and the sheer brutality of the act of physically separating a mother from her children is a deep assault on our senses and on our most elemental humanity.... The stolen generation is the name given to the generation of aboriginal and Torres strait islander children that were removed from their families and placed into institutions where they were forced to forget their aboriginality. These children were then given a poor education and were sent into the homes of white Australians to be servants or
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The second student‚ I chose is Donna Corcoran; she is ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder). She was born in Australia and her parents got divorced when she was four years old. She lives with her mother. She was affected by this divorce and always felt that happened because of her. Her mother sometimes struggling to figure out what her daughter wants to say. In her school‚ she has all the support from her teachers. Autism is a lifelong developmental condition that affects‚ among other things‚ the way an
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Kevin Rudd Sorry Speech analysis Kevin Rudd (Prime Minister at the time) made an apology to the “Stolen Generation” from the Parliament House‚ Canberra‚ 2008. The “Stolen Generation” were the children of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions‚ under the acts of their respective Parliaments. Kevin Rudd’s aim was to inform the Indigenous community of the Australian Governments ‘wrong doings’
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of Bougainville during a time in the early 1990s when the island was at war with its government in Papua New Guinea. Jones uses this war and the island’s blockade as a backdrop for the main character’s story. Matilda‚ ‘a skinny thirteen year old’ islander‚ is the first person narrator of the novel. In the turning point of the plot Matilda is shocked to discover that her mother Dolores has stolen and hidden the only copy of Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations’ that her teacher‚ Mr. Watts‚ had been reading
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____________________________________________________________ _________________________ Reconciliation is a form of agreement that deals with the legacies of our history‚ provides justice for all‚ and takes us forward as a nation. It is the process of Aboriginal Torres Strait Islanders and non Aboriginal Australians moving forward into a phase of mutual recognition of healing and justice. Reconciliation began in 1939 on Australia day where the Indigenous people called a Day of Mourning which was a call for recognition. The process
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Report of the Stolen Generations Assessor Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Children Act 2006 February 2008 Depar tm e n t of P r e m i e r a n d C a binet Table of contents 1. 2. Introduction ...................................................... 2 Context of the legislation .......................................3 2.1 historical Context ................................................................... 3 2.2 Child Welfare and adoption laws .............................. 4
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it can go deadly in a matter of minutes. “The trees had closed the road in so that the sky was little more than an indistinct‚ drab ribbon overhead‚ but down here the dramatic expanse of it was visible‚ chaotic and fierce” (320). The islanders find the
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n the United States‚ transracial adoption is becoming a common practice and statistics compare it to same-race adoption. According to the U.S National Survey of Adoptive Parents in 2007‚ only 40 percent are transracially adopted‚ out of all adopted children (Kreider and Lofquist 26). The debate about race being a factor when adopting is ongoing‚ even after the Multiethnic Act of 1994. This act tries to reduce the delay of placing children in permanent homes. The increase of transracial adoption through
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References: Fong‚ Timothy‚ et al. “Problem gambling knowledge and perceived community impact among Asian-Pacific Islanders and Non Asian-Pacific Islanders.” Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health‚ (2009): 1-6. SpringerLink. Web. 10 Feb. 2010. Glionna‚ John M. "Gambling‚ Addiction‚ and Asian Culture" Asian-Nation: The Landscape of Asian America. 2006. Web. 4 Mar 2010. National Research
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Nichols‚ the narrator also starts pessimistically by challenging the stereotypical view tourists have of the islands. In comparison the narrator ends the poem in a more serious note by expanding on the poems title-poverty is the price paid by the islanders for the sun. In Neighbours‚ Clarke uses language to create a bleak and pessimistic outlook between the people and the place. She uses juxtaposition to convey the contrast between the innocent to something deadly. The quote “sips caesium” shows that
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