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myself. Who am I – a privileged, western white girl to say what is right or wrong. Who am I to criticize their culture and what gives me the right to look down upon their traditions. And so I started thinking. What actually happens when cultural rites and human rights conflict- which side do we support, which side does the international community take? And I realized that before I make such offensive judgements I actually need to get my information correct first and look at everything…

Rosary beads are a private rite of devotion used in order to bring comfort to those who use it and deepen their connection with God. For centuries Rosary Beads have been used in the Catholic religion. Rosary Beads were first used in the year 1214 when Saint Dominic the founder of the Order of the preachers, fell into a coma (Marshall, 2011). St Dominic experienced an apparition of Mary whilst in the coma and who presented him with the Rosary to help in his quest to convert the Albigensian Cathar…

Isabelle Easton’s paper on Igor Stravinsky Igor Stravinsky was born on June 17, 1882 in Oranienbaum, Russia. Igor Stravinsky was a conductor, pianist, and film score composer. He was considered the most influential composer in the 20th century. Igor Stravinsky had no other professions other than music. His father was a Russian singer, so he was introduced to music very early in his life. His music began to fade away for a while when he began to study law and philosophy. He first made a name for…

religions celebrate this great event by performing some rituals as welcoming the newborn baby and preparing the child to life and to their religion’s obligatory. These rituals vary from one religion to another, but sometime there are common rites between the world’s religions, whether in the meaning of practicing some ritual or in the exact ritual. This essay will cover birth ceremonies in both Islam and Judaism, how these ceremonies are look-alike and how it differ in the two…

can be as psychologically relevant as what goes on in mind” (95). When they conducting external ritual cannibalistic acts, they are actually trying to deal with their inner confusion due to the lack of value judgement system. In the Great Pandanus Rite, miserable human sacrifices of captive are tortured the victim to death, whose body is split into different parts and distributed to certain places according to the prescribed rules (Sanday 95). The human sacrifice’s body represents the totality…

Baptism is a very elaborate rite of passage in anyones life It was considered almost of equal importance to the sacred liturgy of the Eucharist. To realize the huge impact the role of women deacons had made in the ministration and administering of baptism for female catechumens, the ritual has to be explained step by step. The sequence of events could vary from place to place. There were even rituals to get prepared for the rite of baptism, and it started with many preparatory…

profession to law as a business. Despite the age of commercialization, the profession of law continues to regulate formal admission. The author argues that the commercialization of law depends on several factors such as the decision to become a lawyer, the rites of passage, the dynamics of gender and generation and finally, personal choice. Through interviews of lawyers, the author describes their different motivations for choosing law as a profession. Most of the men and women chose law as a…

In the story Antigone, the King of Thebes, Creon, showed that too much power will corrupt anyone. As Creon became the one with total control, his character, judgment, and his principals deteriorated. Antigone was written by Sophocles. He did an excellent job of showing how absolute power will corrupt absolutely. Using Creon's utmost authority, Sophocles told of how everything he once stood for had crumbled. Antigone begins by telling of a Theban royal family which is in much turmoil. There are…

Bloody Mary goes by many names in folklore including Mary Worth, Mary Worthington, Mary Whales, Mary Johnson, Mary Lou, and Mary Jane, just to name a few (Brunvand, 1988). Though the origins of this particular myth remain elusive, the original legend seems to be a form of “the vanishing hitchhiker” where Mary is a woman who has been in a car accident and in need of help, usually having a mangled or scratched face (Brunvand, 1988). Drivers pick her up on the side of the road and she ends up…

How do rites of passages change a person and their life? Rites of passages are what changes a person or even make them more wise, therefore, it can help find a person’s real self. In literature, many authors use these to demonstrate how a person changes through a novel. Through the novel, The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, also used this technique. In The Looking Glass Wars, he uses rites of passages to portray how Alyss Heart’s character changes throughout the book. In the beginning of…