Employment & Acquired Brain Injury
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A 6 page research paper that offers a literature review that examines various articles for information useful towards helping ABI survivors find gainful employment and evaluates how the literature on this topic addresses the topic of employability for survivors of acquired brain injury (ABI). Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khabi.rtf

Ethnography, Language, and Qualitative Research Issues
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A 5 page paper which discusses various issues as they relate to ethnography, language, and qualitative research, with a focus on public administration. The texts used for this discussion are "Handbook of Qualitative Research" by Denzin and Lincoln and "Taking Language Seriously" by Jay D. White. An article titled "Verifying Compliance: Social Regulation and Welfare Reform" by Robert P. Stoker and Laura A. Wilson is also examined. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAresearch4.wps

European Welfare States
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Government policy and social realities are often intimately intertwined. This 5 page paper explores the different types of welfare states that exist in Western Europe in terms of social and economic change. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: KTwelfst.wps

Evaluating Two Antipoverty Policies
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4 pages in length. Eradicating poverty is a concept that - while met with myriad valiant efforts - is not likely to occur in the near future; the extent to which various programs and policies have failed to address the issue at its fundamental core clearly speaks to the perpetual backward slide that occurs with every attempt thrown at the problem. Fair housing and welfare represent two monumental policies that have ultimately failed because of poor vision and the absence of solid program infrastructure. While they both share a common denominator of working toward eliminating at least part of the financial burden placed on the impoverished, they differ in the scope of their respective operations being that fair housing provides the opportunity to secure adequate shelter, while welfare freely gives substantial amounts of money to those who cheat the system. Bibliography list 4 sources.
Filename: TLCAntiPovPol.rtf

Evolution of Social Welfare Policy in the United States
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This 3 page paper discusses the evolution of social welfare policy in the U.S. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: HVSocWlf.rtf

Factors That Might Make Children In Institutional Care More Vulnerable To Abuse
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10 pages in length. In today's world of institutional care, one might readily surmise that abuse or neglect of children is more common than one wants to admit. Although laws have been passed pertaining to health reform in this area, the extent to which this abuse occurs is sometimes not reported, particularly when such behavior goes on behind the scenes. Indeed, it often goes unnoticed inasmuch as the children themselves are often unable to report what is being done to them. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: TLCinsti.wps

Fair Housing, The Homeless And Community Development
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14 pages in length. There is no simple way to solve all the problems inherent to fair housing and homelessness; they are far too complex and based within a foundation of social intolerance and political stringency to think the forces at work trying to fix them will find a way to appease all the challenging aspects. However, this is not to say that any effort at all is wasteful or even worthless; rather, even greater effort is needed in the direction of mending the system's fixable components and leaving the more difficult social complexities for the time being. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
Filename: TLCHouseHom.rtf

FAMILY DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS
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This 5-page paper focuses on families and their relationship to societies. More specifically, the paper focuses on a particular situation and whether or not this situation was a creation of social systems or the family itself. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: MTfamsoc.rtf

Family Systems Theory and Family Stress Theory
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This 6 page paper looks at both of these theories and applies them to a case where two employers close in a community resulting in massive job losses followed by numbers family problem such as separation and abuse. The paper looks at how these theories would interpret the events and how they would indicate an intervention. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
Filename: TEfamilys.rtf