MY UNUSUAL VACATION * Sulaiman Danjuma Travelling has always been a passion of mine. Being an amateur photographer‚ I find seeing new places‚ meeting new people and getting to know different cultures‚ exceptionally inspiring. By the age of 32 I had already been to the majority of exotic places: the Emirates‚ Ethiopia‚ Turkey‚ India‚ Laos‚ Thailand‚ Japan‚ Egypt‚ Australia and Cuba. So‚ when a friend of my dad who was working as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Ukraine invited me to visit him
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Case Report- Paranoid Schizophrenia Background Information 1. Outline the major symptoms of the disorder discussed in the case. Schizophrenia is a complex and incapacitating disorder. It is a disorder marked by significant disturbance in thoughts‚ perceptions‚ and moods. The onset of Schizophrenia is said to occur gradually. Symptoms are classified as positive and negative. Positive symptoms or overt behavior not normal in normal individuals include delusions (beliefs that are not reality
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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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influence in the lives of their students. What a teacher says to a student can have the same effect as to what a parent says to their child. It is the difference between a student trying their best due to an encouraging teacher‚ and a student giving up because the teacher demeaned them publicly. Teachers must be aware of how they speak to their students as for what they say can truly effect their lives. Attending elementary school is one of the most preceptive moments of a child’s life. By both
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ghosts shouldn’t be able to. Additionally if Miriam wasn’t real‚ then how would she be able to obtain real life objects? Another reason to prove Miriam’s existence is that she had obtained real life objects. This reason is true because on Miriam walks up to Mrs. Miller on the cold snowy day and asks her to buy her a ticket to watch the movie‚ then she hands her a 2 nickels and a dime (2). The reader can see that Miriam can touch and obtain real life objects so that Miriam is real. Ghosts can’t really
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11/24/2014‚ Ms. Cobb had an appointment and was seen in my office today for a follow-up visit to discuss her MRI. Ms. Cobb currently has at least 6 more weeks left of physical therapy along with other treatments. Ms. Cobb is still taking medication for pain while under care at this time. The Sciatic recovery process varies depending on the patient’s body. Sciatic flare-ups are not easily predictable nor are flare-ups an accurately timed science but‚ the body has to heal itself with time. Since Ms
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In this essay I will review the question of how the Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down exemplifies the techniques of ethnographic research that we have studied in class. Also I will consider the question if there are ways in which Fadiman could have improved her methods to be a better anthropologist. In the essay I will look at the specific methods and techniques that Fadiman utilized. I will discuss where she conducted her research and also cover how she conducted her fieldwork. I suggest Anthropological
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had a fight with her boyfriend‚ who wanted to break up with the patient because of her unstable emotion and manipulation. She did not want the break up so she threatened to commit suicide. Patient has been in four relationships within the last year‚ and all relationships started well as the patient put in lots of effort to keep her partners from leaving her‚ but all of her boyfriends broke up with her because they found it difficult to keep up with her emotion need. The patient has had outstanding
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participants who have a triad background and could have learned deliquescing behaviours from them. She hence needs to pay extra time and effort to have talks with the participant‚ so as to prevent negative impacts took effect on him. However‚ this is largely up to the social workers’ discretion‚ it is uncertain that each of such exposures is counteracted by a proper and in-time
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and much more moderate. 2. I think that the up-heavals the Hmong have been through have made them more insecure about the 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
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