Social work personal statement

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Social workers understand how diversity can characterize and mold someone’s experience and how it’s critical to the formation of one’s identity. The elements of diversity are acknowledged as the crossroad of various components which include; age, class, color, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, immigration status, political ideology, race, religion, sex, and sexual orientation. Social workers appreciate that, someone’s life experiences may include ill-treatment, poverty, marginalization, and alienation as well as privilege, power, and acclaim as consequences of differences. A social worker needs to understand human diversity in order to analyze and understand human behavior in this diverse society to achieve the following goals; to respect cultural and ethnic backgrounds, buildup of knowledge to understanding of individuals families and communities in their social cultural and social-economic aspects of life, develop the ability to bring individual and social change towards justice. This helps in understanding human behavior (University of Chicago). Smoking is a current issue, it has been there and it is here till now. It is the second major cause of death in the world; it kills nearly 6 million people each year. That is one person every 6 seconds. It’s responsible for the death of a one in ten adults and kills up to half of its users. Since it’s the leading preventable cause of all deaths, there is need to prevent it. Despite the negative side effects of smoking like; smoking kills, its exacerbates poverty, contributes to world hunger by diverting lands use to its production, its production damages the environment and reduces economic productivity, many people still smoke tobacco every day. It... ... middle of paper ... ...s whole. Through tuition remission if offered at Barry University and I get to be one of the nominated students. From personal savings, I can also fund for my education. Works Cited Human diversity requirement, University of Chicago, accessed 28th February 2014 https://ssa.uchicago.edu/human-diversity-requirement Shah A. (4th January 2014). Tobacco, Global Issues, accessed 28th February 2014 http://www.globalissues.org/article/533/tobacco Tobacco, World health organization, accessed 28th February 2014, http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs339/en/ Social work, University of Mephis, accessed 28th February 2014, http://memphis.edu/socialwork/whystudysocialwork.php Methisen S. (July 12, 2011). The Importance of Social Work in Our Society, accessed 28th February 2014, http://www.sooperarticles.com/careers-articles/importance-social-work-our-society-541095.html

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