Historians, Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh, have came to identify several factors that demonstrate the higher status and the fewer restraints that women residing in Maryland held. The women in England had additional restraints and a lower social status. This was expressed in The Planter’s Wife.…
A little girl of only nine years old would come to see how hard her life would be. The changes the Holocaust brought came rapidly. The first changes come after Hitler broke the pact with Russia in 1941. The first change was Buczacz was taken over by Russia. The next big change was the government started bringing down religious icons. The communist party then started removing enemies of the Soviet Union. The Jurman Family was considered bourgeois. They were considered bourgeois because Alicia’s uncle was a doctor. Alicia and her family were not prepared for the horrible road that would come next. Without survivors like Alicia Appleman-Jurman, we would not have the first hand awareness of the Holocaust they have today.…
1. Shirley Anita St. Hill was born on November 30, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York, to immigrant parents. Her father was named , Charles Christopher St. Hill, he was born in British Guiana. Her mother was named, Ruby Seale, she was born in Christ Church, Barbados. They were hard working parents who struggled to provide a home, food and clothing for their three children. Shirley’s mother moved her three children to farm in Barbados for a better life and schools. Shirley was an excellent student and followed the advice of her father, to develop to the best of her abilities. She moved to New York City and enrolled in Brooklyn College to become a teacher. Also, during that time Shirley joined an organization that inspired her to learn about Black history, it was named the Harriet Tubman Society.…
This article is written by Katherine S. Newman, she is a sociologist who investigates the rising numbers in accordion families. The numbers of people in their 20's and 30's are still living with their parents and living off their parents savings and retirement, with little of their own. The cost of living has risen, the unemployment rates has also risen and it has compromised the adulthood to young children. Newman’s investigation, is in six countries, drawing from over three hundred interviews, Newman concludes that nations with weak welfare states have the highest frequency of accordion families while the trend is virtually unknown in the Nordic countries. The United States is caught in between.…
Katherine G. Johnson is a mathematician who calculated the trajectories responsible for launching the first American into space. Katherine was born on August 26th, 1918 in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia. As a child, Katherine loved to count and had a strong interest in numbers which led to her profound knowledge of mathematics. Her passion for numbers showed through her interest in advancing her education, she graduated from the eighth grade by the age of ten; then graduated from high school at the age of fourteen. In the 1920’s, the South was heavily segregated due to unjust laws based on racism and at the time African Americans were not allowed to continue their education past the eighth grade. Katherine’s father drove one hundred and…
Dr. Ava Morrow is a person worthy of being nominated and recognized for an HBCU Alumni Award for the category of education or community involvement because her training as a microbiologist has afforded her the opportunity to train and encourage high school students and college students to be the next generation of STEM professionals. Her work as a faculty member began as a teaching assistant in the biology department at Gallaudet University and ended with the rank of Full Professor of Microbiology by the time she retired in 2013. She loved her work and was dedicated to students and the learning process. During her tenure at the university she taught courses in Human Biology, General Microbiology, Pathogenic Microbiology, Physical…
Hepworth, D. et al., (2010). Direct Social Work Practice. Theory and Skills (8th ed.) United States. Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning.…
A woman is willing to give her self respect, her dignity, and her own life to provide for her child. Cynthia Payne is a wonderful example of this. Cynthia was born December 24,1931. Payne had an exhausting childhood; her mother died at the age of ten, and her father was physically in her life but not mentally. He never gave Cynthia the love and or affection a little girl needs from her father (Callan) . At seventeen Payne became pregnant with her first son by having a affair with a married man. She swore to everyone that her little boy would have a great life and wouldn’t have to worry about needing anything but soon after this,Payne fell pregnant with her second son; she placed this child up for adoption where the child…
In this qualitative review, it looks at many different potential benefits of the companion animal,…
There was one thing that was important to most of the students at my school. That was to be able to go down to a farmhouse and get some of their water since there was no running water. My school was just like the “Little House on the Prairie schoolhouse" as you might call it. It had everything that we ever needed. It had a pot-bellied stove that we would put our wet shoes by when we came in from recess so they’d dry. It was a typical one-room public school house. The one thing I loved about my school was once every week a lady would come to school and teach…
Wilson, K, Ruch, G, Lymbery, M and Cooper, A (2008) Social Work an introduction to contemparay pactice. Harlow. Pearson Education Limited.…
They are as followed; implement social changes, educate both yourself and clients on policies, and options, provide professional help to individuals and groups, improve quality of life for clients, and improve social welfare services. Many social workers reach their goals and make positive changes in people’s lives. For example, nine year old girl, Marie Rose Surprenant was brutally abused by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend at the age of eight months. She had been rushed to a local hospital with life threatening injuries disabling her from walking, along with burns on her body and fourteen bone fractures. After questions were raised about the lack of care from her mother and boyfriend, Marie was put into the care of doctors, which from there was adopted by the social worker who had been assigned to her case. Marie wrote a letter of gratitude addressing the doctors, detectives, and the social workers that had been involved in her case. The letter reads “I want to thank you for making me happy by giving me a new warm and safe environment. Now I have a home that is nice and I have three nice meals a day. When I was little I got hurt and wasn’t going to walk at all…” “They (doctors, detectives, social workers) asked how I got hurt in the ER but he (mother’s boyfriend) lied and said that I feel out of the bed. That’s when you got involved and solved…
The field of Social work is broad in terms of service delivery. Social workers can work in several institutions like Hospitals, Schools, Communities, Day care centers, with families, in government established re-habilitation centers etc. My focus in this write-up is to highlight the theoretical perspectives of social work practice in the hospital. A social worker who specializes in this aspect of social work can work in other health care settings.…
With the many experiences I have had throughout my life and the clear path I have found to social work, I am very excited to begin field placement. Upon learning USC will choose my first year of field placement, I felt somewhat relieved. During my field placement experience, I would like to gain more exposure to the realm of clinical social work practice and gain more training in areas such as crisis intervention and mental health assessment, as I am particularly interested in social work areas related to mental health. I would like to increase my knowledge of laws and policies in social service systems and how they affect mental health consumers. I also look forward to furthering my understanding of the diverse client populations and improve my working knowledge of different forms of evidence-based practice. Although I am eager to learn more about these areas within social work, I have resigned any expectations I might have because it is likely that I will be placed at an agency opposite of my interests. I see this first year of field placement as an opportunity to learn more about a population or condition that I otherwise might have never had a chance to learn about and experience.…
Social work can be seen as a job, which carries a variety of inherent stresses (Gillepsie, 1986:23). According to Gillepsie (1986:23) the nature of social work activity, the problems that social workers must confront, the limitations of knowledge and professional ability, and the structure of the social work profession all converge to produce a job with inherent stresses. The social worker’s environment can be quite demanding, as social workers must face the continual responsibility of meeting the emotional needs and desires of clients (Larson, Gilbertson & Powel, 1978).…