Ceremonies

Grandfather Bakhye’s death ritual was a rather long process. He had special implications because he was a very respected elder and vital to the village community. To begin, he did not pass away on his own village grounds. In their culture, you must walk back from your beginning resting place to your territory. Grandfather was not alive nor dead when he was walking back from the missionary hill. As Malidoma stated “Grandfather was now existing in a space beyond the living” (P.48) When he was…

earth for humans in their natural world. Through prayers and rituals, this link provides individuals with a firm foundation which strengthens their beliefs and maintains the fragile balance of nature. In Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, young Tayo seeks to complete his ceremony with nature to recover from war and the loss plaguing his heart. By holding on to his traditions, Tayo comes to…

most impactful people you may ever meet can Trojan Horse their way into your life. This was the case with me and my best friend, Jake Tokash. I remember our Middle School Graduation Ceremony, where I defeated him for Valedictorian. This came as a completely shock to me, and some other people as well. After the ceremony, I stood around for a little while waiting for the majority of people to leave. Once the hustle and bustle was over, I made my way towards the parking lot when he walked up to me.…

As mentioned before, there were two types of inscriptions on the Yixing stoneware teapot. One type was the individual seals placed on the base of the teapots, and the other one was the customized inscriptions on the bodies of the teapots. This new practice of inscribing, on one hand, was significantly influenced by the imperial reign marking tradition; on the other hand, it was the consequence of the mutual respect between skillful and creative Yixing artisans and their patrons, the…

3.4 Chart pattern: 3.4.1 Candlestick charting: Candlestick charts have been around for hundred years. They are often referred to as “Japanese candles” because the Japanese would using them to analyze the price of rice contract. Similar to a bar chart, candlestick charts also display the, daily high and daily low, open, close. The difference is the use of colour to show if the stock went up or down in a day. The chart below is an example of a candlestick chart for AT&T (T). Green…

this a few months ago, I might have touched upon my fifteenth birthday. A symbolic celebration that in Hispanic culture represents transcendence for a young girl into adulthood. Today, I am aware that, although beautiful and alluring my Quinceañera ceremony did not magically inject me with maturity, responsibility and all other characteristics of adulthood. I realized that simply mentioning I was mature did not make me so. At the age of fifteen my emotions were topsy-turvy, I threw tantrums and…

In the book Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, fragility and interconnectedness is a topic that is brought up a few times. In Ceremony, Ku’oosh, the medicine man talks about fragility and how everything is interconnected; when one element is impacted, the rest of the environment is impacted as well. Fragility is something that is not only related to Tayo, the main character, and the struggles he is going through post-war, but it is also related to society today. Today in society, fragility and…

are challenged, and the new environment could shape their ideals. By being exposed to a new environment, characters can realize the mistakes they have made, leading to the redemption of their souls. Tayo, the protagonist, in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony is sent off to the war, and when he returns back to his normalcy he struggles to function properly in society. This struggle of being placed in a new environment made him challenge his conventional ideologies and formulate new ones to govern…

partner is from Israel. The place that my partner decided to take me was to a religious ceremony. The reason of this was that he is Jewish and I am Christian. The two religions main seen very common, but I didn’t have any known logy of the Judaism religion before this project. The begging of the project was a lesson that he gave me about Judaism, after similarities between our religions and them the Friday night ceremony that we attend. Israel, the place where my partner come from, is…

The meaningless ceremony in “ The Lottery” In 1940s, a ceremony has been hold for long times among some villages in America. The ceremony was meaningless and silly. People in that time was ignorant and numb. The story “ The lottery” written by Shirley Jackson perfectly described the special ceremony during that time. In “The lottery”, Jackson told us how the ceremony looks like in details. The story shows us how the ceremony is meaningless, and what people act in that ceremony, which reflect…