credentials may do direct harm to others. If one lies to gain a job‚ something which seems to happen with increasing frequency‚ isn’t it a direct harm to others? Or‚ how about false representing as having received any credentials for something? The Stolen Valor Act of 2005‚ signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 20‚ 2006‚[1] was a U.S. law that broadened the provisions of previous U.S. law addressing the unauthorized wear‚ manufacture‚ or sale of any military decorations and medals
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Stolen Generation Dating back to 1910-1970‚ hundreds of thousands of Aboriginal people (mainly children) were forcibly taken away‚ by police or welfare officers‚ from their families and homes‚ due to the newly created legislations. Hundreds of children were stripped away from their childhood and were forced to live with ‘white families” as it was thought that aboriginal people‚ especially children were vulnerable to influence and could be easily persuaded to live through the ways of “white people”
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Title: Girl Stolen Author: April Henry Pages: 213 1. Characters Cheyenne Wilder is a 16-year-old girl who is blind. Cheyenne also has a sickness called pneumonia. She has black hair and huge brown eyes. She seems smart‚ and all what she thinks about is that she needs to escape. Griffin is the person who stole the car‚ and stole Cheyenne. The book says he is 5 foot 11 and 170 pounds. He has dark hair and a big nose
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George Harold Harrison‚ the youngest Beatle‚ was born February 25‚ 1943. He had two brothers‚ Harold Jr. and Peter‚ and a sister‚ Louise. His mother‚ Louise‚ was a housewife‚ and his father‚ Harold‚ was a bus driver.George’s initial interest in the guitar came about slowly. His mother remembers that she started finding paper covered in drawings of guitars among his school things. So‚ she bought George an old second hang guitar from one of his class mates for three pounds. George tried to teach himself
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The Stolen Generation describes the period of time in which the many Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families in order to discontinue the passing down of their culture‚ language and identity. These young children were sent to institutions or adopted by non-Indigenous families and received little to no form of education in comparison to the level of schooling offered to the white Australian children. Life was immeasurably harsh for the Aboriginal children as they were growing
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Worksheet 2 Experiences of the stolen generation Edited from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Bringing them Home - The Report The overwhelming majority of the children forcibly removed under assimilationist legislation and policies were separated from their Indigenous family‚ community and culture. 1) They were not permitted to use their languages. Y’know‚ I can remember we used to just talk lingo. [In the Home] they used to tell us not to talk that language‚ that it’s
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Contemporary Australian theatre mainly focuses on the reflection of the ‘real’ Australia and communicating to the audience real and modern issues/ideas that respond to the social climate and community. Australian theatre practitioners use various performance styles‚ techniques and dramatic conventions to help portray their ideas to their audiences and make them feel a particular way to the ideas presented in a play. Without the use of these styles‚ techniques and conventions it wouldn’t be possible
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living in to some. However‚ “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut disproves this idea. In the story‚ the government attempts to create a population of completely equal beings. In order to create this society‚ those who are born smarter‚ stronger‚ or prettier are required to wear handicaps of some sort to compensate for their upperhand in life. Vonnegut uses multiple literary devices to portray the theme of this story. The irony‚ symbolism‚ and resolution utilized in “Harrison Bergeron” work together to
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As the narrator of the short story “Stolen Days” said: “It must be that all children are actors.” This idea can be applied to the short story “Charles” due to the fact that the young boy in the plot has a tendency of acting in a way that is not like his usual self. A liar and an actor cannot be considered the same things. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines an actor as “one who behaves as if acting a part” and a liar as “a person who tells lies” (____). In the story‚ a small child named Laurie
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A Stolen Life Jaycee Dugard ! Survivor: a person who survives‚ esp. a person remaining alive after an event in which others have died. A Stolen Life‚ was written by Jaycee Dugard herself with the help of the diary which she kept throughout the years. It puts a new perspective on how someone can live under such conditions without attempting to flee‚ and how one could become aligned with one’s abductor. It also shows how long a human can endure physical and mental abuse long after it seems
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