Safe Guarding 333 Name of Organisation Role of Organisation Responsibility Social Services Ensuring children are safe from harm To work in partnership with parents and other agencies to ensure children are safe from harm. In extreme cases social services may take a child into care. NSPCC A charity which protects children from harm. Provides public awareness for the safety of children. Provides help and support to families and children. Where there are cases of child abuse the NSPCC has the power
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Lifetime of Influence Marguerite Johnson had a harsh childhood growing up in the South during the days of cotton picking and slavery. All of the adversity she encountered when she was young inspired her to write the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In it‚ she depicts what life was like growing up in the small town of Stamps‚ Arkansas‚ and illustrates the daily hardships that were roadblocks throughout her life. Many people help her overcome these obstructions in her young life‚ but it was the
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history of immigration to the United States‚ beginning with the racist Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and following the twists and turns in official policy up to the present debate on how to control illegal immigration. One of the great merits of Guarding the Golden Door‚ his comprehensive overview of that policy since 1882‚ giving appropriate attention to unrelenting efforts to keep out Asians in their near-total exclusion in 1924. Throughout‚ the author argues that immigration policy is often based
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particular occurrences from their past‚ and pointedly omit others. It is this selection process‚ and the reasoning behind it‚ that makes the autobiography such an interesting and unique literary genre. In reading Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ one is able to directly detect several events in her life‚ which had a significant impact on her personal development and her understanding of society. Upon her return to Stamps‚ Arkansas‚ from the damaging stay in St. Louis‚ Maya undergoes a drastic
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The purpose of authors writing literary works is to teach specific values and themes that they deem essential to put across to their readers. Francine Prose‚ the author of the excerpt I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read‚ is just by being skeptical of using literary works to teach values because of the way many English classes target the values of the author rather than the literary work itself. By using the two examples of the novels Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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through life called talent. In fact‚ the only time that we are truly equal is in death. No one gets to buy‚ run‚ swim‚ jump‚ or debate their way out of death. This is a fact shown clearly to the reader in Maya Angelou’s book I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings in Chapter 26 when she states‚ “... and all the way I communed with death’s angels‚ questioning their choice of time‚ place‚ and person”‚ (page 163). I learned something from her quote that I can relate to my real life as well. We may not be able to
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Using a primary standard to analyze acid and base solutions Acid-base titration Lab 13G Jake Shewchuk Lab 13C Dominique Genereux Purpose 13G: 1. To prepare a standard solution of oxalic acid and use it to standardize an unknown sodium hydroxide solution. Purpose 13C: 1. To titrate a hydrochloric acid solution of “unknown” concentration with standardized 0.5M sodium hydroxide. 2. To titrate a hydrochloric acid solution of “known” concentration
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The Darkest Struggles When Maya Angelou wrote the book “I know why the caged bird sings” she was speaking from her very on soul and pouring out the deep feelings she had felt when she was younger‚ all the way up until she was a young adult. African American women will always have more on their shoulders more than any other race especially white women will. No one really knows if all of the discrimination started because of the color of our skin or the attitude that lingers in our voice. Only
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surprised when one day I woke out of my black ugly dream‚ and my real hair‚ which was long and blond‚ would take the place of the kinky mass Momma wouldn’t let me straighten? My light-blue eyes would hypnotize them ...” - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. Colorism is a standard of discrimination by which people with lighter skin are treated more favorably than those with darker skin. Colorism mirrors white supremacy in that those with lighter skin are awarded privileges their dark-skinned
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celebration of culture‚ artists of this time expressed discontent felt by African Americans with segregation through poetry. I‚ Too‚ Sing America and Still I Rise are two works during the Harlem Renaissance. They both are written by with the author as the speaker and they both address whites telling them that they should be debased to suppress blacks. In I‚ Too‚ Sing America by Langston Hughes‚ he is a servant of a white man and he is ‘unfit’ for the Dinner table and told to eat in the kitchen. Dinner
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