Running Head: Strengths Based Assessment 1 Strengths Based Assessment: The Soloist By Colleen Austin SOWK 587a University of Southern California Professor Brittani Morris Strengths Based Assessment 2 Character Identification Describe the character you choose as your focus. Include race‚ ethnicity‚ age‚ religion‚ sex‚ marital status‚ living situation‚ educational level‚ internal strengths (coping mechanisms‚ skills‚ experience‚ ability
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journalist– Steve Lopez a columnist for the LA Times‚ comes across Nathaniel Ayers on the street and decides to write about him. Between playing bursts of music on a violin with only two working strings‚ Nathaniel gives a mostly incoherent discourse on the benefits of being homeless and on his efforts to bring music to the city. Steve‚ in need of a subject for his column‚ researches Nathaniel’s background. From there‚ Lopez and Ayers develop a struggling friendship‚ which leads Lopez to try to help
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10/8/2013 Video Review 1 (The Soloist) This film was watched on October 4th‚ 2013. It is directed by Joe Wright‚ and the main characters are Steve Lopez (a Journalist for the LA Times) who is portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. and Nathaniel Anthony Ayres Jr. (a mentally ill homeless musician) portrayed by Jamie Foxx. This film follows Steve Lopez a journalist working for the LA times and while looking for a good story to write stubbles upon a street musician who is playing a violin with only two
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setting; consequently‚ he ends up playing his violin wandering along the streets of LA. He was disregarded to the public like most homeless‚ psychiatric patients around us‚ until he met Steve Lopez‚ a columnist in the LA Times. Lopez was drawn to Nathaniel talent after watching him play his old violin. Lopez found‚ the story of Nathaniel exceptionally interesting because this is a man who went to the Juilliard Music School because of his incredible talent‚ but dropped out diagnosed with schizophrenia
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movie Enough with Jennifer Lopez as the leading character. This movie is a perfect example of domestic and spousal abuse that is portrayed in the media. It also seems quite accurate in describing the ordeals that a woman that is being beaten by her husband goes through. The entire movie reminded me of the book we read for class‚ Black and Blue‚ because many things are similar and the two lead characters are battered woman fighting for their child’s future. In the movie‚ Lopez is a battered woman. Over
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I was her she was me We were one we were free And if there’s somebody calling me on She’s the one If there’s somebody calling me on She’s the one We were young we were wrong We were fine all along If there’s somebody calling me on She’s the one When you get to where you want to go And you know the things you want to know You’re smiling When you said what you want to say And you know the way you want to play‚ yeah You’ll be so high you’ll be flying Though
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done to young women’s bodies during in-vitro fertilization (IVF). With the use of pathos‚ ethos‚ and logos‚ Lopez makes her argument rather easy to agree with. Lopez executes the rhetorical element of pathos very well throughout her article. When stating that‚ “They risk bleeding‚ infection‚ and scarring” and “weeks of abdominal pain (At worst‚ complications may leave her dead).” Lopez uses great emotion. When using words such as‚ “dead” many emotions can be brought to the reader’s attention
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2012[1] Language English Label Walt Disney Writer Kristen Anderson-Lopez Robert Lopez Frozen track listing "Love Is an Open Door" (4) "Let It Go" (5) "Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People" (6) Video (film sequence) "Let It Go" on YouTube "Let It Go" is a song from Disney ’s 2013 animated feature film Frozen‚ whose music and lyrics were composed by husband-and-wife songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. The song was performed in its original show-tune version in the film
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and Scooby snacks. Ecstasy was developed in a laboratory in 1912 and patented in 1914 (Lopez 6). It is a synthetic drug derived from amphetamines and similar to hallucinogens and methamphetamines (Lopez 6; Schroder 13-140). Some ecstasy tablets only contain a low percentage of MDMA; instead they are filled with other drugs such as LSD‚ MDA‚ DMT‚ PMT‚ PMA‚ PCP‚ GHB‚ cocaine‚ ketamine‚ and cough medicine (Lopez 3). These other drugs make the negative qualities worse than if the user was taking only
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pepper spray. After work‚ Lopez and Moretti drink at a bar where they run into unruly‚ GUILLERMO‚ who grew up with Lopez. They recognize each other and then leave. Cristina leaves the doctor’s office with Bella‚ when three thugs follow and accost her. She uses the pepper spray against one of the assailants and flees. Williams and O’Donnell are called out to an abandoned building. When they enter‚ shots are fired‚ hitting Williams. O’Donnell calls for back up and Lopez and Moretti respond. They
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