Tradition Essay

During the holiday season, most what we hear is “Merry Christmas.” The society today is based on the Christmas holiday, but most people tend to forget about other holidays that fall in the same timeline. One of the holidays we know of but don’t understand is Hanukkah. Currently, learning other people’s religion is becoming more and more important. With a world changing day by day, people might start to wonder what the origin of the Hanukkah celebration is. The background of every religious…

nonsensical and useless traditions, that more often than not have no logical meaning or either they are outdated or are no longer relevant to the advancement of that culture or society. Although people still maintain true to most of these outdated traditions, in this story there is one character in particular whose overwhelming sense of obligation to uphold this tradition has ruled and controlled his entire life, Old Man Warner. His unwavering belief in this senseless yearly tradition of murder…

And this tradition has already been through a few changes since I was a child. The back story is that my sister, mom, and I made ornaments by hand. And we started doing this because we found some old hand made ornaments from my great-grandmother. We started making…

of human human nature will forever secretly exist and will always be subject to control of peer pressure. Hence, Jackson shows that blindly following and accepting tradition can be unpredictable and even deadly. The townspeople have no clue behind this tradition, yet mindlessly take part in the stoning of Tessie. The stoning tradition in the “The Lottery” is more than ninety years old since the wooden box used was even older than Old Man…

How do family tradition and cultural legacy contribute to and individual self-Identity? In my family we have one tradition that sticks out for me and that is every Christmas we have breakfast and dinner at my grandmother house. I can’t wait for Christmas because we have a big Christmas breakfast which consist of bacon, eggs, pancakes, fried apples, and sausage. I must tell you that my grandma’s pancakes are to die for. Now her Christmas dinner is just as good as the breakfast. She always have 4…

Discovering the sacramental life is the central focus of the incarnational tradition. “The Incarnational Stream of Christian life and faith focuses upon making present and visible the realm of the invisible spirit. This sacramental way of living addresses the crying need to experience God as truly manifest and notoriously active in daily life” (Foster 238). Living according to the principles outlined in the incarnational tradition challenges us to recognize God’s sovereignty in all situations.…

Thanksgiving When it comes to my family, we have very many traditions on Thanksgiving. Of course, these few traditions are important. These traditions have been in our family for decades. Thanksgiving is what I will tell you about, along with the traditions we have on this holiday. Eagerly, I will tell you about our turkey tradition. But, I chose this because; you can’t have Thanksgiving dinner without turkey. Now, the tradition began when I was born. After school, when it gets around…

Throughout history, traditions or cultural practices play a huge role into any race because these traditions define who we are and where our roots come from. Some of these practices can come from anywhere like a far away region like China or somewhere close like Mexico. Although, these traditions come from different places, but were originated is from different era's of time, which can lead up to a race's background. Even though it leads back to a certain race, it only a fraction of an entire…

cultural idea is the simultaneous societal acceptance and individual questioning of the traditionalist Igbo way of life. Tradition, including oral tradition, as Anthony mentioned, is imperative for the survival of the Igbo people. Because a bountiful harvest is necessary for survival, for example, those with the most bountiful harvests are honored and given titles. This tradition essentially positively reinforces the necessity of harvesting crops. There are negative reinforcements, too. At the…

My project is about attending a worship service different from my own religious tradition, which is Catholic. I chose this project because I want to learn about other religions, other traditions, how they worship and what is involve in their ways of doing things. Experiencing a religion other than mine, will expand my knowledge. I believe that we always learn something new everyday and that we have to be open to receive what life offers by being here in this world that God created. What…