THE CULTURAL TALE OF TWO SHUTTLES NASA’s habit of relaxing safety standards to meet financial and time constraints set the stage for the Feb. 1 loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts‚ investigators said Tuesday. They warned that the agency’s “broken safety culture” would lead to tragedy again unless fundamental changes are made. In a wide-ranging analysis of decades of NASA history‚ the Columbia Accident Investigation Board said the space agency’s attitude toward safety
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Walmart Cultural Scavenger Hunt In my cultural scavenger hunt assignment I was asked to locate various items relating to culture at a large department store. On Sunday around noon I visit my local neighborhood Walmart for the cultural scavenger hunt. This store is located in Southeast Portland on 82nd avenue. The store is considered to be in the Happy Valley neighborhood. However‚ I must note‚ this store is on the outskirts of the Happy Valley neighborhood. Therefore‚ this store has a wide range
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course has improved my knowledge of the daily challenges and changes faced in the cultural diversity. It also showed me how to identify and solve problems such as: training‚ and teacher in a an multicultural education community. Having clear understand of diversity and how it work plays a key part in running an organization properly‚ how you teach and how people learn. In the first Module 1‚ I focused on what is cultural diversity and how it works and what we should know. My goal was to find out why
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to demonstrate effective communication and provide quality care to individuals with different values‚ lifestyles and cultural beliefs. Knowing and identifying cultural diversity offers therapists with an upper hand being able to empathize and understand patient’s experiences within a cultural context1. Further research was completed to become more knowledgeable regarding the cultural beliefs of Russian immigrants. Among central and eastern Europe‚ Russia has the high self-reported depression rates
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Whole Foods has many intriguing aspects as an organization. Cultural values‚ employee appreciation‚ and the idea of being conscious of healthy living and eating are factors that make Whole Foods appealing to work for. This appeal is sure to draw the attention of a variety of candidates; embracing and utilizing diversity is a characteristic of strength that most companies haven’t mastered yet. The cultural values of Whole Foods cannot be ignored. Corporate social responsibility is
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"Compare the ways in which cross-cultural identity is explored in Alice Pung’s Unpolished Gem and Mira Nair’s The Namesake" The struggle to find self identity within the upbringing of two different and contradictory cultural groups is the main theme for Alice Pung’s memoir Unpolished Gem and Mira Nair’s film The Namesake. The main characters for each‚ Alice Pung and Gogol Ganguli respectively grow up the children of immigrants from developing to western countries who are torn between respecting
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avoided. It’s important for the nurse to educate that death must be seen as an inevitable part of life. Planning and discussion can help to make death and dying more acceptable. I would like to touch on a very sensitive matter‚ end-of-life care with a cultural component. Asian Americans and the Pacific Islanders are among the rapidly growing ethnic groups in the United States yet they have a low rate of hospice use (Warren et. al‚ 2002). We have learned that in the Asian culture‚ they have a family-centered
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Expanded Definition: Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual person’s beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual’s own culture. Cultural relativism can be difficult to maintain when we’re confronted with cultures whose practices or beliefs conflict with our own. For example‚ in France‚ headscarves worn by many Islamic women have been banned. To the French‚ banning headscarves is important because it helps maintain a secular society and gender
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Definition of Curriculum Introduction Falcon School District 49 is located in Colorado Springs‚ Colorado and consists of 18 schools: three high schools‚ five middle schools and 10 elementary schools. A thorough review of the district website turned up several documents and a small blurb from the superintendent which points to a curriculum definition in line with “subjects useful for living.” Following is an analysis of these documents detailing how I arrived at my conclusion. Following this analysis
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Cultural communication plays an important role in the interactions between law enforcement and the community. The concept that law enforcement need to handle their communications with people of color better. In the video‚ Racial Profiling‚ a young man discussed his experiences with law enforcement and how he was profiled based on his race. He stated they just assumed he was terrorist and was a part of terrorist organization‚ however‚ they never asked him what culture he was. As law enforcement‚ communication
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