Trachoma and tuberculosis was among disease that killed children in the boarding schools, some even committed suicide from not being able to adapt and from being so lonely. The government tried so hard to Americanize the American Indians. They went as low as taking children from their families to try to force American ways into them at an early age. In a sense it was kind
(U-S-History) The battles decreased the Native Americans by almost 400 to 700. The wars were back to back and cause much loss to the community of Native Americans and most of them were killed in that Colonist
Abuse and neglect in the home is a leading cause of death for children age 4 and younger. Most physical abuse fatalities are committed by fathers and other male caretakers, although the great majority of parenting and child abuse prevention programs are targeted to women. Family violence is strongly correlated with child abuse fatalities; about 50 percent of homes with adult violence also involve child abuse and neglect. The pathology spills over class and economic condition. The cycle of abuse is difficult to interrupt; abused children often, as adults, become abusers themselves.
Rape, torture, war and shootings. People live through and witness these things every day. They are also left with a lifetime of pain. Because so many people suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, it is important to know the symptoms and treatments What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Many people will encounter trauma at some point in their lives. Whether it affects them personally or they witness it happening to someone else, it is very scary.
Infants were killed to save them from the Spaniards. In two years, through murder, mutilation, or suicide, half of the 250,000 Indians on Haiti were dead” (Zinn, 6). This quote explains how brutal the Spaniards were towards the Arawaks, while the Arawaks were obedient and listened to the Spaniards. Even though the Arawaks tried to help the Spaniards to find gold, they were painfully murdered and imprisoned. Enslavement of Africans was also a situation in which the people who were obedient got punishments.
Bridie also carries the belief that Sheila retrieved the quinine by exchanging the shoehorn but creates much conflict internally in Sheila and has much strain on their friendship. In the end though, it comes to represent the enduring nature of Bridie’s and Sheila’s friendship and love. A major theme in “The Shoe Horn Sonata” is war. War is a time of devastation and destruction; a time where people are forced to suffer from traumatic and horrendous experiences. These experiences of war can last a life time and can affect victims through post-traumatic stress developed due to the experience.
The Great Depression of 1930 took on many different faces. To many Americans, it proved to be an intense time of uncertainty, which reeked emotional and physical havoc in many lives. The unbearable circumstances these families faced were like none other in our nation’s history. Desperation, fear and, even death, became an ever present trouble in many American lives. Millions of people lost their jobs during these tragic times, and left their homes in pursuit of securing work, but most fell short.
The genocide in Darfur has claimed 400,000 lives and displaced over 2,500,000 people in camps. Also 3.5 million people are now considered hungry. More than one hundred people continue to die each day; five thousand die every month. The Sudanese government disputes these estimates and denies any connection with the Janjaweed militia. It is assumed that the hundreds of rapes reported and treated are not even close to the actual number committed, as victims of rape in Darfur are often too scared or too ashamed to seek help.
They were forcibly removed from the land and were placed in Relocation Programs. Along the journey to the locations, hundreds had died from starvation, exposure, and illnesses. The government forced the survivors to live on reservations where many still reside today. Many of the reservations are on poverty-ridden areas, and many of them have suffered from alcoholism and suicide because they had been robbed, humiliated, and removed from all that they knew. Even into the 19th Century, numerous wars broke out between the Indians and the United States forces.
Many of the former students and their children and grandchildren sometimes go to jail, are in poverty, have lost their language and culture or have commit suicide. Aboriginals also have lower graduation rate that the national average. Many of the children and grandchildren have suffered abuse from their parents that went to these schools because the physical, mental, and sexual abuse that they suffered is passed down through their generations and many of them suicide because of this. Many of the aboriginals who attended the schools were missing or dead because of the tuberculosis infection that killed many of the children taking and living in the schools . According to the Canadian Institute of Child Health, in 2000 the suicide rate for first nations from the age of 0 to14 was double what the national suicide rate was.