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Social Failure in Tennessee Williams’ “Glass Menagerie”

In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...

Elderly Privacy In An Institutionalized Setting: Ethical Issues And Social Work Involvement

need to be less oriented to rules and dilemmas, and more attuned to practical matters of everyday social experience" (pp. 19-22); ...

AIG; Social, Political and Economic Influences

demand for these and pension provide an opportunity fore more business, which the firm is well equipped to deal with. Political I...

The Social Problem of Substance Abuse

of the overall problem of substance abuse to inform potential methods for change, it is necessary to consider both the driving and...

Social Analysis Of A Puzzling Relationship

level. Heuristics used in this analysis address the extent to which human beings - and thereby the relationships in which t...

Impact of Youth Violence on Communities and Social Work Prevention

victims knew each other" (Hammond, 1998). He was testifying before the Columbine shooting, but it only serves as a further example...

Social Inequality in the United States

income of the poor fell or at best, gained "only slightly" (Walsh, 2000). It wasnt only the poor that lost out; the middle class ...

Mental Health Parity Act: Interplay of Policy, Cultural And Societal Attitudes Within Clinical Social Work Practice

mental health arena. Anyone is vulnerable to the onset of mental illness which can be triggered by any number of occurrences, not...

Disabled Persons And Social Security Disability Income

each pay period. The individual must have worked long enough to have paid into the program (Heard & Smith, LLP, 2008; Sloan, 2008b...

Social Work: Mission And Research

is vital to the industrys lifeblood; however, it may mean the difference between life and death within the practice of social work...

A Case Study in Social Responsibility and Environmentalism

with donations and membership falling, the organisation needed to gain publicity. The claim made against Shell was that they had ...

Two Social Work Issues

When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...

The Road Towards Social Change and Full World Immersion

and many positive changes came about as a result. Those changes came to some at least represented a frontal assault on the fundam...

The Psychological, Biological, and Social Science Obstacles in Understanding Bisexuality

was not the first theorist to draw this conclusion. His friend and mentor Wilhelm Fliess (1858-1928) developed the concept that b...

Social Security Versus The American Dream

public transportation or carpooling with friends. To fill up the tank of this older model, low mileage car costs $75. Moreover, ...

Social Workers in Mental Health Services

would have to provide those benefits in the same way as benefits provided to all other medical and surgical procedures covered by ...

Proposal to Investigate the Social and Cultural Influences on Drinking Among Young Adults in Britain

The research will look at the reasons behind all increases in alcohol consumption in young people in which will be defined as peop...

Behavioral And Social Learning Approaches Personality Assessment

notion of learned expectations turning back to influence the environment; closely associated with self-efficacy, Banduras (1986) c...

Alcoholism: A Significant Social Problem

those that imbibed but also those that did not. This means, of course, that those who imbibed consumed much more than 7.1 gallons...

The Biological, Psychological, and Social Obstacles to Understanding Transsexuality

the treatise Feminization of males and masculinization of females (Meyerowitz, 2002). Meyerowitz (2002) claims Steinachs research...

Chaucer, St. Luke, Aristophanes and Their View of Social Issues

even screenwriters who disguise them as interesting stories. The original Star Trek was great at teaching these moral lessons whil...

Social Issues in Brazil

wealthy elite and a massively poor population; women are making strides but injustice and problems based on gender are rampant; an...

Cognitive Development and Social Development

Olga, May 2009, Gender Differences and Cognitive Correlates of Mathematical Skills in School-Aged Children, Child Neuropsychology,...

Social Constructionist and Other Models

needed to be devised for this approach so the Milan approach today is sometimes referred to as Post-Milan to indicate the impact o...

Social Psychology

an individual? For example, is the group a set of friends, family, or a set of co-workers? How an individual relates to a group ca...

Organized Crime and Social Institutions

lives. They provide a community with a common definition for concepts like obligation and function. This paper considers the conne...

Juvenile Justice, Due Process, and Social Control

Juveniles present an interesting consideration in criminal justice. Police officers are in a position to make a very real differe...

C.S. Lewis and Social Theory

Gresham, and took on the role of stepfather to her two sons, Douglas and David Gresham. During his life he formed a...

Canadian Social Movements and Collective Action

this is not always the case. Depending on the issue, discrimination can take place when the rights offered go against the desires ...

American Social Systems in Economic Crisis

retirement for older Americans, perhaps the most overlooked factor in the devastation caused by the economic crisis. Older America...