In this essay, I will aim to evaluate some of the necessary skills, important to social work practice within my role as a day service assistant. ... As a paid employee, my actions as a carer are constrained by the aims, policies and values of the agency. ... The main aim is the well-being of the clients I work with, who are oppressed, vulnerable, discriminated against and marginalized, also to meet their basic needs and enhance their well-being, paying particular attention to empowerment of individuals and the environmental forces that contribute to and create problems in society today. ......

• Word Count: 1885
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They are later asked to leave by a bisexual female prostitute who expresses a similar statement of their uselessness. ... Throughout the text, Du Bois successfully uses water to express Jim's loneliness and misery resulting from racial discrimination. The similar sensation of loneliness that the Spacers experience is expressed in Aye and Gomorrah through the plot, wherein the description of Spacers' rude behaviors and troublemaking speaks to their inner loneliness and longing for companionship in an atmosphere of sexual prejudice. ... Again, their aggressive reaction is aimed at eli...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the 1960's, affirmative action, also known as positive discrimination, was created in order to help benefit minority groups in several areas of society. Under this policy, colleges have been encouraged to take race and ethnicity into account for their admissions process. One idea behind affirmati...

• Word Count: 2129
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Just like human beings have prejudices, police prejudices are expressed through discretion, sometimes even subconsciously. ... The second approach used technical training devices with the aim of blending values into practical training. ...

• Word Count: 2138
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The latter of the two was the collective social struggle for equality that aimed to eliminate forms of oppression based on gender and to free women from male supremacy. ... A white, female participant in the Civil Rights Movement expressed the common second-class status shared by both white women and black women when she spoke of her observations in Mississippi at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, saying that she learned from black women that "I wasn't so free myself, and I began to worry about that" (Hole & Levin, 1971, p.114-116). ...

• Word Count: 2185
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While at Wooster High School, the Plaintiff did not discuss his sexual orientation or express his pro-gay viewpoints. ... While some torts are also crimes punishable with imprisonment, the primary aim of tort law is to provide relief for the damages incurred and deter others from committing the same harms. ...

• Word Count: 1970
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate