Tradition

such as learning how to drive a car. One thing that is learned that separates one individual from another is traditions. A lot of times traditions are something that a person follows without putting much thought or effort into it. This gives the opportunity for people to learn and carry out traditions that are not necessarily ethical. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” suggests that the traditions and rituals that one may blindly follow can mislead a person from knowing right and wrong. When a person

A symbol of tradition can be something as innocent as a Valentine’s Day card, but what about when that tradition is a little more sinister? Within The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, there contain multiple symbols that reference how society does not let go of “how things have always been” with ease. In this story, a small town is faced with assassinating one of their own in order to maintain tradition, with a selection that is the luck of the draw in the most literal sense. Mrs. Hutchinson’s family

traditional American “sweet 16”, there are other very popular traditions that are diversified by culture, religion, and by the day it takes place. Americans celebrate many of these different cultural birthdays because anyone who lives in the US has the right to practice any religion they see fit. Most birthdays have very similar features such as giving gifts to the man and, or woman of honor. There are also many differences in these traditions, some of which are considerably more family-based than others

Like the tradition of English literature, the literary tradition of Barak Valley of Assam began its journey with orality or oral tradition. It is believed that English literature originated with ‘verses of an extemporary kind’ (Albert 9) which were composed and verbally expressed long before the written records. It is also interesting to note that poetry emerged much before the composition of prose as a form of literature in written form. Most of the old English compositions derived their subject

Introduction In the early days of civilization, before written records were made, oral traditions were necessarily important. Such pre-literate societies relied on oral transmission to propagate their customs and traditions. A conscious choice has been made in the choice of words for the title of this paper regarding the use of oral tradition as opposed to oral transmission, the reason being that the language in focus is Khasi. Khasi belongs to the Austroasiatic language family, a large language

Richard Hofstadter examines the political beliefs of the founding fathers in the first chapter of the American Political Tradition. Ideas thought about by most Americans to be the center of our organization, our founders viewed liberty, democracy, and property, as evil. The composition can be depicted to be vicious as well, because liberty, democracy, and property are linked to the United States Constitution. Democracy is first stated in the chapter by Hofstadter, democracy is evil according to our

from written Western science traditions? Indigenous knowledge comprise of all knowledge pertaining to particular people and its region, with the nature of knowledge transmission being primarily oral via generations. Knowledge such as scientific, agricultural, technical as well as ecological knowledge is all part of the Indigenous knowledge. Indigenous knowledge has some distinct features that are not seen in Western science traditions. Unlike Western science traditions, where rights to knowledge

these flawed traditions she does draw attention to them. Men dominate today 's society and one of the main factors in this domination is the tradition that was put into place by Biblical stories. Traditions, especially ones put into place by the Bible restrict women. Take for example society, which has put "rules" into young girls heads such as you have to have long hair, cursing is not lady like, be thin, be girly but not too girly, and getting married. All these "rules" are tradition set forth

and in the video, “Apache Girl’s Rite of Passage”, Dachina, both have similarities and differences in their traditions teaching them the significance of maturity. In addition, there are advantages and disadvantages to either reading the text or watching the video. Initially, there are many similarities that are valued in Martin’s and Dachina’s Native American traditions. Mainly, both traditions are about the topic of life and how Martin and Dachina have to go through a process in order to enter adulthood

some good and others, not so good. “The Road Not Taken” is a poem written by Robert Frost which is all about choices, and how tradition affects those. In “The Road Not Taken”, Frost conveys that someone who decides to take a different path from the usual, leaves traditions behind and has new choices. One way how Frost shows that someone who leaves the path of tradition has new choices is through symbolism. This first line of the poem shows symbolism where it says, “Two roads diverged in a yellow