Rite

According to Mee and Dowling (2003), films are cultural products which represent places and their people, and therefore bring a perception of the world. Analyzing film seems to be a fascinating way to see how intercultural concepts represented in the world, and among people. My big fat wedding also is a popular Hollywood film which is relevant and valuable to the course of intercultural communication. My big fat Greek wedding is a Canadian-American romantic comedy film directed by Joel Zwick,…

Thanksgiving is one of my most treasured holidays. While there are some constants in the way thanksgiving is observed by Americans, it can mean different things to different people. In my family, Thanksgiving is a day to gather with those we love, to join together in a huge feast, give thanks for all that we have been blessed with throughout the year, watch football, and listen to the men talk about the big buck that got away during their morning hunt. My mother makes the turkey, the…

area of land that would be both fertile and defendable against outside threats. The Englishmen correspondingly received orders from King James I, the charterer of the Virginia Company, to spread Christianity, to discover treasure, and to discover a rite of passage to the Pacific Ocean. Upon their arrival, they searched for what would be the most ideal area to colonize. Once the search concluded, they settled upon the Chesapeake Bay, which they believed was apt to the criterion. However, they…

today, the adverse effects and possible solutions. C. Central idea: To inform that aggression is avoidable through the creation of a school culture that promotes prosocial behavior. II. Introduction A. Today, people no longer consider bullying as a rite of passage in schools; rather there is widespread recognition of its adverse effects. The phenomenon persists in learning institutions and takes a variety of forms. B. This continued hostility affects the victims, bullies, bystanders as well…

Many authors have intended to dissect and analyze religions from a single perspective time and time again. While these researchers invariably understand certain aspects about a given religion, they tend to gloss over some of the more controversial and questionable activities that are practiced in other religions. In Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions, Walter Burkert attempts to analyze common threads found in early religions in an attempt to find out the underlying…

I did my research on the funeral and marriage rites, roles of women and the festival of Dionysus. During the 5th century in Athens, Greeks emphasized the importance of a proper burial and considered not having a proper burial an insult to human dignity.The women relatives of the deceased would conduct a series of rituals beginning with Prosthesis or the laying out of the body. During this time relatives of the dead would pay their respects. The next ritual was known as Ekphora which was the…

Mountain Day, Pangy Day, and Convocation are three of the most anticipated traditions in Mount Holyoke College; however, there is one tradition that no one knows until the middle of October, it is called Elfing. Elfing is a tradition between the first years and the sophomores. It has been around for more than fifty years. Elfing was not really called Elfing until the year of 1966 when the first years of that class said enough was enough; the class decided that instead of hazing the first years…

Roanoke island is an island in Dare County on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, United States. It was named after the historical Roanoke Carolina Algonquian people who inhabited the area in the 16th century at the time of English exploration. The lost colonists were the third group of English arrivals on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island, settling near the modern-day town of Manteo. Roanoke Island was the site of the 16th-century Roanoke Colony, the first English colony in the New World. It was…

shown through judgemental word choice. For example, the author uses very negative words to describe the horrors of the Nacirema. By using words like “torture” to describe going to the “holy-mouth man” and “revolting” to describe their morning “mouth-rite”, the author expresses his opinion that the Nacirema are strange and bizarre. He also uses the phrase “unrealistic horror” to explain how the Nacirema view the mouth is horrible and hard to believe. Moreover, the author goes in depth about the…

The symbolic approach to ritual was first written about by Victor Turner (1920-1983), who studied the Ndembu tribe of Zambia, and studied their use of symbols in rituals and rites of passage. Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) was an American anthropologist whose largest and most important works were on the Balinese cockfights in Indonesia, and defined culture as a web of ideas expressed in symbols, that can have multiple meanings. Stanley Tambiah (1929-2014) was a Professor Emeritus at Harvard that…