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    (Kuhn‚ 1998: 30). The European invaders drove most of Aboriginal people out of the mainland‚ and furthermore‚ they took a lot of indigenous children from their families and forced them to work at white farms or stations. They did not even consider Aboriginal people the citizen of Australia until 1967‚ and this continued in some states until 1980s (Yunupingu‚ 1997: 63-64). D’Souza (1999: 26) claims that what European people have done to Aboriginal people is a ’genocide’‚ which can be defined as a crime

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    TASK 1 There are 7 different forms of structural design used to form multi-storey buildings within the building industry today‚ They are:- • Shear wall structures • Hull core structures • Propped structures • Suspended structures • Traditional framed/caged structures • Cantilevered structures • Braced structures The two that are popular and most widely used are shear wall structuresand braced structures. SHEAR WALL STRUCTURES These are made up from Concrete continuous vertical walls

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    University I was unknown about Aboriginal people and their living conditions. I never thought any discrimination and racism would exist in Canada‚ since it is a developed country. For me‚ It was heart wrenching to discover how children were forced to leave home and kept in residential school far from their parents where they faced many physical‚ mental‚ and emotional abuse. I had never pictured such a terrible incident could happen in Canada. Besides‚ I believe that aboriginal people are lacking major

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    better than others in the species without the mutation. All organisms have adaptations that help them survive and reproduce. There are basically three types of adaptations. Structural adaptations are physical features of an organism‚ the actual things that an organism has‚ like the paws on the bear or the leaves on

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    | Structural family therapy is a model of treatment based on systems theory that was developed by Salvador Minuchin. Structural family therapy features emphasis is mostly on structural change as the main goal of therapy; it pays close attention to the individual but also acknowledges the importance of family in the healing process of the individual. Structural family therapy focuses on encouraging proactive healthy change within the family‚ with an emphasis on structure‚ subsystems

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    Functionalism and conflict theory are two theories that influence the purposes of schooling. These two theories are both different and similar in their view and relation to schooling. Basically‚ the differences lie in the way these two theories explain transmission‚ as well as way functionalists are more accepting and conflict theorists want to change things. The two theories are similar in their views of structure and culture. "Functionalism...argues that society operates as does the human body:

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    through never giving up on their shared dream with Indigenous Elder Colin Freddie (ECF) to provide purposeful education to Aboriginal students whom would otherwise potentially become uneducated. The couple appear to promote the core values of Aboriginal Terms of Reference whereby they demonstrate self-determination in enhancing political and social development for Aboriginal peoples‚ they establish positive social change (Oxenham‚ 1999) by helping children to be released from the town where alcohol

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    Structural Family Therapy Vivian Butler Liberty University Abstract Structural Family Therapy was founded by Minuchin whose desire was to help put structure back into a dysfunctional family. This theory focuses on the whole family as a unit. Minuchin discovered that families are organized into subsystems with boundaries. A dysfunctional family structure will show to be enmeshed‚ disengaged‚ and have confused boundary issues. This theory is designed with goals and techniques that

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    Aboriginal people can expect to live up to twenty years less than non-Indigenous Australians. Indigenous life expectancy is so low because Aboriginal health standards in Australia are now so bad that 45% of Aboriginal men and 34% of women die before the age of 45. 71% die before they reach the age of 65. Australian Aboriginal people’s life expectancy is by far the worst. They die 20 years before the average non-Indigenous Australian dies.The average life expectancy of Australian Aboriginal people

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    Structural racism is defined as the facilitation of unequal outcomes that can be tracked by a group‚ organization‚ or social institution. One great example of structural racism is the No Child Left Behind law was signed in 2002 by former president George W. Bush. Under this law‚ states must test students in reading and math in grades

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