Ceremonies

Local Fire Departments Will Take to the Diamond to Support Charity Pi Sigma Epsilon is hosting a softball tournament for fire departments to support the Iowa Burn Association. Cedar Falls, IA: At this time, Pi Sigma Epsilon, a local student marketing and sales organization at the University of Northern Iowa, is proud to announce that its members will be hosting a softball tournament to support charity on October 21st. The event, Blaze of Glory, will feature an all-afternoon softball tournament…

The Rite Of Passage For “Just Be Yourself” The rite of passage that is most significant to me is not doing everything that you possibly can to be perfect. A good story that focuses on that specific one is “Just Be Yourself”. In this story, the narrator’s younger self is trying her best to fit in and be like everyone else, but while she is doing that she is slowly losing herself. But, her future self comes back to talk about it with her. One of the quotes are, “I mean honestly, you joined the…

rarely gets to make her own decisions, and she is consistently being told what to do. But when it comes to love she is taking that aspect of her life into her own hands. First off, during the beginning of the book the Matching Ceremony is explained; the Matching Ceremony is when a group of boys and girls over the age of 17 will be matched with a boy or girl from another society. Once matched they are each…

The ceremony of twelve and the reaping are very different. They both hold some similar things and also some very different things. The ceremony from the giver is a very happy time for the families and the kids who turn 12. The reaping is a very bad time, seeing these random people take your children away and thinking that they might never come back. In “The Giver”, they take away almost all choices. There is no starving, and no one ever suffers. During the ceremony of twelve they celebrate the…

sin to be separate from their lives. Into the water they symbolically cast their sins of the past year, to start the new year with a clean slate. The ceremony includes reading the source passage for the practice. On October third The members of the United Synagogue of Hoboken gathered at the park by the Hudson river to perform their Tashlikh ceremony. They were kind enough to allow some students from Saint University to attend. I got the opportunity to attend Tashlikh. When we first arrived we…

How to plan a memorial service A commemorative ceremony is a chance for friends and family to celebrate the life of a loved one who passed away. Organizing a seemly memorial service for someone close to you is not easy, especially since you have trouble coming to terms with losing someone. However, you can hold a memorial event any time after the funeral, which means you can give yourself a chance to adapt and prepare for. Style Before you start any planning, you need to decide the approach…

these emotions are prevalent in the novel Ceremony as it concentrates on reintegrating into society after trauma. Tayo, the main character, has complications with trying to live a normal life due to serving in World War II. Silko focuses on the social and psychological difficulties involving that Tayo faces with his family and community as he attempts integrating into a normal life after the war, through the use of imagery, foreshadowing, and symbolism. Ceremony, opens up with poems regarding…

learn togetherness and what their role will be. They can be in the camp for up to ten years. Next is Eunoto or initiation. Here a warrior becomes a senior warrior. They are able to marry and have children. A camp of forty-nine houses is where this ceremony is held. The Oloiboni live in the forty ninth house. They are…

Ceremony and A New Reflection on Racial Tension as a Current Event Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko has given me a new perspective on racial tensions/issues in the United States. Although the book is mainly focused on Native Americans, the broad idea of racial issues can be applied to the current events happening to people of all races. I especially gained a more thoughtful view of the recent events in Charlottesville, North Carolina. Ceremony has given me a deeper understanding of racial tension…

Context: The anticipation awaits when Offred as the Handmaid and the Commander consummated their roles during the Ceremony. In the Ceremony, in one way, shape, or form, was just as awkward as anyone would’ve assumed it would be. For one, Serena Joy was lying below Offred, with her legs open, allowing space for the Handmaid to be situated with her head on the wife’s stomach. Nonetheless, while this act was in motion, Serena Joy was attributing to the act with noises as if she was the one being…