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. College is the spinning plate act of all time. Maintaining an equilibrium between work, classes, partying, and sleeping is a task worthy of the most skilled time managers and is undertaken by college students the world over. When the delicate balance that is college life gets disrupted all manner of maladies can occur.

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This paper relates that there is a delicate and complex balance between the social worker's power and the right to self-determination of the client. The paper then discusses and examines this power imbalance and looks at how such power imbalance between the social work and client implies certain responsibilities on the part of the social worker. The paper also demonstrates that the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Ethical Standard 1.02, i.e. Self Determination, implies that the social worker has some responsibility to empower the client so that the client is able to achieve self-determination. In addition, this essay also discusses a situation in which the social worker may be relatively powerless, as well as situations in which it might be prudent for the social worker to restrict the client's right to self-determination.

From the Paper
"For example, the social worker should not try to dissuade a woman from becoming involved with a particular man on the basis that the social worker believes this man is not a good influence and should not be around the woman's children. In particular, if the social worker implies to the client that the social worker will withhold certain benefits from her if she does become involved with this man, this would constitute abuse of the social worker's power over the vulnerable client."

Tags:self-determination, vulnerable, inconsistent, harm, colleague

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An analysis of Bertolt Brecht's play 'The Good Woman of Setzuan.' Throughout the play Shen Te juggles her promise to be good with the necessity to be bad. The author finds through the protagonist and the creation of her doppelganger, 'The Good Woman of Setzuan' portrays the struggle to be good while living in a corrupt society, and the delicate balance needed to survive within it as seen in Shen Te's struggle as a good woman leading the life of a prostitute.

From the Paper
"Shen Te, a good woman, a prostitute, and the only one willing to take three gods into her home is rewarded with 1000 silver dollars, with which she is to "above all be good"(712). This mission tears her in two. Shen Te and her doppelganger Shui Ta are in a delicate balance of power. Shen Te needs to keep her promise to the gods by being a good woman, helping those around her in need. Because Shen Te is too good, those she helps threaten to ruin her own survival. To remain a good woman Shen Te must create someone to fight for her. Like parents, both Shui Ta and Shen Te make up the whole of one unit. Shen Te is a nurturing, sweet mother-type while Shui Ta becomes a strict, disciplinarian, father-type. Through the protagonist and the creation of her doppelganger, Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan portrays the struggle to be good while living in a corrupt society, and the delicate balance needed to survive within it."

Tags:analysis, doppelganger, drama, good, play, shen, te, woman

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This paper describes the potential pitfalls of the parent-teacher relationship from the teacher's perspective. Several scenarios are described with possible outcomes for each. The author describes how the teacher must sometimes shift his or her learning strategies, and attempt to teach both the parent and the student of the benefits of the classroom environment. The paper concludes by encouraging teachers to enlist the support of parents before problems even start.

From the Paper
"In the classroom the teacher may assume he or she will always wear the mantel of authority. The student is assumed to be the recipient of his or her superior wisdom and years. However, even a teacher or must learn how to become a perpetual student of human nature. What happens when a parent disagrees with the teacher's classroom policy and does not endorse the teacher's methods of discipline? The teacher must shift his or her learning strategies, and attempt to teach both the parent and the student of the benefits of the classroom environment."

Tags:education, teachers, parents, classroom, management

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This paper explains that, on the surface, Rossetti's poem "The Portrait" may not seem to be specifically dealing with the line between love and possession. However, looking deeper, the reader finds that whether love still exists or not, at the end, its selfless nature has at least to some degree given way to the possessive and controlling aspects of the artist. The author points out that this is an ekphrastic poem, a poem describing a piece of art, divided rather arbitrarily into two stanzas, including an opening octave composed of two a-b-b-a quartets and followed by a sextet of the a-b-c-a-b-c variety. The paper relates that the orderliness of the rhyme scheme and its almost singsong nature help to evoke a sense of the more traditional, spiritual and emotive elements of the portrait.

From the Paper
"The plot of the poem, as it were, is a description of the way this faithful reproduction of the beloved is such that her beauty and soul-fullness shines through and may be seen by all, so that both the painter and many strangers may come together to look at the beloved in worship. It bears repeating that it is only on the surface that this poem is about a painting... on close examination, one finds that it is actually a poem describing the creator of this piece of art, as he relates to his lady, his audience, and his deity through art. In understanding the poem as dealing not so much with the description of a piece of art as with the way in which an artist can come to feel both about his work and about his models, one is able to open up whole new fields of interpretation, even allowing the work to be understood from a rather feminist perspective -- for as the author shifts from writing a poem about a painting and becomes caught up in righting instead about a person, one may also see his shift from the original love of that person to a point where he merely wishes to own, objectify, and eventually (an uncompromisingly) put them on display."

Tags:artis, plot, control, stanza, rhyme

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This paper examines African women and the dual challenges of maintaining their culture while also furthering their status in society during a time where the very nature of those goals lies on tentative ground. The paper illustrates how African women's dual social and political contributions have helped sustain the cultural binds common to most African communities while also improving the status of women within the society.

From the Paper
"The African continent constitutes a myriad of types of societies and as well as a melange of distinct heritages. Africa's diverse population has been, for thousands of years, continuously organizing into compact communities with shared languages, religions, or common descent. The majority of Africans live in small towns or villages where self-sufficient compounds are established and close knit family units are created. In the pre-colonial hunter/gatherer societies which made up most of the first 'traditional' African societies, women did almost all of the work whereas the men were quite lazy. In these societies men were often gone for weeks on end as their role was to forage for food while the women held the community together. These early societies also tended to be matrimonial."

Tags:cultural, identity, modernization

From the Paper
"These ideas regarding the selection of the human species are generally referred to as "Social Darwinism." Francis Galton, who first believed that an artificial form of natural selection was needed for the human species, defined eugenics as "the scientific improvement of the human race germ plasm through better breeding." "

Tags:evolution, breeding, charles, control, darwin, darwinism, eugenic, francis, galton, genetic, genetics, natural, plato, population, selection, social, socialism

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This paper presents facts about global warming and the effect it has, and will have, on the oceans and the delicate marine life and habitat. The discussion involves the melting of polar caps and the effects resulting from such devastation. The paper examines how warmer temperatures will destroy marine life and concentrates on the delicate coral reef system which is already feeling the effects of the warmer ocean temperatures. The temperature rise and ocean rise are discussed, along with ideas on halting the progression of dangerous toxins contributing to higher climate temperatures.

From the Paper
"As the coral reefs die, so do many other species of fish, crab and several other species. Large increases in the volumes of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are already apparent. At current rates of change, carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere will double by the end of the next century (2100 AD). Calculations indicate that this rate of change in carbon dioxide alone will may result in a warming of between 1.5 and 4.5?C. The most likely effect of sustained global warming will be a melting of the polar ice caps, and a rise in sea level, while on land the deserts will expand."

Tags:Antarctic, Manhattan, Project, Greenhouse, Effect

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The writer discusses the duties and involvement that women had in the way as well as examples of patriotism shown by women. We are also given some examples of female heroines from the war.

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"When we think about a Southern Belle, we envision a pale, fragile wisp of a woman who swoons if it gets to hot. She is delicate and beautiful and must be taken care of by a man. Over the last centuries this is the image that we have adopted when it comes to the way we perceive Southern women. The reality however is much different. Even during the Civil War women of the Confederate side were tough, capable and willing to do what ever it took to win the war effort against the North."

Tags:Civil, War, hospital, care, centers, medical, care, Matrons, education, rebellious, struggle, public

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This report explores the design of The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the designer and the contributors. It also explores the mysterious healing and understanding that The Wall of Names has brought to the nation, due to its intense, yet delicate symbolism.

From the paper:

"In American history, war has always ended in the glorification of the soldiers who served fighting for their country. The Vietnam War, however, marked a change in this patriotic veneration. Shrouded in uncertainty, the war left the American public questioning their faith in a secretive government, and therefore questioned their faith in those who served for it. President Nixon described this disastrous public view when he said, "No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.... Never have the consequences of their misunderstanding been so tragic."

Tags:sodier, kill, die, memory, respect, remember, honor, death