To apply cultural competence to one’s practice every day, one must fully understand it. Cultural competence can be defined as applying knowledge-based clinical skills to any particular group of ethnical, racial, or culturally diverse patients. The nurse must not force any of their own ideas or beliefs on to those patients, and make the patient feel as comfortable as possible with their own beliefs and ideas.(Maurer & Saunders, 2012) One of the greatest cultural competent acts I have ever seen
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My Tribe I was born and raise in Sena Niwan, a small community located in the middle of Bangkok, Thailand. Every one in my community was a Buddhist. Each house had their own way of worshiping Buddha, ranging from submitting a Morning Prayer and doing good deed to devoting one’s life to Buddhism and becoming a monk or a nun. While most people ended up doing charity and some meditations, my family located on the extreme end and practiced Buddhism very seriously. Since my grandpa was a monk and my
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RD 6 Rough Draft Thesis: The Masque of The Red Death and Inside Out utilize darkness and the lack of color to portray and explore the essence of fear through revealing situations that impact one’s life. The film Inside Out illustrates the main character, Riley, response to the fact that she and her family have moved from Minnesota to San Francisco. Her life would change completely with this move; everything will be new for her. She would have to link up with the people from San Francisco and for
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influenced by several factors, such as laziness, immediate emotional gratification, or what is best in the end. Kant argues that in moral matters the will is ideally influenced only by rational considerations, and not by subjective considerations such as one’s emotions. This is because morality involves what is necessary for us to do (e.g., you must be benevolent), and only rational considerations can produce necessity. The rational consideration, which influences the will, must be a single principle of
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Consciousness is about the general state of the mind that experience have qualitative character (Morton 376), experience can be anything such as colors, smell, and feelings like pain, anguish; and they have been termed in different ways. Nagel and Jackson refer experience as subjective character, and qualitative character as “the aspect of sensation that has to do with what experience is like. Regarding the concept of consciousness, Nagel and Jackson have arguments against the possibility of physical
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it as is, not giving the observer a chance to presume their own meaning. This also plays into age; Books are the best bet for those young minds that are opening up to the world. They see what the older generation cannot even imagine…. When watching a movie, the observer is not using their own perspective , they are seeing it through the directors perspective. Whereas the directors view is skewed and one sided leaving no room for one’s own interpretation. In the film The Color Purple, Stephen Spielberg
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Introduction: Nowadays, the province of Aklan are taking its big steps for its development and making his own history in the whole world . Aklan is subdivided into 17 municipalities. The Altavas,Balete, Banga, Batan, Buruanga, Ibajay, Kalibo, Lezo,Libacao, Madalag, Malay, Malinaw, Nabas, New Washington, Numancia and lastly the Municipality of Tangalan. We all know that the said province was well known for its sugar fine white sand, for its magnificent coral reefs and its rare sea shells no
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They went, shutting the door, and locking it behind them. The red-room was a square chamber, very seldom slept in, I might say never, indeed, unless when a chance influx of visitors at Gateshead Hall rendered it necessary to turn to account all the accommodation it contained: yet it was one of the largest and stateliest chambers in the mansion. A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red damask, stood out like a tabernacle in the center; the two large windows
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Old Kashtanka and Eel, socalled on account of his dark colour and his long body like a weasel's, followed him with hanging heads. This Eel was exceptionally polite and affectionate, and looked with equal kindness on strangers and his own masters, but had not a very good reputation. Under his politeness and meekness was hidden the most Jesuitical cunning. No one knew better how to creep up on occasion and
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round the black-crocketed spires of the early June hollyhocks, seemed to make the stillness 2 of 250 The Picture of Dorian Gray more oppressive, and the dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ. In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago
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