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I. Origin and History Santería is an Afro-Caribbean syncretic religion that originated in the Yoruba tribe of West Africa. The development of Santería is the result of the African Diaspora. The Yoruba tribe was brought to Cuba because of the slave trade in approximately the 16th century. Enslaved Africans in the Caribbean mixed their Yoruba beliefs with the Roman Catholic beliefs of the Spanish. Although on the surface they were forced by their masters to convert to Catholicism, many still…

America’s incarceration system has proven to lack and fail in positive rehabilitation treatments for prisoners. The system has encouraged negative and deep culture shocks of learning such as drug usage, violence, and other forms of harsh crimes. Those who go in for petty crimes end up coming out to commit harsher crimes. It’s no wonder why 1 in 100 american adults are held in a prison system. This system creates more dangerous individuals as well as increased our nation to housing the greatest…

Although Leslie Marmon Silko's great novel Ceremony is a work of fiction, there are details and phenomenon that occur within the story that are not only present in real world events but in numerous forms of popular culture entertainment. Even Silko's own personal experiences can be compared to themes and phenomenon in her novel. In fact, Silko makes this observation herself during one of her many interviews "and so when I started Ceremony, I was as sick as Tayo was. I was having nausea and all…

Putting her right foot out, she mounted the log and shut her eyes. Lifting her skirt, leveling her cane fiercely before her like a festival figure in some parade, she began to march across. Then she opened her eyes and she was safe on the other side. 'I wasn't as old as I thought,' she said. But she sat down to rest. She spread her skirts on the bank around her and folded her hands over her knees. Up above her was a tree in a pearly cloud of mistletoe. She did not dare to close her eyes,…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…