Main Idea: The main idea of the passage Vanishing Forest by Patricia Janes is the negative effects on things related to the boreal forest as the forest is disappearing at a quick speed. According to scientists‚ logging‚ mining‚ and oil and gas companies are yelling "timber‚" because trees are being leveled more often than the forest can sustain. Furthermore‚ North America’s boreal forest is being harvested at a rate of roughly 2.5 million acres a year. This rapid deforestation in many areas of
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One’s actions and words can represent his or her convictions‚ morals‚ and ambitions for the future. These convictions and morals can form the person’s identity. Throughout the stimulus articles‚ there was a common theme of identity. In the article‚ “Vanishing Voices”‚ identity is formed through language‚ culture‚ and actions. These identities represent who an individual is to the rest of the world and to themselves. Identity becomes even more influential to people in positions of wealth or power. A person
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”The sleeper must not awake” In the game‚”The vanishing of Ethan carter”‚The year takes place in 1973 Paul Prospero receives a fan latter from a 12- year old boy named Ethan carter‚who invites him to his hometown of red creek valley‚Wisconsin. Upon arrival‚ he learns that the town has been abandoned for well over a decade after a mine collapse killed off its economy. You play as detective Paul Prospero to discover what happened to a boy named Ethan Carter in Red Creek Valley. The valley and its
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I believe my feelings did have an impact on my interaction. First‚ because of my anxiety‚ I was somewhat uncomfortable being in front of the camera here‚ especially without warning ahead of time. When watching it back‚ there were times I appeared nervous‚ which would be less likely to happen in a real situation where I was not being filmed. Next‚ I feel very strongly about maintaining familial relations‚ and that came across when I asked questions about her daughter and how Elizalin’s life changes
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1. The tasks completed during my BSW senior year field placement with the Department of Social Services varied. Conducting home visits with my supervisor while observing client behaviors in the foster home was a task I completed frequently. During these visits‚ my supervisor introduced me to clients and displayed how to properly conduct client in home assessment forms. These assessment forms would contain information pertaining to the client’s living conditions in their foster homes and would document
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course‚ my impression on the field of Social Work embraces that this fields rests far more diverse and incriminated into society than I previously thought; “Not only do they help the individuals cope with the situation at hand‚ they advocate for them and seek out valuable resources and other means of support for the affected person(s)” (XXX). Prior to this course‚ I detained a misconception that social workers predominantly counseled individuals‚ when in reality‚ social workers integrate collaboration
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teacher it is very important that you that you say in tune with your students. Having the ability to relate to them at each stage of social development‚ as a teacher you should know each stage of social development‚ and the specifics keys to each of those stages. This could play a major role in how you teach‚ will interact with each of your students. Knowing the stage of social development has a major impact on how a teacher teaches. First stage is children from pre-school to second grade. At this stage
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As clinicians our inability to relate to clients due to different social identities such as race‚ socio-economic class‚ and other factors may cause difficulty in practice. Discussion of social location‚ “a process in which the therapist initiates a conversation with a family about similarities and differences in their key identities‚ such as race‚ ethnicity‚ gender‚ class‚ sexual orientation‚ and religion‚ and how they may potentially influence the therapy process” (Watts-Jones‚ 2010‚ pg.405)‚ is
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The Social Contract The three philosophers‚ Thomas Hobbes‚ John Locke‚ and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were three key thinkers of political philosophy. The three men helped develop the social contract theory into what it is in this modern day and age. The social contract theory was the creation of Hobbes who created the idea of a social contract theory‚ which Locke and Rousseau built upon. Their ideas of the social contract were often influenced by the era in which they lived and social issues that
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revolve around a central notion of a ‘social contract’ in which society is formed through a theoretical agreement between a group of people about their moral and political obligations. This concept has been used by theorists such as Mill and Rousseau‚ to explain why the law is justified in its right to constrain the behaviour of individuals and organisations in society. Later in the twentieth century‚ John Rawls took a novel stance on the concept of the social contract‚ in which principles of justice
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