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She joined the first generation of caseworkers in promoting formal schooling and training for all social workers, that they might become more professional and provide services to society that would be both more efficient and more humane ...
She joined the first generation of caseworkers in promoting formal schooling and training for all social workers, that they might become more professional and provide services to society that would be both more efficient and more humane ...
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... woman's mission to understand, pity, and nurture, but not to judge; society's obligation to redefine moral ethics so as to protect those at the "bottom of society , ' ' especially the ' 'young and unguarded .
... woman's mission to understand, pity, and nurture, but not to judge; society's obligation to redefine moral ethics so as to protect those at the "bottom of society , ' ' especially the ' 'young and unguarded .
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But because he is audacious, clever, and skillful, he is able to move freely into the upper level of society and threaten their security. His rootlessness and his poverty have bred in him a form of irresponsibility that causes him to ...
But because he is audacious, clever, and skillful, he is able to move freely into the upper level of society and threaten their security. His rootlessness and his poverty have bred in him a form of irresponsibility that causes him to ...
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis supplement, the latest addition to the well-known "American Writers'' series, includes 29 authors. All except Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century orator and writer, are 20th-century poets ... Read full review
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| Title | American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier |
| Editor | Leonard Unger |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's sons, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0684157977, 9780684157979 |
| Length | 373 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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