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    Privacy concerns with social networking services Social networking sites vary in the levels of privacy offered. For some social networking sites like Facebook‚ providing real names and other personal information is encouraged by the site(onto a page known as a ‘Profile‘). These information usually consist of birth date‚ current address‚ and telephone number(s). Some sites also allow users to provide more information about themselves such as interests‚ hobbies‚ favorite books or films‚ and even

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    10/18/2011 Homeless to Harvard. Homeless to Harvard is an inspiring story for all of us that tells about Liz Murray who dealt with the typical stresses childhood and then went from living on the streets to graduating from Harvard University. This incredible inspiring story is based on a young girl who becomes homeless at the age of 15 due to her parent’s addiction to drugs and the lack of parental involvement in her life. Although she lacked the stability of a family‚ the challenges she faced throughout

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    Justin Siersma A29851780 SW 200 – 4/21/2005 Homeless Children in America To be homeless is to not have a home or a permanent place of residence. Nationwide‚ there is estimated to be 3.5 million people that are homeless‚ and roughly 1.35 million of them are children. It is shown that homeless rates‚ which are the number of sheltered beds in a city divided by the cities population‚ have tripled since the 1980 ’s (National Coalition for Homeless‚ 2002). Worldwide‚ it is estimated that 100 million

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    be low‚ and wages high. Yet there is still an extraordinary amount of homeless people living in the United States. In an article entitled "The Criminalization of Homelessness" Celine-Marie Pascale tries to convey how the homeless are being treated unfairly by society. Criminalization might be a little too strong a word to apply to the punishment of homeless people‚ but Pascale is trying to make a statement about the homeless situation in the United States today. I would like to take a closer look

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    is the homeless. According to de Chesnay (2008)‚ “Vulnerable populations are those at risk for poor physical‚ psychological‚ or social health. Anyone can be vulnerable at any given point in time as a result of life circumstances or response to illness or events” (2008 pg. 3). In this paper I will focus on the homeless population their assessment‚ Healthy People 2020 recomendations and intervention strategies for this group. The homeless have the highest level of exposure to social and environmental

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    The origin of oppression‚ that leads to marginalization and alienation in social services stems from an unbalanced dynamic between a dominant group‚ the social service personnel‚ that have the authority and power to implement social service policies‚ to people that are dependent on these services. Anderson and Carter (2003) explain this dynamic by describing how the creation of social services is based on the realization that there are people from society that requires state intervention primarily

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    teiMany social networking web sites have a lot of bells and whistles. Sites like MySpace and Facebook let users build profiles‚ upload pictures‚ incorporate multimedia‚ keep a blog and add strange programs into homepages. But one web company with a very simple service is rapidly becoming one of the most famous social networking service providers: Twitter. Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to

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    Goal Statement This paper will analyze County Department of Social Services Agency that is located in Salisbury‚ North Carolina and correlate the ecological theory rand the psychodynamic/ psychoanalytical theory to explain how this agency interact with its clients and the community. This agency has multiple service divisions such as the Adult and Family Support Services Division that consist of the Crisis Intervention Program‚ Food Stamp Program‚ Intake (Adult Medicaid)‚ and Long-term care

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    mother and fathers behavior was their addiction to substances and the fact that you can’t get a well-paying job without drug testing. They did not have the skills or education to get better jobs. Poor parenting and substance abuse only family life made chances for success worse. 5. If I was lizs social worker I would have helped her develop a plan to get through the rest of her time in the orphanage and get her started on a better track so that she would have more options to better her life when

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    Section 1 – Understand how to make and receive telephone calls 1. Complete the table below with descriptions of at least two different features of a telephone system and how / when they would be used. Feature How / when used 1. Computer telephony integration This links telephone and computer systems together so that when the telephone rings‚ a dialog box appears on the computer screen with options for answering. 2. Do not disturb. This blocks calls to an extension or particular

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