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    Appreciate Irish Heritage

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    Appreciate Irish Heritage The Irish culture is rich in customs‚ beliefs‚ and practices with substantial significance in the current times. It also constitutes traditions‚ literature‚ music‚ art‚ language‚ legends‚ sport and cuisine associated with Irish people living in the United States. These aspects of the Irish heritage are not homogeneous among natives of Ireland because of cultural divides that exist between rural Irish and urban Irish‚ Protestants and Catholics‚ settled population and

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    differences with the Native Americans of the same era. When the Europeans first discovered the Americas in the late 1400s to the early 1500s‚ they expected to find a land filled with savages that had little or no intelligence or technological advancements. However‚ these European explorers came to realize that the Native Americans were far more civilized than they had imagined. Upon reaching North America‚ the first European explorers held to the stereotype that the Native Americans were a primitive society

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    World Cultural Heritage

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    places on earth that people might look at them as the symbol of arts‚ source and origin of some cultures and also religions. These World Cultural heritages include tangible culture (such as buildings‚ monuments‚ landscapes‚ books‚ works of art‚ and artifacts)‚ intangible culture (such as folklore‚ traditions‚ language‚ and knowledge)‚ and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes‚ and biodiversity). Nowadays‚ there is an organization that claimed themselves as

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    PABLO ANTONIO Asia Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage award The Ideal Theater was located at Rizal Avenue in Manila and designed by the late Architect Pablo Antonio in 1933. The theater was demolished in the late 1970s to give way to the construction of a department store. The Ideal Theater was one of the first major works of Pablo Antonio along with the buildings of Far Eastern University and Manila Polo Club. Life Theater can also be found along Quezon Boulevard in Quiapo Manila. It

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    Heritage Assessment and Family Diversity Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V 03/08/2014 Growing up‚ it never was as apparent that the families and friends that you associated with shared different beliefs‚ were from different cultures‚ and were just different from you and from your family. Children do not tend to recognize such differences‚ but as growing adults it becomes ever apparent that being “different” and accepting these differences is just a part of life. Perhaps kids

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    2% of our land area being developed (Tan‚ 2006)‚ exhausting much of our natural heritage in the process. Due to the limited amount of land‚ our natural heritage is insufficient to provide us with much economical goods; we are thus very dependent on imported food and material from other countries (Tan et al.‚ 2007). Even though these goods and services can be easily enjoyed from nearby countries‚ our natural heritage is endowed with unique characteristics which provide us with a plethora of services

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    Heritage Assessment Tool

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    Heritage Assessment Tool: Varying Cultures Grand Canyon University: NRS 429V Heritage Assessment Tool: Varying Cultures Introduction The Heritage Assessment Tool is designed to “give nurses an understanding of the patient’s traditional health and illness beliefs and practices so that culturally appropriate interventions can be initiated. The tool is a series of twenty nine questions. These twenty nine questions are designed to determine a patient’s ethnic‚ cultural‚ and religious background

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    My Vietnamese Heritage

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    As a child adopted from Vietnam at six months old‚ I had little interaction with my Vietnamese heritage. Growing up‚ my two moms infused a combination of their family traditions and cultures into our lives. Thanks to my mom Kate’s Irish background‚ I looked forward to watching the Irish dancers leap at the annual St. Patrick’s Day party. My mom Linda brought her Chinese-Filipina background into my life‚ too‚ making me lumpia‚ pork adobo‚ and halo-halo‚ a drink far better than boba tea. During San

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    Heritage: Family and Life

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    the poem “Heritage” by Linda Hogan “I Learned Everything” Hogan’s “Heritage” is a poem about accepting life‚ learning from experiences‚ and growing as an individual. It’s about maintaining focus on the important things in life; not getting caught up in the small‚ frivolous things. The writer is a woman of mixed race and cultures; part Chickasaw Indian‚ and part Caucasian. As a child and also into her adult years‚ she often wondered at the calmness and acceptance of her Native American grandparents

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    Poetry Response: Heritage

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    Poetry Response: “Heritage” The poem “Heritage” describes how the author James Still feels about his hometown. Initially this poem seems to be a simple tribute to one’s hometown‚ but the underlying descriptions prove otherwise. The poet uses a first person point of view to create a personal connection between the audience and the speaker‚ and then uses beautiful imagery to describe some ugly events. The poem is memorable because‚ although most people are proud of their heritage‚ some need to realize

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