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Should have used a more general example, backed up with evidence to support your position, statistics highlighting how frequent incidents of violence against social workers occur etc. It's all well and good to have an opinion but you must support it with facts. My highest ever mark on an assignment was an instance where I successfully argued a hypothetical criminal should not be charged with assault causing serious harm but the lesser charge of causing harm because concussions can be caused with little force, referencing medical reports and providing photographic evidence from sporting incidents. I could have argued the point without this evidence but my professor would have ripped me apart for it. Actually I was the only person in the class who went down that path and I recieved the highest mark in the class for that assignment. I am phenomenal when it comes to criminal law.
It wasnt really that type of assignment. It was a really strange assignment actually. We had to answer these weird questions that applied to a "problem" we came across at our internship. Well, I dont think it is very common that female social workers are attacked by ex male sex offenders, but its highly common at my internship that female case managers feel fearful of visiting certain clients in their homes.....Since I have never actually worked in an agency and am not yet a social worker, I guess I just went mainly by the experiences of my fellow co workers.
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I doubt anyone here really cares but I am disgusted by the verdict handed down by the AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal. Not guilty? What the hell were the last two seasons marred by then an imagined breach of WADA code? By the players own admission they didn't know what they were taking. By the sports scientist's own admission they were injected with substances whose legality was unclear. By the club's internal investigation these players were exposed to a pharmacalogically experimental environment. Both substances are on the WADA banned list either outright or under the catch-all S0 section. Once it's been proven players took banned substances they must be banned from competition for a time period of no less then 2 years. HOW CAN THAT NOT HAPPEN WHEN IT'S BEEN PROVEN??? This is the most blatant breach of trust in Australian sports history. An entire sporting code has just attempted to sweep this mess under the rug and I doubt WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) or ASADA (Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency) will stand for it. I hope they appeal and get the right result. Athletes around Australia need to know categorically that the onus is on them to ensure all their supplements are fair and legal. They need to know that bans will occur if they take a banned substance regardless of the circumstances.

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Finally managed to get a part time job, sure it's only 6 hours a week at minimum wage but it's better than nothing and it means I don't have to use my savings whenever my car breaks down (it's for this reason I have recently bought another car and relegated the charger to weekend duty).

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Few years ago my ear drum in my right ear burst due to a nasty infection at the time. That killed my gig going days straight off as any loud music is painful in that ear in a live venue. It's now got to the point were I can't listen to music on my headphones anymore - not that I listen loudly anyway - without having pain for at least 2 days afterwards. It's going to mean a massive shift in how I listen to music as (due to work) I am usually plugged in to my phone on a train, ferry or plane going somewhere or chillin in the hotel room. On the plus side I have the Easter weekend plus the whole of next week off. Got to sit through a visit of the gf's family on Sunday (hooray another game of "who will get pissed first and ruin the day") but after that the week is all mine.

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Hahaha no that was the shopping bill. Lunch was $85 (thats with the tip included)
That's still a lot. o.o (Says the college student, to whom everything is expensive.) Meanwhile, the hunt for a 2-bedroom for my friend and I continues unresolved...this is so much more stressful than when I was looking for my studio.
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That's still a lot. o.o (Says the college student, to whom everything is expensive.) Meanwhile, the hunt for a 2-bedroom for my friend and I continues unresolved...this is so much more stressful than when I was looking for my studio.
I will be the same way this coming fall upon moving to cleveland to attend MSW school. It is going to be terrible. I have a dog so it makes apt searching triple worse.
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