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The Evolution of Lipsha Morrissey In the novel, Love Medicine, the reader gets to read about what it’s like to live a life as an Ojibwe Indian. The reader follows a family through the struggles of their everyday lives and witnesses how the individual characters develop through this story. Louise Erdrich created a character that’s development during these 60 years stood out significantly, Lipsha Morrissey.
In Anne Fadiman’s book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, two cultures clash with each other in the struggle to save Lia Lee, a Hmong child refugee with severe epilepsy. Although Lee and her family live in the United States, and thus receive medical care from Westerners, her family believes that Lee’s condition is sacred and special. The following miscommunications, both culturally and lingually, between the American doctors and the Lee family leave Lia Lee in comatose at the end of the book. However, Lia Lee could have been saved if the Lee’s had a better understanding of the American doctors’ intentions, and the American doctors understood the Hmong culture. Essentially, the tragedy of Lia Lee can be attributed to the clash of American and Hmong cultures at both the surface and sub-surface level.
This book is about Loung and Chou’s struggles and changes throughout their journey to different places. Loung overcame the obstacles of leaving family, fitting in, and PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) in her life, which demonstrates the importance of
Literary Analysis of “Waxen Wings” Failure is a grueling issue to consider even if it’s a natural way of life. Ha Songnan’s “Waxen Wings” expresses to never give up on your dreams because sometimes it takes failure to discover achievement. The nameless South Korean girl, “Birdie”, travels back to her childhood. As a child and even as an adult she has a brilliant imagination that consists of flying; yet, imagination is a ignominy in her culture.
Makenzie Griffith EDSE 460 Denise Hitchcock 1 March 2018 Midterm: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down It is a story about a family who shows so much loyalty to their traditions and cultures, but it clashes with the strict American “norm” and creates conflict for their most prized possession, their daughter. Young Lia’s health is at risk when the doctors are trying to treat her epilepsy, but the culture barrier between them and her parents put her at risk. Lia’s parents, Nao Kao and Foua Lee believe that their ancient traditions and healing is what Lia needs in order to get better, but Lia’s doctors prescribe her with many prescriptions to help with the seizures and her parent’s inability to read or speak English to communicate
If some one experience true suffering can they ever hold on to who they are? Suffering is physically or mentally in pain. In the book Night, while the Jews are in the concentration camp and in the ghettos, they suffered. In the concentration camps, Elie was separated from his family, beaten, running for hours on end, and whipped.
“I – I am going to the hospital, Grandson.” Her hand [reaches] out for [Sek-Lung]. “You know, Little Son, whatever happens I will never leave you.” Her palm [feels] plush and warm, the slender, old fingers boney and firm, so magically strong [is]her grip that [Sek-Lung][can] not imagine how she could ever part from [him]. Ever”.
First, her first influencer is her father, he converted to Christianity. Second, her maternal uncle and parental grandfather, whom practiced peyotism. There are multiple ways and uses for peyote as medicine. Lastly, her mother taught her about the traditional way of healing. These practices are through a vision quest, guardian spirits, and dreams.
Many people face some kind of adversity in their lives, but only few are recognized to the same extent as Adeline’s experiences in the autobiography ‘Chinese Cinderella’, written by Ms. Adeline Yen Mah. ‘Chinese Cinderella’ suggests that mental strength is what is needed to overcome all forms of adversity in life. This essay will discuss the ways in which that Adeline uses intellectual power to overcome the difficulties in her life, the outcomes she achieved and the messages she portrays. The ways that Adeline uses mental strength to overcome adversity occurs through many different events in her childhood.
In today’s media, a multitude of issues and topics are debated by journalists, organizations, and ordinary citizens every day. These subjects range from the morality of abortions, the effects of immigration, and even the credibility of stories regarding paranormal activity. While both sides to every debate are valid, the process for creating a sound and credible argument is crucial in building a trustworthy reputation. Also, an audience is more likely to listen if the argument has a fair and logical foundation. This process leads readers to question: Did the author establish a legitimate argument?
Confinement Kills People of the world have a situation on their hands. The situation is considered armed and dangerous. It has multiple confirmed kills. The situation, better known as Isolation, attacks the mind and body of its victims. In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Stetson writes a story about a woman name Jane treated for postpartum depression.
The narration beautifully illustrates the struggles of being pushed into a foreign world, where people look different, have other traditions, other norms, and speak an entirely different language. Based on her own childhood experiences as a migrant from Hong Kong, Jean Kwok tells the story of young and exceptionally intelligent Kimberly Chang who finds herself doing the splits between a life in Chinatown, wasting away as a sweatshop worker and living in a run-down apartment, and striving for a successful career at a fancy private school. Kimberly translates herself back and forth between a world where she can barely afford clothes and a world where, in spite of her intelligence, she 's supposed to look the part as she reaches for higher education. It is a tale of survival and beating the odds, but ultimately, it is also a fragile love story in an unforgiving environment. The narration is raw, honest, and authentic, with the Chinese culture being cleverly woven into the storyline.
Wrestling with our Inner Angels, Module 5 Kristen Trovato I loved the way Kehoe sought to fill the existing spiritual gap in assessing and working with her mentally ill clients at Longwood. I felt her approach was holistic and person-centered in the best of ways. Kehoe’s work challenged traditional clinical boundaries by acknowledging and extending respect to the deeper spiritual realities of her clients. While this orientation of respect and dignity may seem commonplace and uncomplicated, in a world where individuals with mental illness are often treated as second class citizens and with a general air of wariness, caution and suspicion, Kehoe’s work is truly remarkable and groundbreaking.
The book starts off with the author questioning the idea of how one enters a parallel universe such as insanity. She gives examples of times in which she has experienced entering in and out of universes or worlds. Inside the hospital she meets other patients such as Polly. Polly is badly scared in both lower and upper body due to her attempted to try and set herself on fire with the use of gasoline.
Prodhi Manisha COCO 5 What are the forms of resistance available to slaves and what purposes do they serve? The study of the complex system of slavery has remained critically insufficient due to the predominant treatment of the subject from a legislative and socioeconomic perspective localized in an external, corporeal world. In “The Phenomenology of Spirit”, the German philosopher G.W.F Hegel underscored the imperative to understand slavery as a cognitive and incorporeal system through the elucidation of the master-slave dialectic and the assertion that enslavement is essentially a psychological process. Thus, it follows that resistance as the subversion of enslavement must also be a psychological process. In this essay, I will discuss the
