...stereotypical views on different races and cultures are inherently true and further cement that view point into the American mindset. If you’ve never seen the television series Lost, then it’s safe to say you’re lost. Although the series has long come to a close, when it was being aired, it was one of the most talked about shows on television. The one thing people didn’t seem to notice, and neither did I until I looked at it with a very critical eye, is that a large amount of the characters on the show fit almost perfectly into the stereotypes of their particular race. Before diving deep into these stereotypes, its critical you understand the background story to the show. The television series Lost is about an international flight flying from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, California that goes off course mysteriously and crash-lands on a tropical island....
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...that time such as “the typist” and “lady with feather in hat”. Annand focus on building ideas from what he see and what people might want to see in that current period of time. , all of his work has become a new modern standard in the design industry as he broke new ground for it. After “the Home” magazine was released, many artists in all over Australia has been influenced by Annand because of his style and how he choose the materials to deliver the meaning of the artwork to the viewer. He also changes the idea of how designers should do with their exhibition. He had learnt from the Paris exhibition that he went to in 1937 that in order to get visitors to walk through the exhibition, he need to change how the exhibition actually works (The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW: 1842 - 1954) Saturday 29 April 1939, page 12). By adding photography and murals and many modern layout to the exhibition, he was able to communicate and work with many designers, architects, artists and photographer to work as a team. He really broke a new ground for new designers and many other...
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...Fatima Mansuri student Id: 49050 Reflection diary Week 2: Cultural Lens Looking through a cultural lens means understanding that my background, values, and experiences dictate it and hence has an element of bias inherently to it in the way I look at things. Biases will prevail in the way I interpret, communicate, and decide on something. For instance, I can be partially blind to perspectives which are not in my cultural norms and hence overlook or misinterpret them. Understanding such biases goes a long way in fostering cultural humility and openness. It will make me more knowledgeable and humble in various cultural settings. If I strive to understand and challenge myself, it will lead to much more inclusive and fair relationships within situations...
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...Afternoon, today’s topic will be engaging on the relationship between social stratification or socio-economic status and schooling. Let’s begin by taking a look at SES (socio-economic status) and what it means the total measure of an individual's or family’s economic and social position in relation to others, based on income, education, and occupation. Examples of High SES include doctors, lawyers and engineers. Examples of low SES include cleaners, caretakers and waiters. You get the idea. Now the main issue with social stratification in Australia is that it is often overlooked. We live in a “meritocratic” society where the idea of social advancement is determined by ability, talent and hard work rather than a right of birth. However ‘Statistically speaking the best advice we can give a poor child to get ahead through education is to choose richer parents’ (Connell 1993p 22). Australians intrinsically consider their home as the land of the ‘fair go’ however it is this discourse that reject and hide the underlying class structures and fail to realise that social privilege is often maintained and it is not an even playing field. For the purpose of this presentation we take the Weber ideology that Social Stratification is not entirely determined by wealth, as class levels are formed through the interaction of status (honour prestige and religion) and political power (affiliations and networks) as well. Weber elaborated on this to develop the concept of “life chances”...
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...Metrics That Matter: The Most Effective KPIs to Transform Your Business By: Jon Snow, Senior Manager, Business Consulting Services An Epicor® White Paper WHITE PAPER Table of Contents Financial and Transactional KPIs: A KISS Approach Operational Area: Sales Gross Margin Sales per Employee Operational Area: Purchasing Inventory Turns Service Level Operational Area: Fulfillment, Inventory Control or Warehouse Operational Area: Finance DSO (Days Sales Outstanding), Average Collection Period DPO (Days Payables Outstanding), Average Payables Period Cash Conversion Cycle About Epicor 1 3 3 4 5 5 5 6 7 7 7 7 9 Metrics That Matter: The Most Effective KPIs to Transform Your Business i WHITE PAPER Businesses thrive or fail based on their ability to identify, define, track, and act upon Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The faster and more accurately KPIs can be accessed, reviewed, analyzed, and acted upon, the better the chance an organization has for success. Beyond the shareholder value that KPI improvement programs generate, KPI improvement initiatives position organizations for growth, financial performance and service differentiation. Sophisticated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Intelligence tools have made it possible to quickly calculate and report Key Performance Indicators and metrics. In previous white papers and articles, Epicor has emphasized the benefits of creating a KPI improvement program, and how that program should resonate with the...
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...social variation. AustEng has its origins in the English dialects brought by mainly English and Irish settlers in the 18th and 19th centuries, to which have been added the speech of immigrants from all over the world. Australian English shows a large number of loan words from indigenous languages ( the Australian National Dictionary records over 400), especially for the distinctive flora and fauna of the country, and for place names, e.g., kangaroo, billabong, waratah, and galah, or Woomooloo and Mordialloc. AustEng shows a degree of regional variation, particularly in vocabulary and pronunciation. Australian languages typically have complex systems of nominal word-building morphology that involves suffixation between the root and case reflection. Categories encoded in word-building morphology include number, having, and lacking. Some non-PN languages encode gender on nouns via affixation. Pronouns generally distinguish three persons and singular, dual, and plural number; in the first person nonsingular, there is an inclusive- exclusive contrast in about half the languages. Verbs morphologically distinguish between main verb and dependent verb inflections. Main verbs encode tense and mood categories, while dependent verbs occur in hypotactically linked clauses and mark relative tense. Australia has a number of English- based pidgins and creoles as a result of language contact between the indigenous languages and the English of the colonizers, beginning in the late 18th century...
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...Ind I genous s o vere I gnty and the Be I ng of the o ccup I er Toula Nicolacopoulos George Vassilacopoulos Manifesto for a White Australian Philosophy of Origins INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY AND THE BEING OF THE OCCUPIER The Call for a Manifesto 13 philosophically. This is possible only in so far as Indigenous sovereign being already embraces the white Australian with a power that one cannot hope to resist without at the same time shattering one’s ontological foundations. In the pres - ent context to allow oneself to be embraced by that which, as a matter of fact, already embraces one is to liberate one - self from the concealment of one’s being as the bearer of the world of the occupier. This then is the challenge that Indigenous...
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...Copyright © eContent Management Pty Ltd. Contemporary Nurse (2007) 24: 33–44. Telling stories: Nurses, politics and Aboriginal Australians, circa 1900–1980s ABSTRACT The focus of this paper is stories by, and about (mainly non-Aboriginal) Registered Nurses working in hospitals and clinics in remote areas of Australia from the early 1900s to the 1980s as they came into contact with, or cared for, Aboriginal people. Government policies that controlled and regulated Aboriginal Australians provide the context for these stories. Memoirs and other contemporary sources reveal the ways in which government policies in different eras influenced nurse’s attitudes and clinical practice in relation to Aboriginal people, and helped institutionalise racism in health care. Up until the 1970s, most nurses in this study unquestioningly accepted firstly segregation, then assimilation policies and their underlying paternalistic ideologies, and incorporated them into their practice. The quite marked politicisation of Aboriginal issues in the 1970s in Australia and the move towards selfdetermination for Aboriginal people politicised many – but not all – nurses. For the first time, many nurses engaged in a robust critique of government policies and what this meant for their practice and for Aboriginal health. Other nurses, however, continued as they had before – neither questioning prevailing policy nor its effects on their practice. It is argued that only by understanding and confronting the...
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...The relationship between racism and white privilege is obvious in their individual definitions alone. Racism is the belief that all members of a certain race possess characteristics specific to that race, and as such, distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. (4) The white privilege system maintains this racial dominance through a series of beliefs, behaviours, policies and use of language. (12) It is a particular set of advantages, often invisible to those who benefit from it the most, and these advantages that white people hold are a direct result of the disadvantages of other people. “We have a racist society without acknowledging any actual racists” (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, 2010). Initially, the word ‘race’ sparks...
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...MEMORY-WORK: AN INTRODUCTION Jennie Small University of Technology, Sydney Research methodology, from the perspective of Critical social science, is considered as: inherently political, as inescapably tied to issues of power and legitimacy. It is assumed that methods are permeated with assumptions about what the social world is, who the social scientist is, and what the nature of the relation between them is (Lather, 1991, p.12). Critical social science moves away from description of behaviour as enduring social fact to attempting to understand how behaviour is produced, thus recasting behaviour as “the effects of contingent and contested processes of change” (Churchman, 2000, p.100 citing Scott). Feminists and those working within a social constructionist paradigm have debated whether there are research methods specific to such approaches. In other words, is there a social constructionist or feminist method? Schwandt (1994), in discussing constructivist, interpretivist approaches to human enquiry, commented that “what is unusual about the approaches cannot be explained through an examination of their methods. They are principally concerned with matters of knowing and being, not method per se” (p.118). Feminists have also considered that it is the methodology and outcomes rather than the methods which define the research as being feminist. Nonetheless, while feminists have adopted a variety of methods, they have tended to prefer qualitative...
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...|ELECTRONIC ASSIGNMENT COVERSHEET |[pic] | |Student Number |32065721 | |Surname |McDonald | |Given name |Suzanne | |Email |s_mac146@live.com | | | | |Unit Code |SSK12 | |Unit name |Introduction to University Learning | |Date |22 September 2012 | |Assignment name |Learning Log A | |Tutor |Greg Brotherson ...
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...ethnic cuisines available here. This study examines how Australian consumers perceive the quality of food and service in Indian restaurants in Sydney. Findings reveal that perceptions of various ethnic groups have similarities as well differences of likings as well as dislikes. Key words: attitude, behaviour, decision, perception. ANZMAC 2009 Indian Restaurants and Sydneysiders: A Perceptual Study Introduction and Literature Review Love for culinary diversity is perhaps the most globalised phenomenon. Food markets were the first to become globally integrated, linking distant cultures of the world (Nutzenadel and Trentmann 2008, Sharpless 1999). Restaurants in the West have been serving ethnic foods much before the debut of global fast food chains such as McDonald. Many Westerners seem to have developed a taste for ethnic cuisines as alternatives to their traditional food (Josaim and Monteiro 2004). Chinese and Indian cuisines formed the basis of the first cultural shift in eating for the UK consumers as early as the 1960’s (Mintel Group, 2006). Over the years, Indian cuisine has become the most popular cuisine in the UK (Lloyd and Mitchinson 2006). Ethnic restaurants have also become very popular in the USA (Gabaccia 1998) and in France (Sharpless 1999). This increased interest in ethnic foods may be a reflection of the changing dining cultures of consumers caused by the continuous contact between people from different cultures (Iqbal 1996). Large scale...
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...Sydney Bourdon Prof. Savage ENGL-250-021 12 April 2024 The American Dream In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote, is a true crime novel that tells the true story of the brutal murder of the Clutter family in Kansas and the subsequent investigation and even the capture of the killers. Not only does the book connect to a variety of themes, but it also tells a story of the way things occurred at that time. The harrowing account of the Clutter family murders in 1959 in Kansas serves as a stark reflection of the dark underbelly of the American Dream during the 1950s. As the nation basked in post-war prosperity and suburban idealism, the brutal slaying of the seemingly idyllic Clutter family shattered the illusion of safety and security in small-town America....
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...selected film?) How might Aborigines find truer representation in Australian film and other popular cultural mediums? By Danielle Gold Charles Chauvel’s ‘Jedda,’ (1955) is a film firmly placed within the dominant ideology of its time, limited by the otherness of its chosen subject matter. As a medium of cultural production, film has a necessary relationship with the hegemony of its own culture; sometimes progressive and other times simply perpetuating. As a representation of the debate over the ethics and feasibility of assimilation, ‘Jedda’ reflects the failed premise of its time, the hierarchical approach to culture and civilization perpetuated by white Europeans. Despite this hamartia it has been applauded with “the only dignified Aboriginal male lead that has been allowed to exist in a film made by white directors in Australia,” (Johnson, 1987:48) what is certainly a progressive allowance (though the word is problematic). It has become evident that true representation of the Aborigine in Australian popular culture is dependent on undoing the dualistic understanding that establishes their otherness. Culture is a discourse of common iconography. Signifiers of language, appearance, values, history, cuisine, beliefs… are inscribed, developed and perpetuated by popular media. In Nationalism and Literature Sarah Corse uses canonical texts; “the American The Great Gatsby and the Canadian Fruits of the Earth,” to contrast “American individualism… and Canadian social...
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...This article was downloaded by: [University Of South Australia Library] On: 03 April 2015, At: 22:06 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Journal of Australian Studies Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjau20 The return of the stolen generation Peter Read a a Historian at the urban research program , Australian National University Published online: 18 May 2009. To cite this article: Peter Read (1998) The return of the stolen generation, Journal of Australian Studies, 22:59, 8-19, DOI: 10.1080/14443059809387421 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443059809387421 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors, and are not the views of or endorsed by Taylor & Francis. The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon and should be independently verified with primary sources of information. Taylor and Francis shall not be liable...
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