When Foua and Nao Kao brought Lia home from MCMC for the last time they arranged a txiv neeb to perform a healing ceremony for Lia. At this ceremony the txiv neeb called to any evil spirits that may have been causing harm to Lia. These evil spirits are called dabs in the Hmong culture. To the Hmong hospitals were not thought of as a place of healing. They were populated by spirits of people who had died there, a lonesome and rapacious crew who were eager to swell their own ranks" (p. 34). Hmong culture are more likely to use twix neebs, dermal treatments and herbalism. When Nao Kao and Foua were told by doctors that Lia was going to die two things happened. First in Hmong culture the foretelling of death is strongly taboo and considered to make the dab come closer to your child. "In Laos, that means you are going to kill a person" (p.178). Foua and Nao Kao take Lia home where they begin to treat her temperature with boiled herbs and wash her body with them. It is their belief that at the hospital Lia was getting too much medicine and her body wasn't able to tolerate it, so they used their own ways of medicinal healing…
The Lizzie Borden house was founded upon 1889, in Fall River,Massachusets. This is where the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden took place in 1892. Know one knew exactly who murdered Andrew and Abby Borden but the prime susupect of the gruesome death of her father and mother was Lizzie Borden. They have a Lizzie Borden museum and a bed and breakfast but many people are to scared to stay the night in the hotel or go visit the museum. She awoke one night. Andrew was one of the leading citizens of fall river, massachussets, he was also a prosperous mill town and seaport. The family was going thorugh hard times and had been among the most influential citizens of the region for decades. Borden was one of the Riches man in the city. He owned several banks and a commercial landlord with considerable holdigns. He was tall and thing and a sour look on his face all the time…
Matilda Cook, or Mattie, is a 14 year old girl who is stuck in a yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. Thousands died after only a month, and it wasn't long before her mother got it and sent her away to the country. All did not go well on the way there. Her grandfather got sick, prohibiting them from moving to the fever-free country land. Mattie was left to help keep him alive. Shortly after, Mattie fell ill and woke in a huge hospital surrounded by other yellow fever victims. Fortunately, her grandfather survived. However, this was only the very beginning of Mattie’s struggle to stay alive.…
4) Mattie Lou Blakeslee - Will’s grandmother and Rucker’s first wife. Mattie Lou dies three weeks before the novel begins at the age of 56. Mattie Lou was an excellent gardener and a devoted caretaker for the sick. The people of Cold Sassy speak reverently of her, and Rucker never forgets her companionship and…
It was 1946, Black Forest, Germany. Hitler was driving his car to the dark forest cabin. He was talking with his second in command Julius Schreck.…
The House on Mango Street is the “coming of age” story of a Mexican-American girl named Esperanza Cordero. The story covers a year in Esperanza's life starting with when she moved to the house on mango street. As the year progresses Esperanza grows emotionally and artistically, as the novel roams through her experience of life. Esperanza, her friends (Rachel, Lucy), and her sister Nenny have many adventures throughout the book. Esperanza has many life experiences including the art of poetry and music also the downsides of poverty and shame. Although the novel includes unforgettable men it also includes women who a trapped in many ways. For Example, Mamacita does not leave the apartment b/c she is afraid of the English language. Rafaela who…
that the boy's name is Sek-Lung and he has a sick lung. Also how the grandmama died of what…
The fight continued and in 1945. As they inched closer to government approval, historians began surveying the city for historic buildings and potential preservation sights. By 1956, New Yorkers were joining architectural walking tours to learn about the city all while further validating the interest in preserving parts of the history that has made this city so rich with culture. As time passed, the developing economy often found historic buildings in the way progress. Many icons were demolished as sections of the city were redeveloped to accommodate new apartments and hotels.…
People got different lifes but a negative thought change it all. Esperanza feels alone and she interprets herself as a lonely girl with bad luck. At the beginning of the book she doesn´t accept who she is. She says that because she got the same name as her grandma she would have the same future as her, waiting for someone who changes her life. Esperanza´s negative view of herself, knowing and accepting where we have come from is an important part of growing up and determining who we are.…
Laura Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois, into a privileged middle class family. As a young child, Jane, as they called her, knew hardships. At the age of two her mother died. Soon after, Addams had been struck with tuberculosis leaving her with a deformed spine. Still having her father to carry her through, she would try to live life as normal as possible. Jane often would travel to the mills her father owned; playing in the piles of grain in the storerooms. At the age of seven, while on route to one of her father’s mills, she saw a neighborhood that was very impoverished. Addams found out that the world was not all ice cream cones, clean clothes, and having others wait on you. Addams decided at that young age, that she was going to have a “big house” in the middle of a poverty stricken neighborhood.…
Urban experiences in Chicago are explained very well throughout the readings from the Hull House articles. They give real world insight to what the time was like back then. The Hull House was founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 and was the most famous Settlement House in the United States.…
It started with a headache. Then chills and fever, which left him/her exhausted and reduced to extreme weakness. They likely experienced nausea, vomiting, back pain, soreness in their arms and legs. Perhaps intense light was too bright to stand. Within a day or two, the swellings appeared. They were hard, painful, burning lumps on their neck, under their arms, on their inner thighs. Soon they turned black, split open, and began to ooze pus and blood. They may have grown to the size of an orange. These are the symptoms of the Black Death, one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350. It is widely thought to have been an outbreak of bubonic plague, and during those dark times, it is estimated to have killed 30% – 60% of Europe's population, reducing the world's population from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million in 1400. It is normal for anyone to wonder where it came from, where could such a deadly, sweeping pandemic originate and reach Europe? The questions are answered if you read on……
It was only on the night before the burial, when the last of the visitors had left and the living room where Uncle rests was somewhat tidied, that we felt the burden of Uncle’s loss. It was past midnight, and most of my cousins were either asleep on their beds or passed out on the couches. Those who were still awake, myself included, gathered in the living room with the adults. Aunt Aile finally came out of the bedroom—the one she used to share with…
As she was born, she bore death. The child came in the recesses of a dull and barren winter, on a night that had been so cold that it felt hollow, like a jagged hole bitten out of the earth. The queen mother had died just hours after the birth—a fever, so they claimed, no doubt brought on by the miserable chill of the season. The sickness quickly spread to the other wet-nurses and servants—she passed from hand to hand in a succession of fleeting maternity, leaving her swaddled in mourning clothes. They preferred to keep the child covered, for even a fleeting glance of her chilled milk-white skin and blood stained lips created a deathly shiver.…
In the article, “Sex and the body,” by Nelly Oudshoorn, gender is defined as the assignment of masculine and feminine qualities to bodies in cultural contexts. In relation gender is a set of characteristics distinguishing between male and female, particularly in the cases of men and women. Depending on the writing, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social to gender identity politics. But in most contexts, even in some areas of social sciences. This accounts for many of the things we see in the world around us. For example, In today's society we can clearly see that there are many objects geared towards men that are not geared towards women and vice versa. Earrings is an example of this About half of the United States population wear earrings. From day to day I see men,women, teenagers and even babies wearing them, and it is clear to see that some are made for women and not made for men. The earring itself can be used to define a persons sexuality; wearing certain types of earrings could affect the way society looks at you. The general public is programmed to believe objects are gendered. Without these preconceived beliefs objects would just be objects and would not be used as a determination of human characteristics. From the readings that were assigned from my Gender Women's Studies class and my personal experiences, I learned that objects can be gendered by color, shape, size, and even texture. This lead me to the conclusion that objects have no meaning until society gives it an irrelevant and often sexist generalized meaning.…