Liminality

According to the United States’ Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the national unemployment rate for the month of March is estimated to be 4.5% give or take. Unfortunately, during the next two months The Taft School’s unemployment will be about 6.5 times as high as the national average, standing at a whopping 29%. Every student at Taft has a role -- roles that come in a myriad of forms and combinations -- and this spring, in the wake of what is essentially the mental departure of the Senior…

Book Review Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Latino Masculinities. By Aida Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016, 272 pp., $29.95 (paper) Aida Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha’s Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Latino Masculinities finds itself entering in the midst of some very busy noisy conversations regarding Masculinities. As the recently-concluded 2016 Presidential Election has revealed, what it means to be Men in the United States (if not the West/Global North)…

Musicology essay term 2 year 12 In order to depict Australian culture, landscape and people. Many Australian composers seek to have in his music a synthesis of ideas from the many cultures present in Australia. They also have in common in his music is a search for what it means to be Australian. Even among of those composers, Peter Sculthorpe particularly tends to have strong cross cultural music quotation and musical gestures made in an attempt to capture Australia’s geographical qualities. By…

K. Sello Duiker, author of ‘Thirteen Cents’, initiative behind Azure, the unreliable narrator, is effective in a genre such as magical realism. Azure experiences throughout the novel are unpredictable and are immediate (present tense) and not predetermined, that which has already happened. The unreliable narrator brings vital importance to the narration for the unreliability due to the absence of fact, which aids in the reader to express self-interpretation instead of definite closure. An…

A charity sports event is a participatory sports event that raises funds for a charitable cause from the participants and the public in exchange for their presence at the event (Woolf et al., 2013). Several factors have contributed towards the popularity of charity sports events. Marathons, cycling events and even matches that are sponsored by voluntary organizations are considered as critical components in enhancing community prestige as well as promoting a healthier lifestyle (Edwards &…

history in Hispaniola and beyond. Yunoir’s rewriting of history is accomplished in several ways. One notable way is through the format of the book, which uses footnotes in order to add histories of the Dominican Republic, a fantasy character, Trujillo, etc. This format at first could signal an academic text “in which there is a separation between the content and the historical data that inform it,” but the footnotes in this novel instead provide an insight into the Dominican History that…

When individuals blur these categories, they become liminal. Valeria Sobol defines the liminal personae as ambiguous, paradoxical, and resistant to categorization. In Katya Hokanson’s assessment of Russian identity, she observes this issue of liminality in the Russian borderlands (as in the frontier of A Hero of Our Time), noting previous literary attempts to separate Russian identity from the Oriental other. For instance, Peter Scotto explains the justification of Russian imperial identity…

after Shelley, even to this day. Shelley’s uses of transformation in Frankenstein really reinforce the ideas that make transformation a truly frightening concept. Stories aren’t the only place where transformations can be seen and where the idea of liminality is presented as a main idea; in real life, the occurrence known as sleep paralysis is a very real and frightening example of a…

In almost every society and culture there are multiple things that are deemed as extremely important. The Aztecs considered sacrifices to be very important, those who practice Hinduism have a strict importance on reincarnation etc. While those are important to particular cultures, one of the major significant factors in one’s life is one’s “Rite of Passage”. In our drill we learned that rite of passage is defined as, ceremonies that mark important transitional periods in a person’s life, such as…

superior to the viewer 's. The ambiguous tone of Mary 's liminal space emphasizes that although mortals will be able to recognize Mary and Jesus’s superior status, they cannot understand the complete nature of the divine. Furthermore, the sense of liminality in the painting creates a sense of doubt that encourages the viewer to trust God and submit to his faithful guidance. In addition, the contrast between the gold, flat Byzantine background and life-like qualities of Mary and Jesus further…