Australian aborigines

Prior to the 1880s, religious organizations ran small mission schools for the Aboriginal population with federal assistance via small per-student grants. The federal government took a much larger role in residential schooling in the 1880s as a facet of a larger set of polices that operated to govern and control Aboriginal people, ban cultural practices, and achieve “their emancipation from tribal government, and for their final absorption into the general community” (as cited in The Truth and Reconciliation

Final Exam Essay One Analyzing the Controversy behind the Northern Gateway Pipeline Proposed in the mid-2000’s, the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline would send crude oil from just outside of Edmonton, Alberta to ports in Kitimat, British Columbia. From there it would be loaded onto tankers and shipped to countries in Asia. The Energy East Pipeline was proposed in 2013 and would send the oil towards New Brunswick and possibly Quebec. While theoretically this seems like an ideal way to quickly

According to the Cornell University Law School’s ‘Legal Information Institute’, self-determination is defined as ‘denoting the legal right of people to decide their own destiny in the international order’. As a major concept of modern day international law, self-determination gives people the right to control their own fates and livelihoods under certain fundamental criteria. Such criteria suggests that self-determination can be claimed by a minority that bases its lifestyle on an ethnic identity

How does one get an identity? This is one of the questions that sociologists have tried to unravel for some time now. Many argue that the self is created and nurtured by the society and cultures we interact with and is therefore capable of change and adjustments. Carrying this argument in literary works, the self as portrayed in narratives is not only dependent on the narrator but all the characters and the setting of the story. In this paper I will define the “self” in the writing concept and

Friedrich Nietzsche is a German philosopher that has a great influence on Western philosophy. One of his works called On the Genealogy of Morals discusses an overlying theme of superiority and power as well as “good and bad”. This book discusses the difference that the power that superior people have compared the the weak and poor. Nietzsche exemplifies how the powerful seem to “forget” about issues that do not pertain to themselves where as the weak fight for the issues (Nietzsche, 2007, pp 14)

of the coronary arteries. CHD is the most common cause of death globally, and in Australia. However, the prevalence of CHD is disproportionately high in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations, at approximately twice the rate of other Australian populations. There are a number of established risk factors for developing CHD, including hypercholesterolaemia, obesity and hypertension. These risk factors are especially prevalent in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations. A multifactorial

According to Harris, Bhattacharyya, Dyck, Hayward, and Toth (2013), “National survey data have consistently shown that the national age-adjusted prevalence of diabetes is 3 to 5 times higher in First Nations than in the general population” (Introduction section, para. 1). Gestational diabetes mellitus is just one of the many types of diabetes Aboriginal people are faced with. It is a type of diabetes that occurs during pregnancy; when your body is unable to produce an adequate amount of insulin

Sociology 35 Assignment: Problem: Does police brutality have any connections to with racial discrimination? Background Research: Case Study One: The shooting of Michael Brown So what happens when a police officer shoots an unarmed African American teen? Nationwide outrage, and violent protests in the town of Ferguson, Missouri. In mid-day of August 9, 2014 Officer William is dispatched to a call to which two males stole cigarillos from a nearby market. Responding to the call, William drove past

change and empowerment of the individual through social, cultural and environmental influences. Between 1910 and 1970, the role of the social worker was significant due to the impact of the Stolen Generation on Australian society. The Stolen Generation was a dark period in the Australian history where many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were often taken without consent from their homes and families by the government, police and welfare authorities. The children were taken from their

population of developing this lifestyle disease. Aims This report; - Investigates modifiable and non-modifiable factors that cause Type 2 Diabetes - Determines how prone Indigenous Australians are to developing Type 2 Diabetes compared to the rest of the population - Determines how susceptible rural living Indigenous Australians are to developing Type 2 Diabetes than those in densely populated areas - Outlines how to manage Type 2 Diabetes - Outlines preventative strategies via education of Type 2 Diabetes