Cultural Presentation: Native Americans –Eastern Cherokee What are the top 5 things a nurse or health care provider would need to know about someone that identifies with this culture? 1. Results of this study suggested that providers and patients often left the medical encounter with significantly different perceptions of “what happened” during the visit. This discordance was most often a result of the patients’ tendency to evaluate provider behavior more positively than did the providers
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Cultural Relativism With the increase in hostilities between world powers and a rise in nationalism‚ borderline fascism‚ the blending of our societies have come to an intricate crossroads. Multiculturalism has literally come to a stopping point and an inverted rise in concern of the definition of collective groups has spurred the clashes within our societies. Thus‚ we must observe what is the relativity within cultures‚ and how does it shape our day to day interactions. Bringing to the forefront
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An essay on the importance of cultural diversity and cultural competence Julie K Drouillard Devry institute SOC 350 July 2009 The United States is a country consisting of many cultures‚ races and religions. The United States is becoming increasingly diverse and global‚ with many minority cultures and races developing into majority cultures and races. Newer religions take their place alongside traditional faiths. Both cultural and spiritual differences in people are potential causes for misunderstanding
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Cruz Maria Velazquez is 72 years old and she is my maternal grandmother. My grandmother comes from a family of 12 children. She grew up in poverty and had to drop out of school in the third grade to help bring money into the home. She was growing up in her hometown of Ponce‚ Puerto Rico and had to take a job in the home of a doctor living in San Juan‚ Puerto Rico. There is a distance of 1 hour and a half of travel‚ which she did by bus. My grandmother had to leave her family at the age of 9 years
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Te Tohu Paetahi Ngā Poutoko Whakarara Year One Student Name: Gina McGhee Student ID: 200191255 Assessment Title: Tōu Ao/Tōku Ao Assessment Code: WTTMD511.2 Kaiako: Taiki Kennedy Due Date: 5 June 2013 Date Submitted: Word Count: Students please read and sign: Plagiarism is the use of others work that is submitted as your own. This will lead to disciplinary action as outlined in Te Wānanga o Aotearoa Tikanga Ako. I declare that the attached assignment
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Understanding Language Importance I have lived in Mexico for the most part of my life and I also lived in the United States a couple years ago; language was never a barrier to me since I knew enough english to get around even if I was not sure if I was saying everything the correct way‚ I never felt intimidated by language until I arrived in France‚ at first it was very hard for me to get around due to the fact that I only knew a few words in french like “merci”‚ “mon amie”‚ “Je te aime” and
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You here talk about the American Spirit all the time‚ but what is this “Spirit” we always talk about? Is it some ghost that follows us around‚ or is it an animal spirit that guides Americans like many Native American tribes believe in? I will be the first to admit that I’m not the biggest fan of what the United States has turned into over the years‚ but once I came across the articles “Is America Falling Apart‚” by Anthony Burgess‚ and “9.11.01: The Skyscraper and the Airplane” by Adam Goodheart
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* ____________: The tangible things created by members of a society * ____________: Disorientation due to the inability to make sense out of one’s surroundings; domestic and foreign travel * ____________: A biased “cultural yardstick” * ____________: More accurate understanding Symbols * Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture * ____________ create new symbols all the time. * Reality
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Social norms are created through both cultural values and presentation of self‚ with these concepts of reality being constantly learned throughout our lives by means of social interaction as well as outside influences such as media‚ movies‚ television‚ and even observing strangers. Through these interactions and influences we determine what is publically acceptable in our society and conform ourselves to these social norms in order to remain in sync‚ by upholding our self presentation and social
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Introduction: Nowadays‚ climate change has drawn many attention due to the increasing awareness of sustainability. Kyoto Protocol has been signed by 192 parties and it comes to be mandatory for 37 developed nations (UN‚ 2014). Under Kyoto Protocol‚ Emission Trading Scheme has been set up for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gases. It allows emission rights to be traded between countries to help governments meeting the gas emissions reduction target (Evans‚ 2012). However‚ how to report the value
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