Village

Defining the Goal: The process of deciding what should I do for this project was a struggle for me, for the reasons that I have numerous things that I didn’t get a chance to explore and do. For instance, design and make a dress by myself, write a piece of piano music, make a traditional Chinese food recipe, etc. Every single idea was developed from my passions, however when I reflected on which one is the most passionate about, I found that art, such as drawing, painting is what I really liked…

Once upon a time there was a village in a small town with around 300 people. On June 27 a beautiful summer day, the grass was richly green and the flowers were colorful and astonishing. Nevertheless, even the animals, dwarves, elves, gnomes, were talking quietly as they knew what was taking place that magnificent day “The Lottery.” An event that nobody, not even Warner the oldest person in the village knew when it began because it was a curse that has been with the villagers since the beginning…

They took them back to Yele as civilians. They lived there for a while peacefully. Then all of a sudden the rebels started to surround the village and the soldiers were being killed too quickly. So the lieutenant told all the boys that if they didn’t help fight the rebels then they were no longer welcome in the village. So Ishmael and his friends had no choice but to fight in the war. The lieutenant started giving them drugs and telling him to kill the rebels because they killed…

Many people, families, and or groups of people have their own traditions that make them who they are; but what is tradition? Tradition is the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation. Being a part of tradition is something to be proud of but what if that tradition is hurting others? “Tradition was the name given to those cultural features which, in situations of change, were to be continued to be handed on, thought about, preserved and not lost (Graburn 6). Tradition as a…

Balzac and the Little Seamstress follows two boys that have to be re-educated during the Maoist Revolution up in a small village. They meet a Seamstress and find banned books with Western ideas to read to each other. Grass on the Rooftop is a story of a boy that is being re-educated that is believed to have saved a picture of Mao and becomes famous and travels around. Both stories have to do with re-education and how people from this time feel and background information to Maoism and China at…

Traditions are known all around the world, from ham on Christmas, going to grandma’s for Thanksgiving, or maybe even a lottery in a small village like in Shirley Jackson’s story The Lottery. Every June 27th a lottery is conducted in a village to sacrifice someone for the good of others and crop growth. The Hutchison family drew the black dot from the box and after each member of their family drew, Tessie was the one who drew the black dot again and was sacrificed. The tradition of the lottery…

small town; it’s just you average run of the mill small town families. the people in your neighborhood or village may not be the people you actually see behind the mask, a person who does look or seem like a sick violent psychopath; could actually be waiting to strike deadly and violently if under the right pressure of circumstances. This creates an even broader stance of suspicion in the old village. People have the right to be scared for their lives, but sometimes when certain people are…

father Apollo. They lived a quiet life in a small fishing village. Draco was exceptionally skilled at fishing. His village became very wealthy by trading with other villages. They began to overfish and fish for rare species and waste the meat. This angered Poseidon who loved all of the creatures of the sea. Poseidon sent his son Kharybdis a giant, to destroy Draco’s village. Kharybdis crawled out of the ocean and started destroying the village. Draco went into his house and took out his old…

In todays ever connected and forever growing society, it has become more socially acceptable for groups of people to be divided by the state of their bank account. Not only is this an issue in the developed world, but also it has a large influence on the developing world. I noticed this on my trip to Ecuador with my school in which I spend a month in both urban society and rural society. The wide range of economic disparity demonstrated through the difference in living conditions was a clear…

Crispin after her death. Crispin lived in a small village called Stromford with his mother until she died and he was all alone. After his mother passed, he ran away for the safety of his own life from the village because he was wanted dead by the town steward. The town steward had wanted Crispin dead because he thought Crispin was responsible for stealing money and for the murder of the priest. After he ran away from the village he went to a another village called Lodgecot, where he met Bear.…