Former students of residential schools have spoken of horrendous abuse at the hands of residential school staff: physical, sexual, emotional, and psychological. Residential schools provided Aboriginal students with an inferior education, often only up to grade five, that focused on training students for manual labour in agriculture, light industry such as woodworking, and domestic work such as laundry work and sewing. Residential schools systematically undermined Aboriginal culture across Canada and disrupted families for generations, severing the ties through which Aboriginal culture is taught and sustained, and contributing to a general loss of language and culture. Because they were removed from their families, many students grew up without experiencing a nurturing family life and without the knowledge and skills to raise their own families. The devastating effects of the residential schools are far-reaching and continue to have significant impact on Aboriginal communities.
But what are those things that truly affect teenage? Is that just simply because of family, study, friends or culture? The problem of teenage suicide nowadays is already become a worldwide concern. According to the data from Centre for Suicide Prevention, in Canada, suicide is the second highest cause of death for youth aged 10-24. Each year, on average, 294 youths die from suicide.
Socialization, 2012). The aboriginal children taken into residential schools were forced to forget any developed social behaviours. They were forced to assimilate with the European society and leave their identity behind. Primary socialization (the socialization which occurs from birth to adolescence which is mainly influenced by family [McClinchey, B. Socialization, 2013]) disappeared. Secondary socialization could not be formed because it built on previous experiences (McClinchey, B. Socialization, 2013); therefore, the schools erased the children’s primary socialization and stopped their secondary socialization from forming.
Approximately 3,000 lives were sadly lost during this horrible attack. Not only did the people on the planes die, there also was many firemen & police men terribly lost. During the attack many people volunteered to help save some lives & lost theirs instead. Innocent children were brutally murdered & punished for a stupid war. Those people paid the price for other's crimes.
Sociology is playing an important role in the alarming health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Although statistics are slowly improving, currently Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people endure much poorer health outcomes than non-Indigenous Australians. For the 2005–2007 period, life expectancy at birth was estimated to be 67 years for Indigenous males and 73 years for Indigenous females, representing gaps of 11.5 and 9.7 years, respectively, compared with all Australians. In 2008, almost one-third of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (aged 16–24 years) had high or very high levels of psychological distress. Indigenous young people died at a rate 2.5 times as high as that for non-Indigenous young people Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 0–14 years died at more than twice the rate of non-Indigenous children.
Diseases that are easily treatable here in the United States are basically death sentences to the poor people of Afghanistan. About 48,545 children die each year in Afghanistan due to diarrheal diseases alone (TOLOnews). That is about eighty percent of the children who die from unsafe water. These kids died from ingesting water, which is a very troubling sentence to type. The families are left with choice of using this dirty water or not use any water at all.
Smoking should be made illegal in Canada. There are many reasons why the illegalization of smoking would be a good thing and here are just a few, smoking alone causes approximately 40, 000 deaths in just Canada per year. Secondly, smoking wreaks havoc on the bank account, on average people spend hundreds on their smoking habits monthly. Lastly, smoking not only affects the smokers but it affects the children with family members or friends that smoke. Many smokers would argue that smoking is needed for society to function as proceeds do go to the government, but in actuality the lives of every Canadian citizen would be made better within a year of smoking becoming illegal.
That means that males died 3 times as often as females did from suicide. While the causes of suicide are unknown, some common risk factors include… signs of depression, loss of contact with friends and family, lack of interest in activities and surroundings, loss of self-esteem, and getting personal affairs in order such as giving away personal belongings or having a pressing interest
Teen homelessness is alarmingly high in the United States. “Approximately 1.6 million youth ages twelve to seventeen had run away from home and slept on the street in the past twelve months.” (1800Runaway.org) Fifty-percent of those teens will be trafficked for sex in the first forty-eight hours of leaving home. (National Runaway Hotline) Members of society often think that runaway kids are disobedient and rebellious, preferring to live on the streets rather than following the rules. The most prevalent reason children and teens runaway is because of the maltreatment they experience at the hands of parents or caregivers. Eighty percent of runaway and homeless girls reported having ever been sexually or physically abused.
So who are happier fat women or thin women? Scientist James Watson, the Nobel prize-winning geneticist who was jointly responsible for discovering the structure of DNA, believes that fat women are happier than thin ones. A new study has revealed that, rather than being content and confident, slim people struggle to deal with life’s woes. Anxiety and mental suffering often dominate their lives- to such a degree that they are much more likely to commit suicide than large people. This recent research undertaken by the Bristol University discovered that for each 5kg per square meter increase in body mass index (BMI), the risk of suicide decreased by 15 percent.