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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Going to college has always been a goal to myself. Personally‚ it means more than expecting to get a good job with a high earning potential. It means the opportunity to develop myself as a person and become a valued member of society. It means‚ that as the oldest brother and first generation in my family with the possibility to attend college‚ setting an example for my younger siblings about how to shape your own path and break that mindset of “do what you have to do” and replacing it with one which
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Home Learning Project Do we have a choice where we live? RE Where did all the displaced Jews settle after the Holocaust? Explain what persecution and prejudice are: Persecution is to ill-treat someone just because of their race‚ religion‚ political beliefs‚ gender or sexual orientation. Prejudice is a judgement made of a person before you actually know them. The judgement is usually one of negativity and based on stereotypes. Relate this to why and how this resulted in Jews having
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You Have No Reason for Cloning Humans Think of walking down the street in thirty years and running into an exact replica of yourself. Is it your twin? No‚ you do not have a twin; it is your clone. Your biological makeup could have been cloned as an embryo and raised separately as an experiment. I bet many of you have seen Star Wars‚ Jurassic Park or many of the other movies that describe cloning. Most of what you see in these movies is false. What you do not know is if that cloning could be
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Would you like to know when you are going to die? Most of the people afraid to die to include me. Every living thing in the Earth undergoes death and death is the final gateway of our life. Some people want to know when they are going to die but some people don’t. Both things have pros and cons. Although it could induce frustration‚ despair‚ and sorrow‚ I would want to know when I am going to die because accomplish to live a meaningful life‚ gives a chance to say goodbye to my fellows‚ and it
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when Bill told her where he attended college. “BETTY: Have you read it? BILL: Yeah‚ I read it in college. BETTY: Where was college? BILL: I went to Oral Roberts University. (bell) BETTY: Where was college? BILL: I was lying‚ I never really went to college. I just like to party (bell) BETTY: Where was college? BILL: Harvard.” Bill said he wanted to Oral Roberts
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“Between Me and You” a book created by Ta-Nehisi Coates describes how tough it is being an African American man in America. The book which I read a couple of months ago showed how hard it is not to be targeted and judged in society if a person is of color. Coates mentioned how the rise of police brutality scares him on a daily basis for his African American son who is able to see these attacks on the black community through different outlets. Due to the use of social media‚ cellphones‚ video cameras
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I will be referring to Susan Douglas’ book‚ Where the Girls Are‚ to discuss how representations of femininity in popular culture evolved before and after the woman’s movement. For the children born after World War II‚ the media’s influence was extraordinary. These children were the fastest growing market segment and were referred to as the "baby boomers". The preteen and teenage girls were the first generation to be relentlessly isolated as a distinct market segment. Advertisers knew they had to
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My Favorite Important Book The book “Where The Wild Things Are”‚ by Maurice Sendak‚ captivated me by its storyline and the illustrations. Max’s rambunctiousness and creativity reminds me of my six brothers when they were younger. “Where The Wild Things Are’’‚ is a classic piece of literature which won the Caldecott Medal. “Where The Wild Things Are” was written for children in 1963 and considered too scary for young children when first released. I think the book content is proper for children
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publicised by associate life scientist‚ Garrett Hardin‚ during a 1968 essay. Hardin targeted on the instance of the results of unregulated grazing by eutherian on “common” land‚ however‚ wrote that people “acting severally and rationally in step with each’s self-interest‚” behave contrary to the simplest interests of the full cluster‚ by depleting some common resource — during this case‚ grass. Over the years conservatives have argued that resources that belong to everybody — fish stocks‚ maybe‚ or
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