Traditions

The Death Traditions of World Religions There is no questioning that all beings on Earth inevitably die, however; each global religion has their own traditions pertaining to life’s final chapter. As a matter of fact, there is no concrete knowledge of the after life. Each religion reflects their personal values and teachings through their beliefs of the events that follow death. While researching, I discovered that some religious beliefs are alike, some very different, and some intertwined with…

Pregnancy Traditions of Hispanic and Japanese Cultures Childbirth is an extraordinary event that occurs daily around the world. Cultural preferences make this common event dramatically different. For this discussion, I chose to compare and contrast Hispanic culture and Japanese culture when it comes to childrearing. Hispanic women’s access to prenatal care is problematic due to lack of insurance, language barriers, and low levels of education in the U.S. (Andrews & Boyle, 2016). The…

Many characteristics of an epic and of heroic tradition from Anglo-Saxon culture support that Beowulf is indeed an epic written in the heroic tradition of the Anglo-Saxon culture. Honor, bravery, and a sense of duty are all characteristics of a hero. Anglo-Saxons define a hero as usually being a king or thane who were at the higher end of the chain with the ability to run at danger with no fear of self-harm, having good leadership qualities, and being capable of providing for their people a…

Traditions, Creation, and Mythology in Native America When it comes to cultures around, many people wonder “where did we come from?” In history, we can see that almost every culture has their own interpretation of a creation story. Their idea on where the earth came from, why the mountains are tall, why the water surrounds islands, and where people came from. The Iroquois have an interesting interpretation of where things come from. Its truly an interpretation that hadn’t been touched by any…

There are no special traditions that my family created, but I created a special tradition. I made sure that every Cambodian, Lao, and Thai New Year, all of my children must get together and celebrate. We must celebrate family and love. Are there any family practices that represent the family’s ethnic, racial…

The Saint Mary’s seminar classes are so unlike traditional teacher-centered learning. The Western Tradition II focuses on three learning goals; shared inquiry, critical thinking, and written and oral communication. These three learning goals really help students explore the Western Tradition by examine the themes written by the authors we discussed. De Las Casas, Rene Descartes, and Voltaire really influenced the way I thought about how our culture started and the major flaws we stay face today…

The Catholic Intellectual Tradition: A Dynamic View on Sex and Sexuality The Catholic Church is commonly perceived as being static and reluctant to change. This notion of an unchanging tradition causes the misconception that God excludes certain groups of people because of the judgement that they are living a life of sin. This misinterpretation is producing immense controversy among various groups of people and is causing many to either leave the Catholic Church, or discouraging them from…

But his main arguments reliably showed: (1) that great legal traditions with enlightened leadership have independently developed comparable laws of sex, marriage, and family on the strength of universal natural law principles, and (2) that the Jewish legal tradition offered a number of ingenious and humane interpretations of God’s natural law commands for this vital sphere of life. Selden vacillated between description of these ancient legal systems and prescription of some of their teachings…

Judaism, Islam and christianity are the three central religious traditions that dominate the west. There are some people who even argue that islam grew from Christianity and Judaism. However through the west there are a few facts that hold true, such as monotheist religions, God is the creator, and the world will end in a final judgment, just to name a few. Also within the western world, there are strong beliefs revolving around history. The new world view is that history is something we can use…

keep their traditional music alive for their future generations. The Manchu, as you mentioned, is the group that really has kept their traditional musical practices and it seems to have been because of their religion. I believe that when a musical tradition has a tie to a religion, it is much more likely to last a longer time because people believe that straying away from a certain type of music would mean straying away from the religious beliefs. The song fairs for the youth of China seems…