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    This experience has given me the opportunity to learn from another culture. The interview with my friend from the Philippines has influenced me to learn more about the cultures that differ from my own. I am eager to learn about other cultures and gain knowledge of their values and beliefs. From this cross-cultural experience, I have gained a sense of ease when it comes to interacting with different cultures. I have learned to be patient and listen well when speaking to a person

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    Abortion on Other Lavel

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    6). That clarifies that even if the women encounter rape, financial hardship to raise the baby, or any other obstacles, she cannot abort the baby because it is not moral action. I agree that it is Mrs. Stedman’s fundamental right and personal choice to keep her baby or abort it. One can also argue that it is her own body and also keeping her pregnancy

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    Check Point: Presence of Others Identify behavioral changes that result from the presence of others. Why does the presence of others produce changes in our level of performance or awareness? Provide a personal example of behavior changes related to the presence of others. I can easily identify with this subject; we all change to adjust to our surroundings be it at home or work, a bar or with friends and family. We never act the same in front of our parents as we do in front of our friends

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    Perspective of others Authors use language to persuade individuals to show others personal perspectives. Writers use emotional events so that the reader will sympathize what they are writing. As well they inform the reader of the situation that may be occurring in other locations. Also writers explain how it has or will be beneficial to us. Recently have watched a video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell on youtube about syrian refugees and how they are not being attended to. The author has taken a

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    The Other Sister is a story about child who is mentally challenged, born in a family with two sisters, a father who is unable to admit she has a disability, and a mother dealing with the guilt of sending her daughter to a facility to help learn how to cope on a day-to-day basis. Upon completion of school, Carla’s father brings her home to live and begin her life again in her family home. She wants to gain her independence, which is very difficult for her mother to understand; she still see’s her

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    Barbara Fredrick son and Robert Thurman express different point of views about the act of caring for others. Although one wrote of love and the other wrote of wisdom, they both come hand in hand. There are a few parts were Love 2.0 and Wisdom show that you need both in order to live a happy, prosperous life. Fredrick son and Thurman try to show that the world isn 't what you think it is. That different people interrupt in different ways, through their scientific research or through religious beliefs

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    With everything that I have been taught, these thirteen words define how we must work. So, what is the first step when working with those with a disability? The movie the Other Sister not only screams this answer, but it is one we commonly dismiss as we work alongside those who we support. The answer is in relationship we must build in trust to be of any help to those we work with. As future Human Service Workers and leaders

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    Other Half Lives

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    Annotated Bibliography Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives:Studies Among the Tenements of New York. Charles Scribners Son's, 1914. Bartleby, NA, http://www.bartleby.com/208/. In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis invesitgates and describes all aspects of life that the poor population of New York City, during the Guilded Age, experience. COmbined with actual photo evidence, Riis writes to inform those who don’t realize (the wealthy, politicians, people above the Lower East Side) just how terrible

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    The Other Sister Analysis

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    The film The Other Sister was produced by Garry Marshall in the year 1999. The film follows Carla Tate, a twenty-two year old woman with an intellectual disability, as she comes home to her wealthy family in northern California after graduating from a training school for the “mentally challenged”. Carla desires more independence from her family through earning a diploma from a technical school. On her first day of classes, Carla meets Danny, a boy with a similar disability, who lives on his own and

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    The Other Wes Moore '

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    The autobiography The Other Wes Moore was written by a man who was comparing the lives of two men, the author himself and another man who, coincidentally, had the same name. In an attempt to eliminate any confusion, I need to clarify to which Wes Moore I am referring, so, I will refer to the author as Wes 1 and the other Wes Moore will be referred to as Wes 2. It took me a few minutes to decide what to call them since my initial reaction was to say Good Wes and Bad Wes. However, if this course on

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