According to Hofstede‚ culture is the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from others (Hofstede and Hofstede‚ 2005‚ 4). However‚ human beings are not programmed same way as the computers are‚ they have reflective ability and may deviate based on unforeseen event. More so‚ culture has strong impact on the way a person act on certain situation. Between 1994 and 2005 over half the U.S. work force was made up of minorities. Currently‚ one
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Native Americans and Obesity‚ It is Time for a Change Obesity is an illness of the mind and the body. In the United States it continues on a startling rise. This problem is especially detrimental to the Native American population. Studies indicate that obesity rates among the Native American population is "higher than the respective U.S. rates for all races combined" (Broussard 536S). As obesity among this population continues to rise‚ the number of Native Americans suffering from obesity
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examine the consequences of the marginalization of African American and other minority informal elder caregivers within formal eldercare services and healthcare environments and its effects their mental and physical health. Mohr and Purdie-Vaughns (2015) state this behavior is intersectional invisibility. The authors describe this conduct as a failure of some people to fully view individuals that have intersecting identities as members of their groups. This study will also explore the roots of caregiver
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of a Grid-Connected Inverter In this section‚ the modeling and control of a grid-connected inverter with dual-loop control using the capacitor current feedback is described. Although‚ this issue has already been addressed in available literatures‚ the goal is introducing a simplified block diagram which make designing controllers easier. A grid-connected inverter with the LCL filter is shown in Fig. 1. The LCL filter consists of an inverter-side inductor L1‚ a filter capacitor C‚ and a grid-side
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utilized by Indigenous practitioners that helped African people throughout
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was born into a high social class. Growing up my mother instilled a sense of religion in me as my family attended church on a regular basis. I am the younger of two children and I am an athletic‚ on the shorter side‚ black haired‚ green eyed‚ Cuban American. My older brother Jesse Kapel is 29 years old‚ male‚ married and with a one year old baby. I have always looked up to my brother as a role model. I speak English and Spanish fluently. I had a wealth of educational resources available to me since
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What was your culture 30 years ago? Was it the same or did it change over time? Anzaldua described her community to be a Hispanic one. Adults judged her on how she talked spanish and she felt left out. Wideman described his community to be an African-American one where you grew up in a tough neighborhood. In his neighborhood doing something bad meant good.. For example‚ a person making money to feed his family by selling drugs or doing other illegal activities. Me and Jennifer’s discourse community
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changes have been the trail of tears and loss of Native American culture the end of slavery and agrarian based society‚ and the transition to a desegregated society. Mississippi’s first people were descendants of people traveled across the being s when it was frozen 1000’s of years ago. Eventually there people made their way across the Americas and settle in various places to become the Native American tribes we know today. In Mississippi there were three major tribes where are the Natchez‚ Choctaw‚
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The Native-American and African-American communities in the united states have undergone countless adversities since before the birth of America. The South held a stronghold on the institution of slavery‚ while American colonists robbed the indigenous people of their land and culture. After the civil war‚ however‚ the conditions of both groups changed dramatically. The residual tribes were driven to reservations and the slaves were freed. In the years immediately succeeding the war‚ blacks‚ due to
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ideas of what constituted freedom have been varied. This was especially true for both the Native American Indians and the Africans. Even in times as early as the 1600s‚ the peoples of early America could not pinpoint a solitary basis for their freedoms. With inhabitants ranging from the Native American tribes such as the Catawba and Wampanoag to settlers from Europe and England‚ and eventually African peoples‚ such ideals were different in many ways: while some centered on one’s religion‚ others
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