children and families. I emailed this lady named Ms. Susan Osborne the college social worker recruiter from the local DCF here in Gainesville. Ms. Osborne insisted that I call her so I can be sure I actually wanted to pursue a career in the social work field. I told her I was torn between going to graduate school for social work and marriage and families counseling. Of course, she recommended that I go to USF for social work but she had concrete reasoning. She informed me that in certain states do not
Fast forward twenty years into the future. The world I outlined in my social vision statement exists. I have a successful career in health care and I am able to efficiently balance this career with a family. I am well on my way to achieving the goals I have set. My values and personal beliefs influence the decisions that I make. This is the dream that I have for my life. Let me tell you how I plan to accomplish this dream. My goal is to become a health care professional. After finishing my undergraduate
Mindset is the motivating force that drives you to act and behave the way you do in all your life concerns: personal relationships, social life, artistic pursuits, and employment. How motivated you are is the gauge in how you pursue these activities and the state of happiness these activities bring. A positive mindset, however, makes the realization of happiness easier and lighter. Sources of motivation Having the motive to act may seem simple. But the question is the kind and the source of the
three main qualities: personal, moral, and structural components. The personal component consists of the attraction (physical and emotional connection), the devotion, satisfaction, and the love to the significant other’s persona. This quality of marriage is associated with the martial “satisfaction”. The book Religiosity and Marital Commitment: ‘Until Death Do Us Part’ explains the role of religion in a marriage’s commitment by giving examples of sociological studies. The statement “religious attendance…are
1. Why a Personal Development Plan? The Personal Development Plan gives me a glimpse of the vision of what I want to achieve in the future. And, whether am I actively taking steps to pursue the career of my dreams? Moreover the action plan is all about creating a long term goal for my career. Understanding Yourself: Discover Who You Are and What You Want However, before I can know what to do in the long term, I need to reflect on my current situation. Through this action plan, I will be using the
The whole point of knowledge is to produce both meaning and purpose in our personal lives. To what extent do you agree with this statement? The meaning of knowledge represents the idea behind the knowledge itself (Dictionary.com Unabridged). It represents the idea behind words, expressions, signs or images we perceive. The sentence, I am writing in this moment expresses the idea through the words which serve as means of transfer of my own ideas toward the reader. Purpose is the reason why knowledge
regularly, while regarding “low-value” consumers as “waste.” To put this in perspective, a discount on hotel stay may not wreak much social separation, but at the point where this marketing algorithm considers “low-value” consumers as not worth of receiving promotions or upgrades for higher education, insurance and health services, etc., this could have a much more serious social impact. Target went under fire for using data mining to identify potential shoppers who were likely to be pregnant. One of the
for one to truly understand and explain what it is, he must personally experience the field of what he is studying. Although writing anthropological statements include evidence or data, it is much more based in the anthropologist’s point of view regarding what he observed. If anthropology were to be classified as science, the resulting written work of the anthropologists’ must be indifferent. Furthermore, Anthropological knowledge is basically self- explanatory; critical and descriptive and could
UCAS Personal Statement It has been said that money makes the world go around. Although true, the impact that technology and computing has on society is of greater or equal measure. The last ten years has saw the rise of social media and mobile computing which has enabled the citizens of the world to communicate like never before. Creative ideas and otherwise hidden artists have bloomed from platforms such as YouTube. Computers have magically transformed the world in a way that would have seemed
“It is only knowledge produced with difficulty that we truly value.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? In both natural science and human science, reason and emotion are used to assign the value of the knowledge and whether it is produced with difficulty. Knowledge can be shown through justified true belief which includes personal and shared knowledge, proven facts, experiences and claims. The pursuit of value in knowledge is driven by the desire to create meaning through reason or