Have you ever been to or even know what a quinceanera is? A quinceanera is a celebration of a young girl becoming 15. A quinceanera is very important to a teenaged girl because it resembles a young girl becoming a woman. People think that quinceanera is just a party for fun but in reality it is a party that is sometimes very emotional for parents.…
Tokens like the tiara or crown, medal cross, bible, and the “last doll” are habitual to this ceremony. Other accessories for the hall or venue include a bouquet of flowers which the Quinceañera offers to the Virgin Mary in mass, cake, champagne for the toast, a photographer, and ceremony pillows used for kneeling during mass. One of the most popular and evocative traditions is the Changing of the Shoes. The father or favored male relative (if father is absent) changes the young girl's flat shoes to high heels. This reciprocity in exchange of shoes signifies the Quinceañera’s transformation from a little girl to a young lady.…
After mass, the mariachi group began to play as we were exiting out of the church and headed to the hall, since the hall was right next door to the church. No one in the group was singing just yet but playing a music that was not too loud but very jubilant. The group had matching outfits, in which they were all dressed in white with silver galas on the side of their pants and jackets. As everyone was getting their food, the mariachi continued playing, but a bit louder. After a while, the quincenera went to the middle of the hall and sat down on a chair while the mariachi played music for her in honor of her birthday.…
The American equivalent to a quinceanera could be one of two things: a sweet sixteen party or an eighteenth birthday. Debutante balls are the Victorian equal to the modern sweet…
Then the guests and the quinceañera will dance to one last song. Today, a quinceañera celebration is often an extravagant party that may include a mariachi band, a feast and many guests- very similar to a wedding. Planning for a quinceañera can start as early as the birth of a daughter, the family and godparents save up money until the girl is of age fifteen. Actual quinceañera preparations may take anywhere from six months to a year and a half; dances have to be learned, decorations decided upon, cakes ordered, and in some cases, dresses have to be…
Rituals and Festivals in Europe: What’s the point?- DBQ Essay The anxiety and eagerness with which the people of traditional Europe awaited rituals and festivals leads to the interesting question of what their true purpose in society was. Communities and members of various groups would gather to hold ceremonies covering multiple aspects of society that affected their everyday lives. Rituals can be traced back to the early churches and their original practices, but evolved over time to become what are more known as holdings to bring people of all types together to support a common event. Writers, artists, and historians of the time recognized that these festivals had the potential to be seen as altering moments in European life spanning from the mid-fifteenth century as far as the late-nineteenth century.…
Juneteenth are the oldest know celebration commemorating of the ending to slavery in the United States. Back in 1865, it was on June 19th that union solders, led by Major General Gordon Granger, Landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. This was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation proclamation had little impact on the Texans due to the minimal number of Union troops to enforce the Executive Order. The surrender of General Lee in April of 1865, and the arrival of General Granger’s regiment, the forces were finally strong enough to influence and overcome the resistance.…
Journalists and other nonfiction writers provide accounts of real-life events that occur in various cultures. In the news article, “Quinceanera Birthday Bash Preserves Tradition, Marks Passage to Womanhood,” author Natalie St. John shares a descriptive account of a quinceanera, showing its importance in the Mexican culture and community. St. John emphasizes the main character Vanessa Negrete’s rite of passage and its cultural importance by using the organizational structures of sequence and description, and by using direct quotations from members involved. The author’s use of the organizational structure of sequencing makes the text easier to follow, which helps the reader understand the main idea the author is highlighting about quinceaneras.…
Hello, this is my project on the country of the Dominican Republic. During December, they celebrate Christmas, like we do, but Christmas doesn’t end until January 6th, with the arrival of the three kings. A tradition in the Republic, is an Aguinaldos; an informal party at home. The people at the party sing traditional Christmas songs and eat Christmas foods, such as Puerco asado.…
Quinceaneras usually consists of family members because you want the people that mean the most and you and be perfect with you on this important day, that you will remember for the rest of your life. If i had a quinceanera it was going and be mostly friends because my family doesn’t live here. The court of the quinceanera mostly consists of cousins from the same age and…
The celebration takes place in a church and then a reception at the family's home or a reception hall. The celebration itself is called a Quinceañera and the birthday girl is called the Quinceanera as well. The Quinceañera began taking place in European cultural traditions among the Aztec Indians because in that time…
Every Hispanic girl dreams about the day that they get the chance to have a Quinceanera. What is a quinceanera, you ask? It’s a very important Hispanic tradition that symbolizes a girl becoming a woman and taking on the responsibilities of an adult female. They celebrate it when the girl turns 15. It is not only to honor the young woman for her maturity, but also to her parents and family, as well as her padrinos (godparents).…
That just made my plans crumble. Since moving ruined how my planning was going, once the time for me to actually planned I left it up to my mom. She picked everything but my color scheme. In the Hispanic community a Quinceañera is a big deal, it marks your transition from childhood to adulthood. The most important…
In my heritage, when a girl reaches the age of fifteen there family throws a symbolic party for them, the celebration is called Quinceañera. It is viewed as a way in which a girl becomes a woman. The photo above was taken during my Quinceañera in August about a little over a year ago. This is viewed as a girl’s true becoming interconnected with the outside world. Before reaching of age, girls are viewed as a humble and fragile object that needs the care of the family to survive.…
Different cultures celebrate a Festival of Light to honour the Goddess as the Mother giving birth to the Sun God. The term Yule comes from a Norse word for wheel, and alot of our customs evolved from the Norse and Celtic Pagan practices. For example the custom of wassailing, the yule log and tree, etc). Great yule logs were burned to encourage the sun to shine brightly, and the people drank mead around their bonfires listening to minstrels and poets sharing ancient legends until the morning. The image on this flag shows the wise Father Solstice as he brings his precious gifts, a Scandinavian Goddess named Lucina wearing a crown of candles bringing a tray of sweets to herald the coming dawn light.…