Personal Support Worker

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM INTRODUCTION The interactive, flexible and adaptable tool used by the managers without any guidance from the computer experts is known as the Decision Support System (DSS). The DSS allows the managers to make intelligent decisions with all the required information. DSS is a well-established research and development section. The birth of DSS is the preceding work in two main research streams undertaken by Simon et al. during the late 1950s and early 60’s. DSS is considered…

was so effective that during the hearings, subcommittee member Robert F. Kennedy expressed his support for the striking workers. ”Chavez is one of the heroic figures of our time,” expressed Senator Robert F. Kennedy (Levy, 2007). It is bad enough that many Hispanics lived in deplorable conditions, such as adobe huts, no running water, and health challenges as well. However, to live as a migrant worker, not knowing if you will receive an opportunity on a specific day to be a laborer in the…

of isolation, moving from one job opportunity to the next without company. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, masterfully addresses both the isolation endured by those laborers and the sources of it. George Milton and Lennie Small are two ranch workers attempting to attain the American dream by saving up to purchase their own ranch. They seek to escape the same difficulty that plagues all of Steinbeck's characters: loneliness. The isolation that Steinbeck's characters suffer is not a result of…

Eliza Lucas Pinckney shows that women can take control of the family’s affairs easily if they have the support and know-how. Even without her father’s blessing, she was able to take control of the family’s farm. Elizabeth Sprigs letter gives the reader an insight on how the life of servant would be. Not all of women servant had the ability to write, so she…

tattoos, piercings, or shaving. Everyone should be able to do whatever they wish with their physical beings. It is seen as noble to sell one’s body to science. For research! For advancement! Yet, when someone wishes to sell their body for their own personal advancement, it is received as blasphemous. This self-interest is seen as unholy, but it is in human nature to do what is in one’s best…

Migrant Farmworkers Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep! The alarm clock cries for attention in the early morning, when the sky is still dark and even the birds are sleeping. Inside a small, negligible shack on the side of a dirt road, a tired, calloused hand reaches over the side of the mattress to quiet the clock, but hesitates for minutes, uncertain whether to let its owner savor a few more minutes of sleep. Finally, it smashes down on the alarm clock and yanks its haggard owner up from the bed. The…

specifically a domestic worker named Gloria who raised fourteen children some of whom are hers biologically and others she picked up from the streets or family members whose parents had died. Goldstein uses Gloria and her family’s first hand accounts to reveal the overall state and challenges of life Goldstein observed while researching her anthropology. Most Brazilians and historians agree that Brazil is a racial democracy. Goldstein argues through her anthropology using her personal…

Indigenous woman has been severely under reported and ignored. That is until more recently, in the last couple of years when the startling number of murdered and missing indigenous woman and girls came to light. As we discussed during lecture, the lack of support and respect from the Canadian federal government and the RCMP has prompted those within…

The book by Rachel Janney and Martha Snell titled, Behavioral Support, was a great read for any teacher, administrator, or other school staff member. Behavioral Support provided many suggestions for students who need more positive behavioral support in school to help them be successful. The text gave me more insight on how behavior is learned and can be changed. The text posed the following question, “Why do people act in ways that are difficult to understand, disturbing to others, and even…

Vollaire-Thomas, Jamilah Hicks, and Roslin Growe (2011) called “Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: An Interventional Approach to Improving Negative Student Behaviors”. The authors of this article discuss a program called Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, or PBIS, which is meant to create a school-wide environment in which positive behaviors are valued and encouraged. As a future school counselor, I will likely need to be well-versed in ways to…