Indigenous language

Australia has a large historic past where Australian Politicians have legislated laws that dehumanises and represent the Indigenous as inferior or marginalise a social group by not letting them get married (eg. Marriage equality). Australian politicians in the past have manipulated many Australian’s that ‘different is bad’ and you shouldn’t be different because you’re considered…

Aboriginal women drastically increases. According to Human Rights Watch (2011), “the failure of law enforcement authorities to deal effectively with the problem of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada is just one element of the dysfunctional relationship between the Canadian police and Indigenous people” (p.140). The amount of discredited women in the files of the RCMP displays their absence in the cases of the missing Aboriginal women and girls. “The Native Women’s…

F= Facts: The case title is R.v. Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273. On May 19, 1884 a yacht set sail to Sydney, Australia from Southampton, England. There are four men involved in this case the crew of the Mignonette, Tom Dudley, Edwin Stephens, Edmund Brooks, and Richard Parker. The captain Dudley and crewman Stephens were charged with the murder of the cabin boy Parker. The yacht sank off the coast of South Africa on July 5, 1600 miles away from Cape of Good Hope. The crew could access…

Naomi Klein is a native of Canada. She was an author, filmmaker, and social activist known for her disapproval of corporate globalization and corporate capitalism as well as her political studies. As a teenager Klein was obsessed with shopping malls and consumerism. After Naomi graduated college she traveled the world and found that women were living in inhumane ways and working in what is known as “sweat shops” to produce goods for the kept the factories of the United States and Canada open.…

counted as an Australian citizens. Eddie Koiki Mabo was an Indigenous activist that fought for the civil rights of Indigenous Australians and believed that the land he lived on belonged to his ancestors. Once Eddie Mabo won the Mabo Decision, The Native Title Act was established in 1993 which was where Indigenous Australians could gain back their land if they have a traditional connection with the land before 1788. This allowed other Indigenous Australian’s to…

Discovery can encompass a philosophical and cognitive shift towards a new and deeper understanding of ones’ self and the world, this can occur through the results in a change in perceptions. (extending sentence - answer to Q. here) This transformation is examined in Simon Nasht’s 2004 documentary which follows the story of Australian ‘Frank Hurley - The Man Who Made History’ who was one of the last great imperial adventurers, who captured some of the greatest events of the 20th century and…

The authors explore the implications of colonialism on the shaping of space within Modernity. Discussing the various influences on Modernity, Penelope Edmonds explores the impact of Indigenous culture and history on colonialism and its impact on the development of the ‘new world’ of Melbourne. Similarly Sibel Bozdogan commends history and culture and its important role in influencing modern architecture. However Bozdogan also expresses the postcolonial criticism of modernity being wrongfully…

Travel narratives about Morocco constitute an inextricable part of the discursive practices that created and maintained an ontological and epistemological construction of Morocco that made it fit in the homogenous and monolithic Orient. Therefore, one way of proving such a claim is by questioning the image of Morocco and the way the country has been identified from a Western perspective based on a body of produced knowledge, particularly travel narratives, and thus the subject of this essay.…

The transition from adolescence to adulthood is usually acknowledged as a turning point in an individual’s life and is often marked by a coming of age ceremony. In Hinduism, this ceremony is the Sacred Thread Ceremony (Upanayana). Although this ritual shares some fundamental values with Australian adulthood, it only somewhat prepares someone for the transition into contemporary Australian adult life. The disregard for gender and caste rights strongly opposes the Australian value of equality,…

nationalism, the government does not enforce homogeneity in the immigration and is able to accommodate many different cultural expressions. The epitome of Canada’s multiculturalism can be seen in everyday life. Television channels are broadcast in many languages, and there are many channels that cater to different ethnic audiences. When individuals are faced with contending loyalties, homogeneity, if it increases, is challenged Canada; allowing the root of multiculturalism and tolerance to grow…