Oral tradition

this ceremony they would begin training for what their place was to be in the tribe and to be available for marriage. When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in Mexico they adopted this tradition for the age of fifteen. In fact, the word quince in Quinceañera means fifteen in Spanish. The Spaniards made this tradition for girls to transition into womanhood, sharing the Native’s customs of readying the young woman to be married, have children, learn to cook and handle the kitchen, and to keep the…

planning practice needs a theory of what planning is or should be, and theory provides scientific explanation and description of facts. Planning used to be viewed as an urban-design tradition, where planners had tended to view and judge towns in physical and aesthetic terms. However, since 1945 several planning traditions have emerged, including blueprint planning; synoptic planning; incremental planning; mixed scanning;…

Blindly following society’s norms can lead to consequences that negatively affect the lives of the followers. Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery begins with a focus on the villagers gathering for a lottery. The people begin to wonder where Tessie Hutchinson is who shows up late. Once the lottery begins, Mr. Hutchinson draws the marked paper leading to Tessie being chosen. She attempts to reason with the people claiming “it isn’t fair” (Jackson 6), however the villagers ignore her pleas and attack…

Anglo-Saxon literature often offers a dichotomic view of the world. The mixture of old Germanic traditions with Christian ideology colours most pieces and frequently the analysis of said pieces as a result. James Doubleday writes that their culture is one that “thought of the universe and human experience in dichotomies” (Doubleday, p.8). Said dichotomies include the portrayal and interpretation of gender. For most scholars, the Judith of the Old English poem is often either praised as a…

becomes obsessed with hunting. Jack becomes an animal on the island, drifting away from the traditional English ways that were taught to him in school. When Jack first crashes on the island with the other boys, he is a boy that feels bound by English traditions. When he first appears in the novel he is walking up the beach leading his group of choir boys marching in formation who are…

1. At approximately what grade level should instruction in morphology and affixes begins? Explain why. The instruction of morphology and affixes should begin at approximately on second or third grade and beyond because students should have the awareness of word parts, root words, and affixes to read long words. Also, the older student will rely on morphology instead of using phonemic awareness to read long words. The student also should have relatively stronger sight word knowledge to learn the…

A tradition is the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on this way. Everyone has a tradition, whether it is family meal you do every Sunday night or throwing a baby shower for a mother-to-be. Every family, town, country has their own traditions. Today I am focusing on French holidays and traditions. Through-out learning about other countries holidays, we can compare and contrast them to ours in America. I will be discussing Bastille Day,…

American perspective on the south. He is good at applying traditional African American storytelling to his fictions, which diversifies the Southern literature tradition. Oral tradition is conveyed through dialogues, questions that wait to be answered. The uniqueness in the form of storytelling seems to tell readers that it is impossible to deny traditions, principles and values of Africans that were used as labor force or even regarded as slaves in America. More importantly, Africans should…

self or a spiritual being. However, there are times when one can speak words to communicate with the spiritual world such as during spiritual ritual songs. For tribes, their oral literature reflects the survival of their culture and spirituality because it enables a generation’s ability to pass on cultural and spiritual traditions from one generation to another, as words are used to communicate historical stories, autobiographies, rituals and heroic stories. This places them in the world because…

acknowledged, “When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is, on the one hand, you’ve got tradition, and one the other hand you’ve got change; in many people’s mind, change equals modernization” (Rush Limbaugh Quotes). This quote accurately depicts the struggle that occurs in Chua Achebe’s 1958 novel, Things Fall Apart. This novel embraces African oral traditions and how they are subject to change. The story depicts life in Nigeria at the end of the 1800’s and the…