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just walked into the middle of the pediatric floor at Ocean Park Hospital; the site of the most heartbreaking show in the world- Red Band Society. Red band society is a show everyone needs to have in their life. Throughout this speech, I will be telling you what the show is about, my experience with Red Band Society, and both professional critics

Pivotal to their tribal heritage, the Pueblos value the natural world above all else. The native people feel a living connection with nature; in which the Pueblo find their complete peace through the “bare granite face of the mountain”, the “sacred tribal lake”, or “the deep turquoise lake of life” offering the ecocentric beings comfort (6-7). Waters’ novel The Man Who Killed the Deer opens with the nature calling a strong Pueblo Indian into the woods. The honorable character hears “Grandfather

particular caste, there may be people of different economic status i.e different classes. According to Virginius Xaxa, the difference between tribe and caste is marginal. As Kosambi observed, “The entire course of Indian society shows tribal elements being fused into a general society.” Herbert H. Risley, the Commissioner of the 1901 census, wrote: “All over India at the present moment tribes are gradually and insensibly being transformed into castes.” The process of the shift of tribal people into

foreign tribal cultures, have been hoisted by our own petard. By using his definition of a tribal society (for which there really is no one single way of life): "small-scale, pre-industrial societies that live in comparative isolation and manage their affairs without central authority such as the state", (p 6) he questions whether cultural roads industrialized "modern" societies have chosen have caused the serious social problems we suffer today. We are the modernists, defined

necessary by others. In “Things Fall Apart,” Achebe perspective comes through as he masterfully describes a pre-colonization African tribe, and how colonization percolated through it. His authentic accounts of the positives and negatives of both tribal society and colonization leave the reader to answer the question of whether imperialism was morally justifiable or not. Initially, “Things Fall Apart” contains no traces of colonization. Instead, Achebe describes many of the customs of the people

The short animated film Kakania is an experimental film focusing on the constant, chaotic nature of urban civilization and contrasts it to an organized, ritual-oriented tribal societies. It relies heavily on the music to drive the animation forward. The movements of the figures are timed exactly in sync with the timing of the music. The animation itself requires interpretation from the viewers because there is no distinct plot shown or explained. The style clearly reflects the artist’s personal style

Ahmed analyzes the cultures and histories of four tribal societies (the Pukhtun, the Yemenis, the Somalis, and the Kurds) that have been the subject of America’s brutal war on terror and provides insight into the way that this war has been the cause of instability and increasing global violence. A central theme in the book is examining the effect that the ruthless and unsympathetic drone strikes have in creating enemies of those tribal societies that under other circumstances would be neutral in the

troubled life. Wagamese described a time where he felt that his First Nations roots assured that he would live in agony. He felt that the Canadian society was responsible for his anguish, as they were the ones who persecuted his culture. This vendetta against Canada resulted in Wagamese living a life of payback; Every action he took was to spit in the face of society and say, “Look what I can do despite of you” (Hodgkinson, Aker, and Anderson, 18). Wagamese lived his life in this destructive manner until

Participating in band and choir has had a huge impact on my life. Being a part of both of them has been extremely rewarding. Practicing a musical piece over a certain period and then being able to perform it in front of many groups of people never fails to satisfy me. Whether I am playing the snare drum at a parade in Minneapolis or singing the National Anthem at a volleyball game, having the ability to share my musical talents with others is something I will value for the rest of my life. Being

system of understanding characteristics of that individual’s society, or of some subgroup within that society” (Trumbull and Pacheco 1). For example, being American could be your cultural identity, but for as long as you live in America you will be classified as an American and in that ethnic group. Being an American can be known as the main society, but an example of a subgroup could be Music and its culture within itself. Music is the society I personally belong in and is classified as my ethnic or