INTRODUCTION Social work in pediatrics (the care of sick and dying children) is both a fascinating and difficult field. In almost no other realm of social work is there the imminent and very real possibility that your client will die. ... When dealing with sick and dying children, the first question is always, "How much do I tell them?" ... Since they are already so well informed and seek out the knowledge about their illness so readily, it would only make sense to tell them everything they desire to know. ... While the child is the primary client, and the desired result of treatment is ...

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Durkheim investigated this theory and pointed out that if suicide was caused by a certain insanity then this would be termed as ˜monomania' " in Durkheim's words, "a delirium of localized nature " that is, a person is otherwise normal but has sudden desires to drink or use abusive language. ... He said that the society affected an individual in two ways; first by integration (over integration and under integration), also by creating purposes and ideals and secondly by regulation of the individual or by putting restrictions on his unlimited desires. ... Catholics accept ...

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She would not accept the change that war brought about concerning France's views of Germans because it placed her desires outside of what society deemed normal for young French women, and caused society to look down on the fact that she was in love with a German. ... Germany, in Grass's eyes, was deteriorating with the rise of Hitler, and the failure for time to pass represented his desire for things to stay as they were before his emergence into power. ...

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Frankenstein's wife, brother, friend, and father die by the hands of his creation. ... This implicit cultural desire to obtain an entirely male constituted society was strongly opposed by Mary Shelley. ...

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Body Modification and Contemporary American Rites of Passage INTRODUCTION Rites of Passage The term "Rite of Passage" describes any rite or ritual which marks or induces a change in an individuals social position. These life changes include birth, puberty, initiation into social and familial groups, marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, and death. In most pre-industrial societies these rituals are the keys to determining the social hierarchy of the community. In societies emphasizing technology, where life is based on individual achievement and is less dependent on communal cooperation for pros...

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Therefore, this leads to the reasoning that countries develop out of selfishness - be it desire for money, power, freedom, or some other interest. ... According to Muslim doctrine, the quickest and most sure way of accomplishing this is through dying in the name of Islam. ...

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The objective, external world states that validity claims are based on the most efficient, i.e. cost/benefit, way of achieving some desired state of affairs. ... It was evident to them that they were going to die. ...

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From the late 1980s, research on gender, crime and social issues, has hugely focused on the study of masculinity, and how there has become a correlation between masculinity and violence. Feminists have researched extensively on all types associated with gender, including gay and lesbian, thus acting towards the literature on masculinity slowly increasing within the past 20 years due to the pressure from feminist works. In this essay, I will begin by reviewing theories on masculinity, and evaluating why such ideas create the assumption that violence appears to be associated with masculinity. I ...

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"A woman," Caroline Bingley of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice affirms, "must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages."1 Her comment demonstrates the rigid view that members of the upper class had regarding the requirements a woman needed to be called "accomplished" (38). As well as these skills, a woman must possess a natural grace and flawless manner "to deserve the word" (39). Elizabeth Bennet's reply of "I never saw such a woman" highlights Austen's concern with the notion of t...

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The functionalist approach would also find that a shared sense of identity comes from the fact that all of us know someone who has died from a terminal illness or knows of someone who has one right now. ...

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The movie "Empire" is a dramatization of the life in the shoes of one of four heroin dealers in the New York City area known as South Bronx. It is a story told by Victor Rosa, the main character referred to by many as Vic, as the viewer follows him around the city. The movie begins by naming all the...

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