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    religious folk songs that were created and first sung by African Americans in slavery around the 1860’s and passed along from one generation to the next. As the song(s) is (was) passed on‚ it starts to change. The changes that take place become a part of the original song and eventually the music takes on a different form. In the time of music making‚ Americans fought and won a war for independence while the rapidly expanding Black population remained enslaved. All of the African American communities

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    Folk Medicine

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    Plantain – Medicine that Treats Everything Throughout years‚ I was taught to believe that the best medicine is not a pill‚ but a folk medicine. The most common folk medicine in my culture was plantain. This herb meant to help in a variety of sicknesses. For instance‚ when I got food poison followed by high fever‚ vomiting‚ and diarrhea‚ my mother prepared a tincture based on plantain‚ vinegar and salt. I had to drink 15 drops of this mixture every hour and after 5 hours the reaction

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    Folk Games

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    Promoting the Five Philippine Folk/Native Games Promotional Video in Promoting the Five Philippine Folk/Native Games Characteristics of Five Philippine Folk/Native Games 1. Tinikling Game 2. Kasipa sa Mangis 3. Arnis 4. Palo-palo 5. Sungka Characteristics of Five Philippine Folk/Native Games 6. Tinikling Game 7. Kasipa sa Mangis 8. Arnis 9. Palo-palo 10. Sungka Fig. 1 Framework in the Analysis of Five Philippine Folk/Native Games Bibliography

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    Healing Hospital

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    Running head: HEALING HOSPITAL: A DARING PARADIGM Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Karen McDevitt Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT 310V Patricia Mullen April 07‚ 2011 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Service‚ Integrity‚ Safety‚ Trust‚ and Respect may be the core values established as guidelines for hospitals’ staff members. Without love it will not qualify as a Healing Hospital. The employees need to embrace the human spirit and incorporate genuine

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    Mexican culture has been characterized as an accepted background of values: familism‚ respeto and simpatia (respect and congeniality)‚ curanderismo (folk healing)‚ religiosity/spirituality‚ and the importance of language are among the most important (Cultural Responses to Health Among Mexican… 2007). In a typical Mexican family‚ the father is the breadwinner. The man can also be known as a machismo. Machismo is refer to as manliness and has positive and negative views in reference to it. The man

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    Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Sandra Mays Grand Canyon University HLT310V Patricia Mullen September 12‚ 2010 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm The spirituality in a healing hospital starts with the Chief Executive Officer and spirals downward toward management‚ and then the frontline employees. Healing hospitals must have a form of culture that serves the community. This includes the building‚ its contents‚ the CEO‚ the managers‚

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    unnecessary‚ they wanted the Americans to be captured and held hostage; with no harm done to their bodies. How the majority of the Americans felt about this war is a social factor because it changed the way neighbors saw and treated each other. It separated many relationships during this war. With this negative mindset of the war‚ the volunteer rates dropped tremendously; the army had to do something to get the numbers back up to where they need them. They started to force Americans to volunteer to serve

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    Spiritual Healing

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    An Exploration of Spiritual Healing Throughout time‚ mankind has constantly been seeking ways to maintain their health and to cure those that had not been so fortunate in that task. Just about everything has been experimented with as a cure for some type of illness; whether physical or mental. There is also a third type of illness that can and is addressed‚ which is healing on the spiritual plan. According to research‚ most of the spiritual healers are concentrated in primitive societies and

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    viewed as the land of opportunity. However‚ in regards to Mexican-Americans‚ it is seen that this is not entirely accurate. Mexican-Americans were deprived of opportunities due to the Anglo-Americans. Not only that‚ Mexican-Americans were also being treated unequally in day to day human interaction. The environment in which they were put in caused hardship in the lives of Mexican-Americans. America was not the land of opportunity that the Mexican population believed it to be. Was there really opportunity

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    Cultural Practices and Traditions Culturally‚ Mexican Americans have a beautiful array of unique traditions and values. Spirituality plays a large role in many Mexican American families. At 61%‚ the majority of Mexican Americans are Christian and belong to the Roman Catholic Church. (Pew Research Hispanic‚ 2015) Another major aspect of Mexican American culture is the emphasis placed on the extended family. Due to the fact that Mexican Americans are a collectivist and interdependent group‚ the extended

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