Heritage: Our Origins Every person, family, or tribe, can trace their history back to when their ancestors were just creating things from scratch, migrating from place to place in search for resources, and coming up with new ideas that we consider ancient today. What our ancestors did is as much of importance, or maybe even more, as what we do with what they left behind. Whether it is a family tradition that has existed for hundreds of years, or customs that have evolved as time passed by, are significant. Everything that has been thought of, been done with success or failure, and created through hard work and talent, are what makes the current society we live in now. These things that we inherited from our previous are great, but some of
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Horne, Johnny. Fayobserver.com. The Fayetteville Observer, 26 September 2013. Web. February 2016 subject and manifesting it on canvas, knowing that it will last as an eternal memory,” Buku exclaims (Mark Buku’s…). Buku is a great example of someone who is trying to make a mark in the world and create his own heritage, having the desire to make his paintings “last as an eternal memory” (Mark Buku’s…). His determination during the time he was painting on the Seabrook Park wall under the bright, hot sun, is shown through his work (Horne). Masks are objects worn on the face, representing several meanings, varying with which tribes each masks came from, used in both ceremonial (sacrifices, entertainment, etc.) and practical (assassination, war, disguise, etc.) acts. Each masks are created through different means, using different materials, and with different symbols on each masks (History…). There is also the immaterial masks, which are more common in today’s society, and a little more problematic. We use our “masks” in a similar way, but for entirely different reasons. Some of us use our masks to hide what we truly feel about certain things, we use our masks so that what we want others to see is the only side they do …show more content…
Blacks are individuals whose heritage consist of hate and suffering towards Whites, and calling this grudge childish would create more trouble than fixing it. One cannot understand the pain of others unless they have experienced pain similar to that of the other. To understand that what the White Americans did to the Black Americans only benefited the Whites and more than psychologically scarred the Blacks generation after generation is by experiencing the same scenario, but I don’t think anybody, even the Blacks themselves, would want anybody else to experience the brutal treatment they went
Horne, Johnny. Fayobserver.com. The Fayetteville Observer, 26 September 2013. Web. February 2016 subject and manifesting it on canvas, knowing that it will last as an eternal memory,” Buku exclaims (Mark Buku’s…). Buku is a great example of someone who is trying to make a mark in the world and create his own heritage, having the desire to make his paintings “last as an eternal memory” (Mark Buku’s…). His determination during the time he was painting on the Seabrook Park wall under the bright, hot sun, is shown through his work (Horne). Masks are objects worn on the face, representing several meanings, varying with which tribes each masks came from, used in both ceremonial (sacrifices, entertainment, etc.) and practical (assassination, war, disguise, etc.) acts. Each masks are created through different means, using different materials, and with different symbols on each masks (History…). There is also the immaterial masks, which are more common in today’s society, and a little more problematic. We use our “masks” in a similar way, but for entirely different reasons. Some of us use our masks to hide what we truly feel about certain things, we use our masks so that what we want others to see is the only side they do …show more content…
Blacks are individuals whose heritage consist of hate and suffering towards Whites, and calling this grudge childish would create more trouble than fixing it. One cannot understand the pain of others unless they have experienced pain similar to that of the other. To understand that what the White Americans did to the Black Americans only benefited the Whites and more than psychologically scarred the Blacks generation after generation is by experiencing the same scenario, but I don’t think anybody, even the Blacks themselves, would want anybody else to experience the brutal treatment they went