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    Stolen Generations

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    This essay will examine an aspect of civil rights or the origin that developed the need of civil rights by focusing on the following point; the stolen generation. The ’Stolen Generations’ are the generations of Aboriginal children taken away from their families by governments‚ churches and welfare bodies to be brought up in institutions or fostered out to white families. The reasoning behind this was to completely demolishing the aboriginal way of life that can only be passed on to their children

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    Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Larsson uses Lisbeth Salander and Harriet Vanger to demonstrate the failure of the Swedish government to protect women from such violent crimes. The sex and violence in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is portrayed in such a shocking manner that is intriguingly entertaining to readers and makes the book more fulfilling to the reader by challenging their own ideas about sexual violence and how the government handles it. The violence in The Girl with the Dragon

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    the government‚ churches‚ and welfares were in charge to remove especially the half-cast children‚ and they thought that they were doing the right thing and justified their action by saying that they are providing these children with a better life. Girls were sent to be trained as house maids‚ farm hands and labourers. Boys were sent to be trained as Farm workers or as a labourer. They were not allowed to speak their language or any ritual practice. When children were taken from their mothers‚ they

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    The stolen Kiss

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    Devin Johnson 4/4/13 3rd Period The Stolen Kiss - By: Jean-Honore Fragonard Jean-Honore Fragonard was born on April 5th‚ 1732‚ in a small village in the South of France called Grasse. When he was six years old‚ his family moved to Paris. After moving to Paris‚ in his early years‚ Jean-Honore began working in a law office‚ where he was then fired because he was always caught drawing instead of working. In 1747‚ he began working in a studio of a renowned Rococo painter‚ as an apprentice.

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    recommendations Executive Summary "Girl Scouts of America is the world’s largest organization dedicated to helping all girls everywhere build character and gain skills for success in the real world. In an accepting and nurturing environment‚ and in partnership with committed adult volunteers‚ girls develop strong values‚ leadership skills‚ social conscience‚ and conviction about their own potential and self-worth that will serve them all their lives" by these worlds the girl scouts of America described

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    A Stolen Life

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    A Stolen Life is a true story about a girl (Jaycee Dugard) that was kidnapped at the age of eleven and was held captive for eighteen years. She have minimal contact with the outside world and struggled day to day due to no contact with anyone. She suffered mental and physical abuse and constantly felt like she it was her fault that this had happened to her. Her experience can be connected to the outside world because even though she went through a very traumatic situation she tried not to let it

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    Johannes Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring Johannes Vermeer’s‚ “Girl with a Pearl Earring” was painted in 1665-66. It is oil on canvas painting of an ordinary girl that is turned sideways and appears that she is glancing over her left shoulder. Not too much is known about the girl‚ but there are speculations that it could be one of three people. Some think it is his daughter Maria; while others are torn between the daughter of Vermeer’s benefactor‚ Magdalena and a maiden he hired to help with his

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    The Stolen Children

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    The Stolen Children In Australia at the beginning of the 20th century there was a strong segregation of the native people of the land - the Aborigines - and the white people. They were though of as a constant nuisance‚ as many had an unwilling obduracy to adapt to the mainstream Australian society. They were looked upon as little more than slaves. When the Commonwealth Constitution was declared in 1901 it stated that “In reckoning the numbers of people…Aboriginal natives are not to be counted

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    The novella Maggie: a Girl of the Streets‚ is a story the centers on Maggie Johnson‚ a pretty young woman who struggles to survive the brutal environment of the Bowery‚ a New York City slum‚ at the end of the nineteenth century. Maggie lives in a harsh environment and it ends up leading to her downfall and ultimately her death. The novella is a brilliant example of naturalism because Maggie’s destiny is shaped by her family life‚ poverty‚ and the man she becomes involved with. Maggie’s mother

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    The Stolen Generations

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    AL375 The Stolen Generations The Aboriginal people of Australian and the invading Europeans have a complex and troublesome past extending back to the European colonisation of Australia. Governmental policy in relation to the Aboriginal people has greatly changed over time. Unfortunately‚ until around the 1970s‚ the Aboriginals were regarded as inferior beings unworthy of basic human rights and‚ at times‚ life itself. One such time period was the Stolen Generations where tens of thousands of

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