Experiencing Different Cultures Essay

normal heart is about the size of a fist and this heart barely fit in two hands. Her lungs were beautiful for the eighty-year-old woman she was. They were still a bright pink with only a few black spots on them from pollution. Her kidneys told a different story. One had a large groove in it that wasn’t supposed to be there and had a black tumor the size of a gobstopper. Her face was always covered with a paper towel. It was hard to see her eyes even when the towel was off. They looked like two…

As I take the time to reflect through my personal experience during this course I have came to a clear conclusion that there is now an understanding of what the term “adulthood aging” truly means. Through this course, it is without hesitation that I have gained an abundant amount of knowledge over the life cycle of an individual that prepares us when aging. Gaining this understanding has helped me answer the simple question of this paper: “What is aging?” As I take the time to put my thoughts…

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” -Michael Jordan. That quote describes what I felt like after being in Chicago.Last February I was given the opportunity to attend the LEAD conference for Student Council. The LEAD conference is national Student Council leadership convention. The opportunity to go was an experience that I will never forget and an experience that changed my life. Going into this event, I thought it would just be some seminars…

permeated the kitchen. It was soothing and pleasant. An equal number of males and females performed the same job. He wasn't sure, but maybe this had something to do with greater harmony. Slinger was the one and only pots and pans guy. He was a little different than the other servers and was isolated at the pot sink. There was not a big future in being a pot washer, but Slinger had a secret skill. He liked to weld. This may have been something he learned in his home country nobody knew. Slinger's…

thoughts and ideas. This is where Miller poses a question: what might the literate arts be said to be good for? Can they actually cause a real positive difference in the world, or are they just there so authors can make loads of money? He examines four different texts to answer this question, but he is not the only one who has pondered this idea. Both Miller and Freire have…

Ivan you were such an angel. You peed in bed until you were 8 years old, that hilarious. Life was so easy for you and fun. You lived out in the country, where you loved it the most. Cowboys, horses, cows, western boots, you fell in love with it all didn’t you? You wish you hadn’t left Texas for Oklahoma. Life was so much funner in Texas you thought. BUt you didn’t know that your parents had to start a new life in Oklahoma because of financial insecurities for the Mares family. They needed to…

overwhelming emotions and that could lead to “culture shock,” or the stressful unfamiliarity of the world around them. This is what most immigrants feel when coming to the United States. Adjusting during “culture shock” can be hard but it can be done. Having knowledge and making friends to open up to are ways to prevent this. Knowing how to tolerate another culture can help when moving to a new country. Tolerating means to acknowledge that people have the right to different opinions than…

a much more sophisticated entity, it is crucial that we must understand, and accept, the countless number of varying cultures that we will observe throughout our lives. As someone who was born into a small rural town that lacks diversity, I set out to learn the differences between my culture, and the cultures of the Asian-American and Mexican-American families of today. My culture can be defined as being identified as a middle-class, blue-collar, White American. I was born into a small community…

People from different cultures respond to pain differently because every culture responds to pain different medical beliefs. In this essay I will focus on East Asian cultural aspect of pain management. East Asians are people from china, Japan, Taiwan and Korea. People in east Asian cultures tend to endure pain because showing pain is perceived as sign of weakness, health care professionals should not be challenged with complains about pain and also assertiveness is associated with having poor…

It is unarguable that racism has improved over the last few decades, nowadays we don’t see all the separations of cultures and colors like we used to see before. Going back a few decades we saw how people where sorted by color, we saw how there were parts of a movie theater that was only for the whites and parts that were only for the blacks. It gets even worst because there were restaurants that would not serve any other color other than whites as we can see in the book Two Women of Little Rock…