State of Indigenous languages in Australia - 2001 by Patrick McConvell Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Nicholas Thieberger The University of Melbourne November 2001 Australia: State of the Environment Second Technical Paper Series No. 2 (Natural and Cultural Heritage) Environment Australia‚ part of the Department of the Environment and Heritage © Commonwealth of Australia 2001 This work is copyright. It may be reproduced in whole or in
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Ethnicity‚ Religion‚ and Multiethnic Cultures Jason Jordan Saint Leo University Introduction There are many factors that we use to define ourselves. Ethnicity is the most complicated factor that we use to identify who we are because it involves many aspects of our lives that can be common across many other areas including religion‚ national origin‚ language‚ and race. In the academic world‚ there is a conflict about the theoretical meaning of ethnicity across these specific areas. The American
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Introduction The term indigenous has caused controversy across the world as some people see it an offensive name to describe people‚ the name is not the only thing that has caused a controversy also the people that this name applies to. Hence there have been many definitions of this word to try and make it more euphemism. Kuper (2003) agrees that this term causes a lot of debate. He argues that however most people prefer the word indigenous because it’s more euphemism than the term native and primitive
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Indigenous communities have been the targets of many groups that believe they are superior; this belief has resulted in them to be mistreated‚ and ignored. However‚ their principles have allowed them to view humanity differently and appreciate their surroundings. In the article‚ The Study of Indigenous Political Economies and Colonialism in Native California: Implication for Contemporary Tribal Groups and Federal Recognition‚ Lightfoot et al. showed that Native Californians lost their traditions
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that society controls its members religion and culture when she says‚ “ The moral imperatives of religion and culture representations reinforce the boundary lines among genders and ensure that what is demanded‚ what is permitted‚ and what is tabooed for the people in each gender is well-known and followed by most” (Lorber 732). Lorber states that the boundary lines are set by religion and culture‚ telling the members of society what is “permitted” Religion and culture controls its “cult” by the media
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Report of analysis about Heavenly Chocolates web site transactions 1. Graphical and numerical summaries for the length of time the shopper spends on the Web site‚ the number of pages viewed‚ and the mean amount spent per transaction. There is a simply view on Table 1.1 about the 3 variables. Table 1.1 Simply view on numerical summaries Time (min) Pages Viewed Amount Spent ($) Mean 12.8 5 68.13 Median 11.4 5 62.15 Minimum 4.3 2 17.84 Maximum 32.9 10 158.51 Range 28.6 8 140.67
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semester is a blog that students will create and maintain about a current event related to indigenous people in Canada. Students must make at least three blog posts during the course of the semester. Each post is worth 10% of your grade for the blog assignment. What is a blog? A blog is an online forum for sharing information about a specific topic or theme. The word “blog” is a combination of the words “web” and “log‚” so you can think of it as an online log of information. Each log entry is
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“The web was going to be the great educator‚ but the cult of the amateur is now devaluing knowledge‚” says net entrepreneur Andrew Keen in his book The Cult of the Amateur. Would you agree or disagree with this statement? Is the Internet killing our ability to think critically by providing us with too much information and too many voices? Our ability to think critically directly relates to how we use our brains in our everyday lives. So many people use the internet for emailing
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Proposal: Developing Competitive e-Commerce Web Sites Ronald Olaski Professor Paul Jackowitz May 28‚ 2003 The purpose of this document is to present my proposal for a graduate thesis project. The project will consist of two parts. Part one will provide research findings on the concepts that are core to developing competitive e-commerce web sites. Part two will apply those research findings to the development of an e-commerce web site. The objective of this project will be to
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Religion and Culture in Modern Japan Due to the younger generation of Japan ’s increasing apathy towards religion‚ Japan ’s rich culture‚ identity‚ and national pride is in jeopardy. This can be concluded by reviewing the connection between religion and culture through Japanese history‚ and comparing it to the state of the two in modern Japan. By fading away from traditional religion and culture‚ Japan will continue to adopt western culture and form a new‚ blended culture‚ as it has in the
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