Roman naming conventions

Aaron Hinsey Ms. Given Honors English 11 22 January 2018 Poisonwood Bible Response #2 What is the significance of the Kikongo word nommo and its attendant concepts of being and naming? How do the Price sisters’ Christian names and their Kikongo names (210, 225) reflect their personalities and behavior? Nommo is “the force that makes things live as what they are” (Kingsolver 209), or at least to what Adah describes. Nommo classifies everything alive by name, a rabbit is a rabbit, a man is a man, and a flower is a flower, and a flower cannot live as a man or rabbit, only as a flower. Rachel’s name involves jealous and exile, Leah’s name involves an eldest daughter, Adah’s name involves a shepherd or musician, and Ruth May’s name involves sickness…

Furthermore, some troubadours even pushed the barriers for societal norms of men and women. One of the most interesting troubadour women was Bieiris de Romans. In one of her works she challenged the societal norm greatly by writing a piece of of love centered around another woman and analyzed today as a lesbian poem. Addressing a certain Maria, she writes in terms similar to those used by male troubadours wooing their distant ladies: “if it please you, lovely woman, then give me that which most…

I chose to participate in Living Experiment Option three which required me to commit a norm violation. I decided to choose the 4th norm violation which required me to walk into a crowded grocery store and jump up and down while waiting in a checkout line. I decided to walk into Millers, The local gas station on campus and I grabbed a pack of gum and stepped in line to pay for it. Once I was in line I preceded to jump up and down in place until I got to the front of the line. I began jumping…

Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury centers around the dystopian society in a nearing future. It follow Guy Montag and his interaction with the world around him, mainly the various people he encounters on daily basis. Each character lies somewhere on the scale of ignorance or knowledge, some lay more towards ignorance, or on knowledge and a few in the middle. Montag lies in the middle and hinders on each side depending who he meets. Characters like Clarisse, Faber, the old women lean him more towards…

Society is founded on one principle and one principle only: beauty. By age twelve, I adapted society’s principle as my own. I admired the beautiful actresses with the flawless skin, shiny hair, and thin body. I wanted that for myself and began to straighten and curl my hair at the age of twelve. At thirteen, I wanted more. I begged my mom for contacts, because everyone knows that the girl with glasses are not beautiful—well at least in makeover movies. I then begged her to allow me to get my…

Violation of a social rule or norm is defined as deviance. You can be deviant in a positive as well as a negative way. I went to the Wintergreen Ski Resort up in Nelson County to try out skiing for a day. While I was up there I observed the individuals who were present to see what the social norms were and what would be considered as deviant. Some individuals violated the social norms, while others didn’t violate them at all. On January 28th around 4 A.M., I met up with everybody who was going…

The Gothic short story is a literary genre that although brief, is thought provoking. It is a genre characterized by several conventions including a simultaneous attraction, yet repulsion to a particular thing, the magnification of a given element as well as an archetypal setting such as an abandoned church or a monastery. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark”, Hawthorne uses several of these conventions and presents the reader with Aylmer, a man of science who forms an obsession…

perspective in life. There had to have been so many other social and cultural influences on Allan’s concept of ‘the norm’ besides genealogy. But one thing Zerubavel writes seems apt in light of Allan’s changed relationship with his parents. As Zerubavel notes: ================================================= “Despite the way we essentialize them, geneaological communities are ultimately prducts of classification, an unmistabkaly conventional process of carving supposedly discrete mental…

Discussion The social norms approach to alcohol intervention is largely environmental. As opposed to directly attempting to adjust personal attitudes through persuasive techniques, the social norms approach seeks to provide individuals with accurate information regarding an environmental context (Perkins & Berkowitz, 1986). However, the heretofore use of these interventions has primarily been to reduce typical drinking behaviors, neglecting to take into account the social context fostering…

Cellphones have come a long way in popularity and use since they came out. But how we use them today has affected society on a grander scale. The purpose of this essay is to prove how cellphones have impacted social norms. To be more specific, how the line between personal and work life has been blurred. A closer look into how everyday aspects of our lives have changed due to cellphones, as well as how work and school life has changed will support this point. First of all, cellphones have…