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    Artifacts in Jamaica

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    Artifact An object made by human craft‚ especially a tool‚ weapon etc and represent historical interest. It is normally an inexpensive object which is an example of the way earlier civilization lived. Types of artifact ❖ Ceramic Artifacts ➢ Chamber Pot ➢ Tin-Glazed earthenware ➢ Border ware Chamber Pot [pic] A chamber pot is a small pot‚ usually ceramic‚ designed to fit under a bed or in a discreet close stool. The earliest form of chamber

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    You Decide 1

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    YOU DECIDE: INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDY 1 You Decide: International Case Study Andree Carmelita Pierre DeVry University Keller Graduate School of Management YOU DECIDE: INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDY 2 Abstract Mary Wright is a human resources consultant for a telecommunications’ company in Miami‚ Florida‚ whose company has recently decided to expand its operations in the Arab Emirates‚ in Dubai. Mary’s extensive professional background along with her dedication

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    Catches You and You Fall Down tells the story of Lia Lee‚ a Hmong child with epilepsy‚ whose tragic downfall reveals the dangers of a lack of cross-cultural communication in the medical profession. At the age of three months‚ Lia had her first seizure caused by the sound of a door being slammed shut‚ by her older sister Yer. Their parents‚ Foua and Nao Kao believed that the sound of the door had caused Lia’s soul to flee‚ they called her illness “qaug dab peg”‚ which means “the spirit catches you and

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    The spirit catches you and you fall down Introduction: “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down’’ by Anne Fadiman represents true story of the epileptic Hmong girl and her family displaced from China to the USA. She suffers severe grand mal seizures and eventually becomes vegetative for the rest of her life. Lia Lee’s story was a poignant example that emphasizes the cultural barriers between modern and traditional cultures through their approaches to the life‚ which results in complete destruction

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    When you are interviewing for a new job‚ it can be hard to articulate where you would like to be in your career next year let alone five years down the road. Even when you do know‚ it’s important to be careful how you respond because you’ll need to tailor your answer to the job for which you are interviewing. Here are tips for responding to questions about the next stage of your career‚ while affirming your interest in the role you are being interviewed for. It is often advantageous to emphasize

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    The Spirit Catches You

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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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    Have you ever wondered if Rome is a great place to live? Well the answer to that is yes‚ they had many great jobs‚ nice foods‚ lots to do for fun‚ and amazing education. Some people might say somewhere besides Rome is better‚ but it’s not Rome had many different things better than anywhere else‚ and Rome had slaves that were sometimes beaten or worked to death. Although Rome had slaves‚ most of the owners were actually nice. Slaves were sometimes paid and possibly set free. They were treated like

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    Where Are You Going

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    In the 1960s‚ when Oates wrote “Where Are You Going . . . ‚” a social revolution was happening. American women were asserting their rights and independence from men‚ and they were claiming their sexuality in a way they had never done before. One frequently discussed topic was adolescence and the struggles and anxieties that many young girls endured as they lost their sexual innocence and became adult women. Feeling undervalued in their homes and relationships with men‚ women questioned their role

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    Lauren McFall Mr. Gossett English 10H-4 March 17‚ 2008 You are What You Eat Throughout the past twenty years‚ obesity in the United States has drastically increased. Currently‚ one-hundred and seventeen billion people in the United States are obese. Out of those people‚ three-hundred thousand people die each year because of complications due to being over-weight. One out of every four children in the average school in the United States is over-weight. In an effort to combat this growing

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    Human Potential in the World of Digital Technologies In the excerpts from his work You Are Not a Gadget for the first time‚ Jaron Lanier seems to be criticizing his colleagues‚ the developers of digital technologies‚ for limiting human experiences. However‚ after reading it more closely‚ phrases‚ such as “faith in human nature” and “different potentials in human nature”‚ begin to stand out in the text. Seeing as the title of his work is also referring to the user of technology in second person‚

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