Morgan Yordy Culture Speech Outline Specific Goal: Inform about the Amish lifestyle and culture. Introduction Imagine your life without electricity‚ a formal education past eighth grade‚ or blue jeans. Sounds pretty tough‚ right? This is a simple way to explain the lifestyle of the Amish communities that are scattered throughout North America. For most of us‚ the Amish are a group of people that are mysterious‚ like a letter that contains no return address and appears in the mail one day
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The Amish Tiffany Capehart ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Jennifer Hotzman 12/10/12 The Amish Community is very interesting to me. I enjoyed the research and all I have learned by writing this paper. I am going to write this paper on the Amish ways. This paper will include the Amish history‚ beliefs‚ economic status and their organization. Amish History The Amish (also called Amish Mennonites) are all members of an Anabaptist Christian denomination who are especially known
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Who are the Amish? Many people around the world have no idea who or what the Amish culture is. Many countries or towns around the world have their differences and their own rules about their environment and things other people should respect from other countries‚ but most of them are not as strict as the Amish communities. The Amish sometimes referred to as Amish Mennonites‚ are a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships that form a subgroup of the Mennonite churches. The Amish are known
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Technology & the Amish The Amish are averse to any technology which they feel weakens the family structure. The conveniences that the rest of us take for granted such as electricity‚ television‚ automobiles‚ telephones and tractors are considered to be a temptation that could cause vanity‚ create inequality‚ or lead the Amish away from their close-knit community and‚ as such‚ are not encouraged or accepted in most orders. Most Amish cultivate their fields with horse-drawn machinery‚ live
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is present in the United States whose values‚ practices and beliefs are very different from that of the dominant culture is that of the Amish. The Amish is a subculture as well as a religious sect whose values‚ practices and beliefs existed long before its introduction to the United States. Amish origin can be traced back to the sixteenth century and the Amish are direct descendants of the Antabtists‚ later known as Mennonites‚ a group that challenged the reforms during the Protestant Reformation
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THE AMISH COMMUNITY BY: Lori Burris Instructor’s Name: Chad Goings ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (AVL1237D) 10/15/12 The Amish are religious separatists who dress plainly and avoid many convinces of modern life that you may know. The Amish are known widely for horses and buggies for transportation‚ they came to America in the eighteenth century from Switzerland. They evolved out if the Mennonite groups coming from the Anabaptist tradition. The Anabaptists urged a return to
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The Amish‚ who are also called "The Plain People" or Old Order Amish‚ originated in Switzerland in approximately 1525. They originated from a movement called the Anabaptist movement. Jacom Amman was the leader. This happened during the reformation in the16th Century Europe. They believed in holding on to traditions and keeping themselves separated from the world. He was stricter about this than other Anabaptists of that time. The Anabaptists were against the union of church and state and also
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The Amish are a group of church abiding people‚ whose way of life is driven by their religion. There religion basically tells them that they must be separate from worldly sin to receive salvation. Every facet of their life has something to do with them keeping this way of life. There way of life ties in with their mode of subsistence. The Amish are horticulturist. “Horticulture is a non mechanized‚ non intensive form of plant cultivation performed non repetitively on a plot of land”(Nowak &Laird
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reform-minded Mennonites began called‚ The Amish. Their simplicity lifestyle‚ ways of living and unique beliefs set them apart from other cultures. Evolving agriculturalists cultivating soil‚ producing crops‚ raising and hording livestock‚ classifying the Amish as Horticulturalists‚ is their identified primary way of subsistence. We‚ as Americans‚ primarily buy foods and handmade products from The Amish. As customers‚ it’s vital to know about The Amish way of living‚ traditions‚ and how they withstand
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Amish community I think I wouldn’t have done anything different because I don’t think I would have known how to prepare myself. It’s like when you have never left a state before but you are leaving to go out of state. The first time I left the state ever I didn’t know what to do or think but it was a shock to see mountains and different weather. I think the only way to prepare yourself for a culture shock is to do a little research to prepare yourself to eat like they do‚ and see how they
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