The Seekers

international laws outlined by the United Nations and ratified by the Australian government. Federal politicians will often exhort to the use of exclusionary, and often divisive language whenever asylum seekers or refugees are discussed, particularly in the public realm. The…

challenges that you will face over the course of your life. If you choose to back down from your challenges instead of overcoming them, it can impact your entire life. Both the play The Phantom Tollbooth dramatized by, Susan Nanus and the Poem “The Seeker” by, J. Patrick Lewis are about overcoming challenges. The theme that is shared by these two pieces of literature is we must learn to overcome hardship with courage and persistence. In the play The Phantom Tollbooth dramatized by Susan…

Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project (BASP) is a Melbourne-based establishment of the Brigidine Sisters that delivers hospitality and support for asylum seekers, and promotes support for the rights of asylum seekers. The program aims to: provide hospitality and support for asylum seekers, actively network with like-minded individuals and groups who are working for justice for asylum seekers and engage in education about the issues for asylum seekers. The Project works with asylum seekers both in…

What is the American religious experience? Well there is no specific answer to this question as everyone has his or her own perception of what the American religious experience actually means to them. In the book Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions discloses his own personal experience of the American religious experience and how it did not only just effect him, but other Native Americans as well. The difficulties he had to face were living a both an American and Native American life style. He talks…

Partnerships The Asylum Seeker Help Centre will be located in the Aceh province of Indonesia. The ASHC will provide capacity building for local services in in the local community. This location is ideal for the objectives of the ASHC as it is a frequent transit position of asylum seekers. The aim of the ASHC partnerships is to improve and strengthen services and management capacity within the community for the communities benefit. The areas of focus will be education and legal services.…

Chapter 13, Stop Signs for Seekers, pp. 122-132 Making a spiritual commitment is like any other commitment — it has its share of fears and anxieties. Seekers should evaluate these concerns. Some of these concerns are as follows: (1) Unanswered Questions. Although it is important to relieve your fears and anxieties in this respect, but as we are on a spiritual search for God, there will always be unanswered questions. Therefore, the goal of any spiritual seeker is to find enough answers to…

American Religious Experience In their book, Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions, John Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes present the views of Native Americans on their religion and that of European-Americans, which was introduced during colonization. The speaker is a respectable and experienced Holy Man in the Lakota community, which makes his people attribute great meaning and authority to his words. In that case, his ideas, as presented in the book, are considered as general truth among the Lakota…

INTRODUCTION I believe we should allow Asylum seekers in to Australia, Asylum seekers are people who are seeking international protection. The United Nations estimates there are 42.5 million people displaced by conflict around the world. They flee their homes in search of asylum and refuge, away from persecution. But why do they flee? they flee because of religious persecution, others because of their race, gender, or ethnicity. Some flee because of their political stances, religious or…

seeking asylum are protected under the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention, but sovereign states actively implement restrictive measures that serve to criminalize asylum seekers and they are pushed to create their own refuge, as demonstrated by informal camps (Haglund, 2012). The global treatment and opinions towards asylum seekers are symptomatic…

Seeker of Heavenly vs. Seeker of the Worldly In the world people rarely have the same interpretations of the same object; one person can take great joy from an object while someone can feel little to nothing at all about the same object. The same can be said about the characters of the “The Gift” by Rosario Ferré. There are two characters that couldn’t be more different in their view of the convent in which they reside. The one character is Carlotta Rodriguez, a free-spirited teenager who cares…