Ancestor

orations addressed to their great ancestors who created the foundation of the countries. In Pericles’ version, he admired that his ancestors use their braveness to create this free and democratic polis. And in Lincoln’s version, President Lincoln, in the same way, praised the founding fathers create “a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” They both put emphasis on the contributions and efforts of their ancestors. Another important…

tradition of ancestor worship. A dying ritual is the wetting of the lips “the rite of the last water” called matsugo no mizu, where the next of kin wet the lips of the dying person. Once death has passed, there are a series of periodic rituals to honor the death, passages of ancestor hood, and finally the spirit enters the realm of dead and becomes a new Buddha. The dead are not forgotten in the culture with daily, monthly, seasonal, and periodical rituals to honor their ancestors. 5) Write…

My name is Tianshu Kong and I am from China. My father is a geophysicist and my mother is an animal scientist. I am currently studying Geoscience and Marine science at the University of Arizona. I was raised in China and I moved to Russia to take my last two years of high school when I was 16. Three years ago, I went to Tucson to take my university study. I have a strong interest in Geoscience when I was young. I become involved in the field of geoscience and worked with my father when I was…

celebrate spirituality. There are multiple types of spiritual celebrations but they are all connected in some way with nature. One Aboriginal spirituality which is called Earthly. In 2009, Vicki Grieves explains this earthly sprit: “The creation ancestors thus laid down not only the foundations of all life, but also what people had to do to maintain their part of this interdependence—the Law. The Law ensures that each person knows his or her connectedness and…

invaded was for them. He also expressed to them that Jerusalem was being over ran by people that did not believe. He painted a picture so vividly that the people felt compelled to run to their aid. He also used their ancestors as leverage by telling them to do the deeds of their ancestors and reclaim what was theirs and stated that it was the will of God. The Pope’s Urban’s speech at Clermont was spoken to let the people know what was happening in Jerusalem and to make them feel that they were…

The core of this chapter in Laymon’s book was what it meant to grow up black in America during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Being black meant, being aware of “the worst of the white people.” No, Laymon was not referring to Klansmen or Nazi-skinheads, “The worst of white folks, I understood, wasn’t some gang of rabid white people in crisp pillowcases and shaved heads” (28). Neither was it a group of segregationists wanting to keep blacks out of what they perceived as white…

live in America, does not make you a descendant of a slave. After slavery, you don't know if the slaves travelled and had children in other countries. Although you may think “well there are websites that help trace down your ancestors”, how exactly do you know your ancestors didn't change their first or last names? There so many questions…

In the second part of the lecture, lecturer Michael N Dawson shared with us the information in his research on Jellyfish. Before he jumped into talking about this topic, he first mentioned about the formation of marine lakes. Prior attending to this lecture, I have never heard of Marine Lakes and did not have too in depth knowledge about Jellyfish. However, after I listened to what lecturer Dawson’s presentation, I think the formation of marine lake are fascinating. When see water raised,…

Losing that main object that was so important in his life was losing the memory of the great-grandfather in the future. With that in mind, the reader can think about their ancestors and stories they’ve heard about them. It’s like a puzzle, they families piece parts of the puzzle together, but without their important object, they will never finish the puzzle, it will always be a mystery. “My great-grandfather had one specialty:…

we see elsewhere in the fossil record, and even among living species, it is difficult to believe that there were no biological evolution that resulted in ancestor species and descendant species living together for a period. Because of this there is constant researching going on to get information that provides us with more insight of our ancestors. Ardipithecus fossils were a crucial find to the field of archeology, which created new suggestions concerning features that associated them with…