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    The Health of today’s Indigenous Australians is burdened with chronic and communicable disease‚ infant mortality and morbidity‚ substance misuse‚ poor nutrition‚ emotional distress‚ increased hospitalization‚ lower levels of access to health care‚ and are at a greater socio-economic disadvantage than other Australians. This has become a national health priority as the decline in health in Indigenous Australians has led to a more than seventeen year gap in life expectancy than other Australians.

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    Functionalism‚ conflict theory and symbolic interactionism are the three sociological paradigms. Sociologists concerning Functionalism feel that families should encourage efficient and active communication between one another as well as promoting good decisions and implementing positive values. These teachings help mold the individuals in the family into respectable people of society who have a positive influence. For example‚ growing up‚ mom would always let us know how important it was to recycle

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    explanation for this issue‚ but many philosophers felt that these explanations did not suffice. The non-acceptance of these philosophical doctrines lead to the immergence of functionalism. Functionalism is the philosophical doctrine in which mental states are defined by their causes and effects. In this paper I assert that functionalism is the ideal

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    Functionalism is a theory based on agreement and consequences‚ systems such as education ‚family and law that are combined to work together to create a harmonious society. A normal view of a family is define as a mother and the biological father in which eventually they will have kids and all live under the same roof and certainly the dad going off to work while the mom stay home and be a housewife. My family goes by the Cavero family. We are hispanic and black background. My mother side is from

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    SKILL: POSITIONING/TURNING PATIENTS STUDENT NAME: …………………………… ID: ………………… DATE: ………………… PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES 0 1 2 3 COMMENTS PRONE POSITION 1. Moves patient to side of bed‚ in the lateral position 2. Places far arm next to body 3. Places far arm over patient’s head 4. Rolls patient gently over onto abdomen* 5. Turns patient’s head to one side 6. Aligns patient’s body with toes over end of mattress or with ankles supported* 7. Positions arms comfortably 8

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    The government of Canada does not take aboriginal water issues as seriously as places like Walkerton and North Battleford because aboriginal communities face a lot of health pandemics‚ have poor infrastructure and sanitation facilities and do not receive enough federal funding . Firstly‚ Health pandemics have a greater impact on Aboriginal communities than on non-aboriginal regions.According to statistics‚“Aboriginal peoples constitute only 3.8% of the Canadian population‚ from April 2009 to April

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    Functionalism (or structuralism) versus intentionalism is a historiographical debate about the origins of the Holocaust as well as most aspects of the Third Reich‚ such as foreign policy. The debate on the origins of the Holocaust centers on essentially two questions: Was there a master plan on the part of Adolf Hitler to launch the Holocaust? Intentionalists argue there was such a plan‚ while functionalists argue there was not. Did the initiative for the Holocaust come from above with orders from

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    Structural Functionalism is simply known as Functionalism; it is defined as a system of parts‚ all of which serve a function together for an overall effectiveness and efficiency for society. This theory views norms‚ customs‚ traditions‚ and institutions that surround society and society should acknowledge different elements to gain social stability. Failure to do so results in imbalance‚ negative attitudes‚ war‚ and misunderstanding in a community. An example can portray this concept: for instance

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    Aboriginal Joking The arrival of European settlers in the late eighteenth century marked the beginning of Aboriginal persecution for over a century. Residential schools‚ pressure to assimilate into a Eurocentric society‚ negative ethnic stereotypes‚ and the loss of land‚ culture‚ and family members are just some of the atrocities that were endured by the First Nations people. Now‚ almost three centuries later‚ many Aboriginal people are able to address these past injustices with humour.

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    Aboriginals in Australia Matias: Aborigines are indigenous peoples who migrated to Australia and many of the islands in Oceania. There are currently about 517‚000 Aborigines in Australia‚ throughout the country. The term “aboriginal” is used as a collective term for the various indigenous groups‚ usually in Australia. Aborigines are not Negroes of African origin. The word “Aboriginal‚” arrived from the Latin phrase “ab origine‚” meaning "from the beginning". Aborigines probably came to Australia

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