Cultural Competency I approached a social worker who works with a charity organization. The organization helps children from different cultural background who due to poverty they cannot afford basic needs such as place to stay‚ education and food. The organization comes to their aid by providing the basic necessities to them. The organization tends to deal with children from diverse cultural backgrounds. As a result a number of challenges are faced when dealing with the children. In order to
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Cultural Diversity: Campus Climates and Classroom Instruction American Society has been and continues to become increasingly mixed‚ complex‚ and variegated in its cultural practices and ethnic make up. However‚ the state schools have fallen short of race goals established thirty-one years ago in a desegregation case now known as Geier v. Sundquist. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has notoriously had one of the worst recruiting efforts for diversifying undergraduates. This realization
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Anthony Grimes Ashford University ENG122-English Composition II Instructor Mitchell November 26‚ 2012 Substance abuse and consumption have become an epidemic in America. The use of drugs results in countless drug-related deaths and causes states to spend billions of dollars to combat drug trafficking. Drugs are shipped in by sea‚ air‚ automobile‚ and even smuggled in by person. These drugs are supplied by drug cartels. These criminal organizations where formed to promote‚ control‚ produce
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Carl Kogstrom Neuberg IB MYP Biology 9 May 2014 Effects of Genetically Modified Food Genetically modified food contributes a major portion to the world’s food supply. Genetically modified food (GMF) is food that is produced from plants or animals that have had artificial changes to their genetic material. GMFs have been tested and experimented on since 1992 and sold commercially since 1994. The DNA of crops has been altered to make them grow faster as well as resist many different pesticides. This
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Three Types of Friends Have you ever thought about the many types of friends people have? Rather given it much thought or not there are all types of people in this world‚ which determine what type of friend you are. Friend types can be divided into three different groups: best friends‚ school friends‚ and acquaintances. For most people‚ it is really hard to find someone who is completely honest‚ loyal‚ and a positive influence on your life‚ but there’s always a best friend for someone. Almost everyone
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If you google "Student Professionalism" on the internet‚ many links for school codes will come up and almost each and every one will be different. How is it that there are so many different interpretations of something that sounds so simple to understand and perform? There are many different types of schools out there so a set of student conduct codes‚ or how to act professional‚ that are set deemable to one learning facility might not be acceptable in another. In a highschool setting coming to school
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February 4‚ 2011 Cultural Competence in Physical Therapy Practice To be culturally competent physical therapists need to understand their own world view and those of the patient‚ while avoiding stereotyping and misapplication of scientific knowledge (cross‚ et al. 1989). Therapists must take into account eight characteristics that involve the dimensions of diversity: age‚ race‚ gender‚ sexual orientation‚ ethnicity‚ mental and physical activity‚ religion and socioeconomic status. But before they
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Cultural Diffusion and its Influence on Europe and Sub Saharan Africa Both Europe and Sub Saharan Africa was and still is a melting pot consisted of a blend of races and cultures that has integrated into a cohesive whole. Take The Melting Pot restaurant as an example; The rich blend of the chocolate sauces can resemble a specific culture such as strawberry‚ white‚ dark‚ raspberry‚ etcetera‚ but when they are mixed together‚ the melting pot creates a swirl that symbolizes the blending of one culture
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“Cultural Norms” By: Tiffany Rushing Cultural norms are behavior patterns that are typical of specific groups. (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory) We have cultural norms due to how we do things as a country‚ the community we live in‚ and how our families do things. We learn at very young ages what is considered normal‚ which is what a cultural norm is. One of our country’s cultural norms is the emphasis on promptness
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Cultural Invasion Contents: Kung Fu Panda2 drawn the controversy of cultural invasion Definition of cultural invasion The reason for against Comments on this issue in the internet Conclusion Kung Fu Panda 2‚ a Hollywood animated movie‚ has drawn mixed responses in China since its release. While fans are waiting in long queues for a ticket‚ some artists and scholars have launched a boycott of the movie‚ saying it is a cultural invasion. Is Kung Fu Panda 2 a cultural invasion? In order to
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