" (Pettersson, 2006) Oral and written verbal art languages are both used for the purpose of information communication as well as information presentation with the reader and listener receiving an invitation to consider the information. The Narrative Continue Reading...
Initiation therefore helps the boys establish their identities and also creates social hierarchy. The conflict between Jack and Ralph serves also as a type of initiation: a battle between two individuals. Initiations represent a transition from one Continue Reading...
According to Amnesty International, the practice of FGM is performed on more than 2,000,000 women out of whom 600,000 are in Africa. (Kalev, 2004, p. 339) Rarely does FGM simply involve a symbolic small cut on the hood of the clitoris, as it misnome Continue Reading...
Ritual and pageantry also surround the architecture and buildings of the time, as the article on the Medici indicates. The architecture of the Renaissance is rich in art and tradition, making it some of the most memorable architecture in the world. Continue Reading...
" (John 15:26-27) John explicitly tells those who have come to walk in this way of knowing to pursue this knowledge in others. In his set of three epistles, which are held up with the apostle's other writings as central doctrines to the humanistic e Continue Reading...
Roman Sarcophagi sculptures, one sarcophagus of portraying Roman deity as portrayed on the Sarcophagus with the Indian Triumph of Dionysus' triumphal return from India, contrasted with the other the Sarcophagus Depicting a Battle between Soldiers an Continue Reading...
Christian Worship The History and Development of Contemporary Worship Biblical Foundations of Christian Worship The New Testament is, in many ways, the ultimate expression of Christian worship because the Gospels detail the life and teachings of J Continue Reading...
The Jewish naming in Istanbul was foreign to the local people.) It is for that reason too that we are so apt to see communication or transmission of language as a 'simple' ordinary activity and expect the other to understand us. We forget (as Delan Continue Reading...
Technology and the Development of Modern Medicine The 20th century saw a seismic change in the perception of the human body, and the relationship of patients to physicians and other aspects of modern medicine. With the recent coronavirus pandemic, of Continue Reading...
The Nacirema occupy a broad and diverse geographic zone between Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Their highly developed market economy belies, or perhaps informs, the evolution of elaborate body rituals. The body rituals of the Nacirema are diverse Continue Reading...
African cultural practices are incredibly diverse, reflecting the vastness of the continent itself and the numerous ethnic groups that inhabit it. The traditions and customs across Africa's 54 countries and innumerable communities offer a rich tapest Continue Reading...
One of the most ubiquitous features of human culture, myth relies on storytelling as its primary vehicles. As a type of storytelling, myth depends on symbolism, which is why the substantive nature of a myth remains the same even when the details of t Continue Reading...
Drinking and Driving: Learning What it Means to Look Out for Others and to Let Others Look Out for Us On a warm spring night in April, 2014, I was pulled over and arrested for drunk driving. I had been drinking with friends earlier that night at a b Continue Reading...
Religious Traditions of Native American Religion Native American religious traditions are, like other religions of the world, anchored on specific components that help link humanity with the sacred. These components include the teachings or doctrine Continue Reading...
It is emphasized that military service has become an intimate part of the culture and that the demise of this rite of passage must be considered in terms of its societal impact. On the other hand there are also signs that new immigrants to the count Continue Reading...
Because of the private nature of the tradition and because the methods can range so greatly, it is difficult to adequately assess the details of female genital cutting in Africa. The history of the tradition goes back thousands of years and is ofte Continue Reading...
In this regard, when wage levels fell in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the standard of living for laborers and cottagers in England declined precipitously and they were compelled to use the majority of their cash, garden crops, Continue Reading...
Margaret Mead and Coming of Age in Samoa Different aspects of culture define people over a period of time. It is only human nature that we see differences in culture and ourselves when thrown into a melting pot, a mix of multi-cultures in which we l Continue Reading...
Binge Drinking Among College Students Individuals make numerous choices throughout their lives that shape the course of their future, both for the better and the worse. College is one of the first times most individuals face various challenges, both Continue Reading...
Magolda, Peter. (Nov/Dec 2003) "Saying Good-Bye, an Anthropological Examination of a Commencement Ritual." Journal of College Student Development. Pp.1-6. Retrived from Find Articles database of journal articles on 26 Oct 2005 at http://www.findarti Continue Reading...
Religion Vocabulary, Christianity: citing your sources: • Gospel -- pertains to one of the first four books of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), or refers more generally to the life and teachings of Jesus (Babylon) • par Continue Reading...
Gangs The classification of gangs is helpful from a sociological and criminological standpoint. However, sociologists must be careful not to carelessly classify groups of individuals as gangs, given that the majority of what are known as street gang Continue Reading...
, lands useful to man, but according to technical and conspicuous for purposes that each civilization. When business needs and adds prestige to urban heritage, religions, however, that mark their territories of pagodas, churches, monasteries, mosque Continue Reading...
These rituals performed in their indigenous countries can lower the levels of depression found in African-American women in their host countries. Such rituals are now performed less and less in western societies. More formal institutions of baptism, Continue Reading...
Where Are You Going, Where Have Been? Joyce Carol Oates's short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" was first published in the literary journal Epoch in 1966. The story is about beginnings and the rites of passage. This work is an illu Continue Reading...
As the text by Davison (2004) contributes, "given that the narrator in Gilman's tale is a femme couverte who has no legal power over her own person -- like her flesh-and-blood counterparts at the time the story was published -- and that her husband Continue Reading...
Civil Service The war in Iraq has spawned a debate over whether or not all persons should have to spend some time in the civil service when they reach the age of eighteen. There are huge sacrifices that are being made in Iraq and Afghanistan but the Continue Reading...
Like the passages model, the leadership as a point of view model focuses on developing one extraordinary leader its end result. The process of achieving that end result is similar to the servant leadership process, in that it requires the leader to Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Psychological Impact of 'Aging Out': This topic would explore the emotional and psychological challenges faced by young adults who age out of the foster care system. The essay could examine issues Continue Reading...
Car Culture: How and Why "Ricers" Came into The Scene Since the advent of cars, people have always wanted to play around with them and make modifications of their own preferences. Car modification has been taking place ever since we starte Continue Reading...
Bullying and Conflict in Relation to Learning About Gender and Other Forms of Equity One of the harsh realities of life in the United States is the potential for bullying behaviors to adversely affect the learning environment for young victims, tran Continue Reading...
folklore perpetuates the customs and beliefs of the country people. Creating a vast universe of heroes and magical figures, folklore creates a sort of collective dreaming. Fairies are the most important magical figure in Celtic folklore. Known as th Continue Reading...
Components of a Good Life," Hewlett (2013b) focuses on AKA and Ngandu concepts of female adolescence, including issues associated with puberty and rites of passage to adulthood. The author links the cultural components of female puberty with evidenc Continue Reading...
Sexuality is defined, expressed, and experienced as a personal but also as a social and political phenomenon (Siedman, 2010, p. 11). The film 40-year-old Virgin presents a strikingly unique twist on Western norms and values related to sexuality. Spec Continue Reading...
Orthodox Judaism There is great variation in the ways orthodox Jews practice their religion, and in what they believe. Many of the variations depend on cultural factors, as Jews are scattered all over the world. However, the basic tenets of the reli Continue Reading...
According to Phillip Rosen in Narrative Apparatus, Ideology: A Film Theory Reader, "The syntagmatic is comprised of the rule-governed relationships among signs present in an actual, concrete signifying "chain" such as a sentence; it is the realm of Continue Reading...
Adolescent Brain The cross-cultural differences in child and adolescent brain development is a cross-disciplinary study that can be contained under the rubric of medical anthropology, adolescent neuropsychology, or the budding field of cultural neur Continue Reading...
