Puerto Rican Culture
Quince Años: The Transition to Womanhood in Puerto Rican Culture, Laura Louise Plummer
... For several years I have been exceedingly curious about the female experience in all parts of the world. My academic studies have encompassed women's roles, women's liberation, feminist literature, and female rites of ...
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The Experience of Living With Breast Cancer: Puerto Rican Women Tell Their Stories
... in Puerto Rican women, and it was expected that their lived experience with BC would be a difficult phenomenon to ...The Puerto Rican culture may differ from other cultures in the way ...
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Culture Care of Puerto Rican Elderly in a Community Setting
... Elderly Puerto Ricans, especially females, preferred to have a family member assist them with their physical ...older Puerto Ricans expressed views similar to these ...the Puerto Rican ...
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Contextualizing the Relationship between Culture and Puerto Rican Health: Towards a Place-Based Framework of Minority Health Disparities
... and Puerto Ricans in the ...Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and African Americans live in impoverished neighbor- hoods, emphasize the present, neglect to plan, and are living to satisfy sexual urges and violent ...
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A Study of Health Care Practices and Health Beliefs of Puerto Rican Women in Southeastern Pennsylvania
... The Taínos worshipped several gods, according the highest honor to a female deity, Atabey or Guanabanex, to whom they attributed much power. They carved stone talismans called “cemies” to remind them of their deities. ...
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Puerto Rican Women Living with HIV and Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence
... general, Puerto Rican women abide by the expectations of engaging in an intimate relationship to continue the familial traditions and cultural ...norms. Puerto Rican women learn to behave in a ...
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Internal Business Control Systems in Small Puerto Rican Retail Businesses
... in Puerto Rico in understanding that there is a significant relationship between the degree of segregation of duties, attitude towards internal control and the internal control system of an ...
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A Study of Police Errors in Crime Classification
... In the present study we have attempted to examine the correctness of Puerto Rican police officers in reporting crimes; that is, the ability of these officers to translate facts of crime [r] ...
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DAVID M. STARK. Coordinator, Latin American Studies Program, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan.
... 2007 October 9-12.“Innovative Ways of Looking at the Past: The Use of Parish Registers to Reconstruct the Lived Experience of Enslaved Populations in Eighteenth-Century Arecibo, Puerto Rico.” Presented at the ...
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Association of genetic ancestry with colorectal tumor location in Puerto Rican Latinos
... [53]. Puerto Rico Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a state-based system of health surveys established in 1984 by the Centers for Disease Control to collect information on health risk ...
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Puerto Rico Residential Energy Study
... and Puerto Rico, cooling demand through the use of fans and air conditioners account for 50-60% of the total energy consumption in a building (Kunchornat, Namprakai, and Pont, ...of Puerto Rico, it is ...
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PUERTO RICO. Report of Puerto Rico on implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (1995)
... of Puerto Rican society, with particular attention to young people, who are being sent the message that they must build a “culture of peace” by all the creative and artistic means that are part of ...
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\u3ci\u3eTestimonios\u3c/i\u3e in Liminal Spaces: Puerto Rican Women Living in Extended-Stay and Shelter Hotels in New York City After Hurricane Maria
... left Puerto Rico in total ...nighttime, Puerto Rico was invisible in satellite ...of Puerto Rico as a colonial property of the ...policies. Puerto Rico's inability to recover from Hurricane ...
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Digging deeper: quality of patient provider communication across Hispanic subgroups
... ing data collection. Socio-demographic and related characteristics of Hispanic respondents--by ethnic sub- group designation--are presented in Table 1. Males and females were represented fairly equally except among ...
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jcem1856.pdf
... and Puerto Rican backgrounds with diag- nosed diabetes consumed less total and added sugar than their undiagnosed counterparts, but there was no obvious such difference among other Hispanic/Latino ...
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Resisting Anglicization : Irish and Puerto Rican intersections in New York in the twentieth century
... a Puerto Rican and easily fools all of his friends at college into believing that he is a New York Puerto ...typical Puerto Rican ...his Puerto Rican girlfriend to dinner ...
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Investigation of Differences in Value Judgments Between Youthful Offenders and Non Offenders in Puerto Rico, An
... The next task was to determine the degree of agreement between the two lower class Puerto Rican samples and the middle class Pennsylvanian samples tested by Sellin and Wolfgang.' To inve[r] ...
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Dietary patterns and cardio-metabolic risk in a population of Guatemalan young adults
... diets varies across cultures and regions. The traditional rice and beans pattern in the study of Puerto Rican adults was characterized by oils, rice, beans/legumes, and vegetables [40]. [r] ...
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Original Article Tanycytic ependymoma in a 76-year-old Puerto Rican male
... We present a rare case of a Puerto Rican 76 year-old male with progressive movement impairment in his lower extremities that became wheelchair bound. Radiological and histological analyses confirmed the ...
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"We Are the Revolutionaries": Visibility, Protest, and Racial Formation in 1970s Prison Radicalism
... their Puerto Rican (or other) ...for Puerto Ricans as a distinct racialized ...explicitly Puerto Rican. Thomas squared off against both light-skinned Puerto Ricans and African ...
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