Essays Tagged: "Advocacy"

Consumer Alert, 'to advance the consumer interest through advocacy of free-market solutions to consumer dissatisfaction and scrutiny of any action which discourages competition in the marketplace.'

unded in 1977, was founded with a single purpose in mind: 'to advance the consumer interest through advocacy of free-market solutions to consumer dissatisfaction and scrutiny of any action which disco ...

(3 pages) 112 0 3.3 Feb/1997

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Markets & Exchanges

Is feminism indeed a destructive import, or a necessary adn liberating new way of seeing, behaving and believing?

The definition of 'Feminism' in the Collins Gem English Dictionary states, "Advocacy of equal rights for women". Feminism might be a Western import, but equal rights are surely ...

(3 pages) 49 1 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Some of Australia's Major Trading Partners.

pirations and endeavours, which meant that Australia (relying heavily on Great Britain for military advocacy) accepted and encouraged Great Britain's authority in international affairs. However over t ...

(1 pages) 28 0 2.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Media, short essay but good

se include surveillance of the sociopolitical environment, meaningful agenda-setting, platforms for advocacy by politicians and spokespersons of other causes and interest groups, dialogue across a div ...

(14 pages) 341 0 3.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

From Charity to Advocacy

FROM CHARITY TO ADVOCACYUpon reading this article, I feel that right now in my life I am more called to charity as o ... on reading this article, I feel that right now in my life I am more called to charity as opposed to advocacy. I feel that raising awareness as an advocate does is excellent way to create change and is ... e consciousness about the struggle so much of our society faces.Being called to charity rather than advocacy is not worse than the other. They are merely two different means of reaching an end. In soc ...

(3 pages) 50 0 4.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

External factors forcing change on education: How can they work for us ?

l district that are part of theCalifornia Statewide Systemic Initiative (SSI), called the CaliforniaAdvocacy for Mathematics and Science or CAMS. I will comment on some ofthe things I observed on that ...

(11 pages) 215 0 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Reg Theriault and his book, "The Unmaking of the American Working Class".

orking Class" tells the reasons behind the disappearance of blue-collar work in America today. This advocacy for blue-collar workers follows sentiments regarding the human worker as a mere machine to ...

(1 pages) 24 0 5.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Holistic care

concepts and principles that explain how individuality, client involvement, autonomy, empowerment, advocacy, evaluation and monitoring are all significant within holistic care. A brief patient histor ... ents. Promoting clients' rights to choose and empowering them to decide for themselves is a form of advocacy. Therefore it can be said that when caring for clients, an effort must be made to encourage ...

(9 pages) 279 0 5.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Lobby vs Bribery

Lobbying is the practice of private advocacy with the goal of influencing a governing body by promoting a point of view that is conduciv ...

(3 pages) 140 0 3.7 Sep/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Case Management: Special Populations

s. Each client's situation that is guided by a case management professional is personalized through advocacy, awareness, and open-mindedness.IntroductionCase Management practice covers many different ... erns, principles, and guidelines of case management among these populations are comparable. Without advocacy and the correlation of services, case management's role in the special population would be ...

(9 pages) 189 0 4.5 Oct/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Women and Wallpaper: The role of women in "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkin Gilman

s as it uses insanity to delve into the underlying issues of "a woman's place" and feminism, or the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of sexual equality, in the 19th century.The story begins w ...

(7 pages) 66 0 3.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Advocacy Against Homelessness

Advocacy Against HomelessnessSocial workers spend much of their time negotiating to resolve disputes ... tion. Advocating for affordable fair market rent for the working poor in America is a form of cause advocacy.Soaring housing costs and tight rental markets confront low-income people nationwide. Feder ...

(2 pages) 82 0 2.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Government: Interest Groups

officeholders E. they can attract members from a large geographic are because they have the advocacy or opposition of specific public policies F. groups can provide: ® speci ...

(2 pages) 24 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Social Contract - Rousseau

or forced to be free? Many critics of Rousseau argue that his declaration ?forced to be free? is in advocacy of a totalitarian form of government. However, with an examination of Rousseau?s Social Con ...

(3 pages) 55 0 4.0 Dec/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

College Essay

summer of my senior year, to participate in the National Student Leadership Conference over Law and Advocacy in Washington D.C. While attending the NSLC I had the opportunity to study, experience and ...

(1 pages) 20 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Advocacy and disability

Advocacy and Disability � PAGE �6� Advocacy and DisabilityLeah de RosaUniversit ... cy and DisabilityLeah de RosaUniversity of PhoenixBSHS 442Genevieve Damon, MSW, MBADecember 10, 2007Advocacy and DisabilityAccording to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 15% or one in seven Ame ... aunches at Schwab learning.org. Retrieved December 10, 2007, from ProQuest Database.SPANNJ. (2007). Advocacy. Retrieved December 10, 2007, from http://www.spannj.org/advocacy/Wrightslaw. (2007). IDEA ...

(5 pages) 94 0 5.0 Dec/2007

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights

Public relations contigenct th

"Contingency Theory of Accommodation and Advocacy" Contingency theory of accommodation/advocacy is a more realistic depiction of public relat ... sser accommodation to that public. One of the many factors suggests that more accommodation or more advocacy will be effective in gaining departmental and organizational objectives in the short and lo ... his also bring into view ethical charges of paternalism and the convictions of an organization that advocacy is morally superior to two-way symmetrical communication. Communication processes such as d ...

(4 pages) 21 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Social Influence

is said to be employed by an agent or practitioner upon a target. The agent's message is called her advocacy. If your goal is to get your husband to stop overeating, you may seek compliance-- by getti ... persuaded. You are the agent, your husband is the target, and your tactics or message would be your advocacy.Social influence is when the actions or thoughts of individual(s) are changed by other indi ...

(47 pages) 555 0 4.1 Nov/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Reflection Paper

continuing education classes, go to lectures on education and different subjects, and by mentoring, advocacy for the profession and school quality, and to leadership. Keeping up with technology's adva ...

(4 pages) 174 0 4.7 Jan/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Online Therapy Paper

ent authorization, and professional values. As an example for legal and professional restriction an advocacy can be tempted to discredit another person with verbal or written attacks. If what the advo ...

(2 pages) 18 0 0.0 Jun/2011

Subjects: Humanities Essays