Cathy Freeman Research Paper

Truett Cathy was born on March 14, 1921 in in Eatonton, Georgia. He attended Boys High School. His full name is Samuel Truett Cathy. He grew up in a boarding home his mother operated. There he learned the principles of hard work, fairness, honesty, loyalty and respect. From the age of eight, when he iced down the cokes he was selling in his front yard drink-stand, he saw the resulting growth in sales, he has certain ways to please his customers. In 1946, T. Cathy and his brother Ben opened a small restaurant and had put those principles to work and immediately began to experience their rewards.

I have seen both her mother’s and her struggles with oppression, subordination and exclusion, their fights for services and funding and their struggles with day-to-day life. I was an involved member of their family and so their struggles touched me deeply, the fight for social justice and acceptance is one that will take a very long time within the Australian community; nonetheless, it is already a personal value of mine. My values are now ones of equality for all, social inclusion, respect, and dignity and worth, and social justice for all.

Michael Downey’s essay, “Canada’s ‘Genocide’: Thousands Taken from Their Homes Need Help” (Downey 445-448), imparts a harrowing account of the hardships and trauma induced by the controversial child apprehensions, often referred to as the ‘Sixties Scoop.’ The essay opens with Downey’s heart-rending recount of Carla Williams’ story, detailing her first-hand experience as a subject of this abuse, who managed to survive and come out triumphant. This explicit topic introduction foreshadows and gives invaluable warrant to his thesis: that the forced adoptions that occurred within Aboriginal communities during this era resulted in cultural and individual upheaval, as well as a belief that both the individuals and communities affected can

‘The Sapphires’ by Wayne Blair was the trigger that led my research into the effects of the Stolen Generation on Aboriginals in Australia. This film is about an Aboriginal singing group who want to make a name for themselves, but find it difficult because of the racism against them. This film also tells the stories of their cousin Kay, who was a half-caste and was stolen from her Aboriginal family at a young age to be taught the ways of white people, and forget her culture. This film made me realise that I am lucky to live in a country where racism of such an extent in which children are stolen from their indigenous families, isn’t part of our history, and has not affected me personally. From my research, I have found six main sources that have helped me to understand how large this problem was and continues to be. My sources: ‘The Sapphires’ by Wayne Blair; a film about a group of Aboriginal singers who are affected by racism which is based on a real life singing group; ‘The Sorry Speech’, by Kevin Rudd who was the Prime Minister of Australia in 2008 who explains the damage and apologises for the way that the actions of past governments tore apart the lives of their indigenous people. Then there is ‘Blind Eye,’ the documentary in which people who were stolen are interviewed and tell their stories. The film, ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ this tells the story of two girls who were stolen and gives us insight into how brutally that they were treated after being ripped apart from

Although many of these children were later adopted and had experienced an extensive education, the emotional and social cost was too high. The heartache experienced was detrimental to the growth and to their very survival. The ‘Stolen Generation’ has had significant effects upon the Australian history and culture and destructive effects upon the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples affected.

This narrative text is based off the film The Sapphires set in Australia in the 1960s. In The Sapphires we see a flashback of Kay’s childhood and how she is part of the Stolen Generation. I will use this storyline as the starting point for my diary entries. The film gave me background knowledge on Stolen Generation and their experiences they faced. However, I need to know extra information so I will do further research about the Stolen Generation, in order to give an accurate description of their experiences. This narrative is targeted towards everyone. It is designed to inform them about the Stolen Generation and how they changed when forcibly moved to an Aborigines White Institution. This piece of text will be written in a diary entry form. I will use informal and conversational language. I will also use descriptive language when describing objects and sceneries throughout the text.

Florence Joyner was born December 21, 1959, in Los Angeles, California. When she was a kid she loved competition, by age 7 she competing in track. Florence couldn’t afford college so she started working as a bank teller. Then, she later she was in UCLA in 1980, and won the NCAA 200-meter title.

“Final call girl’s four by eight-hundred-meter relay” called the official. The Ontario Track girl’s four by eight-meter team trooped up to lane one, in unison. I would not have wanted to be racing with anyone else but my relay family. We had trained all season for this one race. Every workout, asthma attack, tear, and shin splint has lead up to this one race to break a twenty year old school record. As we jogged with the official from the bullpen to the starting line, the crowd had uproars of excitement for the athletes. An immense smile grew across my face, not only from the ecstatic crowd, but from the anticipation to race. I approached the starting line, in the first lane, while my teammates arrayed along the fence with the other second,

The Stolen Generation refers to the many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who were forcibly removed from their families and assimilated into European communities between 1880 and 1970. These children were made to adopt white culture in attempt to allow aboriginal people to “die out”, through forced rejection of their heritage and banning the use of their own language. Children faced physical, psychological and sexual abuse, sexual and labour exploitation, racism, grief, and suffering. Between 1 in 10 and 3 in 10 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were taken by government, church, or welfare authorities and placed into institutional or foster care with non-Indigenous families.

Throughout the early 20th century, the Australian public was led to believe that Aboriginal children were disadvantaged in their communities, and that there was a high risk of physical and sexual abuse. Aboriginal children were being removed in order to be exposed to ‘Anglo values’ and ‘work habits’ with a view to them being employed by colonial settlers, and to stop their parents, families and communities from passing on their culture, language and identity

Government policies authorising the removal of Aboriginal children have caused extensive and unrepairable damage to every aspect of Indigenous culture. It could be argued that the emotional turmoil which occurred as a result of this policy, is greater than any physical abused ever faced by the Australian Aboriginal people. The act of child removal would be a scarring experience for parents and children of any race or culture. This policy had a particularly damaging impact on the Indigenous people as their identity is based within a set of strong traditional guides and teachings. These lessons are not recorded, but can only be taught through speaking with elders and learning through a connection to others within the mob, connection to art forms

Samuel Truett Cathy was born on March 14, 1921 in Eatonton, Georgia. He moved to Atlanta with his parents, four sisters, and two brothers. When Truett was a little boy he started working selling soft drinks, then at the age of 12 he sold newspapers, later wshen he became a teenager he won awards for getting customers for the Atlanta journal newspaper with his brother. Truett had a brother named Ben whom he grew up with they used their resources and borrowed money to open a restaurant in south Atlanta in May 1946. A couple of years later Ben had died in a bad plane crash. Truett was drafted into the army right after high school in 1939 and fought until 1945 where he was honorably discharged. In 1948, Truett Cathy married Jeannette McNeil, whom

Even though Caroline Chisholm was once on the five dollar note, I think she deserves to be on the new $200 bill. I believe she should because she devoted her whole life to help those who are less fortunate, and not many people are as brave and as giving as that. Plus it is not only me who thinks she deserves to be on the $200 bill it is a lot of people infact she is loved all over the world for her amazing works towards human rights.

Samuel Truett Cathy was born in Eatonton, Georgia on March 14, 1921. His parents were Lila James and Joseph Benjamin Cathy. He went to school at Grady High which was the first academy that was built outside public control. When he was in his twenties Cathy entered the US army to during WWII. In 1946 Cathy opened a restaurant called Dwarf Grill because it was small. In that restaurant he had created the Chicken sandwich which later became the signature Chick Fil A sandwich.

Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman was born February the 16th 1973, in Mackay Queensland. In addition, Cathy was the 1st Australian Aboriginal, to win Gold in an individual and single event at the 2000 Olympic Games. Therefore, Cathy