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1. For me cultural competency is the ability for someone to have knowledge or experiences in other cultures besides their own. This entails actively learning and reflecting on one’s own culture and realizing similarities and differences between cultures. The country we live in is a very diverse place with people of all different walks of life amalgamate together. Being open to learn about different cultures can help create better relationships with people and can help when trying to…

It was my 5th grade year and it was my first ever track meet for this year. Our coach had told us that they would be calling what running event would be coming up. I was put in the 4x200 and also the 4x100 but we had to dropped out of the 4x200 because there were no other team competing in the race. They had just said last call for the 4x200 and that meant that the 4x100 was coming up soon. Our relay had to practice hand offs so they would be perfect for the race. The had the 2nd call for the…

summer of training on just cement, I knew I was in shape, but I did not think I would have ever been prepared for my first hill day. This was my first year on the Scotus cross country team. I ran track last year and did not think it was too hard. I thought I was ready for cross country because I ran all summer. Boy was I wrong! Cross country was a million times harder than track, and that…

“Foreign bodies (FBs) in the digestive tract are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in pediatric age group, and pose diagnostic and therapeutic challenges” (Singh, Dubey, Pandey, Kumar, Sharma & Annavi, 2014, p. 463). Foreign body blockages effect more children in their first 6 years of life with an increase of occurrences in children age 1 to 3 years old. A study was completed between April 2009 and March 2013 on how foreign bodies effect the digestive tract over a period of time.…

It all started my freshman year of high school. My second year of running cross county I did not really try at first until one day when our coach said if you do not give it your all every day you cannot go to the state cross country meet. We had a few weeks till our first meet and we were far be hide but catching up fast. The times were getting faster and faster, but at the rate we were going we would not make the first meet with goo scores. We all sat down and talked “we all have to reach deep…

Each culture has its own communication lexicon. People belong in each group of culture will have their own symbols and meaning interpretations of how they make sense of the world. The assimilation process will usually take some times, and people of one culture will often find it hard to find a common ground of understanding. However, it’s still possible to grow close ties regardless of cultural and linguistic differences. My roommate, Humberto, from Mexico has proven this notion by his own…

you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.” When I heard this quote from running legend Steve Prefontaine, I had already known it to be true. It was one of the many things that i have learned from my experiences as a cross country runner. Cross country has taught me perseverance, optimism, and leadership. I consider my experiences as a runner to be just as educational as my time as a student. When I started running as a freshman, I consistently finished last, at a time of…

when I heard the starting gun. This all was my first cross country meet at Sanborn, Iowa on September 18, 2017. My parents were not able to come because my mom was sick. The whole cross country team was there and so were all of their friends. No one showed up to watch me so I ran without worrying about what they were thinking of me. This was a very important race to me because it was the first time I was running for competition. I went out for cross country so that I could run with people my age…

In the article, Lisa Davis is trying to show how the body position can have non- verbal communication. Though the position of the body, the people also communicated their cultural differences not only between the countries but also within the same country. The people from middle east are been to make physical intimacy where the Americans maintains a distance when a businessman of middle east steps forward the Americans steps backwards as far as possible. The difference of…

It was a humid morning in February and the atmosphere of the field was uncomfortable: the air was thick and moist, and the sun was shadowed by the overcast of black clouds. The blades of grass were still wet from the morning dew and the dirt turned into mud. The confident chattering of the nearby teams coupled with the cold stares only worsened the situation. The pressure was on: it was my schools second track meet and my running coach expected my team to beat our personal records. This…