Thunder rides a black horse

“We’re here to give you the severest thrill a real hunter ever asked for. Travelling you back sixty million years to bag the biggest game in all of Time”(Bradbury 224). The thought of travelling back in time just to shoot a prehistoric beast of the Past is just that; a thought. People now can’t even imagine what it would be like to look a ferocious dinosaur in the eyes, but it may happen one day in the Future. Ray Bradbury paints this picture for us in his incredible story about this unbelievable mystery with figurative language and personification. “A Sound of Thunder” follows a big game hunter, Mr. Eckels, through a Time Safari of the Future and how he completely changes the world around him by disregarding the dangers of Time Travel,

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Imagine you are dancing all night and you can't show any emotion, you can't show any exhaustion or tiredness. That is what Indian girls of the Apache tribe must go through. In class we have watched a video called “Apache Girl Rites of Passage.” In this video a girl named Dachina goes through a grueling journey to become a women. In addition to that story read a short story called “The Medicine Bag.” In the Medicine Bag a boy named Martin goes through his on struggles and rites of passage from his Lakota family traditions and his struggle of accepting his tribe. In addition to these stories I researched a tribe from Ethiopia called the Hamar tribe. The Hamar tribe has a much more scary rite of passage to become a man which a boy has to jump

Attending my first Native American powwow was a very intriguing cultural experience to be apart of, and that I was grateful I was able to attend. This was an event that I would not have attended if it were not for this project and I ended up learning a lot about this culture that is around us. Every Native American tribe has their own version of this culture, however, all tribes gather in a powwow, a cultural event that strengthens the unity of the tribe. My informants name is Gary Watson, an elderly man, who has attended powwows for many years. He and his wife were participants in the powwow this year and were also there to watch their grandchildren participate for the first time. I

The historical information regarding the Kiowa people reflects on the mythological and culture of the Kiowa people. It sets the tone of identifying the strengths of the tribe, practices and ideas that developed within the tribe. It also shows a relation of the Kiowa people to nature, other mythical creatures and how the culture came into existence. It also shows what made the culture of so much importance to those who practiced it and in what context they felt that they were able to

The "Berdache tradition” falls outside the typical pattern found in most Indian tribes because the Indians rely on rituals and spirits to guide them. In the article, it states that, “receiving instructions from a vision inhibits others from trying to change the Berdache”; The Character of the Berdache, page 30. It is believed before the boy reaches puberty the parents will notice the boy is acting in a “non-masculine”

The girl represents people all over the world who blissfully live their lives, not knowing that they are contributing to the suffering of others that are making those things that make our lives lavish. Next the poem continues on to kids disguised as ninjas whispering,”Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good”. The kids are an allusion to the Asian workers whom happen to be young teenagers being forced to work in large tech factories in order to survive. Then it is followed by boys in camouflage yelling,”Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me”. These boys are a reference to veterans who live in turmoil within themselves because they cannot accept the things they have done during a war and without any support from their communities, they commit suicide seeing no other way to get rid of their guilt. Next they are followed by kids masquerading as cowboys and Indians,”Trick or treat, smell my feet”. The kids remind us of what the

The Navajo puppetry culture is a most celebrated tradition into womanhood. The transition from child to adult is marked by maturity among all girls who come of age. It was a religious rite of passage that would stay with me mentally and physically.

The purpose of this reading was to introduce what ethnography is and what exactly do anthropologists do. Ethnography is based on the fact that in order to fully understand a culture, it is best to observe the culture itself and to interact with them over a long period of time. The authors, Monaghan and Just, do fieldwork. Fieldwork is commonly done in small communities with very simplistic lifestyles so to say. In the first chapter, Peter Just did his fieldwork in the Village of Dorro Ntika. In order to be successful with this research, Peter had to build trust and create a good relationship with the people of the native tribe. Meaning Peter was able to learn well beyond the superficial facts. To be an ethnographer one must commit to years

Thesis: Female Genital Circumcision is a cultural procedure that is performed on young girls for a variety of reasons. Members of this culture chose to continue these traditions because they believe they will gain sociological, health and marriage benefits for their daughters, ensuring these young girls a better future is mandatory.

Out of the three major life stages adolescence appears to have more meaning to the Huron peoples, than it does to modern day southern Ontarians. Others do not explicitly know in modern day Ontario, when a woman or man reaches puberty. For woman, they begin to develop breasts, and get their menstrual cycles but this is not something that is evident to those around. Youth now a days going through puberty, are many times embarrassed by this, and do their best to supress it. This however is very different in Huron native culture. Huron females can be identified within a clan tribe, when she begins to cook her own food during menstrual periods. This is reinforces the very domestic role, woman play in a Huron village of the seventeenth century.

In the beginning, the boat this girl is in is being is tossed on the sea, and comparing this to her restless feelings of being forced to be with this man that she does not want to be with. In the next stanza, she described the she found that her brothers “were angry with [her]” (Book of Songs). This girl clearly feels that her brothers are not at her defense as she does not believe that she should be forced to marry a man of her choice. It also shows that she may potentially be doing something that is going against their family beliefs, as her entire family is angry at her. There is a clear sad mood in this first song because she expresses that she would rather be with someone much more desirable, and that she is not fond of this chosen person. The second song, called I Beg You, Zhong Zi, is about a girl who loves but her family does not appreciate her choice. In the first stanza, she clearly express that she loves this man, but she tells him not “break the windows [they] planted” or else her family will be angry. This means that her family is more important than her lover, as she prevents her lover from entering because she does not want to anger her family. The third song, called Splendid, shows a relationship between a man and a woman. The women in this song describes how splendid, strong and magnificent this man she met was. She clearly shows true fondness towards this man she meet “between the hills of Nao” (Book of Songs). The fourth song, called High

Likewise, in initiation ceremonies, boys are circumcised as well as subincised, and the first ceremonies of initiation, with the use of ‘bullroarers’, are intended to make them independent (and separated) from their mothers and other females. Subincision, from the view of the Arunda tribe, was designed to cause the male organ to resemble the vulva, and that the effusion of blood was regarded as serving the same function as menstruation, which in the female enabled her naturally to dispose of the evil that accumulate in the body. To continue the same effect, males periodically engage in incision of the penis and called it menstruation.

Anthropology, as a discipline in the field of human sciences, is based on certain ethical principles to guide its practitioners through their research. This creates a stable framework on which to start any research project. Avoiding deviation, however, can be complicated. Anthropologists have a responsibility to their field,

(Lightfoot-Klein52) The way that these little girls and women are treated would be punishable by death in the United States of America. It’s understood that these were rituals, and procedures that were done years ago to ensure the enslavement of a woman to her husband or to make sure that a girl did not embarrass her family, so if this was done she was pure, modest, untouched and ready for marriage at any time. There is knowledge and education about these procedures and what effects they could possibly have on woman for the rest of their lives. These communities still and yet choose to put their little girls, woman who they hold so dear to them through this demoralizing and painful procedure. This ritual seems as if they are treating their woman like a herd of animals ensuring that everything is right and that everything is perfect so that that when the buyer who will later become the future husband comes along everything is just the way that they want it to be never touched or handled by anyone else’s hands; they are leaving one owner and then placed in the hands of another.