Evaluate the importance of anti oppressive practice in social work. Illustrate your answer using the PCS model. Within this essay the areas in which discrimination and oppression occur will be highlighted and then evaluated to show how ‘good’ anti oppressive/ discriminative practice within social work can ‘aid’ and empower service users who are in groups that experience oppression and discrimination to overcome their problems. Gil (1994) states that “the conditions that cause people to seek help
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Evaluate the Success of a Recent Initiative to Promote Anti-Discriminatory Practice The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) made it unlawful to discriminate against those with disabilities in terms of employment and provisions of goods‚ services and facilities. It is obvious that the most successful area that this act has worked in has been employment as the percentage of disabled people in work rose to 47.8% in 2012‚ which may not seem great when compared to 75.9% of non-disabled people but since
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Drugs are a substance that causes change in people’s mental‚ social‚ emotional and physical state. Why do people do drugs? People do drugs for various reasons both positive and negative. Sometimes people have to take drugs for medical reasons. However‚ there are those people who abuse drugs. There are many legal and illegal drugs available in today’s society. All drugs‚ inappropriately used‚ can be harmful to a person’s body. The results of drug abuse can be fatal or can cause a person to become
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Character Analysis Charlotte Gainsbourg played the role in film antichrist as “SHE”. The characters in the film are never given names‚ except Nick‚ who act as the son of the couple. As her personality fits the character she is portraying‚ in the year 2009‚ Gainsburg won the award for being the Best Actress at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival for the said film. The film opens with a stunning black and white‚ slow-motion where the lead “she” and “he” make love in the shower while their unattended
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Drama 88 Day 10 Practice‚ Practice‚ and some more Practice Our primary focus from this point onwards was completely on the final musical scene and the ending scene. For the final musical scene we were thinking out a dance routine. For this I came up with a fifteen second dance routine‚ which will be done in the scene. In this dance routine Kim and Olivia run towards Luke and I. Then we are supposed to lift them as they jump into our arms. After the lift the girls are supposed to hang on to our necks
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The federalist called for a strong central government‚ a federal bank and an army. They proposed a new constitution‚ while the Anti-federalist wanted to remain under the Articles of Confederation. The Anti-federalist planned for the almost unavoidable corruption of a powerful central government. They wanted true federalism‚ a much better plan for our country long term. The federalist believed that the current system of government could be improved. Strengthening the central government would help
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Contrary to the beliefs of those who advocate the legalization of marijuana‚ the current balanced‚ restrictive‚ and bipartisan drug policies of the United States are working reasonably well and they have contributed to reductions in the rate of marijuana use in our nation. The rate of current‚ past 30-day use of marijuana by Americans aged 12 and older in 1979 was 13.2 percent. In 2008 that figure stood at 6.1 percent. This 54-percent reduction in marijuana use over that 29-year period is a major
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Against Media Censorship * On television‚ music‚ and most websites‚ they inform the user about the contents of their website‚ song‚ or show; but others (like YouTube) put on age restrictions on them. * I’m sure most of you have had to go through these at some point in your life and have gotten upset when you can’t hear the whole song or watch the whole movie. * I’d like to explain to you all how Media Censorship is in direct violation of the First Amendment and how it can make it harder
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and equitable trade and business practices. Businesses have been competing among one another since the industrialization of the United States of America. However‚ with competition came regulation for business and trade. A Competitive America As Americans we love to compete. Therefore it is no wonder that the United States economy is based on competition. Promoting competition is accepted as the best way to promote consumer well-being. America’s anti-trust laws have been in place for
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Smacking‚ should it be allowed or against the law? The issue of smacking has been an ongoing debate for many years now. About 10% of parents smack their child and see nothing wrong with it. 20% of parents never smack their children and 70% of parents smack their children but wish they didn’t. So why do we smack our kids? Supposedly smacking is meant to discipline children and give them a better behavioural structure. If this is so‚ then why are many adults who were smacked as kids committing violent
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