Rite Of Passage

A lifetime is divided by many years, years into days, days into hours, and hours into minutes. But out of these minutes, some stand out the most making our most memorable of our memories. Whether you felt joy, anger, or sadness, it is the way that we felt at that second what makes us remember that moment and what made us change from who we were. It is an experience where you know you can’t go back. In the following passage, I will talk about my rite of passage.

I never realized before this class that these changes in my life were rites of passage every time that I was getting older as a person.Rites of passage have been in my life ever since I was born until now because as a child I transitioned from a fetus to a fully born baby,every single birthday that I ever had and continue to have,and even in the future when I get married or even when I die.All of my rites of passage were celebrated with a form of celebration as every birthday was celebrated with a birthday party, my graduation for both middle school and high school as I went through the ceremonies and parties afterward,and for my religious moments when I would have a celebratory mass and a celebration with gifts after each of all my events.Rites

In Conrad Philip Kottak’s “Rite of Passage” he mentions the three stages of a rite of passage. Anthropologist Arnold Van Gennep defines these stages as Separation, Margin, and Aggregation. Victor Turner, another anthropologist, focused on Margin, which he referred to as liminality. Not only can a rite of passage be an individual experience, but it can also be a communal experience which Turner called “communitas.” Many of us experience this “communitas” in different ways such as my Hispanic culture that experiences quinceneras. Quinceneras are a rite of passage for young girls’ transition from adolescence to womanhood. I for one never experienced this rite of passage.

Maturity is a state that everybody tries to reach during their lives. Children spend their infancy, and sometimes adolescence, growing up and learning how to behave in the adults and work world. Schools teach them dissimilarities between these two different worlds. There isn’t a precise age in which kids become mature, it depends on the experiences they had, their society, their family and other causes. In the movie and novel The Giver, the community has a rite of passage where children, during the annual ceremony, become more mature and assume more responsibilities until they get into adulthood.

CULTURAL- Some religious beliefs and customs may exclude children from settings or may mean that they attend specific settings, aimed at their religious beliefs. And due to their religious customs and ceremonies/traditions children and adults may need time out of the setting to celebrate.

Pluralism is where different religions or cultures come together in a society and accept different beliefs and cultures. Assimilation is where different cultures influence one another and become mixed. This has an effect on the rite of passage on some individuals because they may start to wonder about their culture by learning facts about other cultures and may not want to be a part of.

A twelve year old boy holding an Airsoft, sitting on a swing in a park at 3:30 p.m. in broad daylight was shot not two seconds after officers arrived at the scene. He died the following day from injuries.

Watching the news is a rite of passage for any newly crowned adult. It’s a sign to you and everyone you know that you’re a grown up god dammit, you keep up with what’s going on in the world. Because of the news you can name like 75% of the presidential candidates, you’re aware of every tragedy going on overseas, and each day at work you get to ask someone if they heard about the *insert feel good story here* that you saw the previous night. The news is making you such a well-rounded and mature human being.

A recent rite of passage I went through was graduating from nursing school and becoming a RN. To complete this rite of passage I had to complete all the pre-requisites for nursing school which took me 4 years. Then I did the nursing program which was 2 years. To celebrate finishing the nursing program I attended a pinning ceremony which is a ritual where the nursing graduates get a pin that represents the completion of the education required to sit for the nursing boards. This pinning ceremony was more important than walking at graduation. The majority of my classes did not attend the graduation ceremony but all attended the pinning. Once I took the nursing license test I got a card that says registered nurse. I was finally able to call myself

Statistics show that approximately 3.3 million of American citizens graduated high school this past year, exemplifying how common the rite of passage really is (“Fast Facts”). The large number of students that graduated also shows that in America we put strong values on education. In 2014, when I was 18, I joined the statistics as being a citizen of the United States that graduated High school and earned my diploma. Therefore, I participated in the ceremony of highs school graduation, which took place at Stabler Arena. In attendance for the ceremony were fellow graduates, parents of graduates, and a select group of teachers and other administration from the school. High school graduation is classified as a rite to adulthood because it signified

Certainly every moments or steps are critical in life of each individual. Futhermore, the rite of passage that teenagers have been through is the one may not missing. Firstly, it demonstrates the tradition and indenity of nations all around the world. Secondly, the rite of passage is a transformation of the teenagers to adults and they become mature and responsible for what they did. I am going to use the North America rite of passage to certify my viewpoints. In North America, in order to acompany with the implementation of family planning, each household must pay a birth free ($2500). Gorvernment will subsidy the school fee in orger to raise their children until they celebrate his/her 18th birthday, moreover, they will refund the birth fee

When a Jewish boy turn to the age of 13 they become responsible for their actions and become a Bar Mitzvah. A girl becomes a Bat Mitzvah at the age of 12. When children are not Bar or Bat Mitzvah their actions are responsible for their parents.

A rite of passage is something that happens when person goes from one stage of life to another. When a person goes through a rite of passage their social stats changes. The majority of the time it is used to describe a child going from a child to an adult, but it can also be for many other reasons. In Africa marriage is a very important rite of passage. There is an African Proverb that says “A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers”. In Africa they celebrate the first rain, the first harvest, and the birth of a child along with marriage. In this culture marriage symbolizes a new life. Marriage is the most celebrated rite of passage ever since the African culture has been around. Africans believe that it is not the human right

The movie I was assigned to watch was Devil’s Playground by Lucy Walker. This movie gave the view a little peak into the life of the Amish person, more specifically of the Amish youth. Many cultures celebrate a time in a person’s life where they transition from childhood to adult hood. In the Jewish culture it is called a Bat or Bar Mitzvah and happens when a child is thirteen, in the Hispanic culture it’s called a Quinceanera which happens for girls at the age fifteen, in the Japanese culture it is called Seijin-no-Hi which is also for women when they are twenty, and in the American culture it’s called a Sweet Sixteen which can be celebrated for both female and males, and in the Amish culture it is called Rumspringa which happens at sixteen years old.

The film The Harry Potter and The Sorcerers uses religious contents to illustrate to the viewer that good will always triumph evil. My argument has been supported by theories in Malory Nye’s Religion: the basics, Second Edition about ritual, belief and text. In addition the rite of passage model by Arnold van Gennep to support the message of the film. It can also be understood through the characters’ action and expressions that in life good will always overcome evil. This have been analyzed by Roland Barthes’ idea that the use of texts work on different levels, meaning, text can not only be analyzed by how it is understood but also how it interacts within a cultural and social context (Nye 2008, 154).