...growing up in a predominantly Christian-based community seeing men on a busy street corner dressed in suits and bowties selling their own publication of newspapers called The Final Call and women dressed in layered garments that covered everything from their ankles to their hair only revealing their face selling bean pies and various kinds of fruit. I later learned that these people were of the Islamic faith and commonly referred to as Muslims. At the time this is all I knew of the faith other than the fact that Muslims were not permitted to eat swine. Later, I learned that the Muslims selling The Final Call were Muslims in the Nation of Islam which is a sect of the Islamic faith. The Nation of Islam was considered a more radical group of Black Muslim which had gained more celebrity during the sixties and the Civil Rights Movement due to the teachings of Malcolm X. In this assignment, I chose to interview a member of the Islamic faith to get a personal point of view of understanding of the Muslim experience. This person is not a member of the Nation of Islam, but only a devout Muslim born of African heritage. His name is Mousa Adamou born in Karma Koira, Niger and was raised in Lome, Togo Africa. In preparing for our sit-down, I thought of what I already had known about the Muslim faith which was not as much as I thought prior to studying it in chapter 10 of our textbook. I did know of the ignorant and bigoted misconceptions that have plagued the Islamic religion especially...
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...Misconception and Reality of Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples Gloria Yu Misconception: The terms "Aboriginal" and "Native" are used to define one homogenous group of people in Canada. "Indigenous”, "Native", and "Aboriginal" are used as broad terms to collectively describe three different cultural groups known as "First Nations", the "Metis", and the "Inuit". These three groups all have their own unique culture, historical background, and political goals. The group known as “First Nations” has 633 bands, representing 52 cultural groups or nations and over 50 languages. Most individuals prefer to be called by the specific nation they belong in because each has its own traditional political structure, history, and spirituality. “Aboriginal” is a term used to describe individuals or...
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...educators we hold a certain position in our community. Society holds us to a higher standard when it comes to our ability to be aware, adapt, accept, and understand the cultural diversity of the students and families, our co-workers, and volunteers we work with in our community. As our cultural demographics change in our community communication can become a challenge. If we cannot communicate effectively with those we work with we cannot do our jobs effectively. Demographic Changes The United States is changing faster than it ever has before. We can find more evidence of these demographic changes in our public schools more than anywhere else. Three changes that are, and will continue to become more notable in our public school system, is the rate in which immigration has grown, low income families are on the rise, and the natural population growth continues to increase, as quickly as the diversity of that population. Immigration Growth “Immigration have put the United States on a short road to a population diversity never before experienced by any nation—a population in which all races and ethnicities are part of minority groups that make up a complex whole.” (Center for Public Education 2012) As the CPE stated one reason many places in the United States is experiencing such demographic changes is due to the increase of immigration. A good portion of the population is not natural born citizens. With them they bring different languages and diverse cultures. Because the...
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...English-Language Arts Elementary Education Task 1: Planning Commentary TASK 1: PLANNING COMMENTARY Respond to the prompts below (no more than 9 single-spaced pages, including prompts) by typing your responses within the brackets. Do not delete or alter the prompts. Pages exceeding the maximum will not be scored. 1. Central Focus a. Describe the central focus and the essential literacy strategy for comprehending OR composing text you will teach in the learning segment. [The central focus of the three-day?s learning segments is for students to identify and state nonfiction features and to know their purpose to locate information in a nonfiction text. During the first day?s lesson the teacher will model for the students by comparing...
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...themselves Christian is one who concurs with the teachings of Jesus Christ, and accepts him as man’s savior. Moreover, there is another religion that has a much smaller percentage, but it is growing exponentially, and it is known as Islam. Individuals whom are practitioners of Islam are called Muslims. Islam is a monotheistic belief where they believe that Allah (God) is the creator of all things. Ultimately, before properly educating myself on the religion of Islam, by going to the mosque, through extensive research, and by interviewing an individual from the Muslim community, I had my own notions about this religion. Consequently, after exploring this religion I found interesting similarities as well as contrasts between Christianity and Islam. It is said that one of the most effective ways to procure knowledge is through participant observation. Thus, by attending a service with someone from the Muslim community at the mosque, I was able to acquire a better comprehension of the Islamic religion, and my...
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...Abstract The deaf culture is one that I am not familiar with. No one in my immediate family or none of my close friends are deaf so I have not been exposed to it during my lifetime. I decided to take an American Sign Language course in high school to not only learn the language, but to learn about the deaf culture as well. I would like to someday be fluent in sign language so that I can cater to the deaf community while conducting business. Conducting research, I learned a lot about to deaf community. Deaf people are presumed to have a disability because they do not have the ability to use all five senses. The Deaf community is a cultural group, sharing common experience, concerns, and language Main Body The deaf community share common experiences. Many people have misconception of the deaf community. Many people assumed that deaf people are dumb because they cannot hear. It is assumed that because they can’t hear, their understanding of the world around them his somehow lessened. Many hearing people have this mind frame and tend to treat deaf people as such. High percentage of deaf people has experienced this at least once in their lifetime. I did not agree with some of the facts that I found out about this. Just because one cannot hear, should not have anything to do with his or her intelligence. Deaf people learn the same way was hearing people and can comprehend things just as well. Intelligence depends on the individuals person drive and their willingness...
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...Before reading chapter 2 in Far from the Tree I had honestly not given a lot of thought to Deaf culture. I didn’t even know that it was a term used by the deaf community. I assumed that all deaf people would give anything to have their hearing back but I quickly learned I wasn’t completely right about that. Deaf people are very proud that they have the ability to communicate through American Sign Language. I am embarrassed to say that I had a lot of misconceptions about deaf people before today. I think that I was so uneducated because Deaf culture is not something we talk about very often. Growing up I came across a few deaf people in school. They always seemed to be getting an equal education so I am ashamed to say I felt like they had it...
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...Aboriginal parents say that their children are their future, and so their education determine the future of the students, that would affect their family and the whole school community ( p.86). For this reason, I believe that it is the teacher's responsibility to make the difference in their life, thus the paradigm could be changed. I would expand my knowledge about Aboriginal history, cultures and contemporary issues in order to integrate them into the curriculum for all the students, and thus to improve the participation and outcome of Aboriginal students (p.60). I would promote multiculturalism. This would enhance students' self-concepts and contribute to the development of mutual respect and understanding ( ). I believe that it is my responsibility...
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...Criminal Justice Trends Eliezer Cardona CJA/394 David Mitchell May 2013 Criminal Justice Trends The criminal justice is a system rapidly changing to meet societal needs. Many improvements within the criminal justice field are made so it can be cost effectiveness and technological advances can be made. Society today shows crime being committed always occurs so jobs are opening and manning for the positions are increasing. One of the technological advances that have improved substantially from the past is a computer aided police management systems. This is used to usually identify problems or map out crime. With these improvements problems are always bound to arise which leads to the criminal justice field to face many challenging moral dilemmas. Such as privacy concerns or misuse of technology, that can lead to the violations of people’s rights. With many of these crimes set in motion the only logical thing to do is to have governed laws that everyone abides to. Laws are implemented to keep the crime rate down as far as contemporary issues go. There are many of these issues that go on in today’s society as far as terrorism or even the drug cartel. These problems are always posing a threat to the criminal justice field due to the fact it is something that is not that easy to stop. “The government is the only institution in society that has a legitimate right to exert physical force over us. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century there has been evidence...
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...Headnote Positive or negative, given or received, feedback can be tricky. We shatter some popular misconceptions to guide you. Feedback isn't always easy to give or receive. But it's vital, and timing is crucial. Here are 12 popular feedback misconceptions corrected. Misconception 1: We don't need to worry about feedback, we conduct performance appraisals. Truth: Annual performance appraisals aren't enough. If you've been working unsatisfactorily for 12 months, you're awfully good at doing something incorrectly. And if you've been doing something well for 12 months and no one has mentioned it, your performance appraisal might feel like too little, too late. Performance appraisals should be summaries of everything employees and supervisors have been discussing all year. If you're a supervisor, find ways to provide feedback each week for each person who reports to you-- 52 mini performance reviews a year. Misconception 2: It's not my job to give feedback. Truth: At any company that values continuous improvement, feedback is everybody's job. If your workplace isn't feedback friendly, start a trend. First, praise. Reinforce positive actions and behaviors. Don't forget your boss: Positive feedback passed up the organization can have amazing results. Participate in suggestion programs honestly and enthusiastically. And request feedback on your own performance. Misconception 3: If you're not asked, keep your mouth shut. Truth: When you don't deliver critical feedback, you...
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...What you do not know about the beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses? Abstract Jehovah’s Witness (JW); who are they, what do Jehovah Witnesses represent, why do JW’s not celebrate birthdays, why do JW’s refuse blood transfusions? Many questions arise surrounding the Jehovah Witness beliefs and views on life which bring many misconceptions to people whom are not affiliated to Jehovah Witnesses. This report explores the beliefs, views, misconceptions and relationship of Jehovah Witness practices which I identified during the attendance of a Jehovah’s Witness meeting (which is commonly known in Baptist religious as Sunday service) as well as thorough research around JW’s practices which was conducted before the attendance of the JW meeting. Jehovah‘s Witnesses are followers of a Christian based religious movement. The denomination was founded in the USA towards the end of the 19th century, under the leadership of Charles Taze Russell. The headquarters of the movement is in New York. There are about 6.9 million active witnesses in 235 countries, including 1 million in the USA and 130,000 in the UK (bbc.com). Members of the JW practice are probably best known for their door to door evangelical work; witnessing from house to house, offering bible literature and recruiting and converting people to the truth. Jehovah Witnesses are highly motivated people and known for proselytizing the religion to people of other religions. Although the religion is Christian based, JW’s believe traditional...
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...Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Chinua Achebe. It is a fictional story that portrays the tribal life of the West African community. All the scenes revolve around the life of the main character Okonkwo who is a member of the tribe of Umofia. The story is set in the pre-colonial Igbo society and Colonial Igbo society. This book is into three parts: the pre-exiled Okonkwo, exiled Okonkwo, and returned Okonkwo. In all these parts, we recognize the values and virtues of the African life. The life of Okonkwo is comparatively the same Rip Van Winkle written by Washington Irving. In this story, Rip Van Winkle lived in the countryside, was exiled at some time, and came back to find that his country has changed to the extent of being not recognized. “You reap what you saw,” might seem to be a trite, because its presence in many languages. However, it does not cease to apply in the life of the pre-exiled Okonkwo. Okonkwo, whose father was lazy, seemed to be condemned to poverty but his inveterate propensity to work harder and hustle made him rich and influential in the community of Umofia. In this part, Okonkwo is a resilient person considering the difficulties that he faced mainly due to the empty start that his father offered. Additionally, Okonkwo was a famous wrestler in the entirety nine tribes of the land of Igbo. As a result, he has been involved in all the warfare issues of the land of Umofia. He took a young boy Ikemefuna as retribution to avoid strife between the tribes...
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...American. I did not want to select just one type or subgroup of this culture, but capture a few elements of the people altogether as one whole culture. The four largest tribes of American Indians are Navajo (308,013), Cherokee (285, 476), Sioux (131, 048), and Chippewa (115, 859). These tribes of American Indians are the most indentify by people of this culture - according to the website www.infoplease.com. Each tribe has a special tradition or custom that is passed down from generation to generation, but the three common core themes of American Indians were family, story telling, and ritual dance. (Wikipedia, 2012) 2. What language do the people of this culture speak? I will continue to discuss American Indians as one whole culture, but will use the Navajo tribe above and explain the native tongue of their people. The Navajo people speak the native language of Navajor. Each tribe had their own native tongue common to the people of that subgroup, but all American Indians shared a common core element of hieroglyphics that told stories of past experiences or explain the existence of mankind. For example, The Navajo had ancient text on the Sacred Mountains, which was described as the Four Sacred Mountain of the Dire. These ancient images could be found on the sides of rocks, where other tribes’ hieroglyphics would be display on teepees. It depended on the American Indians tradition of that certain tribe. (Wikipedia, 2012) 3. Where do they live? The American Indians lived throughout...
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...speak two languages. There are researchers that speculate that learning more than one language at a time can impede because it is deemed as too much for a child's brain (Lee et al., 2015). This essay will discuss the acquisition of learning a language in infants, an infant’s capabilities in learning more than one language, the cognitive benefits of being bilingual, and metalinguistic awareness. The development of children in speech is distinguished by certain sounds that are mimicked and learned across time. Language is learned primarily within the first three years of life (Ramirez et al., 2017). Research has recently indicated that infants learn rapidly from exposure to language, combining detections...
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...immigrant really meant in of Beetles and Angels. While both authors discuss valuable experiences, they use different strategies to convey their perspectives. In Funny in Farsi, Dumas focuses on her early life using description to show exactly what people asked and told about Dumas. Specifically, she tells about the misconceptions and questions Americans asked about her and Iran. Dumas directly states her perspective when she tells how the Americans asked their questions. To support this point, Dumas tells her readers that “Americans were kind and unafraid to ask questions, and willing to listen.” (149) The second strategy Dumas uses is an anecdote. Dumas says “I never told them the truth. I figured that someday, somebody would.” (152) Dumas is telling us about how older kids who wants to know how to swear in her language, but she tricked them into saying “man kharam”...
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