Final Paper: “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” By: Anne Fadiman Meghan Maloney 26 April 2013 To understand the struggles that the Hmong people face living in America it is important to understand where they come from and what they have gone through. The majority of the Hmong people originate from the mountainous country of Laos. The mountains created isolation from the neighboring cultures and cultivated a clan identity. They were part of a society where everyone worked together
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Money can buy you happiness. Discuss with references to the theory and some empirical evidence on the issue. The set point theory According to this theory‚the individual propensity to happiness is a personal trait of largely genetic origin and influenced by personality.The explanation for the stagnation of happiness is that happiness is a stochastic phenomenon.Chance distributes unequal amounts of happiness among people’s genetic codes ‚leaving the average level unchanged. The decreasing
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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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some activities that exceed the standard. Prosecutor receive a lot of accusations from the authorities of San Francisco’s information technology department. Some of accusations are Childs commandeering the fiberWan by creating password that granted him exclusive access to the system‚ He implemented a tracing system to monitor what administrators were saying and doing that illegal to do‚ also he had placed a command on several devices on the network that would erase critical configuration data in the
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“America is the land of opportunities‚” is the cliche manifested in Jamaicans like me from parents‚ friends‚ and the media simultaneously. The profound amount of opportunities America has to offer attracted many people here including my family and I. I identified early on that if I wanted to be successful in life I would have to leave Jamaica in order to capitalize on the educational and future career opportunities in America. As my knowledge on the ideology of life and my understanding of who
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December 11‚ 2012 Section 1: Who is the one to delineate fault for a miscommunication and misunderstanding between two cultures? In Anne Fadiman’s novel‚ The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚ she begins the novel as an attempt to allocate responsibility for the mistreatment and exacerbation of Lia Lee’s epilepsy. The tension between the Hmong and United States medical culture exemplified the strain in America between a foreign culture dependent on rituals and society’s norm. As the novel progress
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Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Journal #2 In The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚ by Anne Fadiman‚ Lia Lee is a very sickly child‚ and is now unfortunately a “vegetable.” Much to the hospitals chagrin‚ they in fact are the reason why Lia is in a comatose state. The Lee’s argued with the doctors throughout Lia’s entire 4 years of medical strife with epilepsy about the medication and the way they were treating Lia. Fadiman juxtaposes the differences of the Hmong way of healing people:
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Punctuating Titles My favorite movie is Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino. My favorite song is Nowhere man” in The Beatles’ 6th album Rubber Soul. My favorite book is The Da Vinci code The local newspaper is the Marin Independent Journal‚ one article they have online right now is “ Suspect in Novato market burglary arrested in Vallejo.” One very bad show is Keeping up with the Kardashians. In my pinion‚ the best Edgar Allan poe short story is the “Gold Bug.” One of Shel Silverstein’s
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could mend. The past can’t be rewritten‚ But it can make you stronger. Be thankful for every change‚ For every break in your heart‚ For every scar‚ Pages were turned‚ Bridges were burned‚ But you… HAD LEARNED -you’ll know if the person really cares when he ask what’s wrong and when you tell him nothing‚ he stays there‚ waiting..for the real reason. -"Never compare yourself with anyone in this world‚ if you do so..then you are insulting yourself. -continue your day with
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physical ailment. According to Fadiman (1997)‚ “…the noise of the door had been so profoundly frightening that her soul had fled her body and become lost. They recognized the resulting symptoms as qaug dab peg‚ which means ‘the spirit catches you and you fall down’”(p.20). To the Lee family‚ Lia’s condition was as revered as it was frightening. While a person with qaug dab peg was traditionally held in high esteem in the Hmong culture‚ it was also terrifying enough that the Lee’s rushed Lia to
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