“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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not read ahead until coming up with an answer): • How do you get an elephant into a refrigerator? The answer to the riddle‚ quite simply‚ is you open the fridge‚ put the elephant inside‚ and close the door. This solved‚ consider another riddle: • How do you get a giraffe into a refrigerator? Readers might be tempted to reuse the previous answer for this second riddle‚ but this turns out to be too simple. The correct answer is you open the fridge‚ take out the elephant‚ put the giraffe inside
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differently and that cultural beliefs are not the only factors that influence differences in opinion. The community‚ environment‚ and even one’s friends can also contribute to the way a person interprets things. One example is‚ “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚” a book about the struggles faced by the Lee family after emigrating from Laos to America. Foua delivered her 14th child‚ only this
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Johor Bahru. He claims he began in business as an office boy‚ and later started a business with relatives’ support. [2] In fact‚ upon graduation‚ he worked in the grains department of Japanese industrial conglomerate Mitsubishi between 1942 and 1945 Kuok senior died in 1948‚ and Kuok and his two brothers founded Kuok Brothers Sdn Bhd in 1949‚ trading agricultural commodities. Under the new post-colonial government‚ Kuok started in the sugar business alongside the government. In 1961‚ he made a coup by
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Catches You and You Fall Down exemplifies the techniques of ethnographic research that we have studied in class. Also I will consider the question if there are ways in which Fadiman could have improved her methods to be a better anthropologist. In the essay I will look at the specific methods and techniques that Fadiman utilized. I will discuss where she conducted her research and also cover how she conducted her fieldwork. I suggest Anthropological studies on cultural difference would have a practical
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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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Safe as many as you ruin. The short story is written by Simon Van Booy and a part of my analysis is focusing on the mood and the use of contrasts in the short story. In the text Gerard is mentioned as the main character‚ Gerard is the type of person who is afraid to be like anyone else‚ and he tries to make his life unusual because he does not want to blend in. Gerard is described in the text as handsome and he has slept with lots of women‚ he has a special relationship with to different women
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victim‚ they need to have courage and follow their ways‚ no matter what others say. Jem and Scout see people become victims of prejudice‚ rumors‚ poverty‚ and other atrocities in their own little town‚ as they grew older. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the children learn life lessons from witnessing people striving to survive different situations within Maycomb. When a challenge causes one to struggle‚ the children see that person‚ or themselves‚ have to have courage to do as they have before. Jem and
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: Cultural Clash This book focuses on the “clash” of cultures that occurs between the Lee family‚ immigrants to the US from Laos‚ and the doctors that treat their daughter‚ Lia‚ who has been diagnosed with epilepsy. Lia’s parents‚ Foua and Nao Kao believe that Lia has fallen ill because she has “lost her soul”. This clash of ideas highlights one of the problems that the Lee’s faced when dealing with the medical community in the US – the Lee’s believed
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Have you ever broken your crayons? Wore them down? Well with the Crayola Melt N Mold Factory you can fix those broken crayons! Did you know that an average American child will wear down 750 crayons and break up too 100? You can simply reuse those broken crayons and create your very own custom crayons. In the add it showed two kids coloring with crayons. A girl runs in the room and shows them the broken crayons. Intense music starts playing as they head to another room. They then took
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