Social Work Practice Teenage pregnancy is a social issue and is significant to the practice of social work. One of the main goals of social work is to help individuals‚ groups‚ or communities enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions favorable to this goal (Benson‚ 2004). It is important for social workers that those of them in practice understand the complexity of teenage pregnancy and the effects it has on the family as a whole. Social workers should
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Diaspora in Anita Desai’s Fasting‚ Feasting Abstract: Several postcolonial and diasporic writers have articulated the complex relationship of food to nation‚ culture and diaspora‚ while many others have taken into account the ways in which gender‚ sex‚ class and race gets produced and articulated through culinary negotiations. The culinary becomes a site of struggle for both the nation-state and its subjects who are to be contained within structures of heterosexual patriarchy. Anita Desai’s Fasting
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Social work and Social Welfare has been with us from as far back as the 1600’s and it has always been‚ and has continued to be a response to human needs. In order to understand its historical development‚ it is necessary to examine the significant factors‚ which has influenced its evolution. It can be said however that factors such as the establishment of the Elizabethan poor laws‚ the emancipation of slavery and the social unrest which resulted in the 1937 riots‚ played a momentous role in the development
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Short Story Explication- “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner CONNECTIONS • One thing that “A Rose for Emily” has in common with the sketches is over the subject of feminism. Faulkner is thought to have been a feminist‚ while the writings of Irving and Hawthorne‚ clearly portray non-feministic ideas. Hawthorne and Faulkner also share a tendency to write about dark‚ heavy and depressing subjects. • Faulkner’s writings were mostly influenced by where he was from. Most of his novels take place
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Values are defined by Merriam Webster as “relative worth‚ utility‚ or importance”. In essence‚ values are ideas or beliefs that are important to an individual. I believe that many individuals make personal decisions based upon the influential nature of values‚ and these decisions can become problematic in a helping relationship. The impact of personal values can cause helping professionals to inadvertently cause harm to their clients through unintentional influence. Helpers must realize the impact
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Aspects of the NASW Code of Ethics In the “Code of Ethics” for the Social Work Profession there are six Ethical principles that apply to everyone in the profession. It is important for all social workers to know the values that are listed in the Ethical Principles of the Code of Ethics for the Social work Profession. Values are a societies system of beliefs‚ principles‚ and traditions that define and influence behaviors and practices among people. It is important for all social workers to know
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What are our first impressions of Meena and her family? 1. Meena - Meena has two sides to her personality‚ what she calls a ‘dual identity’. She has one identity with her family and being brought up within a cultural family. She has another identity with her friends in a British environment. But throughout the book sharp aspects of her personality shine through. She is desperate for an adventure. ‘When would anything dangerous and cruel happen to me’. As she says here‚ she wants some adventure‚
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Early Kentuckians Pioneers KY Native American Indians Appalachian People Thematic Unit Fourth Grade KY Standards Unit designed according to AZ SEI standard format Early Kentuckians Thematic Unit Two Week Lesson Plan Information General Information and Standards Kristie Eldridge Grade 4 Social Studies Two Week Long State Standards for Social Studies 1 Strand: Social Studies: Government and Civics 2 POSU: SS-4-CS-U-1‚ SS-4-CS-U-4
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Brandon Abdullah Professor Harris English 1101 Authors of the pioneer period of Caribbean Literature strived to tell their stories to those around the world through their writing. Through their short stories‚ poems‚ and novels‚ they were able to bring their own cultures and ethnicities to readers around the world. Some writers wanted to tell stories about how things were during this period such as Jean Rhys and C.L.R James. Others like Alejo Carpenter told stories of their hometowns
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In ‘A Rose for Emily’‚ the point of view is first-person‚ but its views are also those of the rest of the town. The narrator seems to be a part of the town‚ but is not directly mentioned in the story. This use in narration is important to the story as it symbolizes the differences between Emily and the “new generation” (or time)‚ and the differences between her and characters. “So the next day we all said‚ “She will kill herself”; and we said it would be the best thing.” In this sentence both the
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