disabilities and minorities are more likely to have trauma and academic failures are surely important for social workers (SW) to understand. The information I read gave me a better perspective of why at risk and trauma experienced children struggle in school and have high numbers of dropouts. It was very satisfying to learn that with proper and evidence based interventions the kids can overcome such effects of trauma. I most definitely agree with the authors finding of the effects of trauma experienced children
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I, Rashelle A. Rogers, was born in Tampa, Florida on March 30, 1974 to Roosevelt and Brenda Rogers. The memory of my early childhood is very vague. I remember the story that my parents told me regarding an allergic reaction to spoiled milk at day care at age one. The story goes that I was hospitalized for a month and when I left the hospital no one thought I was going to make another day. Upon my arrival home, a neighbor told Brenda and Roosevelt about an Asian alternative medicine clinic. My
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able to savor shown the world was without homework, duties, or worries was blissful. My family and I settled in the U.S when I was 16. My life went through a different path, childhood memories ended; it’s time to adapt and overcome, to make a new life. Upon setting into my new home in the US. I enrolled in high school. I got stuck in language barrier, even though I have studied English in Vietnam. Initially everything was somewhat obscure, dark, and I struggled with English class. I was fearful of
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The anchor at the University of Nebraska is oftentimes seen on social media with girls surrounding the anchor showing pride in our sorority. The anchor is the Delta Gamma’s symbol, and it represents us because we are all grounded, strong, and reliable. The first time I took a photo in front of the anchor I was filled with pure joy, something about this location made me feel at home. The Delta Gamma house sits right on the corner of the block, there are a lot of curious eyes observing the house
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knowledge gained through schools and colleges, I think is not an education, but the ways for it. It is this thinking that makes me ‘a student to the end of my days’: the clear direction being inquisitive towards exploration. One of the sweet memories of my childhood deeply attached to me is that of my first day in school. My first day at school is one of my graphic remembrance. I distinctly remember I was weeping as my parents leave me in a strange environment. In school we have to draw pictures
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When people first see me they do not see a two-time gold medalist or an alumni coach. They only see a scrawny, short, young adult. Most times they see a High School Sophomore or Junior. Even to this day when I tell people “I coach football and wrestling,” they take a second look at me and think to themselves “is she serious?” But little do they know that I once was that same girl; not so many friends and the skinniest in the bunch and never found anything that I can stick too. Until, wrestling;
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Research Journal of Social Sciences 4(3): 228-234, 2012 ISSN: 2041-3246 © Maxwell Scientific Organization, 2012 Submitted: March 02, 2012 Accepted: April 03, 2012 Published: May 10, 2012 A Survey of Students Study Habits in Selected Secondary Schools: Implication for Counselling G.I. Osa-Edoh, and A.N.G. Alutu Department of Educational Psychology and Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Benin, P.M.B. 1154, Benin City, Nigeria Abstract: This study examined the usefulness
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Boundary” and Richard Rodriguez’s “Achievement of Desire” focus on prominent issues of education in society. The former tackles the problem of personal struggles and achievements of student, while the latter tackles cultural differences between home and school most especially for the working class children. Both authors came from a similar background with parents who were immigrants and poorly educated. Their family backgrounds were characterized by poverty and as a result of their upbringing; their top
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house that I grew up in and my memories I had made for the past eight years. In America, we arrived in Minnesota at my
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Toni Morrison's Recitatif The girls in “Recitatif” meet in a shelter/orphanage because they were taken from their mothers and placed in the home until their mothers were well enough for them to go back home. They bond with each other out of necessity, out of a desire to survive. The girls’ personalities although different, are very much alike. They both want to have a normal life. They both are struggling to fit in and not feel different. Neither wants to admit they
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