learner can: Identify legislation that relates to the recording‚ storage and sharing of information in health and social care. Data Protection Act 1998 Freedom of Information Act 2000 2 Explain why it is important to have secure systems for recording and storing information in a health and social care setting
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Belonging to America My grandfather always used to explain to me how lucky I was to be able to be an American. He would inform me on how valuable it was and how I should never take it for granted. He expressed that I should feel honored to be able to have all the opportunities I do. I never understood him growing up. I did not understand how growing up somewhere‚ like America‚ versus another country could be any different. I understand now. When I was younger‚ my mother would tell different stories
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the sense that he chooses to detach himself from both the forest and court. * Essentially‚ he acts on his potential to challenge social normalcy and the status quo by rendering himself devoid of any affiliation to these communities‚ instead belonging to a ‘melancholy of my own.’ In doing so‚ he is minutely fastidious in the way in which he examines and scrutinizes the human condition; thus‚ by challenging these groups and
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Step 1: Generating Ideas * Read Destiny by Shalini Akhil * Answer the following questions: The text a) Who are the characters? b) What is a lungi‚ and what are rotis? c) What do you think is the message of this piece? Yourself d) What did you want to be “when you grew up”? Try to remember a really idealistic dream from when you were quite young. Go back to that memory and write a paragraph describing all the details of that dream: why you wanted it‚ how you imagined yourself to look
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