Have you lived up to your family’s expectations of you? I believe I have lived up to my parent’s expectations. My parents have always set realistic expectations of my brother and I. My mother is a Certified Nursing Assistant and my father works in construction. My mother would always say to us‚ “Do not be like me‚ do better than me”. So at a young age I took that quote and I ran with it. She wanted us to be smart‚ determined and independent members of society. I wanted to make my parents proud
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goals that you had set for me. I have been listening attentively to whatever you could tell me and respect your authority. I have never been late at work; working six days in a week‚ regardless of how busy we get I have always managed to keep the work in a balance and keep my internal customers satisfied. You could always give instructions to me on a new job and let me find away out to it. Once a specific task is given to me I accomplish it to make sure I make customers happy. When you tell me to
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one form of opposition took form in a film called Annie Get Your Gun‚ which juxtaposes feminism and happiness. The film
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actually the first two lines of the poem. Right from the start the title says a lot. The title is very direct in the way it leads into the poem. Readers don’t have to guess what this poem is going to be about. Also‚ almost everyone that has lived in some kind of neighborhood can relate to it. Anyone that has had a mean neighbor can in some way share this type of experience. Or maybe it’s just a memory of that one house everyone knew you cannot go around or into; parents are always telling their children
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In Chapter 1 of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚ Fadiman demonstrates cultural relativism towards the Hmong culture by including very detailed history‚ facts and procedures found in Hmong culture. When explaining the long process of pregnancy and birth in Hmong culture‚ she does not make and claims for or against these rituals. She does not compare the cultures rituals to another culture. Fadiman simply states facts and explains the steps it takes for a woman to give birth to a child. She
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Life You Save Might Be Your Own” to be grotesque means that you’re disgusting‚ bizarre and twisted. It also has to do with an obsession. The character that is the most grotesque is Mr. Tom T. Shiftlet‚ the drifter. Mr. Tom’s words that make him grotesque are that he says “People do anything” and “People don’t care how they lie”. Actions that make him grotesque are that he only marries Lucynell for the money and car‚ basically he used her. Also the first thing he mentions when he first gets to the
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may be completely different than another. These different views and opinions can often cause cultures to collide when a doctor is summoned to treat an individual of a different culture than their own. Anne Fadiman’s book‚ The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚ tells the story of an epileptic Hmong child and her collision of two cultures. Lia Lee began suffering seizures at a young age and was diagnosed with epilepsy by American doctors. Her family however believed her illness was caused by soul
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Biggest Threat to Your Private Data May Be You In this article on Facebook‚ Jacquielynn Floyd brings up a very valid and interesting point on how we give out personal information without even thinking that we could be harming ourselves. The way the world is today we don’t even have to have face to face communication with people‚ all we have to do send the person a friend request. Until we take responsibility for our actions‚ the only person we can blame for our personal information being
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“The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” Reader’s Guide Directions: Read the captioned book. Then answer the questions contained in this study guide. Post your completed document to the appropriate assignment box on the course website. 1. What do you think of traditional Hmong birth practices (pp. 3-5)? Compare them to the techniques used when Lia was born (p. 7). How do Hmong and American birth practices differ? I think the Hmong traditional give birth practice is very unsafe and dirty. The
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What Motivates You! There was a time where employees were known as just another input into the production of goods and services. What possibly changed the way of thinking about employees was research‚ referred to as the Hawthorne Studies‚ conducted by Elton Mayo. This study found employees are not motivated solely by money and employee behavior is linked to their attitudes (Dickson‚ 1973). Why is motivation so important in the work force and what should be done? Motivated employees
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