1.)The Merced Hospital Staff believed Lia suffered from Epilepsy. They believed it translated into Qaug dab peg. What was misunderstood is that quag dab peg were not really perceived as the same thing in Hmong culture as Epilepsy is in western medicine. In the Hmong culture‚ QDP is believed to be caused by a bad spirit called a dab. It is believed that dabs are responsible for stealing souls and making its victims sick. Epilepsy is recognized by western medicine as a serious neurological condition
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ARCHETYPES: WHO ARE YOU? BY CAROLINE MYSS (Nonfiction Book Reports) The Assignment in Conversation VI Subject By: Siti Utami 10111150 S I ENGLISH LITERATURE HIGHER SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEKNOKRAT BANDAR LAMPUNG 2013 TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Background of The Report 1 1.2 The Scope Of The Report 2 CHAPTER TWO DISCUSSION 2.1 The Biographycal Sketch 3 2.2 The Physical Description 4
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(When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head) Fiction and Drama Character sketch- Chief Matenje • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • He was an “evil‚ greedy man”. He despised the people of “his” village- Golema Mmidi He lost a lot of his power and authority “because of Gilberts ideas”. The Villagers had “less fear” for him‚ because they worked together. He always caused inconvenience He’s brother was getting tired of him He wanted to “get rid..” of Makhaya and Gilbert and wanted them to go back
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In The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚ Anne Fadiman narrates the story of Lia‚ a Hmong girl suffering from epilepsy who was surrounded by challenges due to conflicting viewpoints of her parents and her health care providers. For the Hmong people‚ epileptic seizures are viewed as a positive trait; those people who suffered from seizures are attributed to be a “twix neeb”‚ or “a person with a healing spirit” (Fadiman‚ 1997‚ pg. 21). Lia’s parents—Foau and Nao Kao (the Lees)—considered her condition
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Process capability studies determine whether a process is unstable‚ investigate any sources of instability‚ determine their causes‚ and take action to resolve such sources of instability. After all sources of instability have been resolved in a process‚ the natural behavior of the process is called its process capability. Process capability compares the output of a process (called “Voice of the Process”) with the customer’s specification limits for the outputs (called “Voice of the Customer”). A
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Hazem Qassem MGT 610- Contemporary Management Theory You And Your Career Question 1: Motivation: Chapter 17‚ page Is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs useful to managers? Why? Response: Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs describes the building blocks where an individual can reach their highest and full potential to have an impact on themselves and the world around them. There are 4 key stages to achieve self-actualization that are incumbent upon one another. To answer the question‚ first we have to
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Analysis for “If You Forget Me” As a world renowned poem‚ “If You Forget Me”‚ which was written by Pablo Neruda‚ can be considered as the benchmark in literary circles‚ not only because of its excellent use of language‚ but also a variety of literary devices that are included. The most obvious device that is used in this poem is metaphor. Although it seems to be as a love poem for author’s beloved‚ it can also be considered a kind of love that the author devotes to his homeland. As the background
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Do you worry about what people say? Around the world‚ a lot of people worry about what others say or think of them‚ but‚ what’s the reason whereby people think a lot about what others say? So‚ according to different references‚ people want to be liked and accepted‚ and in that roll‚ it’s very important what people say about them. But‚ what’s the impact of be worry about what people say? … We’ll see that. Caring about what people say of you it’s normal because it means that you respect the different
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down”‚ a novel‚ written by Anne Fadiman‚ takes an inside look at the Hmong culture‚ their history‚ and trails Lia’s‚ a Hmong child of the Lees‚ medical experience with her American doctors and how a clash of two cultures impacted her outcome. Lia has epilepsy or as the Hmong say‚ “the spirit catches you and you fall down” (Fadiman‚ 2012‚ p. 30). The book focuses on Lia’s care‚ which results in brain death‚ the medical staffs’ actions/behaviors‚ what improvements
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“Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Paper “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is a short story that poses many questions centered around the protagonist‚ Connie and the antagonist Arnold Friend and his “comrade” Ellie. The fate of Connie at the end of the story is still up for debate after all these years after the story was published in 1966. The main question posed is who actually is Arnold Friend? Is he the devil or something else? The answer may never be fully known but in
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