Chant

The world is a very natural place: there are animals, and living beings that thrive off of food and land, but these living beings will also eventually die off. Human beings are also a part of nature, and will eventually die. No matter the outcome all kind of ecosystems in natural exist in the world is all resulting with leaving, it is the natural phenomenon. While born and death is lifecycle phenomena, it is natural. However, will the soul perish with the body and going somewhere after death?…

circle she places Mary's photo on the ground in front of her and Mary's skull on top of it. She puts the other bones next to the skull. Bella digs a little with her hands and grabs the dirty of the earth with both hands, she looks up at the sky and chants. She let's go of the dirty and stands up. Standing up in the middle of the circle she starts chanting an incantation. She starts out slowly but soon it starts to build up to something more powerful. The clouds on the sky starts to move really…

For my musical ethnography, I was originally going to attend a showing of the “Rocky Horror Picture Show”, but it ended up being sold out last minute. At that point, I began to worry because that was the only event I had planned to attend. As my worry was starting to progress, I remembered, and also took a quick glance at the types of events we could attend and saw that it said we could attend a religious service. I quickly looked up services in my area for the next day and came across a website…

right arm. The boy recites the Gayathri Mantra for the first time, which is taught to him by his father. This mantra is traditionally only recited by boys, however in modern times, girls are permitted to chant it. From the day of the Ceremony until the end of his life, the boy is required to chant the Gayathri Mantra each morning. The mantra symbolises the better side of life, and it is believed if you recite the mantra each day, your day will be filled with…

was sent to urgent care. In Oakland tensions were even higher than they were on Sproul Plaza as people began to set literal fire to the street. I participated with the chants “No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA.” Although I knew the decision of Trump in the house was not going to change I felt empowered by being apart of this chant. I continued chanting until I saw people harassing police officers which made me in a sense snap out of it, and step away from the crowd. Once I came to the realization…

Midterm Assignment – Dojoji (Noh) For my assignment I have chosen to analyse the second act of the Noh play Dojoji, author unknown, translated by Donald Keane. The common and recurring themes of Noh, gender and religion, are hugely prevalent in this piece, and my selected section of the play illustrates this well. Noh, derived from the Sino-Japanese word for “skill” or “talent” is the oldest form of major theatre art still regularly performed today. Popular performance modes of the 10th and…

success. The boys feel like if Jack is going to be doing it, the it is okay for them to do it as well. Jack has that much power on the boys because of the way he presents himself and the way he leads the boys through examples. When Jack begins to chant “kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the…

Music Through the Middles Ages to the Baroque Period Music is greatly influenced by the culture of the time period it is from. The purpose of creating music and who listens to it has a large impact on how the music sounds. As these aspects change with the culture and time, music does as well. In this way, the music from the Middle Ages is dramatically unlike the music from the Baroque Period. The music that emerged in the Baroque Period was definitely different from that of previous times, as it…

In the novella Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck writes about the unlikely pair of travelers, George Milton and Lennie Small. This novella takes place during the Great Depression on a ranch in California. The people that make up the ranch are migrant farm workers, who are poor, desperate, and low in society. Lennie Small and George Milton are two of these ranchers. George Milton becomes a tragic hero in the story. A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably…

Language is meant to bring people together. To allow peoples to share ideas, to cultivate ideas; To make humanity equal to God. In the biblical tale of “The Tower of Babel”, the ability of humanity to speak one language allowed them to be closer to God, to achieve a God-like status, but in the end humanity was struck down and cursed to speak a plethora of languages, dividing us so we could never threaten that primordial power. But for a tool which once, supposedly, allowed to us to reach God,…