The Praxis

The Movement for Black Lives Platform: Economic Justice One of the six demands for the Movement for Black Lives platform is economic justice, which is the equal distribution of benefits. According to Bunch, efforts to achieve this platform include readjusting tax codes and redistribution of wealth, establishing federal and state job programs, providing renewed land, clean air, ensuring clean water and housing, the end of unjust control of resources, allowing the right for workers to organize…

Test (CBEST) for certification in California, but to teach in New York, you would need to pass a test administered by the New York State Teacher Certification Examinations (NYSTCE)” (Teach). The different tests are broken down by series; such as, the Praxis Series and National Evaluation series; the test that someone takes depends on what test is administered in their state they are taking it in. The tests are considered fairly difficult and hard to pass, which has proved to be a challenge for…

Small groups are a form of community. At this point, it essential to begin discussing the concept of small groups. Once again, we must look to the first few chapters of Genesis. God created woman for man because he needed a “suitable helper.” Recall, that they were then commanded to “be fruitful and multiply.” This would imply that they would make communities that glorified God. However, sin destroyed this concept of community. The writer of Genesis makes this idea explicit, as one of the one…

Making sense of human situations, during times of crisis is a critical part of the helping process. Understanding this practice is both theoretically and experientially formed. Focusing on both the individual and familial systems from the initial engagement are the foundations of opening communication channels and developing an appropriate working relationship within their social concepts. Outcomes lead by correct interpretations during the initial engagement, are critical to the assessment…

Drawing on at least 3 set of readings that have been covered in this section of the course, explain how social power has been understood. There have been many different theories on social power and where that power comes from. The ideologies around social power have sparked many interesting thoughts over the years and have brought together many aspirations between classes in our society. According to Webber ‘social power is the ability to achieve goals even if other people oppose those goals.…

Phil 3P97 Take Home Test 3: Deleuze and Guattari Anti-Oedipus Desire has a complicated history to philosophy; for most of philosophy's history they were viewed as fundamentally opposed. Since Plato, philosophy has viewed desire as base and something to be controlled by reason. By emphasizing reason over base desires, philosophy encouraged a pervasive self-denial identified by Nietzsche as the ascetic ideal. The core of this ideology was based on the notion that beliefs should be based upon…

In the 1980s, the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) opened its archives pertaining to the 1948 war to the public. This prompted a revision of the origins of the Palestinian refugee crisis, which birthed a new interpretation of the historical events. Two narratives of this history emerged, the new history that is led by Benny Morris and the old history that is advocated by Shabtai Teveth. Morris contends that Israel is more to blame for the refugee crisis because of rumors of a transfer idea for…

Counseling Psychology Counseling psychology is a health care provider and general practice of professional psychology. Counseling psychology main focus is on people’s function in all ages of the relationship and also in their personal life. This field of psychology addresses physical health concerns, social, work, and emotional problems that individuals can have in different stages of their life. Counseling psychology focuses on the stress is that people may have and also on other issues which…

need for open discourse regarding race in the United States. Bonilla-Silva suggests race ought to be discussed in terms of social construction. That is to say, race, as a socially constructed idea “. . . is not a fundamental category of analysis and praxis” (Bonilla-Silva, 2010, p.8). Social constructs are an abstract concept but are explained as ideas “. . . built upon layers of meaning we assign to the people, places, and things we encounter” (Cooper, 2012, p.45). Thus, the first step in…

For all that, feminist theorists are more interested in theorizing than in tensions evoked by the body. Gender is done or constructed by the person and others in his society. Contrary to this established idea, Judith Butler, in her book Undoing Gender, sees that gender can be done by resisting and escaping from the clutches of the social norm through which gender is recognized. She argues: “I may feel that without some recognizability I cannot live. But I may also feel that…