Option 2 The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed‚ in effort‚ to protect the hiring rights of disabled persons in the workforce. It sought to make the bigotry and prejudice that faced disabled people in the hiring process illegal and‚ also‚ to lesson the economic burden put on firms to accommodate disabled persons needs in the office by making it illegal to refuse to hire and accommodate to save money. The logic was that if all businesses must‚ then no business can gain a competitive
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1. Disability Services Act 1991 The Act aims to ensure that people with disabilities receive services that enable them to achieve their maximum potential and participation in the community. It provides a legislative and funding framework for a range of disability services‚ most significantly employment services. It specifies that services are to complement those available generally to people in the community‚ and are to enable people with disabilities to achieve increased independence‚ employment
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Journal Entry #1- Chapter 1-10: Poverty: Poverty is defined as the deprivation of food‚ shelter‚ money and clothing that occurs when people cannot satisfy their basic needs. It means insecurity‚ powerlessness and exclusion of individuals‚ households and communities. It means vulnerability to violence‚ and it often implies living in fragile environments‚ without access to clean water or sanitation. In short poverty is simply a lack of money‚ a barrier to everyday life. One third of deaths in the
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learning disability‚ and those with severe physical disability. The current definition‚ in the Department of Health guidance “No secrets”‚ states that a vulnerable adult is “a person who is or may be in need of community care services by reason of mental or other disability‚ age or illness; and who may be unable to take care of him or herself‚ or unable to protect themselves against harm or exploitation” (DOH‚ 2000). The age of majority (becoming an adult) was identified by The Family Reform act in 1969
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Examine the Key Ideas of Situation Ethics (21 Marks) In this essay‚ I am going to examine the key features of Situation Ethics. Situation Ethics is a teleological theory that resolves ethical and moral issues relative to the situation and was developed at a time when society and the church were facing drastic and permanent change. It is most commonly associated with Joseph Fletcher and J.A.T Robinson and also William Barclay. Situation Ethics is also considered to be the method of ethical decision
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The end of the Revolutionary War brought about many changes in America. The abandonment of the colonizers by the British government left them with many new dilemmas. They had to basically start new societies from scratch. They had to figure out what type of governing system they would have‚ and what kind of society they would become. According to the information presented in historical documents about Wethersfield‚ Connecticut‚ as well as my own outside knowledge‚ American society became more
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writing to inform you with the problems of the disability laws. The American with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 needs to be updated because they do not state enough benefits with health care. The laws should include free health care for families that have a member with disabilities. These moderate views on this law could change many lives. The American with Disabilities Act as of now states that it prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment‚ state and local government programs
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Disabilites Disability has several definitions. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) defines a disability as: a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity; a record of a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity; or when an entity takes an action prohibited by the ADA based on an actual or perceived impairtment. I chose the movie Edward Scissorhands as my example for disabilities‚ and how it makes life so different from
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Rights To Education Rights to Edcuation The importance of learning is to enable the individual to put his potentials to optimal use. Education makes man a right thinker and a correct decision-maker. It achieves this by bringing him knowledge from the external world‚ teaching him to reason and acquainting him with past history‚ so that he can be a better judge of the present. With education‚ he finds himself in a room with all its windows open to the outside world. A well educated man is a more dependable
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impulse. The machine used to deliver this therapeutic shock to the heart is called a defibrillator. Defibrillators are key devices in maintaining
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