SUPERSTITIONS IN VIETNAM Vietnam has many customs involving superstitious activities. Some of them are: burning votive paper‚ meeting fortune tellers to ask for a prediction of future‚ especially some negative superstitions prevent some young couples from marriage because of their contrasting ages. Vietnamese people think that it is a lucky thing to pick some buds from a pagoda‚ receive lucky money on Tet holidays. Some people also think that if they eat tofu and peas before an exam‚ they would
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drive ahead and leave beggars behind might be unemotional one. The selfishness makes them become hard to give something to someone else. In the same way‚ most people in Vietnam ignore beggars and homeless people because they are fear to be treated by liars. According to Vietnam online newspapers‚ nearly 80 percent of beggars in Vietnam are normal people. They pretend to be disabilities in order to get help from drivers and walkers. This figure indirectly encourage people not help homeless ones because
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concerning Australian national identity. Australia needs to alter its national identity and fast‚ so as to enable all inhabitants of Australia to feel at home with their identity. Currently‚ Australian national identity still entails an anti-authoritarian‚ patriarchal‚ predominantly white model that was instigated during the colonial times. This model includes the dominant representations of mates‚ bush‚ and beer – thus silencing the indigenous roots of Australia‚ women and the different ethnicities
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group of convicts were transported to Australia. Convicts are the people who found guilty of crime. All the convicts were transported Australia by ship and fleets. After the first fleet arrived to Australia‚ there were a lot of fleets arrived to Australia as well. Consequently‚ The Australia’s government were kept for each convict and up till the mid-1800s they recorded names‚ date and place of trial and sentence. The convicts were transported to all over Australia such as New South Wales‚ Queensland
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EFFECT OF INEQUALITY ON ACCESS TO SOCIALLY VALUED RESOURCES IN ONE SOCIETY Equality often implies an equality of opportunity to access what society has to offer. Typically this includes access to socially values resources‚ such areas as health‚ education‚ employment opportunities and political representation. Over the years‚ Australian society has been described by people as a "working man ’s paradise‚ ’the land of the fair go ’‚ and an egalitarian society. However‚ there has been evidence of inequality
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have to do with the 1960’s? Look for things besides rebellion against the Vietnam War. The student movement was the next major social change movement to develop in the 1960s. Many of its early organizers had first become politically active in the early 1960s working alongside blacks in civil rights protests. The student movement worked primarily to fight racism and poverty‚ increase student rights‚ and to end the Vietnam War. At the core of the student movement was a belief in participatory democracy
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process. Argues political/ideological consciousness is determined by class position. * Marx argues > distinct hierarchy determined by wealth/education & capacity within society but an overthrow of ruling class > working class (proletariats) can gain upward social mobility > better society. * Class and class conflict in Australia‚ Kuhn and O’Lincoln address struggles of working class from an economic standpoint in relation to crime‚ suggesting Australian working class‚ due to
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While the unemployment rate has fallen over the past couple of years‚ the incidence of long term unemployment has been on the rise and therefore still remains a critical policy issue in Australia. The question of how best to reduce unemployment has been a significant part of the policy agenda for more than two decades due to the complex problems it causes for both policy makers and the individuals affected (Dixon‚ 2004 & Walsh‚ 1987). Those that are long term unemployed (LTU)‚ unemployed for 52 weeks
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The Vietnam War was a brutal war that affected millions of people in many different countries. All wars start because there is a difference in people s opinions‚ and the Vietnam War was no different. It started because France and a Vietnam leader‚ Ho Chi Minh‚ had a difference in opinion about the type of government Vietnam should have. To find out why the war broke out you will have to go back to the 1750 s. This is where the French started their so-called protectorate state of Vietnam. For many
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mismanaged assets; is plagued by rampant corruption – the problems listed are endless. The one problem that has always irked me lies in the fact that the majority of the privileged class – and I call it “privileged” in as much‚ as it can afford a decent education – tends to get educated “for the sake of getting educated”: they lack aims and goals‚ and simply hope to find the same along the way. It was during the start of my A Levels that I truly realized the importance of setting goals in life. I believe
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