Over the course of my college career I feel that I’ve grown into a fairly culturally competent person. I have played basketball and gone to school with many people from different cultures. These experiences have helped me gain knowledge and come to appreciate the different backgrounds and customs of people from other cultures. After reviewing the continuum‚ I would say that I land at the “cultural precompetence” level. I have a desire but no clear plan to achieve cultural competence. I always
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As she closed the large and heavy wooden door behind her‚ it was as if the sun had been blotted out‚ with only a single beam of light escaping its engulfing grasps. A door opened in the distance letting out a blinding light‚ and as she shielded her eyes‚ she could once again feel the soft‚ woolen rug beneath her feet and the warmth and welcoming of a house. Her bright shorts and t-shirt was the only barrier between her skin and the surrounding‚ chilling air. But as her thongs squeaked and the loose
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Although many differing theories or reasons for how the Carolingians gained legitimacy in the deposition of the Merovingians‚ Moore offers an intriguing opinion. “The usurpation was conceived as a reform of kingship based on theocratic concepts of royal power that have been traced to episcopal social thought. These assertions of royal power came to be suffused with a “rhetoric of reform.” This reforming rhetoric‚ became the guiding principle for the Carolingians‚ but sadly had repercussions for
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There are three modes identified in the Iranian immigrant adaptation; one is the denigrating the old culture‚ second is the denying the new culture and third is the ‘bi-culturation’. The family conflict arises when one member of the family follows one mode of adaptation and the others are following another mode of adaptation causing an acculturative stress. The main challenges to adaptation among the Iranian immigrants is the acculturative stress. The Iranians has a very close relationship with the family
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The Roy Adaptation Model Ella Linden POINT LOMA UNIVERSITY The Roy Adaptation Model Sister Callista Roy proposed the Roy Adaptation Model. The person or group responds to stimuli from internal or external environment through control processes or coping mechanisms identified as the regulator and cognator (stabilizer and innovator for the group) subsystems. The regulator processes are essentially automatic‚ while the cognator processes involve perception‚ learning‚ judgment‚ and emotion. The
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Stress Stress‚ we all struggle with it. "Stress" is a word we’re all familiar with‚ some of us maybe too familiar. Stress cannot be avoided and it is not possible to entirely eliminate it from our lives. The hassles‚ deadlines and frustrations have made stress so common that it has become a way of life for people. Life is full of challenges‚ and a life without it is not only impossible but is also undesirable. Stress is something that can’t be avoided and it isn’t possible to eliminate it from
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In the present day‚ stress is widely recognized as a major problem for many employees in their daily life. According to Lawrence（2010）：The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have defined stress as the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on them at work. This definition suggests that when people experience excessive stress‚ there is a high risk. And this phenomenon also contributes to some bad consequences‚ such as mental illness，heart and circulatory
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Stress Stress is a term used to describe the physical‚ emotional‚ cognitive‚ and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging. But for me stress is a mental and emotional distraction condition‚ which is caused due to pressure in everyday life. Stress can have a positive or a negative effect on a person depending on how it is dealt with. For me‚ college is my number one stressor. The causes are academic‚ financial and personal. When it comes to trying to relieve
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Roy Adaptation Model Roy Adaptation Model (RAM)‚ defined as a process of adaptation in which people respond positively to changes in the environment based on three types of stimuli - focal‚ contextual and residual (Alligood‚ 2010). In nursing practice‚ RAM promotes patient adaptation because nurses manipulate environmental stimuli‚ thus‚ enable patients’ to positively cope and adapt to life situations which positively influences health and illness. According to RAM’s theory‚ people are
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Adaptations of Living Organisms to the Antarctic’s Extreme Conditions. The Antarctic‚ also called the south pole‚ is one of the world’s seven continents and lies at around 60° south of the equator (Singh et al..‚ 2010). The Antarctic is an example of an extreme environment. An extreme environment is a habitat that most life-forms find intolerable‚ or even‚ sometimes‚ lethal (Rampelotto‚ 2013). It is the Antarctic’s average temperature of minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit‚ average ice depth of 6‚500
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