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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Overcoming is a probable cause in this world today. Most people today have experienced it from one time to another‚ and if you have not experienced the pain of failure I would consider you lucky. Failure is something that everyone must try to accept. Not everyone is willing to accept their flaws‚ and they are not willing to accept they are not good enough sometimes. I have experienced overcoming a hardship countless times and these events are still occurring. For example‚ when I play a volleyball
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corresponding to bravery is fine with me. But without taking risks in your life‚ people call you boring‚ cowardly‚ mellow. You never experience the rush of exhilaration often described in books whenever someone does something exciting‚ brave‚ or dramatic. And so being the boring person that I am‚ I decided one day to step out of the circular wall that I have built around me and try to get a taste of what it is like to be out of my comfort zone. The main question was how I do that. This was just
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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 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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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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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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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 Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚” tells a story about a Hmong child Lia Lee‚ who suffers her first epileptic seizure at three months of age. Her treatment becomes difficult to go through because of her parents‚ Nao Kao and Foua‚ inability to speak English. They cannot speak to the doctors and many problems follow because of it. It started when Lia was three months old when her sister had slammed the front door. Quickly after‚ “Lia’s eyes rolled up‚ her arms jerked over her head‚ and she
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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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