Ancestor

gods such as weather and sky gods, but they thought of their ancestors as gods. In the text “The Book of Songs,” one of the Five Confucian Classics, there is a poetic song titled “Glorious Ancestors” which worships their ancestors, refers to bringing them offerings, praising, thanking and asking them for their blessing (The Book of Songs, p.28). Their concept of the afterlife was somehow similar to Egypt. They would praise their ancestors because they believed that when parents or grandparents…

eventually culminating in the fortification of a species, or perhaps the birth of an entirely new one. This birth is explained through the concept of the “tree of life” – a notion that all organisms have adapted and evolved from a single common ancestor. Ultimately, all life forms are unified, despite its frequent disorganization of possible evolutionary…

Stages of Counseling is important because it set the scenes for the professional’s to being to practice multicultural counseling; perhaps all counseling is in a sense, is about a person’s abstract perceptions, about their views on relationships. The discussion about multicultural counseling is diverse and serves as a gauge in the communication and dialogues which are sensitive to the client’s culture background, rationale about their worldviews, and values. The approach of the therapist is to…

addition to paying tribute to the deceased and their ancestors he took this opportunity to address his audience about the importance of democracy and its role in the polis. In doing this, Pericles describes what is great about Athens and its people. In essence, Pericles was paying homage to those lost, while inspiring his listeners to move on with pride and continue fighting to defend their democracy.…

2004, 140). Although Pai behaves and acts like a lady, her sense of purpose is to bring her community out of darkness. From this particular scene, the symbolism implied is that Koro rejects that Pai, as a girl, could re-link her people with their ancestors and thereby revive…

reservations about assassinating Albert because Yu Tsun detests spying and despises Germany. Yu Tsun also respects Albert and is grateful to Albert for solving his family's puzzling mystery about a book, The Garden of Forking Paths, written by Yu Tsun's ancestor. At a first glance, it is unclear why Yu Tsun follows through with his mission if he…

Puritan influence on Nathaniel Hawthorne expressed in the short story “Young Goodman Brown” Even each word has its own meaning; in the different context, a word’s meaning can be different as well. Additionally, each word, passage, and the story said or written has an ability to influence a person. Nathaniel Hawthorne was not an exception. Hawthorne was influenced by puritan religious, which provoke in the author distrust and depravity. Therefore, the story “Young Goodman Brown “expresses the…

The Mighty Corn It is fascinating to understand how a tiny seed enabled our ancestors to build massive empires and sustain themselves for thousands of years. Going back to the indigenous people during the pre-Columbian era, all the way down to the conquest of Cortez, it is clear to see how corn made possible the development of societies, cultures, and beliefs. Even today, the domestication of corn plays a major role in the way our society operates, especially in the latino communities. People…

died, or are dying because diseases are able to spread more easily or that now, the only known place in our universe that can sustain our existence is slowly dying away because of industrialization and the adoption of farming? Our hunter-gathering ancestors would not have known that these things would happen or the answer to these questions, but we do, and it is worth at least realizing that farming could possibly be “the worst mistake in the history of the human race”…

virtue, their ancestors’ piety or virtue, or their own actions and successes in war. The kings of Rome were not uniform in nature, some kings were Romans, others foreigners; some kings were great conquerors, others pious administrators. However, what the Roman kings did have in common was the justification for their rule stemming from merit, rather than royal lineages. To qualify that, merit…