For many social workers, the answers may vary, but this has been the biggest one for me: Keeping your emotions separate from your work.
- It is very easy to see a child in distress and want to do anything in your power to get them away from their current environment. Unfortunately, you cannot just take a child home with you as soon as you see they are in danger. You have to go through a series of processes that can take days, weeks, months to get through or (in the absolute worst case scenario) will never be able to get through. To me, this is the worst part. You feel angry, sad, worried, and many other emotions. But if you let these emotions control how you perform your job, you can not only get in trouble at work--you can get in legal trouble as well. You handle this by understanding that you are doing everything in your power to help this person. Sometimes it keeps you up at night and you may even feel guilty if you aren't able to help the person in need right away. For some people, it is motivation to keep trying harder. For others, it is a very defeating feeling that (understandably) can make them anxious, depressed, or helpless. It is okay to feel worried for the person, it is <u>not</u> okay to blame yourself. Remember, you are doing everything in your power to help someone. Sometimes things do not go in the favor of the person who needs help. That does not make it okay. That does not mean that you should blame yourself. It just means you try again, and keep having your emotions motivate you <em>but</em> do not let them control how you do your job.
The main theme of "By Any Other Name," by Santha Rama Rau is that personal and cultural identities are important.
In this Anglo-Indian day school, both girls were given an Anglo name because their names were said to be, "hard to pronounce." Even if the narrator, Santha, was the same person, she felt detached to herself as "Cynthia," in school. It was as if it was another person because she had to be someone else, once she entered campus. She and her sister were brought up in a different culture and they felt that in their school as they were often segregated and singled-out because of their race. In the end, Premila had enough of the discrimination and she and her mother decided that it was not a school to go back to. Even when they thought that Santha did not understand what was happening, it was revealed that she did.
This shows that personal and cultural identities are important because no matter what happened in school they maintained to be themselves as they were brought up to be and rejected the person they "should" be in school.
I’m thinking the answer might probably be B
Answer: D.the fierceceness of the media attack
Explanation:
She uses the quote "was savaged by the media" in the story Is Survival Selfish they mentioned that he got attacked from the media for what he did.
