Ambivalence

situation. The title The Spirit Catches you and You Fall Down is the translation from the Hmong term for Lia’s illness quag dab peg. The Hmong believe that it is caused when the soul flees the body and becomes lost. They view epilepsy with ambivalence, understanding the potential danger yet proud of its status as an illness of distinction-the first calling of a Shamanic healer. Sadly, the final outcome for Lia is not good. Her mother clings to the hope that she may see the return…

conceivable instrument of integration and harmonious race relations. “Mention must also be made of what came to be termed in the early 1990s as the new politics of ‘race’ and ‘racism’. Underlying the new politics of ‘race’ and ‘racism’ is a deep ambivalence amongst certain groups of social and political activists about the traditional categories that have been used to defend racist practices and policy.” (G. Jarvie and I. Reid, 1997) Racism is the belief that all members each race possess…

“Your grandfather, Odysseus arrived at the swineherd’s house and reunited with his old friend, Eumaeus Eumaeus did not recognize him and only saw him as a beggar. Nonetheless, he welcomed Odysseus into his dwelling and fed him food and wine - remember son, we must welcome everyone to our homes, for we cannot anger Zeus, the host god. Eumaeus truly honored your grandfather and he talked on and on about his riches and his heroic journey to Troy. Even though he thought your grandfather will never…

• Around one third of the children in the U.S will live with a stepparent before they enter into adulthood. • Stepparents’ contributions of step-relationships  Stepparents are supposed to take supportive roles  Authoritative parenting style tends to have better results  Stepmothers are more likely to suffer role ambiguity  Residential stepparents are advantaged for building relationships with stepchildren • Parents’ contributions to step-relationships  Loyalty conflicts may pull…

NURSING ROLES FOR CARE AND PROMOTING HEALTH 2 One of our first assignments in the RN to BSN distance learning program at Western Carolina University involved introducing yourself to classmates and describing why you became a nurse. Over half of the responses stated to help or care for others. A major…

Salt Sugar Fat is an critical biography of food and diet in the United States named for the three ingredients most widespread in the packaged treats that have taken over grocery stores and plates. Equipped with studies and interviews from disenfranchised insiders, the author sets out to prove that packaged-food manufacturers conduct refined food science to make their foods tantalizingly attractive, and utilize well-crafted marketing plans the rest of the way. Critical to their research is the…

group for ten sessions and they filled the questionnaire again after each session and the result indicated that “EFT had a significant effect on increase in emotional expressiveness, benign control, aggression control, and also on reduction in ambivalence over emotional expression, emotional Inhibition, and rumination or mental rehearsal” (Motaharinasab et al., 2016; 513-515). More so, it’s important to note that from our case conceptualization and treatment…

Klein believed that human beings' core conflict is one of love(hate) and good (bad); the earlier ones as presence and latter ones as absence (Professor Brizman, course slide). The paranoid-schizoid is the splitting of good and bad and there is no ambivalence in this position. However, the human experience to identify good and bad is ambivalent for the reason that a state of mind is an emotional experience which it isn't just one state of mind but with many. Learning itself too is an emotional…

majoring in American Studies, I have learned a lot about the United States. I have learned about the history, the culture, the founding, the opinions, the beliefs, and the values associated with our country. I have regarded our nation with anger, ambivalence, and astonishment. I have even carried around a miniature version of the Constitution with annotations and highlights. Nonetheless, I still struggled to find a concrete answer to the question “What does it mean to be an American?” until the…

When the Bull of Heaven comes to kill the two for killing Huwawa, the circumstances Gilgamesh more reason to kill it—to save the life of a friend. This friendship with Enkidu is so strong that when he dies it would seem that “The poem turns on the ambivalence of the human attitude to death: Gilgamesh first courts heroic death in battle and then seeks to avoid it altogether… blind until too late to the real nature of the adventure he seeks” (34) and the story becomes one of…