WRITTEN PAPER : “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.” – Jose Ortega y Gasset In my paper I write about a quote from Jose Ortega y Gasset: “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are”. Jose Ortega y Gasset (9 may 1883-18 octomber 1995) was a Spanish liberal philosopher and assayist working during the first half of the 20th century. His influence was considerable‚ not only because many sympathized with his philosophical writings‚ but
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What keeps you alive? In addition to air‚ water‚ and food‚ people require something to motivate them‚ to keep them going. These motivations are oftentimes dreams which others consider to be unrealistic or even impossible. So what are we to think of people whose very existences are predicated on their own delusions? By definition‚ a person who cannot separate their own delusions from reality is considered to be insane. By this measure‚ it is possible to be a person whose entire existence is predicated
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In “Diversity Challenges-What Would You Do?” (Learning Communications‚ 2009)‚ an organization interviewed prospective employee Felix. While Felix immediately hit it off with the human resources associate‚ it soon became apparent that he was not accustomed to the level of diversity in the organization. His overt shock and multicultural leadership in addition to his nonverbal response to various other diversity characteristics present in the workforce indicated that Felix had an issue with working
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In the video “How Do You Know When You’re A Grown-Up?” by The Atlantic‚ the novel Me Being Me is Exactly as Insane as You Being You by Todd Hasak-Lowy‚ and the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles shoe that coming of age can not be condensed into one single ceremony or experience‚ that it must be an individual experience apart from anyone else’s‚ and that it must all lead to an understanding of the responsibilities of adulthood‚ which may result in a loss of innocence. Contrary to many popular
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few lines. After class‚ complete phrases and sentences as much as possible. For every significant bit of information‚ write a cue in the left margin. To review‚ cover your notes with a card‚ leaving the cues exposed. Say the cue out loud‚ and then say as much as you can of the material underneath the card. When you have said as much as you can‚ move the card and see if what you said matches what is written. If you can say it‚ you know it. Advantages - Organized and systematic for recording and
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The Collision of Two Cultures - Implications of Cultural Values and Beliefs on Caring Concepts Abstract This paper is a personal response to Anne Fadiman’s book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. The paper includes a summary of the book‚ an overall impression of the reader‚ a discussion of three major themes evident in the book‚ and a description of a situation from the book and how the situation could be handled differently using references and material learned in 3020 Transcultural
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between immigrants and citizens. What I find interesting is the conflicts pertaining to the health care system. Based on previous lectures‚ immigrants tend to mistrust the American health care system due to difference in medical remedies and the language spoken. I know first-hand that my mother would prefer to have a Ghanaian physician‚ as opposed to the general white American doctor. Anne Fadiman wrote a successful award-winning book called‚ The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚ which highlights
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The different causes for the gap‚ different ways to reduce the gap‚ as well as examples of schools that have successfully done so will also be discussed. The Achievement Gap: Causes and Possible Solutions What causes the gap? Many educational researchers have studied the causes of the significant achievement gap between Caucasian middle or upper class students and African-American or Hispanic underprivileged students‚ and have demonstrated that there is not one cause‚ but many. Paul
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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 could
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Is Facebook “Good” For You? Ellie B April 10‚ 2012 Think back to 2005‚ just a mere seven years ago. MySpace was climbing the charts with 26.7 million users (MacManus‚ 2006). YouTube was just launched and gained much popularity through MySpace. Mark Zuckerburg had just created Facebook the year before and has just opened usage to high school students (Acohido‚ 2009). Nobody living in 2005 could have ever predicted the skyrocketing usage of the internet in the years to come
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