The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (1997) is an ethnography written by Anne Faidman. It tells the story of Lia Lee, a Hmong girl with severe epilepsy, and her family’s journey with managing the condition and the cultural barriers that posed great challenges in Lia’s care. Lia was diagnosed with epilepsy during infancy. Her family’s opinion was that the condition was a spiritual gift. Lia’s parents, Nao Kao and Foua, were wary of the American medical system, preferring to care for Lia in the
Words: 1289 - Pages: 6
secret that Anne Bradstreet, a British born female poet who lived between (1612-1672), had her share of doubts and questions about God, salvation, eternal life, and the teachings of Puritanism. Despite the fact that she conformed, at least outwardly, to Puritanism, the dominated ideology and doctrine in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where she lived, themes of criticism to the Puritanism can be traced in her literary works. In Bradstreet’s elegiac poem, in the memory of her grandchild, Anne, who died
Words: 428 - Pages: 2
Anne throughout her journey in the secret annex has changed in many ways that have shaped her personality and her perspective towards things, that help her become a young woman even at the age of fourteen. When she envisions herself , how she is different from her old self, and how she is different from the image of her mother. Frank quotes “That is all I was-a terrible flirt, coquettish and amusing.”- “I know quite well that the circle around me would be much smaller.”(Frank 178). The author uses
Words: 298 - Pages: 2
Some Verses Upon The Burning of Our House” was that Anne felt that God had a reason for burning their families possessions and house to show them that these things they have been cherishing are not the things they should hold dearly. On lines 25 through 28 Anne says, “ Here stood that trunk, and there that chest, there lay that store i counted best. My pleasant things in ashes lie, And them behold no more shall I.” In these brief 3 lines this is Anne saying that the few objects she valued have been
Words: 314 - Pages: 2
Anne Frank was a Jewish teenager who was forced into hiding at age thirteen during the Holocaust. She hid in a secret annex located behind Anne’s father’s office. She lived in the annex for about two years with her immediate family along with four others. During this time she wrote in her diary about her thought and experiences. The annex was mentally and physically detrimental due to the lack of nutrition, bad living conditions, and constant exposure to tension. The Diary of a Young Girl is the
Words: 779 - Pages: 4
Hidden Sin vs Expressed Sin Consequences of sin can vary, as hidden sin and exposed sin are expressed in different ways. In The Scarlet Letter, the two main characters Dimmesdale and Hester demonstrate their own dealings with sin. As the two had earlier committed adultery, only Hester confessed her sin, whereas Dimmesdale kept it a secret.. This hidden sin caused Dimmesdale internal punishment, as he resorted to fasting, and whipping himself. In Mr. Dimmesdale’s closet, “there was a bloody scourge
Words: 440 - Pages: 2
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary was born in Hungary on July 7, 1207. Her father was Hungarian King Andrew II and her mother Gertrude of Merania. Growing up she always had the pressure of being a royal on her shoulders, and when she was still young her father arranged for her to marry Ludwig IV of Thuringia, a German nobleman. When she was only four, Elizabeth was sent away to Landgrave of Thuringia, due to the arrangement her father set up. At the age of six Gertrude, Elizabeth's mother, was murdered
Words: 638 - Pages: 3
As his father died, Henry VIII succeeded the throne as King of England, & when he inherited the throne, he declared that he would marry his first wife Catherine. “Within five months of becoming King […] Henry VIII married Catherine, daughter of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile” (Bagley, 16). Right after the coronation, the first thing he had to do was to arrest two corrupt ministers that worked for his father’s administration, which were, Sir Richard Empson & Edmund Dudley, were later
Words: 344 - Pages: 2
King James VI of Scotland when he was just thirteen months old. In 1587, James' mom was detained and later executed for joining in the plan to kill her cousin Queen Elizabeth (Cowley, 69). Ruler James, who was androgynous, hitched Anne Oldenburg of Denmark. They had nine kids, yet tragically, two passed on during childbirth. They named their other seven youngsters Henry, Elizabeth, Margaret, Charles I, Robert, Mary and Sophia Stuart. King James was raised by four coaches. George
Words: 1555 - Pages: 7
which would be a form of rebellion in a small sense. The Nazis wanted to kill them and have all of their freedoms taken away. When in hiding they still had freedoms like a radio, special foods, and just the sense that they were away from the Nazis. Anne Frank is a well known Jew who hid during the war with her family the Franks, another family the Van Daans, and a
Words: 715 - Pages: 3
