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    hello i am a girl who likes to sing and dance my hero is micheal jackson i love his songs and dancing tooc gcycx djfudbudvui bhs bad that he is dead ftdtauefgiuwgehfv Essay 2: Analysis of Gran Torino through Salin’s Lens Assimilation‚ acculturation‚ and integration are three topics that are addressed and analyzed throughout the film Gran Torino. Important steps that immigrants need to take to complete their assimilation are addressed by Peter Salin. Gran Torino compares Salin’s

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    For the second reflection paper I chose to write about the book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. When I started reading this book‚ I had no idea what I was going to read about. I learned many new concepts on the culture of Hmong and their views. A brief section of the book also was about how they came to America and the experiences they had while doing so. I learned that there was a secret war in Laos that caused a tragedy among the Hmong people leaving them to abandon their homes in the

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    MIDDLE EAST CUSTOMS GUIDE V3 July 2012 The Information provided is based on customs regulations and requirements as of 29th July 2012. Please note customs regulations and sanctions are fluid and may change‚ we will provide updated information in a timely fashion however the information communicated in this document from June 2012 onwards is to be used as a guide. SAUDI ARABIA KUWAIT BAHRAIN OMAN QATAR UAE YEMEN LEBANON JORDAN SYRIA EGYPT IRAQ AFGHANISTAN WELCOME TO DHL EXPRESS MIDDLE

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    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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    Happy Chinese New Year 新年快乐 (Snake) 蛇 Terrorized Village ● Demon/Dragon (Name shall not be spoken) "Nian" ● Villagers afraid‚ crops destroyed‚ children gone. ● Wise old man Year of the Snake (Zodiac Animals) ● ● ● ● 12 animals 12 months Great empire needed to tell time Trickery/betrayal The Amazing Race Paper Cutting ● Decoration ● Upsidedown ● Good Luck/Good Fortune ● ● 福- Fú http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTV6enoXUY Myth of the Lanterns ● ● ●

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    only influence but actually determine social customs and ethics. The advance of technologies is attributed to the further and deeper perception that humans rationally and logically explore the nature. Such advancement leads to the change of social customs and ethics that used to be accord with the former human understanding; after all social customs and ethics‚ by nature‚ are changeable. However‚ whether the influence of technologies over social customs and ethics are determining is still a question

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    that visitors to other countries should follow local customs and behavior .Others disagree and think that host country should welcome cultural differences. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion. There is always this controversial issue in societies that whether tourists to other countriesincoming tourists ought to obey local traditions or not. Some people believe that there are advantages of letting visitors to follow their own customs in a foreign country while others do not agree. Most

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    Interesting Customs around the World INDIA: In Sholapur‚ India‚ an unbelievable non-religious ceremony takes place every year. Babies are dropped from a 15m tower without any safety string tied to their bodies. They free fall straight into the hands of the people who wait below with a bed sheet. The people of Sholapur are clueless about the purpose behind this fearful act. Some say‚ it’s for good health while others say it is for good luck for the future of the child. JAPAN: Never send Red

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    Final Paper What I will be covering in my paper is how communication was the biggest role in what happened to Lia. If Lia’s parents better understood the doctors it could have prevented a lot of things. But however‚ if the American Doctors knew about the Hmong people’s culture‚ language and the Lee’s thoughts on what was going on with Lia it also could have been prevented a lot. The Lee’s thought the reason why Lia was sick was because her sister slammed the door too loud and it caused her soul

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    This family is constituted in the world by the ways of their traditional beliefs and values brought with them from Laos. Foua and Nao Kao came to America for the same reasons as many other Hmong families did and that was to avoid the assimilation they were faced with living in Laos. To the Hmong people their ethnicity is everything to them. "They did not come to America to save their lives‚ they came to save their selves that is their Hmong ethnicity" (p. 183). When Lia gets sick we start to

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