The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Summary and Reading Log Chapter 1 - Birth Chapter 1 goes through the traditional birthing methods and traditions of the Hmong people. One of the most significant traditions is burying the placenta. The placenta has to be strategically buried in a specific spot under the homes dirt floor or when the person dies its soul has to travel back to the placenta. This chapter also introduces the characters Nao Kao and Foua Lee. Nao is husband and father of 13
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LAW AND ECONOMICS COURSEWORK TOPIC A – 3000 WORDS Are people rational (in the economist’s sense) and reasonable (in the lawyer’s sense)? Whatever your answer to that question‚ does it matter? The idea behind the collaboration between the two drastically different fields of law and economics is to ascertain the implication of hypothetical rational person’s response to rules and legislations. The economic analysis of law is perhaps a better description between the fusion of these two fields.
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physical ailment. According to Fadiman (1997)‚ “…the noise of the door had been so profoundly frightening that her soul had fled her body and become lost. They recognized the resulting symptoms as qaug dab peg‚ which means ‘the spirit catches you and you fall down’”(p.20). To the Lee family‚ Lia’s condition was as revered as it was frightening. While a person with qaug dab peg was traditionally held in high esteem in the Hmong culture‚ it was also terrifying enough that the Lee’s rushed Lia to the
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The Website Specialist Proposal For Bunker Books Executive Summary The Website Specialist has been tasked by Bunker Book Store to develop a website. Our goal is to design a custom website to help them reach customers around the world‚ so they can increase traffic and profits. We intend to accomplish this by taking a close look at Bunker Books‚ so we can identify and build the website according to needs. The Website Specialist will create a website which will be the solution
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Early Childhood Literacy LaTonya Grady EDU 626 Introductions to Research and Methodology Dr. Paula Zobisch July 30‚ 2012 Abstract Research on early childhood literacy pinpoints the early childhood years as the foundational base period for developing the language and literacy skills that are fundamental to a young child’s long term developmental success in reading and writing. This study places theoretical attention on the essential components of literacy that promote and predict the essential emergent
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Counseling The Culturally Diverse THE SPIRIT CATCHES YOU AND YOU FALL DOWN By: Yvette Bradley Professor: Dr. K. Doka The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by: Anne Fadiman In the book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down starts with the traditional nurturing of the Hmong people. The most significant tradition is the burying of the placenta. The Hmong people believe that the placenta must be purposefully buried in a particular spot under the dwelling of the Hmong’s between
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SERENIC NAVIGATOR SOFTWARE Introduction This comprehensive report consists of description of the system‚ diagram or process flow of the software‚ advantages of the software and limitations of the software. The Budget Management System (BMS) is enables an organization or company to manage and handle the operational funding and annually budgeting. It is powerful enough to replace traditional methods of manual record keeping and will adapt to a various of budgeting procedures. The application available
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help of other cultural. For example‚ they don’t really trust the western medicine practices. Foa is agitated with all the medication Lia has to take and believes some of it makes her even worse. So they have some trouble believing that other people want to help. Also‚ they have grown stronger as a cultural and have their guards up. 3. The cultural barrier is the biggest problem because the Hmong people do not have the same concept as we do. They don’t have words for certain things we do. For example
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December 11‚ 2012 Section 1: Who is the one to delineate fault for a miscommunication and misunderstanding between two cultures? In Anne Fadiman’s novel‚ The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚ she begins the novel as an attempt to allocate responsibility for the mistreatment and exacerbation of Lia Lee’s epilepsy. The tension between the Hmong and United States medical culture exemplified the strain in America between a foreign culture dependent on rituals and society’s norm. As the novel progress
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Being culturally competent is essential in caring for the lives of others. As a nurse you will be caring for individuals and families who may or may not have the same beliefs and values and yourself. Despite the differences the nurse must be able to ask the appropriate questions‚ seek out tools that are going to help the client and family understand the importance of their care‚ and feel comfortable when
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