Rabit Proof Fence

Stolen Generations was one of the issues that used to affect aboriginal population in Australia. This consist in the taken of young aboriginals from their families and forced to assimilate into an other culture, this was done by the settlers of Australia.

Rabbit Proof Fence is a movie which shows this situation through its main actress three little aboriginal girls. The movie reflects a dark period in Australia history and although it is not happening anymore nowadays, it is an important issue in the matter that Aboriginal population look forward to the Prime Minister say sorry for the past atrocities.

Finally, it is possible to say so, that this a good movie, no just for its plot but also for the performance of its actors. I recommend it widely.

From this it is possible to answer the question: "From your point of view it is useful to say sorry after years of wrong policies towards a minority? Why, what else is needed?"

According to the movie I could say it is useful. I have read and aboriginal peopel demand for an apology from the Prime Minister related to the stolen generations issue, so this means after they get this apology, they will feel as they are taken into account and that they are an important part of society. But of course, just an apology, it is not enough, this must be followed of actions, not related to stolen generations becauses this is not an issue anymore, but it could be to issues like education, housing, health which are really important in order to grant aboriginal rights.

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Images: Rabbit Proof Fence available at: http://matineeidle.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/rabbit_proff_fence_ver5.jpg

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Trade Unions in Europe

Trade Union membership in Europe have been declined, just 8 of the 27 states member states of the European Union count with more than half of population members of a trade union. The EU's four most populated states all have modest levels of unionisation.

It is possible to conclude that three of every four people empoloyed in the EU are not members of a trade union, so in every EU country trade union membership is either static or continues to decline.

Some trade unions organisations are: ETUC, UNI, ICTFU, among others.

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Trade Union available at: www.cartoonstock.com/newcartoons/cartonist/mba/lowres/mban1261.jpg

Europe map available at: http://ec.europa.eu/publications/booklets/others/01/images/map_europe.gif

Trade Unions across Europe (2010) Retrieved on May 22/2010: www.feede.com/tradeunions.html

E-commerce from an Islamic perspective and Arab Banking System

Among the basic believes and concepts of Islam, it is possible to find that the fundamental teaching of this religion are from four main sources: the Quaran and the Sunnah, intellect and concensus of religious scientist. The first one encourage man to be involve of all sorts of productive work and it is in this concept where e-commerce plays its role.

It is possible to say that Islam according to its sources of teaching, accept the conduct of E-commerce as a new way or technology to facilitate economic transactions. But it is important to notice that it does not matter that e-commerce does not involve face to face business, it should follow the basic ethical value of Islam: truthfulness, sincerity and honesty.

In this way, e-commerce from Islam has been characterized by its legality and legitimacy, which has brought many advantages such as a new way of business that reduce costs of transaction and another example is the fact that the Islamic countries are less affected by the actual financial crisis.

Another important fact I would like to talk about is the Arab Banking System. I like this video because it shows how religion is related to arabs daily life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUHNfoldhyU&feature=related

Sources: Zainul, Norazlina et al. 2004. "E-commerce from an Islamic prspective". Electronic Commerce Research and Applications 3 (2004): 280-293