Taboo food and drink

around our village and work must go on as usual. I have been helping the other women in my house take care of their children so I am prepared for when my baby comes. One of the other women in my kin group has taken it upon herself to teach me the taboos to avoid while I am pregnant so my child will be born healthy and strong. On my daily trips to the Rio das Tropas to bath I keep my eyes down to avoid snakes and jaguars. It is believed that if I see these animals I will become sick and my…

H. G. Wells is a visionary of his time, and even though his works are considered science fiction you can find within his writings how he addresses his fears for society. Wells expresses his thoughts while living in England at the end of the Victorian age, a time that has eagerly engaged in the industrial revolution, seen an increased population, followed a royal prince who leads the stories in the tabloids and was exposed to the published writings of his peers like Max Nordan, Degeneration.…

This paper focuses on the Haitian cultural group. Haitians are a group of people whose nationality is Haiti. The term Haiti is derived from Taino Indians’ language, and it means mountainous country. Haitians speak creole as their national language. Currently, the population of Haitian immigrants is 0.3 percent of the total US population (Buchanan, Albert, Beaulieu and U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). American Community Survey of 2009 reports that 81 percent of people with Haitian ancestry who live…

Legalization of marijuana is one of most hotly debated topics in America today. With so much controversy surrounding marijuana use, it is going to continue to be a debated topic. But the question that should be answered is how bad would legalizing marijuana be? Already the use of marijuana is becoming more and more common, even in the places that it is banned. With special medical products developed from the active ingredient in marijuana, THC, medical marijuana is becoming more popular because…

Okonkwo’s weakness is lack of foresight. While his strength was that he knew how to be what his culture wanted, so that he’d have followers. 2. Unoka’s physical appearance was tall, thin, and stooped. Unoka was in debt to people, and he loved to drink alcohol. He was never responsible, and didn’t take care of himself or his family. However, he was a good musician, who enjoyed playing the flute. Okonkwo was embarrassed by his father for being a weak coward, who wouldn’t fight, and he was poor,…

Indigenous religions can be traced back to the beginning of the earth. These religions are very different as they come from small groups of people that were secluded from others. They took place all over the world and was passed on by word of mouth. The Mayans and the Aztecs were the only ones to have a writing system to write their religion down. Like I stated as most people were isolated from others each Indigenous religions were very different. Environmentalist David Suzuki states that to…

we binge television shows to live the lives of others. Another means toward this end is that of drugs. Some drink coffee to feel alert; some smoke marijuana to feel relaxed; some ingest psilocybin to escape to another world. Human beings of all cultures have been using and respecting drugs for millennia; though it is only of recent time the term “drugs” itself has become something of a taboo. The ostracism from mainstream media toward policies and research surrounding these “mind altering…

It is a cultural tradition that Malays use their hands to eat. Malays will use their right hand to eat even if they are left-handed because it was considered taboo to eat with your left hand (Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia , 2011, Page 163). One of the traditional food is ketupat. It is a rice packets and it is one of the food must have during hari raya. It were woven using young coconut leaves. Ketupat probably divided into two types, one is the use of feathery palm leaf (daun tupat)…

internalization of the society and cultural rules. Super-ego is always in opposition to the id desires due to its conflicting goals and its aggressiveness in relation to the ego. The super-ego mainly acts in the conscience by maintaining a sense of morality and taboos. The Development of Personality Freud believes that during the first five years of an infant progresses in developmental stages that mainly affect the personality. These stages are called the psychosexual stages. The first stage…

We know from history, that tyrants display a disordered eros, an erotic longing, to rule others. The tyrant’s desire to rule others is often accompanied by other appetites for food, drink, drugs, and sex. In particular, their sexuality and its perversions define them. “[I]t is impossible to segregate the tyrant’s sexuality from his political power: each symbolizes the other. His notorious perversions (adultery, bigamy, rape, incest, sadism, necrophilia…) are the sexual manifestation of his…