Religious Group: Jehovah Witness Jehovah Witnesses are members of a Christian-based religious movement. They base their beliefs solely on the words written in the Bible and disregard any personal theories. Witnesses separate themselves from the outside world living, working, and educating themselves in a secular way. Celebrations of Easter, Christmas, and Birthdays are non-existent as well as participation of military service, voting and certain civic commitments. Jehovah Witnesses congregate
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Being Asian in the racially homogenous community of [small town], it was clear: I did not belong. When my father moved to South Korea after my 8th grade year, I was excited to spend summers there. I would finally belong. I was wrong. My excellent Korean language skills let me feign native status but my American mannerisms betrayed me. To Koreans, I was just American. At [university], a diverse community, I sought out Korean-Americans. But they questioned whether I truly understood the Asian-American
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Nationality Act, Asian immigration to the United States has increased dramatically; today, 19 million people identify as Asian-American, nearly 6 percent of the population. Because a substantial part of the US population hold membership in these communities, it is important to recognize the specific challenges these groups face in regards to mental health. Currently, knowledge regarding the mental health needs of Asian-Americans is limited as few clinical studies have included Asian immigrants (APA)
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from Moeritheriums, which were the approximate size of current day pigs1. Over the course of 50 million years, evolutionary trends have resulted in elephants gradually increasing in size. Although there are only two species of elephants today, the Asian elephant or Elephas maximus and African elephant or Loxodonta africana, it is believed that a single ancestor, the Paleomastodon, evolved into an estimated 352 different elephant species2. Charles Darwin coined the term “natural selection”, which is
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the tone is informal. In paragraph 1 of the article, “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk”, the author writes, “Elephants know when they need a helping hand- or rather, trunk. That’s the conclusion of a new study that tested the cooperative skills of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in Thailand showed the the pachyderms understand that they will fail at a task without a partners’s assistance”. This statement shows that the tone in the article is entertaining, yet formal. Furthermore, the author tries
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In America, Asians have sixty seven percent lower odds of admission than whites with similar test scores. In colleges, Asians have a lower chance of getting in other races, since students of other races will not get in, but there is a solution: simply not judge by race, but by character. Today, I will go over in detail what the problem, causes, and the solution to the discrimination against Asians over college acceptance. So, first and foremost, I will discuss the problem about the problem about
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Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, a book written by Anna Deavere Smith, is based on the 1992 Los Angeles riots. This book is a collaboration of the experiences of the members of the Los Angeles community during the LA Riots. Smith interviewed a few hundred local LA residences for her book during the time of the riots. She succeeded in keeping a wide perspective by interviewing people from all ethnic backgrounds, including Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Koreans. She also interviewed police officers and gang
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Asian American only make up 5% of the U.S population. However, they are the fastest growing racial minority group, with a projected twofold growth by 2050 (Goyal, pg 92). Among that, Asian Indian is the second largest subgroup (Goyal, pg 92). The Asian Indian culture is rich in tradition, especially during the prenatal period. In order to deliver a comprehensive and patient-centered health care, nurses ought to have a generalized cultural awareness and sensitivity to make appropriate and effective
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social artist against US artists. My Cambodian friend had just recently gotten into K-pop, and while watching the award show, she said her grandma was moved to tears since it was the first time she saw Asian men on American television. At that moment, I realized how big of a deal this was to many other Asian Americans. They finally saw themselves in an attractive, desirable light. My sudden revelation comes to show how minorities have been deprived of respectable representation for so long and how normalized
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There were many atitudes and policies that affected the way that immigrants from Asia were treated. One attitude twords them was the disaimful people in the US, especisally the officers at Angle Island. The interrogation twords the immigrants was constant, which would make them feel violated and uncomfortable. Also, within the US they were very poorly treated, native US citizens did not like them because they thought they might steal their jobs, and they wanted them gone, so they would constantly
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