After reading the article‚ I conclude the author is trying to teach or inform us about the Nacirema tribe and their way of life. By writing about their civilization the reader can learn how they live through rituals and what they practice. Miner discusses about Nacirema’s exotic customs‚ ritual activities‚ the shrine‚ their magical practitioners‚ oral care‚ harsh physical ceremonies‚ witchdoctors‚ breast rituals‚ thoughts on intercourse‚ and magical power. Once I read about these aforementioned topics
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Chilean Miners BCOM275 2/26/2013 Chilean Miners The "Timeline: Trapped Chilean Miners" (2010) website reported that on August 5th‚ 2010 33 Chilean miners were trapped when the main ramp of the San Jose mine in the Atacama region of northern Chile collapsed. Emergency officials are currently unable to communicate with the miners trapped. It was said that workers were trapped at a depth of around 300 meters Weik‚ J. (2010). The company Codelco is yet to inform the immediate families of the
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Chilean Miners John BCOM 275 April 13‚ 2012 Chilean Miners In this paper I will be speaking about how we should speak to those effected‚ how we need to be considerate how we speak to them. Watch the tone that is used and the words that are said. What may be the needs of the families of the miners when receiving a message about the incident‚ As well as what may be the needs of the company’s employees when receiving a message about this incident. On august 5‚ 2010 a historic event
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Many of the practices Miner mentions in the article aren’t really strange to the Nacirema culture. But an outsider views the practices as odd. For example‚ Miner mentions about a shrine box‚ which translate to a medicine cabinet being strange to the outsider. The charms and magical potions in the shrine box being the medicine needed cure the ills and maladies of an individual. Medicine had a purpose of curing those maladies for many with similar ills. But the outsider views pulling out these magical
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the behavior of the Nacirema. Medicine men making potions and priests making sure water is holy are all things that I have heard about before. What really took me aback was the holy mouth man. I was shocked at the torture these people go through because of their beliefs in certain magic rituals. I’ve never had a cavity before‚ so just the thought of someone grinding holes in my teeth makes my mouth hurt. However‚ I guess if I was raised believing that these sort of mouth rituals could make help me
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kindness‚ sensitivity and discretion. And bad news should always be delivered face to face. Members of the crisis communication team should be assigned this task. The company should inform the immediate family before releasing the names of the injured miners to the media. The company should analyze the situation to judge its newsworthiness. The company should give the media as much information as possible so they want get the information twisted. The media will get the information (perhaps inaccurately)
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Horace Mann was the father of the American School System. Horace Mann’s had many reforms on education. He was born in 1796. Mann determined what the purpose of education should be based on his own experience and observation. Mann also had many ideas how education could be improved. Many of these ideas have been followed by schools today as well. Mann also had ideas on topics which one considers today to be controversial. The public should take into account what Mann’s ideas were on
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Nacirema Reflection Paper As Filipinos‚ we believe that our way of life is inferior to all others but for other cultures they think theirs are superior to the rest. This feeling isn’t something that many people want to have‚ but it happens over time as a person becomes integrated into their own culture. Change is typically hard and being able to look at a completely new culture or way of life as normal doesn’t come naturally to most. However‚ with time and patience many can overcome the ethnocentrism
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After realizing “Nacirema” is American spelled backwards‚ it becomes evident that Miner is criticizing American culture. He describes the “tribes” behavior with a focus on changing personal appearance and magic-based rituals. Everybody goes to the “Latipso” to see “medicine-men” when they are sick and often are given potions or end up dead. This is like a looking glass into American culture. In our culture‚ there is a huge focus on physical features‚ but we don’t pray to fix it. Instead we take vitamins
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Clifton 1… Horace Mann Becky Clifton HIS 324 Elena Lattarulo October 17‚ 2011 Clifton 2… Horace Mann Horace Mann was an educator and a statesman. He greatly advanced the cause of universal‚ free‚ nonsectarian public schools. Mann’s preferred cause was education. His remark that while “other reforms are remedial; education is preventative.” In 1837
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