ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
Topic: family

The first time i stepped into Rehema Pefa home, i did not know what to expect, since it was my first time to be in an orphanage, let alone providing my services to this place. So it was a very early morning on 6th of May which my friends and I went looking for a place to provide our services. And we landed to Rehema Pefa home as we waited to be received. We were finally welcomed inside around 11am. We were received by a supervisor of this place called Michelle, she talked with us about this place, and she also walked us around. She divided us into small groups two by two, and gave us days to come to work.
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Rehema Pefa Home’s strength is the sponsors and donors who are willing to finance this institution unconditionally. Rehema Pefa home has many people who care much about orphans and would like to contribute to improving their living conditions. Among these people, the sponsors are Irvin and Ruth Schwandt, together with the PEFA (PENTECOSTAL EVANGELISTIC FELLOWSHIP OF AFRICA) church leader. The donors are other churches who are friends with the Schwandt family and also two ladies who donate milk constantly.
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Rehema Pefa home also has many workers who are charged with different duties. This institution has about 20-25 employees who works are divided in two shifts, day shift and night shift. These workers are in charge of different things. Some take care of young babies, others care for other children, others work in the laundry, others are cleaners, others are cooks, others are guards, and others are drivers. Rehema Pefa home has a nurse and a doctor, who provide their medical services to these children for free. This team works tirelessly with dedication and determination, to provide these children a happy and better environment.
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So I expect to work willingly for this institution as long as i am assigned, and i am to provide my services willingly and tirelessly. I will keep working together with people of Rehema Pefa home, to improve the conditions of the children and also learn several things as I go. I hope my services will be of great use because, after understanding the conditions in which these children live in, especially the ones with HIV/AIDS, it is automatic to compassionate. These children with HIV+ need a lot of attention and during my work time I participate in their supervision.
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Bowlby’s (1969,1973,1980) clarified about investigation of a connection, separation, and misfortune and significantly his point is to depict how newborn children turn out to be candidly appended to their caregivers and distressed emotionally when isolated from them. This essay portrays about examination experienced with respect to the continuation of relationship from infant to adulthood (Cindy Hazan and Philip Shaver) that explores that love is an attachment process. Negative life events and parental medication use (Claire E.Hamilton ) by Family Lifestyles Project (FLS) lastly stability and change in attachment over the life expectancy (Megan McConell) which goes through from infancy to childhood.
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To comprehend love, depression and anguish at various focuses in the life attachment theory has a few advantages that ways to deal with affection (Shaver,Hazan and Bradshaw ,in press).On the premise of their observation(Ainsworth,Blehar,Waters and Wall 1978)delineated sorts of connection called secure, anxious/ambivalent and avoidant. Secure grown-up with mother responsiveness and minding in their childhood will have a decent involvement in adoration with trust, friendship, emotions and intimate romance in their adulthood.
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It got response mostly from female (around 415 replies) more than male (205 replies) with mean age 34 (range from 14 to 85).The test epitomize ninety five questions with inquiries like regardless of whether it’s present love or past, fundamental relationship and furthermore the purpose behind the affection and relationship between their parents in childhood.Following that cantor and shaver (1987) goes on with another investigation on undergraduate students of about 108 with 38 men and70 women (mean age 18) as a class practice and the manner in which they felt in relationship. They were requested to elucidate essential love relationship with 56 agree and disagree items.
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Accordingly from each reviews, the extents between everything about three attachment theory were incredibly similar with each other .In second study the result was secure 56% (newspaper respondents 56%), avoidant 23%(vs 25%) and on anxious/ambivalent 20%(vs 19%).Eventhough this study has tried to clarify continuation of relationship ,but it failed to show the evidence about long lasting relationship from infant to adulthood because mean age for their study is only thirty four solely with unequal gender proportion .In my view we cannot determine results of this study by only using information given by participants (on newspaper quiz and class exercise) without having interview based research .
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A longitudinal investigation of 4-8-year-olds found that short rest time can advance a following-day exhaustion, along these lines prompting more screen seeing inactive conduct. The author discusses, Digital media and the considered effect on sleep through displacing other activities. Physical activity is beneficial for sleep and screen time can come at the expense of sleep time, shortening sleep duration. An enormous number of computerized gadgets in higher financial status families could be relegated for adding to expanded screen presentation and shorter rest time.
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The information provided by the author of this reading is concise and talks about the adverse physiological and psychological effects of screen time on children due to the extended use of the digital technologies. It highlights, Pre-adolescents and young people are represented to experience rest issues particularly when they use propelled media on night as well as evenings. Colossal number of electronic contraptions in higher money related status families could be consigned for adding to extended screen introduction and shorter rest time. Rest time access to media contraptions relates to dealt rest portions of various age ranges. The writer explains that the period of use of modernized media during the evening and night time prologue to unbelievable light and blue light transmitted without any other individual’s information shining contraptions may cover melatonin age. Author has supported this reading with other expert theories. Productivity Commission (2016).
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This research paper “Workers and Society” discusses Digital Disruptions and what government needs to do. The paper suggest that the Automation will replace some jobs, but there are limits. Automation of errands has been happening for a considerable length of time. Routine undertakings are increasingly helpless to Automation as the idea of the errand can be effectively arranged. These assignments are commonly normal for low and centre gifted employments or exercises. Present day instances of robotization incorporate electronic street toll accumulation, robot welders and programming projects, for example, MYOB, which have supplanted manual accounting assignments.
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While automation can influence employments over the full expertise range, the proof proposes that it has less regularly influenced occupations that include non-routine assignments, for example, administrative work and the requirement for individual and social abilities affect jobs across the full skill spectrum, the evidence suggests that it has less often affected occupations that involve non-routine tasks, such as managerial work and the need for personal and social skills. The research also discusses regarding the loss of low- and middle-skilled jobs in the areas of manufacturing and clerical work has been intensified by the offshoring tasks. However, in Australia, trends in job losses have shifted back and forth over the past 40 years, with some observable impact from technology on middle-skilled jobs but no persistent ‘hollowing out’. Automation is not only the principal way by which advance technologies can prompt to changes in the aptitude blend. The advent of word processing software, initially through mainframes and dumb terminals, then after through the widespread diffusion of personal computers. The routine task of typing did not disappear, but responsibility shifted to skilled employees. Automation is also not the only way in which routine tasks can be displaced by technology. Improvements in computerized innovations, for example, sensors and automation learnings, are required to augment the limit of the undertakings that can be automated. However, there remain works that have demonstrated hard to automized, including those require recognition, or innovative and social knowledge because work can be automized does not imply that it will be.
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Another finding of the research is that the emerging gig economy can help improve productivity by more accurately matching and scaling resources to the needs of the business. In the gig economy specialists are utilized for specific tasks or for an impermanent increment in work process lessening the normal force of generation. The ‘gig’ economy is in its outset, making its future impact on the idea of business unsure. In any case, if the gig economy grows rapidly and its spread is wide, there will be dangers that should be overseen. While governments need to address genuine concerns, hindering these innovations is not a suitable reaction. In the more drawn out term, contingent upon the size of progress, governments may need to think about changes to work environment laws and the lowest pay permitted by law privileges.
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The information provided by the research allows the reader to understand the effects of automation in the economy and what governments would need to do to ensure negative effects are minimised. While automation can influence employments over the full expertise range, the proof proposes that it has less regularly influenced occupations that include non-routine assignments, for example, administrative work and the requirement for individual and social abilities affect jobs across the full skill spectrum, the evidence suggests that it has less often affected occupations that involve non-routine tasks, such as managerial work and the need for personal and social skills. The main concerns highlighted are wage entitlements and work place laws that need to be updated continually to keep up with the growing gig economy.
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Virginia Woolf wrote her novel, Mrs Dalloway, in 1925 -a period where women were presented as inferior and secondary to men. Woolf’s experiences influenced her writing and she has deeply embedded herself into her novel, she’s written about her society where woman have a lack of rights and have to be placed in the male-dominated world. She, as well as other women of the time, were victimized into shrinking themselves so as not to threaten men. Woolf uses female interaction as a major theme: relationships to experience the things they cannot get from men and in other incidences, putting each other down out of insecurity and jealousy and set up to compete for the attention of a man.
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Clarissa’s existence is dependent on her husband Richard, this is self-evident in the use of her married name as the title of the novel and it shows her change of identity and possible lack of self. Her image and position in society are determined by him, even though, as the reader, we know this is not a relationship built on love. In the opening of the first section Clarissa’s day is interjected with a thought of Peter Walsh, rather than her husband. Furthermore, Richard had “never” forgiven her for liking [Peter] this stresses that their relationship has no trust and is representative of no more than status.
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“Forgiven” suggests that she has something to be sorry for even though Richard seems to have a particular disinterest in her life unless it directly affects him. She is dependent on Richard socially and materialistically however there are characters of which she has a stronger emotional connection. Dalloway subtlety presents the relationship as lacking is depth and substance as Clarissa said “she felt like a nun”. This suggests that marriage has caused her to repress any sexual desires which is contrasted with the freedom of sexuality that she felt when she was younger and with the influence of Sally.
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Sally Seton was “who made [Clarissa] feel, for the first time”. Woolf’s use of this character stresses the effect of the obstacle that is the patriarchal attitude of society that attempts to keep women in order. Sally defies this expectation making Clarissa “feel” which suggests that Sally wasn’t just someone Clarissa knew but she was a part of her identity and also highlights the metaphorical cage that women were being kept in. In 1923, women were viewed as being weak, both physically and intellectually due to social conventions; Sally “shocked people”, was “untidy” and “completely reckless”. She challenged stereotypes and showed people that you didn’t have to convey to societal convention, she exists in the novel as Clarissa’s memory of the physical security she felt when with her. When younger, Sally taught her to question life and to never accept anything that happens to her without inquisition. She encouraged her to “read Plato in bed before breakfast; read Morris; read Shelley by the hour” all of which show her deep sense of philosophy which a young woman would not be expected to have and would be viewed as a taboo in society. Overall, Dalloway has used the character of Sally as a device to accentuate the assumption that women will play a minor role in their community.
Topic: family

Clarissa seems to feel as though the world around her is very artificial. Her appreciation of flowers and general nature around her remove her from this. Her long description of the flowers in the shop suggests an obsession – roses, carnations, irises, lilac·white, violet, red, deep orange. It is conveyed that her time spent in the flower shop is one of the only times she feels, which represents the male view of femininity and also closely contrasts with the time when she ‘feels’ with Sally. It could be viewed that all the flowers lined up represent a woman that is there for men to pick out. “The roses looked dark and prim, the red carnations, holding their heads up; and all the sweet peas spreading in their bowls snow-white, pale”, all these descriptions are personified and are viewed as female traits that should attract a man. The roses are a naturally beautiful so don’t seem to be trying, however, carnations are aesthetically pleasing, however, lack in scent so “holding their heads up” could represent the woman who have to try harder to get male attention. Clarissa is disturbed in the shop by the sound of the “motor car” which suggests women are threatened by the existence of the man. Furthermore, Clarissa’s appreciation of flowers could have stemmed from the situation where Sally stopped; picked a flower; kissed her on the lips to which Clarissa’s “whole world might have turned upside down”. Sally didn’t literally pick a flower; flowers represent femininity in the novel and therefore she chose Clarrisa. The effect this had on her was so powerful and fulfilling that everything in her life after this was never as satisfying and she found her life to dull, it also shows the freedom she had over her sexuality at this time and which she feels she can no longer express now she’s older and lacks independence due to male domination.
Topic: family

In this sophisticated centaury, there are many reasons includes for changing family structure such as gender relation, sex or gender divisions of labor and typical life cycle patterns and so on. As a consequence, there is vast different between in teenage organize their lives as workers and as family members of family networks. “The structure of family is changed then its impact on child education, emotion, social and family dynamic.” The suggestions of the quick changed and growing variety are frequently below and unsetting.
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loneliness. Affair is also creating conflict between them because he or she doesn’t like to each other and always blame on each other. Many people live under one roof and all people mind are not same so they like to live as nuclear family that’s lead to change structure of family. We can’t spend more time with children because when we are live together then work load is increased as compare to nuclear family. Some people like live independent life that’s they live life as nuclear family. Poor family planning or fertility also changes family structure. In some case, women can’t able to born any child due to fertility.
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In India, generally people like baby boy because it’s increased their ethnicity. They thinking that girls consume more money as compare to the boys. We all know that when girl become young then their parents spend money behind their marriage. But some women can’t able to born a baby boy because of not match genotype, phenotype and DNA that’s create conflict between them because men want a baby boy and women can’t capable. Canada had lowest rate as compare to the euro North American world. Single parents also have some burden such as how to handle all things together, financial crisis. Single parents play both roles of mother as well as father so it’s little bites tricky to handle all things in same times. That’s all lead problems in family. New generation people have new thought so grandparents understand feeling their children or son or daughter. So, understanding is improved relationship between us.
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Throughout history children have been abused and left the abusers with no trial. There were nolaws that protect children from their abusive parents or from their owners (as it happened to theAfrican Americans childrens during slavery). The history of child welfare began in New York inthe late 1800s when huge wave of immigrants strike toward the United States seeking foremployment and better life. Womens were no longer work at home, severe poverty hit thefamilies and child abuse reach levels of considering children private properties or chattel.
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The history of legal child protection in the U.S. began in 1873 when a 9 year old Mary Ellenwas abused by her guarding that brought the attention of church girl to help Mary. She looked forlegal ways to help her. Soon Henry Burg, former diplomat, and Albert Gerry, hear about Marydesperate situation and deciding to help her. They decided to help her by applying the sameprotection that they applied when they created The American Society for Prevention of Crueltyto Animals (ASPCA).
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I chose this topic because child welfare is important to my country, Eritrea, since thegovernment is abusing children by placing them in indefinite military service, imprison themwithout legal trail, and use them as workers on any government or military facilities withoutproper payment. This led to huge number of Eritreans to desert the country especially childrenbetween the age of 12-17 years old to flee to were their foot is going to end up in place wherechildren rights is respected and enforced by the law.
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Before we go deep on exploring and discussing child maltreatment, child welfare, and family it’salways good to define the terms first. Child maltreatment is when a child abused physically,sexually, psychologically, or neglected by parents or guardian. Child welfare is a network ofpolicies and programs designed to empower families, promote a healthy environment, protectchildren, and meet children’s needs. Lastly, family is when a group of consisting of parents andtheir children live together (Karen K. Kirst-Ashman, 277-282.)Its has been saying that child maltreatment is on decline since the Great Recession, but someresearch showed the opposite.
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Children maltreatment is not just existed at the U.S. but its a global problem that every nation aresuffering from it. According Jonathan Bradshaw, the author of The Well-Being of Children inthe UK, 48 children homicide in 2013-14, over 36,000 have a sexual offence recorded under theage of 18 and a severe maltreatment by a guardian or parent of 25% and 15% respectively. Children is not just being abused sexully or phschologicy but also are subject to trafficking. Thenumber of unaccompanied migrant children is on its highest record – 300,000 – which gives a room for human traffickers and smugglers to abuse children sexually and physically (Gladstone,2017.)
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Like any other fields or careers, to practice social work for child welfare and child maltreatmentyou have to meet certain criteria in order to practice on that field. First, you have to haveefficient knowledge about the diversity nature that your client have, about social welfarepolicies, and about how to strengthen and empower your clients. Second, you have to have somebasic social work values: service, integrity, individual personal values, and social justice. Third,you need to have the skills of engagement with your clients, planning for solving the problem, listening and communication skills, empathy, leadership and critical thinking skills. Lastly, youneed to have some social work competencies like the application of social work ethical principlesto guide the practice on the field, the intervention of policy making to advance social &economic welfare and the application of knowledge of human behavior and the social environment.
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In conclusion, I have learned a lot of lessons on child welfare and maltreatment. Social work wasthe key to end the abusive nature toward childrens. Childrens for long period of time, throughouthistory, have been subject to cruel treatment by families and guardian or employers. They weretreated so bad to an extent that they were considered as a property or chattel sometimes. Childmaltreatment was one of top issues that led to creation of welfare not just for kids but also forthe adults. It also helps define child legal rights under their parents or guardians. Although child maltreatment is decreased it still in some countries that children are subjected to forced labor, human trafficking and slavery.
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As demonstrated by Robert E. Lee during the Civil War, the sacrifice for family is important. Many people stand by their family because that is an aspect of life that can not be replaced. In this case, Lee proved that ‘blood is thicker than water’: a theme across a plethora of literature and films. The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar and Antigone by Sophocles answer the question on the priority of family when individual loyalties are called into question.
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It is hard for Sera to break rules that were heavily implemented by her deceased husband for the fear of an ‘occasional bruise that clothes and makeup couldn’t hide·’ (28). Sera’s devotion to her husband and his rules causes great tension and awkwardness between the women. In addition, Sera does not hesitate to ‘hide behind the folds of family when she has to choose’ (311). When Bhima is falsely accused of theft, Sera quickly believes her son-in-law, Viraf, and ends her association with Bhima. Viraf accuses Bhima because he knows that Sera would ‘choose her son-in-law’s obvious lie’ (311) and turn a blind eye to the situation. Sera’s loyalty to the decisions and actions of her family ultimately ruin a life long friendship.
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Gender is the division of individuals into two classes, “men” and “women.” Through communication with guardians, socialization in youth, peer weight in puberty, and gendered work and family jobs, ladies and men are socially developed to be distinctive in conduct, frames of mind, and feelings. The gendered social request depends on and keeps up these distinctions. Gender discrimination means unreasonable rights among male and female dependent on various gender roles which prompts unequal treatment throughout everyday life. The idea of this imbalance has been generally known in mankind’s history, however, not until the starting the twentieth century has the change of gender relations become “aone of the most rapid, profound social changes” (Wright & Rogers 2009).
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Despite the fact that there are guidelines that are utilized to advance uniformity inside the working environment, word related sexism, or any unfair practice, proclamation, or activity dependent on an individual’s sex that happens in a position of business, is as yet uncontrolled. The most original indication of word related sexism is sexual harassment, or the terrorizing,, bullying, teasing, or intimidation of a sexual sort, or the unwelcome or improper guarantee of remunerations in return for sexual favors.
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The functionalist point of view considers society to be a perplexing framework whose parts cooperate to advance solidarity and security. This methodology takes a gander at society through a large scale level introduction and comprehensively centers around the social structures that shape society all in all. This hypothesis proposes that sexual orientation imbalances exist as a productive method to make a division of work, or as a social framework in which a specific fragment of the populace is obviously in charge of specific demonstrations of work and another portion is plainly in charge of other work acts.The women’s activist development takes the position that functionalism dismisses the concealment of ladies inside the family structure.
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Many people see women as a tool of producing children and a machine that take care of the family and home. Some people are still living with the ideology of past, believing of women start working and earn same amount of money as men, it will be a shame for men. Of course, it is insane to think that we should stay with the same old believes while moving forward in time. There has to be some changes made such as acknowledging the place of women in the society. Working in the open segment, a solid connection to the workforce, worker’s organization enrollments, and training were a few factors that influenced leave taking among working moms (Glezer, 1988).
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As per conflict theory, society is characterized by a battle for strength among social gatherings that vie for rare assets. With regards to sexual orientation, conflict theory contends that gender is best comprehended as men endeavoring to keep up power and benefit to the impairment of ladies. Along these lines, men can be viewed as the prevailing gathering and ladies as the subordinate gathering. While certain sexual orientation jobs may have been suitable in a seeker gatherer society, struggle scholars contend that the main reason these jobs endure is on the grounds that the overwhelming gathering normally attempts to keep up their capacity and status. As per conflict theory, social issues are made when overwhelming gatherings misuse or mistreat subordinate gatherings. In this way, their methodology is regularizing in that it recommends changes to the power structure, pushing a parity of intensity between sexes.
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The rush of married ladies into the workforce keeps running against conventional reasoning that ladies must pick among family and vocation. Numerous eyewitnesses denounced working moms as narrow minded, unnatural and even risky to their youngsters and society (Wilson, 2006). It was griped that the ascent in adolescent wrongdoing could likewise be ascribed to ladies who are working moms, however needs and prerequisites of the nuclear family will dependably override badly characterized rationale. Ladies, parenthood or not, keep on working. The reasons are, as a general rule, optimistic. A significant number of these moms are youthful and have invested years building up their professions. At the point when the two life partners work it might be fundamental for the mother to hold her activity on the off chance that she has protection benefits, and in the event that she needs to resign with better retirement benefits (Edelman, 2002). Huge numbers of these ladies discover the need to keep up a parallel wellspring of pay a government managed savings and an indication of autonomy.
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Women’s’ utilized status benefits kids by improving family pay, better taught work conduct and better structure of family schedules .Studies (Chase-Lansdale et al., 2003; Alvarez, 1985) have noticed that maternal advanced education was observed to be a ground-breaking mitigator of conceivable negative ramifications for youngsters whose moms were working from budgetary need or were encountering job strife. Youngblut et al., (1998) investigated contrasts in parent-youngster and family connections for utilized and non-utilized single parents of low birth-weight and full-term preschool kids.
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In India, we don’t as much women working as compared to here in Canada. In India, women sure do work in corporate jobs, but you will mostly found it in cities. After getting married, many women who’re working, leave their jobs to take care of their family. Presently, the precise inverse is going on. Ladies currently need to surrender their vocations, and sit at home to appreciate a laid-back life and ‘give more opportunity to their marriage’. What’s more, this thought has the spouses breaking into a perspiration. It has turned out to be such an issue, that some youthful couples are even very nearly isolating, on the grounds that the spouse, (who the husband thought was eager), needs to quit working after marriage.
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Giving ladies and young ladies level with access to training, social insurance, work market and portrayal in political and financial basic leadership isn’t tied in with taking men’s chances making them second rate. This a social advancement toward progressively economical economies and propelling social orders. more or less, the significance of sexual orientation equity in the general public should concern everybody as it alludes to break even with rights, obligations, and openings. Such possibilities ought to be given to all individuals. Every one of them ought to appreciate uniformity paying little heed to whether one is brought into the world male or female.
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My interest in working with young children comes from not only having children of my own, but also having spent fifteen years in the childcare industry in various teaching and administrative roles. Upon graduating from high school, I began my work in childcare as an assistant teacher of ages threes and fours and then moved on to another daycare facility in the position of head infant teacher. During this time, I was also pursuing a real estate license and was taking liberal arts courses at a community college.
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One of the first things I did when I decided to further my career goals by working in the childcare industry was to obtain my CDA (Child Development Associate) credential which involved coursework, hours on the job, and a practical and written exam. With the CDA credential, I was able to have many other experiences in this field such as being actively involved in the development of early childhood programs: planning them, ordering supplies, and seeing them through to implementation. Through my experiences, I have taken on many different roles such as coordinating programs, directing birthday parties, teaching physical education enrichment classes, serving as a director’s assistant and being a summer camp director, which involved being solely responsible for all camp programs and activities.
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In my current position as the assistant director of a daycare/preschool center, I have been instrumental in implementing many new programs and seeing that the daycare/preschool meets all health and safety requirements as set by the NYS Office of Children and Family Services. When I first began at my current school in 2015, the dream of the school board was to add on an infant room to the class configuration. I was tasked with creating a plan for the infant room, which included working closely with a contractor regarding the best design and layout for the room and ensuring that the room had a sink and two egress doors according to regulations. When the newly constructed infant room became a reality and was almost ready to open and accept students in 2016, I was responsible for ordering all of the toys and equipment, which would be appropriate for children ages six weeks to eighteen months. In addition, I had to work with state and local agencies to ensure that everything was up to the fire code standards and that the room passed all of the occupancy inspections according to its square footage. I worked closely with the director through the hiring process to ensure that the best teachers were hired for our newly created infant room and worked with the school board to set the appropriate pricing, after studying prices of other neighborhood infant programs. When the first students came to the infant room in fall of 2016, it was a great success and finally the school that had always served only toddler and preschool children, now had an active infant department.
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Always trying to bring new programs and innovative ideas to the school, during 2016, I was able to work with the church property and grounds committee to establish an infant/toddler playground, which could be used by our infants and toddlers. The toddlers had always used the preschool playground, which was a large space with playground equipment that was actually not appropriate for them and could have been a safety hazard. I was able to get an area fenced in especially for infants and toddlers and ordered equipment and hade it installed for this age group, along with the required mulch that is needed for fall height on all children’s playgrounds. In addition, during the same year, I was able to create brand-new “Mommy and Me” classes, which involved finding a space and ensuring that it passed all state and local inspections. The “Mommy and Me” classes were held I the school’s gym and this took a lot of coordination and scheduling efforts, ensuring that the teacher was available to teach the classes and ordering equipment such as mats, tunnels, and trampolines to be used with the different age groups. These classes were advertised by using various media formats and proved to be a boost to the overall economy of the school, since many parents who came to the “Mommy and Me” classes, later enrolled their child in the school’s toddler or nursery program.
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I interact daily with children, parents and staff. I am involved in the hiring and termination of staff members, along with the using progressive discipline techniques for teachers and teaching assistants. I conduct teacher observations with my director, who has a master’s degree in early childhood education, along with NYS permanent certification in teaching grades N – 6, and YS permanent certification in educational administration. I have learned what to look for in an exemplary early childhood classroom, as well as what constitutes an excellent lesson, and know what “best practices” are in the early childhood classrooms.
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Besides obtaining my CDA, I am also MAT (medical administration training) certified, and my CPR and First Aid certification is current. I am the first line of defense in the office when there is an emergency with a child: applying first aid for nose bleeds, using pressure techniques to stop bleeding, administering nebulizer treatments, and taking out splinters. In addition to the on-the-spot medical emergencies, I have participated in writing the school health plan and have ensured that it is communicated to and followed by all staff members. I follow the NYS chain of command with respect to reporting accidents and incidents to our state agency, as well as being a mandated reporter to Child Protective Services if that is warranted.
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I also perform a myriad of other duties, including tours for incoming parents and students, enrolling children and maintaining all of the required paperwork for each child including up-to-date physicals and immunizations. I am responsible for marketing the school program and I have learned that a variety of marketing techniques work best, such as ads in print parenting magazines, online publications, large banners posted outside the school and social media campaigns. Marketing is a huge aspect of running a successful childcare program and I continually try to create effective marketing campaigns and figure out ways to better “sell” the school to prospective parents.
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In order to ensure that the school stays current with technology and other early childhood trends, I spearhead the parent teacher organization (the Parent Teacher Club), which is the main fundraising source for the school. In collaboration with parents, various fundraisers throughout the year are held, such as the Fall Harvest festival, the Valentine’s Day Dance and the Spring Carnival. Monies from these fundraisers have been used to purchase additional laptops, new playground equipment and a state-of-the art projection screen, which all enhance the school program.
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To ensure the everyday operation of the school, I must hire substitutes and do schedule adjustments to ensure that classes stay within the regulation child-to-adult ratio. In addition, I have to do schedules so that teachers receive their lunch breaks as dictated by NYS Labor Law and arrange all special classes and enrichment activities to fit into teacher’s schedules so that the school runs smoothly. The school follows all mandates for a voluntary NYS school certification and licensing, which means I have learned how to do NYS immunization reports, adhered to the Annual Fire Inspection and Food Services reports, and have done BEDs reporting, all of which must be done on a yearly basis.
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One of the main philosophies of my daycare/preschool is that learning is playful, interactive, interdisciplinary, and connected. Although some parents (and schools) believe that worksheets and rote drills of the alphabet or numbers are the correct ways to teach young children, research shows that children in an early childhood program learn best through play. It is the early childhood teacher’s role to be the facilitator of play and allow blocks of time for both indoor and outdoor play activity in an environment which is safe and inviting. According to James F. Christie and Francis Wardle (1992), longer blocks of playtime do make a difference in the quality and complexity of children’s play. For example, they studied early childhood classrooms with the same amount of materials and opportunities for play and they found that children who were only given a short play time, tended to wander around aimlessly, engage in solitary play or chase each other around the room. Children who were given longer play periods were involved in more complex projects, were more cooperative, and used various problem-solving techniques. Longer play periods foster group dramatic play, whereas children can act out a story and constructive play, whereas children can build complex structures and explain them. I have assisted the teachers in my daycare/school in adjusting their curriculum to create at least two indoor play sessions daily, which are over thirty minutes, as well as an outdoor session of thirty minutes or more. Table -top toys are generally used for fifteen minutes in the morning as children are arriving and the day is beginning, but this is understood that this additional play session does not count towards the required three play sessions daily. The entire school staff continues to educate parents regarding the value in longer play periods throughout the day it is explained at parent orientation nights that play in our school is a critical curriculum component.
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Since our daycare/school begins at age six weeks and continues through pre-K (fours), Mildred Parten’s research (1932) in the social interactions between children and play activities is clearly evident throughout the school. Infants engage in unoccupied play, which is making random movements, not really seeming to have a purpose; this is the beginning of play. In the infant and toddler years, there is a lot of onlooker and solitary play, but this can happen at any age. In solitary play, a child will play by himself/herself and will not notice other children are nearby. In onlooker play, children observe as others are playing, but do not attempt to join in. The next stage of play, according to Parten is parallel play, where children play side=by-side, but do not interact with each other. Parallel play lays the groundwork for the more complex stages of play which are associative and cooperative play. These stages occur around ages three and four. In associative play, the children begin to talk to each other and share materials and toys, but they really have no formal play organization. In cooperative play, the children organize themselves intentionally and may play a game with each other or build a structure together. It is very interesting to observe all of these stages as I visit classrooms and see the infants in the very early unoccupied play stage and then notice toddlers as they begin to develop in solitary, onlooker and parallel play stages. It is exciting to go into nursery and pre-k classrooms to actually see the associative and cooperative play taking play and realize how much the children are benefiting from these interactions.
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The cognitive development theories of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky are the most widely referenced when discussing play in early childhood development. Piaget (1962) believed that play allows children to practice things learned previously and does not necessarily teach child anything new. On the other hand, Vygotsky (1978) indicates that when playing, children practice what they already know, but are also learning new things. Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development discusses what the child can learn with social interaction, guidance and encouragement, while Piaget maintains that cognitive development stems from independent exploration in which children form knowledge on their own. Vygotsky’s theories are especially evident in our school, since collaborative learning and intentional grouping of children with different abilities are widely used across classrooms in order for children to learn from their more advanced peers.
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It is only natural that I continue this career path, since I have already had so much valuable experience in the field of childcare. I plan to run a top-notch early-childhood center and consider myself to be knowledgeable in the areas of program administration, budgeting, marketing, professional development for teachers, and professional standards. Also, I plan to pursue NAEYC Accreditation for my early-childhood center, which will allow the entire school to engage in a self-study and strengthen any areas of weakness.
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I believe that I am proficient in the health, nutrition, safety and security aspects of running a center due to my many interactions with licensors from the Office of Children and Family Services and ensuring the welfare and safety of the children in all situations. I also believe my knowledge base is much stronger as it relates to the infant/toddler age groups as opposed to the pre-school age groups (three and four-year-old children), since my CDA credential was concentrated in the age groups of infants and toddlers. Our daycare/school recently passed a four-year licensing review, where all of these strengths were utilized. In addition, I was responsible for tracking and maintain staff trading records for forty staff members, who must do fifteen hours of training yearly on all early childhood competency areas as part of this review.
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When I assume the role of Director of this early- childhood center in January 2020, I know between my prior experience and the courses I am taking at Empire State College now, I will be well prepared. I consider my strengths to be: possessing excellent organizational skills, being compassionate and a good listener, serving as a team player and a hands-on problem-solver, and having excellent public relations skills and communicating well with parents, staff and children. I understand that taking on the role of Director will take a lot of hard work, sacrifice and determination, but I know I am ready for this challenge
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Pavlov and Watson came up with a theory of their own called behaviorism the study of behavior well according to Cacioppo and Freberg (2016:16) in a more defined way they said that it’s an approach to psychology that features the study and careful measurements of observable behaviors. Pavlov even took it a step further by now studying the effects of learning in animals his most known experiment involved dogs being fed food but before a metronome was rung and then the dogs started salivating and he came up with a term called classical conditioning. In every day examples we would see classical conditioning in that every time we have to receive results we get so anxious other people even faint while waiting for them.
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‘Psychology is all about people and few occupations do not require an understanding of people and their behavior. An example would be that an architect cannot design a functional space without considering how people respond to crowding: the study of psychology then provides you better insight into and understanding of many occupations and fields of study’. (Cacioppo & Freberg, 2016). A scientific map was made by scientists from all over the world and they compared psychology with the other sciences like physics, biology and the results were that it features in every major branch of science and so it should not be taken lightly.
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“Dubbed the father of modern psychology he is the man who is responsible for psychoanalysis. Freud’s theory was influenced by the sexually repressed Victorian age in which he lived; Freud proposed that the unconscious mind controls much of our conscious behavior in his theory of psychoanalysis” (Cacioppo & Freberg, 2016).Freud is the father of modern psychology he came up with the idea that unconscious mind controls the conscious (Cacioppo & Freberg His psychodynamic theory was relevant on the 20th century even though much of it is no longer used an example would be that Freud used to call the people who came to him for help patient while nowadays they are clients, he started out as a normal physician and then he branched into psychology where he came up with theories that supported his theories the theory on personality, he said that the human psyche is divided into three namely: Id, Ego and the Superego. In later years his work was more or less that of Abraham Maslow because they were in the same schools of thought of humanistic psychology.
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Pavlov was a behaviorist, the man who in the science world is known for his experiment with dogs and later coming up with the classical conditioning definition: ‘when forms of associations between pairs of stimuli that occur sequentially in time are paired together example if a child sees a bee for the first time and then gets stung the child forms a connection between seeing bees and the pain of being stung’. (Cacioppo and Freberg, 2016) There’s also another type of learning called Operant conditioning a type of learning in which associations are formed between behaviors and their outcomes (Cacioppo and Freberg, 2016: 279). Basically there are two types of “[c]onditioning, called classical and operant conditioning'(Cacioppo & Freberg, 2016:279). In essence the man is known for his experiment with the dogs where he rang a metronome and the dogs started salivating.