Rabbit Proof Fence (The Movie)

The movie “Rabbit Proof Fence” covered the issue of racism, creating the stolen generations.

The movie was a true story that showed the courage and heartache the three girls went through in their childhoods. The government was being racist towards the Aboriginals, not knowing that what they were doing was wrong.

The eagle had the significance of being a God who watched his people from the sky, helping them on their journey home, keeping them safe and guiding them the right way. When Molly saw the eagle in the sky, she knew she was almost home, and that the spirits were looking after her. It also made her feel that she was guided in some aspect, and that she didn’t have to do this journey all by herself.

For Molly to tell this story would have made her feel responsible for letting Gracie wonder off and be taken back, and later die, and it would also bring back the memory of losing her own daughter, to the same issue, and never seeing her daughter again . Bringing back all these memories would destroy her happiness, as she was the leader and the responsible one on the journey home.

Religion Assignment

Contents:

Article 1: DY bashing victim left in pool of blood
Published In: The Manly Daily
Title: DY bashing victim left in pool of blood
Author: Peter Bodkin
Date Published: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
URL: http://manly-daily.whereilive.com.au/news/story/dy-bashing-victim-left-in-pool-of- blood/

Article 2: Mum’s Worst Fear
Published In: The Manly Daily
Title: Mum’s worst fear
Author: Brenton Cherry
Date Published: Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Article 3: Poverty- An Unfair World

(Poverty in general)

Hunger Report

A Report into World Hunger
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 8 —
Hunger currently afflicts 830 million people around the world because of natural disasters, armed conflict and a grinding poverty that consigns the poor to chronic malnutrition, the United Nations World Food Program reported today.
"From generation to generation, people don't have enough food to eat," Catherine Bertini, the agency's executive director, said at a news briefing, where she distributed a map calling attention to "hot spots" where hunger is most severe. The map identifies large swathes of territory in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia where tens of millions of people, most of them women and children, cannot get enough to eat.
"The combination of poverty and disaster causes people to have even less possibility to build resources to end their hunger," Ms. Bertini said.
The World Food Program defines hunger as a condition in which people fail to get enough food to provide the nutrients for active, healthy lives. Those who are considered undernourished subsist on 1,800 calories a day or less. The figure of 2,100 calories is generally recommended to sustain an average adult.
Although the data the program uses was collected for 1995 to 1997, officials said that their research shows that the scope of the problem has not improved, and in some places is getting worse.
Of the 830 million undernourished people, the report says, 791 million live in developing countries. The food agency said that 200 million are children under age 5 who are underweight for lack of food.
In more than 20 countries, hunger has been compounded by drought, which the agency said has affected 100 million people within the last year. The agency helped feed 16 million people hit by drought last year, compared with 3 million in 1996. In other areas, internal unrest has made it harder, if not impossible, to grow crops and get them to market.
"We've seen an alarming trend where the poorest nations are hit simultaneously by both natural and man-made emergencies, including in Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Tajikistan," Ms. Bertini said. "Unfortunately, we see a potential for that to continue or even increase in 2001."
In sub-Saharan Africa, 180 million people, one-third of the population, are undernourished, the agency reported. The countries worst hit by hunger include Angola, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea.
In Asia the number of undernourished people is 525 million, or 17 percent of the population, with the worst hunger found in North Korea, Mongolia, Cambodia and Bangladesh.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, 53 million people, or 11 percent of the population, lack enough food, with the worst conditions in Haiti, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Honduras.
Elsewhere, one of the countries with the greatest problem is Afghanistan, which is ravaged by civil war as well as the worst drought in decades.
Asked about Iraq, which has suffered from United Nations economic sanctions imposed after its invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Ms. Bertini said that 15 percent of Iraqis were malnourished. "Poor children under 5 are the people most at risk in Iraq," she said.
Ms. Bertini said that while conditions have improved in some countries — like Bosnia, Namibia and Botswana — they have deteriorated in others, like Afghanistan. In Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union, the transition from Communism to a free-market economy has caused suffering for people who cannot afford to eat properly.
The World Food Program reported feeding 89 million people last year, including refugees uprooted by wars and natural disasters. The food agency, based in Rome, operates in more than 80 countries.
Ms. Bertini said that countries struggling to overcome hunger need not only food but also water drilling and purification equipment and better sanitation and agricultural systems. In sub-Saharan African, progress has also been impeded by heavy government debt burdens, insufficient funding for health and education and the AIDS pandemic.

World Hunger – UN
Read the United Nations Report into World Hunger and answer the following questions. The answer are to be posted onto your Blog site.
A. How many people in the world are estimated by the United Nations World Food Programme to be chronically hungry?
830 million people around the world, they don’t have enough food to eat, and are undernourished.
B) Why is this important?
It is important to know and learn about, and it is important to fit it.
C) What kind of report did the agency release?
United Nations World Food Program
D) Why does Ms. Catherine Bertini claim people have trouble getting out of poverty and hunger?
Uprooted by wars and natural disasters, and they have trouble affording it.
E) What is the World Food Programme’s definition of hunger?
Is when people fail to get enough food to provide the nutrients for active, healthy lives.
G) What events have added to the problem of world hunger in the past few years?
Drought
H) What disasters have hurt the poorest countries?
War, and natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis.

I) Where are the largest numbers of poor and hungry people living?
North Korea, Mongolia, Cambodia and Bangladesh, Haiti, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Honduras and Afghanistan.
J) Where have conditions improved over the past few years? Where have they worsened?
Improved: Bosnia, Namibia and Botswana.
Worsened: Afghanistan and in Eastern Europe.
K) How many poor people did the World Food Programme feed in the year 2000?
They fed around 89 million people last year.
l. What does Ms. Bertini say countries need in order to alleviate hunger?
Not only food but also water drilling and purification equipment and better sanitation and agricultural systems
Further Questions for Discussion:
What is hunger?
It’s when people are hungry or in malnutrition because they can’t afford or can’t be supplied with enough food to give them the average calories needed each day.
What do you think it would be like to live with chronic hunger?
You who be always hungry and become sick, due to malnutrition. You would also become weak.
Why do people care about hunger in parts of the world that are far from them?
Because people feel for those in hunger and want to do something about it, so that it can get fixed and stopped.
Whose responsibility is the care of the chronically undernourished?
It is everyone else in the worlds. We can donate and we can slowly heal this world issue, but we will have to work together and believe that we can make a difference.
How does chronic hunger affect a child?
It stops them from having a normal primary life, as their brains don’t enough nutrition, and they become weak and unable to fight diseases.

Rights And Responsibilities

Rights and Responsibilities
Human dignity can be protected and a healthy community can be achieved only if human rights are protected and responsibilities are met. Every person has a fundamental right to life and a right to those things required for human decency – starting with food, shelter and clothing, employment, health care, and education. Corresponding to these rights are duties and responsibilities -- to one another, to our families, and to the larger society.
Role of Government
The state has a positive moral function. It is an instrument to promote human dignity, protect human rights, and build the common good. All people have a right and a responsibility to participate in political institutions so that government can achieve its proper goals.
Questions:
1. What are every humans fundamental rights?
• Food
• Shelter
• Clothing
• Employment
• Health care
• Education
2. What is the role of the Government in maintaining human rights?
• It has to promote human dignity
• Protect human rights
• Bold the common good
3. Who is responsible for assisting the government to achieve its goals
• All the people of Australian have the right and responsibility to participate, to help the government achieve its goals.

Promotion of Peace and Disarmament/Participation/Global Solidarity and Development

Promotion of Peace and Disarmament
Catholic teaching promotes peace as a positive, action-oriented concept. In the words of Pope John Paul II, "Peace is not just the absence of war. It involves mutual respect and confidence between peoples and nations. It involves collaboration and binding agreements.” There is a close relationship in Catholic teaching between peace and justice. Peace is the fruit of justice and is dependent upon right order among human beings.

Participation
All people have a right to participate in the economic, political, and cultural life of society. It is a fundamental demand of justice and a requirement for human dignity that all people be assured a minimum level of participation in the community. It is wrong for a person or a group to be excluded unfairly or to be unable to participate in society

Global Solidarity and Development
We are one human family. Our responsibilities to each other cross national, racial, economic and ideological differences. We are called to work globally for justice. Authentic development must be full human development. It must respect and promote personal, social, economic, and political rights, including the rights of nations and of peoples. It must avoid the extremists of underdevelopment on the one hand, and "superdevelopment" on the other.

Questions:
1. What is the Catholic teaching regarding the requirement to maintaining peace?
The catholic teaching regarding the requirements to maintaining peace is that peace is the fruit of justice and is dependent upon order among human beings. To maintain peace everyone has to understand the mutual respect and confidence between people and nations. It also involves collaboration and binding agreements
2. Why is it wrong to exclude people from participating in society?
It is wrong to exclude people from participating in society as it is a requirement of human dignity and a fundamental demand of justice.
3. What are our global responsibilities to each other?
Our global responsibilities to each other are to work globally for justice. We must respect and promote personal, social, economic, and political rights, including the rights of nations and their people.

Economic Justice and Stewardship of Gods's Creation

Economic Justice
The economy must serve people, not the other way around. All workers have a right to productive work, to decent and fair wages, and to safe working conditions. They also have a fundamental right to organize and join unions. People have a right to economic initiative and private property, but these rights have limits. No one is allowed to amass excessive wealth when others lack the basic necessities of life.

Stewardship of God's Creation
The goods of the earth are gifts from God, and they are intended by God for the benefit of everyone. There is a "social mortgage" that guides our use of the world's goods, and we have a responsibility to care for these goods as stewards and trustees, not as mere consumers and users. How we treat the environment is a measure of our stewardship, a sign of our respect for the Creator.

Questions:
1. What are the rights of the worker?
• The rights of the worker are to have productive work, to decent and fair wages, and to safe working conditions. Also to organize or join a union.
2. What is a union?
• A union is a group that looks after all the workers.
3. What should people’s economic limitations be?
• People’s economic limitations should be that everyone has a right to the basic necessities of life.
4. Who are god’s gifts intended for?
• God’s gifts are intended for everyone.
5. What is meant in this context by: Social Mortgage, Steward and Trustee?
• Social Mortgage, Steward and Trustee in this text means that we owe ourselves and everyone to looking after this world, and try to make sure that we don’t harm this planet and use it wisely.
6. What is one measure of our stewardship?
• One measure of our stewardship is how much respect we give to the Creator and how we treat his gifts to us.

Common Good And Community

Common Good and community
The human person is both sacred and social. We realize our dignity and rights in relationship with others, in community. Human beings grow and achieve fulfilment in community. Human dignity can only be realized and protected in the context of relationships with the wider society.

Option for the Poor
The moral test of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members. The poor have the most urgent moral claim on the conscience of the nation. We are called to look at public policy decisions in terms of how they affect the poor.

The option for the poor is an essential part of society's effort to achieve the common good. A healthy community can be achieved only if its members give special attention to those with special needs, to those who are poor and on the margins of society
Questions
1. Give an example of a community that you are part of.
• I’m a part of a tennis group.
2. How is this community both Sacred and Social
• This group is scared as we all enjoy palying together and the sport and just have fun with each other and at the same time learn new skills.
3. What is the major test of a moral society?
• The major test of a moral society is how it treats its most vulnerable member’s; the poor.
4. In what way does our community look after the poor?
• At mass we have the poor donation, that we donate, and we also have the Matthew Talbot Hostel, in which volunteers travel in the vans that travel around the city at night giving the poor cookies and coffee. We have the St Vincent De Paul Society in which people donate their clothes and possessions that they don’t want anymore, that get passed onto the poor.