The principal feast day of Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church is March 19, Saint Joseph's Day. The Feast of St. Joseph the Workman (May 1), was introduced by Pope Pius XII in 1955 to counteract May Day, a holiday favored by the left-wing labor movement, socialists, and communists. This also reflects St. Joseph's status as what many Catholics and other Christians consider the "patron of
I was born in 1990 in Jacksonville, Florida to my parents, John and Kate Clifford. We’ve lived there my entire life because of the comforts that surround us there. My mother’s grandparents live right down the street from us and have played an instrumental role in raising me to be the person I am today. My parents are both Caucasian Americans, with my father being fully Irish in descent and my mother being a melting pot of different nationalities. Because they found each other a little later than the average couple does, they were older than most parents when they decided to have me.
Cultural Assessment Interview Kathryn Hudacek NUR 369 Transcultural Care University of Michigan - Flint Introduction This paper is a cultural assessment of a personal friend, JCL, who agreed to be interviewed for this project. The goal of this paper is to present the cultural background of my friend JCL in the format specified by performing an informal, interview style, conversational exchange with an individual whose cultural background is significantly different than my own. My country of birth is United States, my race is Caucasian, and my ancestry can be traced second generation on mother’s side to Ireland, and England, and Canada. On my dad’s side, fourth generation goes back England and France. Overall, my background, values,
I believe that by studying the various groups students will learn not only about the differences in the cultures and backgrounds, but shared experiences as well. In A Larger Memory by Ronald Takaki, it is noted that our grandparents are "worthy of scholarly attention... making choices as they left their homelands and settled in America. They helped to transform their adopted country as they became Americans." Takaki offers many personal stories that may be read and studied in the classroom. Students love to listen to and read personal accounts of immigrant experiences.
Cultural anthropologists use the ethnographic method to study humans; they interview people and observe then in their everyday life, they also compare their findings with those of other societies. What cultural anthropologist seek to find is a way to help people of other societies understand and tolerate the differences other societies might have. Studying other societies will help us see ours more clearly, because we will be seeing it with background from another society. Before anthropologists use to study all aspects of a society now they might just specify on one part of the society such as economy, religion, or politics. Another kind of anthropologist are linguistic anthropologist they study language they look at its history and evolution.
Instructor: Rebecca Cain Class: LEG 101 Student: Gema Smith Homework: Paper project assignment Date: 02/27/2012 IMMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION LAW IN THE UNITED STATES Right about a million immigrants arrives in the United States each year. The United States is the nation of immigrants. The United States is also known as “the melting pot” and it is because there are different cultures, races and religions from nearly every country in the world. Historically immigrants come to the US in search of “The American Dream”. Most immigrants come to the United States to reunite with their family, to seek economic opportunity, and to have the freedom to choose and practice religion.
Taino Indians I find it very interesting to learn about my country and the history about my country and that is why I picked this topic for my term paper. I believe that in order to fully understand a certain group of people; their set of beliefs and how they developed a different kind of culture than the rest, you have to learn about their history. I have learned and understood so much about my culture now that I have taken the time and researched about my ancestors, their lifestyle, beliefs, and cast system. This is what some of what there is to learn about The Taíno Indians who were the first inhabitants of Puerto Rico or Boriken, the name that they gave it. Around the time that Christopher Columbus arrived to the New World; Taino Indians, a subgroup of the Arawakan Indians (a group of American Indians in northeastern South America), they inhabited Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and Puerto Rico.
The cultures of different ages and regions have produced art through a vast range of mediums. Each of these mediums of art reflects the world, as seen by the creator, at that precise time which is, basically, the definition of the word “culture”. Wordnet, created by Princeton University, defines culture as “a particular society at a particular time and place”. Going back to the cave paintings of long ago, we learn of the surroundings, way of life, dress, nourishment, and even conflicts known to the generation of humans living at that time. This was their culture.
It is the teaching that takes these events, stories, myths and presents them to the followers in a way that allows them to understand and whole heartedly believe in. Because not every religion has writings from the inception of the religion, it is necessary for these teachers to pass down this information and knowledge verbally whether one on one or in a group setting. This makes the experience more intimate and allows the ideals being passed down to go from myth or story to reality. Most if not every religion today uses books, scrolls or writings of some sort to document the present and to teach the past, means that the texts used in the religion are incredibly important. It’s necessary for them to me accurate and
In the textbook, Cultural Anthropology, Crapo states, “An etic description or analysis—that is, an outsider's or observer's allegedly "objective" account—creates a model of a culture by using cross-culturally valid categories, which anthropologists have found to be generally useful for describing all cultures” (p.27). Miner’s article, Body Ritual among the Nacirema, is discussed from an etic perspective as well. He summarizes the Nacirema way of life such as how they view the human body and how they