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My name is Peter Chau

Task 1: Article 3 For me the most important UN declaration is article 3 which is everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. This to me is very important because it make me feel safer when I’m out in public and places especially that I don’t know. When I’m in a court case then I know that I will be treated fairly, charged or not charged fairly depending on the colour of the skin or the culture my parents are from. The part that state “everyone has the right to life” to me means that I have the right to live no matter what I have done in the past and no one has the right to take away my right of life. Task 3: 1a) The rhyming pattern in the poem, “Aboriginal Charter of Right by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)” is an AA BB CC form with every last word of the first and second line rhyming. An example of this form of rhyming in the poem is “ We want hope, not racialism, A   Brotherhood, not ostracism, A  Black advance, not white ascendance. B   Make us equals, not dependents . B  We need help, not exploitation , C   We want freedom, not frustration. C   b) Charter is a legislation state how the organisation will function, which include its rights and privileges. This is related to the poem because the poem state the right the aboriginal used and should have but they don’t because the ‘whites’ took it away from them. c) “Opportunity that places, White and black on equal basis”. This quote tells us that there are opportunities everywhere in the world and that everyone should have an equal chance of receiving an opportunity no matter what colour or race they are from. This is relate to the social justice of inequalities in the world where some culture think that they are more civilised that other culture. d) Juxtaposition is used in the line ‘White and black on equal basis’. The juxtaposition in this line is white and black. Juxtaposition is when two words that are opposite is place near each other to show the difference in the two. The effect of placing black and white near each other is to show the difference in equalities between the black and the white. The use of metaphor in the line ‘you the law’ is to stating that someone is something else due to their characteristic or abilities or behaviour. The metaphor in this line is calling some the law, which that person so much power that they could almost get whatever they want just by saying it. The ‘You’ is the white that the power to do anything they want just by saying. You the law means the white is very powerful. e) The poem is about the rights that the aboriginal should have. I know this because every line start off with a right or privilege that the aboriginal should have and the next part is explain why the aboriginal don’t have this right or privilege or what should be done to allow the aboriginal to have this right or privilege.  Task 4:

Peter Chau-Indigenous peoples and criminal justice systems Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) reported that Aboriginal people made up 14% of the total number of prisoner in Australia in 1991. The number of Indigenous prisoners has however increased over the past 17-years since 1991. Aboriginal prisoners made up 24% of the total number of prisoners in Australia. Out of the total number of aboriginal prisoner there were 6139 males and 567 females in June in 2008. However the ABS says that the collections of data maybe wrong because there might be those who want to be part of the aboriginal prisoner in prison. ABS used the age standardization method, which allows them to have better comparisons between different populations. Using this method the ABS reported that aboriginal is more likely to be imprison than a non aboriginal by 13 times in 2007 and it is unchanged in 2008. In Western Australia in 2008 an aboriginal was 20 times more likely to be imprison than a non aboriginal. The median age for an aboriginal prisoner was 33, for male prisoner the median age was 31, while for female prisoners it was 30. This was reported in June in 2007. Record shows that from 2002 to 2006 the number of female aboriginal prisoners have increased have been much more that the increase in male aboriginal prisoners during that same period. The increase of female aboriginal prisoner was 34%, while for the male it was only 22%. The females are also more likely to be imprisoned than males. Between 2005 and 2006 44 per 1,000 aboriginal children were under juvenile justice supervision, while only 3 per 1,000 non aboriginal children were under such supervision. 89% of the male juveniles on supervision moved onto the adult systems. The sample collected shows that the aboriginal prisoner’s health is very poor however they believe that the health of the aboriginal prisoners is the same as the other non aboriginal prisoners. In NSW between 1988 and 2002 records shows that Indigenous men were almost 5 times more likely to die after release form custody. Aboriginal women about 13 times more likely, to die after release from custody. In 2006, there were 54 recorded deaths in custody. There were 11 incidents of aboriginal deaths in custody: 4 in prison custody, 6 in police custody and 1 in juvenile detention centre. Task 5:

Speech Article 3 of the UN declaration states that everyone have the right to life and security, liberty of person. The most article in my opinion to me. Not to anyone else in particular but to me. I believe that everyone have the right to live and to feel safe knowing that once they step out of their home there will be no one out there that want to take away their life for some reason. When someone have the right to life it means that they can live in harmony with everyone without being murdered or assassinated because they have found out something big or have done something wrong in the past. Right to life is not letting them live but to let them live in peace without pain or torture. It is to let them live without the feeling that dying is better than living. Free to life is being able to die whenever you want and in what way you want to die. Free to live is free of will and of speech. Free to life is also have the freedom to do whatever you want without anyone pressuring you to do something you don’t want to. Free to life is free to think and free to act. Free to wait, free to stop and free to put in an opinion. Security as in 24 protection is something that everyone thinks that is important and essential in their life but has anyone ever stop for one moment and thought to themselves why do we need bodyguards and why do we need 24 hours protection and stay away form crowd area with lot of people that we don’t know? Why? Well I’ll tell you why. It is because the rich is so afraid that someone might rob or murder them because they have so much wealth that they can’t even use it all in 100 life times. Why not share some of your riches like they always say “Sharing is caring”. As for the working class, well everyone is different and you just have to accept that as a fact and also some people in other places around can still survive even without all the riches and raise a family why can’t you? At the end of the day the money with the most value is the money that you earn using your sweat and tears. You will feel that you have achieved for your family and also there’s that sense of dignity earning money through hardship. Security also can be related to belief. One religion will have a grudge against another and then war happen and the cause of this war could simple be over a chipped finger nail. When war breaks out then everyone will be looking for security and shelter. At one stage on ball thing we live on called earth the Pope, the head of the church walked out in big open area on foot but now they all in that wheel thing they call a bullet proof windowed car. What is Liberty? Isn’t just a word but this word hold many powerful meaning to it. When we heard Liberty what do we think of? The Statue of Liberty in America maybe or the free to talk to a mate’s girlfriend. Whatever you mean when you say liberty it still is a powerful word. Liberty is free to act whoever we want. Why is liberty in the UN Declarations doesn’t everyone have the free will to act? The answer is that everyone should be able to but no not everyone one is able to because it might be a cultural thing which I guess is fine but if it is usually because someone is stopping them form have free will and movement because they are afraid if they have this right then they will be a major threat to them but why would they be a major threat to you unless you are doing something wrong. The main point is everyone only have one shot at life and everyone want to achieve everything they are capable of in this one life time. An average age for one life time I guess would be somewhere in the seventy or the eighty. This might sound like a really long time but in reality time fly in a blind of an eye. What I’m trying to say is life it to short to be running around taking other’s life and freedom and then regret what you have done. You only got one shot so make it count.