The Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Week 4 Assignment HRM582 Professor Dr. C Keller Graduate School of Management By: Lesa Bonham 29 September 2013 The Body Ritual Among the Nacirema In viewing the cultural activities of the Nacirema I found it particularly gruesome in some of the rituals that the women were performing and their thoughts that the human body is ugly and that if the body were to have any sickness or disease the only way to rid of body of these is through their often times barbaric rituals that they perform. Their beliefs that shrines will help to keep the body cleansed of these diseases are what lead them to have a shrine in every hope and those of higher stature within the community will have many shrines which show to the community their higher status within their society. The rites or rituals are very private in nature to the Nacirema which are only done within the privacy of their own homes and among their own family and only with those children in their family who are old enough for their initiation into these mysterious practices. The Nacirema for that reason never allowed any outsiders to observe these rituals but would describe them in detail to some that had gained their confidence and acceptance into their society. One of the things that I thought fascinating was the fact that they too have a man in their society known as the medicine man which we know about from our history of the Native American Indians and their practices of having a medicine man that was responsible for the health and healing of the people of their tribes.
This story of Plautus being cured by Asclepius and his daughter must have meant something to the audiences otherwise they wouldn’t have gone to see it. Even though this play is fictional, Greeks believed it was none fiction and so were led to believe that the God Asclepius actually cured people. It’s useful for a historian to know this kind of play was being performed at the same time that Hippocrates was teaching about more scientific methods of medicine and how they cancelled each other out.Hippocrates’ theory of the four humours influenced the way Greek
The main point of this reading is to make us realize that there are hundreds of other cultures and everyone is different and be open minded about it. For example Horace mentions that Nacirema fears yet intrigued with the mouths, and believe that they have a lot to do with the social relationships. If they don’t perform the rituals for the mouth they believe that the mouth will fall out and their loved ones will reject them. Horace wrote this article because he wants us to understand the Nacirema culture because it is dissimilar than others. Different people act behave different in similar situation and respect their actions and see their point of view of their belief and their culture.
Legends and myths play a very important role in this community. The stories past down to them are all they have to understand and explain their origins, and life in general. Religion and magic is what helps them cope with what they perceive as dangerous. Throughout the documentary, one sees how the Asmat rituals and ceremonies slowly fade away. As previously mentioned, the Asmat deal with chaos thanks to the creation of myths, magic, art and rituals.
Find the urn we have told you about. Create something beautiful and marvelous, that will worship you and only you. I worn you, that with something good, there is always something bad to come with it as well. But that does not mean that you will not be able to overcome, everything is able to be overcomed".They also mentioned where they had gone, but Alexandria has chosen to not reveal that, for the soul purpose of there safety. Now this magical urn is a jar that contained the material and instructions to create life.
Throughout the school year I had to prepare for many midterms and finals. There were times when it was very difficult to focus just because of the environment alone. There were days when it was more of a challenge but, the despite the distraction I have managed a 3.0 grade point average. I strongly feel that your program will best prepare and teach me the necessary need to become a valuable contributor to the health profession. I visited the campus and staff that have done a great job by answering and helping with my questions.
I really wanted to just jump in the book and shake the characters and tell them what in hindsight they were missing. It really frustrated me to read that there weren’t any Hmong translators in a state that was home to many Hmong people. Nonetheless, it was a very hard and good books to read because many parts made me cry while other parts gave me hope for baby Lia. The major challenges of the healthcare providers were the clash about money and community services choked by welfare costs. The biggest problem of them all was the beliefs of the medical system and those of the Hmong people.
Nursing Shortages Individual Assignment Health Care Issues May 1, 2012 Nurses play one of the most critical roles in the delivery of healthcare. They work in different settings that include hospitals, nursing homes, private practice, rehabilitation centers, clinics, schools, retirement centers and communities, ambulatory care centers, community and migrant health centers and emergency medical centers. The beginning of nursing shortage started after the First World War. Whereas, many nurses in America did not continue practicing nursing. After the Second World War the shortage was horrible.
This topic should be pretty interesting and fun to learn about I’m sure that everyone has had some horrible hair dyeing experience and it seems like shaving your hair would be the only solution so that’s why I chose this topic for the people who don’t like to waste money on expensive hair salons can do it now by themselves at home or at a friend’s house. But like I said before they got to make sure to know what they’re doing they can’t just say, “Oh, I’m going to die my hair and make it look like celebrity”. No! That won’t work in that case it’ll be better to go to a professional place. I’m going to do my sisters hair she has it light brown mixed with blonde bangs.
Individuals are often unable to express themselves freely in society “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” This was said by ralph waldo emerson who lead a religious and philosophical movement in the 19th century. People today find it hard to express themselves as everyone in the community is so judgmental, no one can express themselves freely without someone critazing what they are doing.Everyone in the world has there own opinion and some of the major problems include racisim and sexism. Tthere have been many restrictions with the government as to who we can be with and how we express ourselves. governments have always been controlling and stop people from expressing themselves freely in society. Judgement within society is extremely prevalent.