Liminal being

as a gateway to allow for discussion of topics otherwise considered taboo. The transmission of the Black Pope story, for example, creates a liminal space in its telling; the audience and storyteller are speaking about the destruction of a religion, but veil this discussion behind the guise of a story. To the general populace, stories carry the stigma of being unimportant and based almost entirely on fictitious events, thus making it easier for people to point out the flaws in a system without…

The idea of being open with frequent sexual acts is enculturated into Trobriand society and is therefore normalised. This essay has explained the way in which sex transforms from child’s play to a passionate desire during adolescent years. It has looked at the way sexuality…

E.B. White’s children’s novel Charlotte’s Web encapsulates a trifecta of distinctive features. The bildungsroman work accomplishes the tasks of telling a great story, educating the young, and catering to the moral, intellectual, physical, and emotional needs of children, from within the story and out. White captures appropriate progression and maturation, especially through the protagonists Wilbur and Fern. To Love and To Be Loved A child’s need for love is based on security and it is…

Impact of Stigma on the Personal Level Self-esteem is the staple of one’s self, the value and worth a person has of themselves. With the core of how one views themselves being so important having a healthy and confident self-esteem known as high self-esteem, influences a person’s overall quality of life. When a person does not have a high self-esteem their overall quality of life is lowered. Those with ID endeavor low self-esteem on a consistent basis. Research suggests individuals with ID who…

used femininity to outline masculinity, even though they more highly value men. They both informed the young boys of feminine foods that they cannot eat and made them the very symbol of femininity. The Gebusi culture simultaneously exalted the female being and shamed…

violent hope and yearning in his dreams for a better future. Throughout the Harlem Renaissance Hughes begins to bring the motif of dreams to the forefront of African American literature in a more positive, hopeful, light. Hughes’ work can be seen as a liminal period for African American literature, as the breadth of his work was produced not even sixty years after slavery was abolished, freedom for African Americans was still fresh. While legally free, African Americans were still alienated from…

Stories told in the past that are still prevalent today includes tales of individuals from all ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds who chose to travel to America for the collective reason of building a stable and prosperous life. Having to appropriate to lifestyles that are completely different from one someone grew up in and is accustomed to is the reason for the major culture shock that these individuals endures and leads to the dire need of comfort and familiarity. To this, those who…

techniques that baroque applied back in the seventeenth century, despite it being the twentieth century (Egginton 2010). Neo baroque can be declared as the continuation of its predecessor and applying its style not with the old theories, but with a notion to solve problems and moving forward (Egginton 2010). Egginton (2010) sees this matter, in its complex philosophical structure, concerns the confusing connection in the liminal appearance of what they refer to. He then does some findings and…

gender and sexuality, chiefly concerns the focus of her work on examining the sexual journeys of women in patriarchal culture. Each has, because of this, been to differing extents hailed as feminist in their portrayal of women who, all of them in the liminal stage between childhood…

Introduction In a marsh environment, it can be assumed by many that the studied environment exhibits a descending pattern as the land meets the ocean in a liminal boundary. This hypothetical descending pattern is both literal – an idea of where the elevation of the land decreases as the marsh reaches towards the marsh front, and figurative – that data taken from sample sites at the marsh such as pH, amount of organic matter deposited within the soil, and amounts of specific sediments deposited…