Amish

but I quickly found out that I was far more interested in a very different topic. The Amish! After talking a bit about to the farm owners, they suggested a drive to visit a much more Amish community and a family to visit with. The following weekend I loaded my family in the car and we headed off to a small town in Maine. Before heading to Maine, I made a list of the things I knew…or thought I knew, about the Amish. And, I purposefully steered clear of doing any research since I was hoping to…

Their education rejects the concept of higher learning and focuses mainly on agriculture (Wisconsin v. Yoder Oral). John Calhoun, attorney for Wisconsin, argued that the Amish children needed to learn about our government and our history so they could vote and become active citizens. Calhoun also stated that the Amish children had a right to choose whether to attend high school, but because their parents were making the decisions for them, the children were losing their chance of having a good…

upbringing of the Amish youth. Initially, it evokes a mix of curiosity and concern. The decision to allow adolescents to explore the outside world often manifests behaviours contrary to their community's norms and challenges conventional notions of moral upbringing. During Rumspringa, Amish youth navigate a pivotal phase where they confront diverse moral influences/complexities. Their experiences prompt introspection; some steadfastly adhere to tradition, reaffirming their commitment to the…

The documentary, The Devil’s Playground, directed by Lucy Walker illustrates the lifestyle of the Amish culture. This film particularly focuses on a Rite of Passage known as Rumspringa. Rumspringa occurs when an adolescent turn sixteen years old and the adolescent then has an opportunity to experience the outside world before deciding rather or not to officially join the Amish church. By using Turner’s concepts of liminality, communitas, rituals of status elevation and status of reversal, one…

Utopia or Dystopia Many believe that an Amish life is plain, simple, and in some ways, perfect, but in reality, modern society does not really know if the life they portray is as perfect as it seems. Utopia is an “ideal place or state and any visionary system of political or social perfection” (“Utopia”). Dystopia is an “imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror” (“Dystopia”). George Orwell published 1984 in 1948 and he…

Yet they cannot hold a face-to-face conversation without being so distracted by their devices. So from the anecdotes that author Howard Rheingold wrote in the article “Look Who’s Talking”, he reveals how Amish community treats technology in a different way. Rheingold was able to prove that Amish people are not just a bunch of technophobes, they have deep philosophical reasons why they choose to not integrate technology in their everyday lives. There exists hundreds of social media programs that…

the Amish, the amish is a utopian society that has survived for a while now. They live simple by having themselves create and produce their own food and wear plain dresses. They avoid present day life of today and do not use any source technology. This means that the Amish can survive by themselves without any help whatsoever. According to the author of the amish lifestlye this is not the case “The Amish will reach out to hospitals and doctors if members are wounded badly enough that the Amish…

Engineering Discourse as Compared to the Amish: Literary Merit of Technical Writing Technical communication is one of the fundamental literate activities of the engineering field. The skills and literacy involved in coding and building robots is spread across many divisions of engineering, whether it be mechanical, electrical, aerospace or an undecided major in the STEM field. To help introduce the necessary tools of inscription and the inscription process of programming a robot in both the…

Film conventions show black people as the villains in films, so the shot of the black man (Mcfee), the white wall and the smear of blood shows a contrast in the clash of cultures and corruption ‘the English’ have brought into the Amish community. When showing the Amish men responding to Samuel’s alarm and coming to help, Weir uses the same non-diegetic music as he did in the Barn-Raising scene. He does this to show a sense of victory and convey a theme of community. Bringing that safe and calm…

Most of the Amish communities live in the United States, and follow simple, but strict customs and refuse to take oaths, vote, perform military service and refuse to use any sort of modern technology and conveniences, like cars, cellphones, etc. The Amish mode for transportation is by horse and buggy, they do not have any electricity or telephones in their homes. They culturally resist by living a non-technological lifestyle in a technologically advanced based society. The Amish also dress…