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Assignment:

Produce discussion paper How is Harry impacted by power, violence, oppression and trauma in the case study? Write a 150 words discussion paper introduction on power, vi0lence, oppression, and trauma in relation to the following situation.

Intersectionality story for discussion

H.arry, aged 17, is an only child who works in a warehouse as a storeman. His father, an Aboriginal Australian man from rural NSW is deceased. H.arry lives with a fairly strict and conservative single mother, originally from England, who insists that he his pay/wages have to be paid into her bank account, from which she gives him an allowance, claiming she is teaching him to be more disciplined about money, compared to how his father was. She also seeks to vet his friends. When he went out with a girl she did not like, she verbally and physically assaulted him. When really angry she yells derogatory abuse that he is just like his father, who she claims, "would not work in an iron lung" [Australian idiom/slang meaning 'extremely lazy'].

While Harry does not want to leave home, he also wants control over his pay, freedom to choose his friends and to understand more about where his father came from, by exploring his Aboriginal heritage.