today and their actions in their everyday life and compare it to how Puritans or the Amish live‚ I believe that some people would be in shock that there are people who live like they do. And these people who live unlike us don’t think that their way of living is strange or weird. In a Puritan society the Bible provided the way of living and the people living in the community wanted to be a city on the hill. The Amish and the Puritans are two very different ways of living but‚ they also have multiple
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conflict with the Western world through their variation in lifestyle. The Amish are a community of people who live peacefully in the midst of a robust‚ crime - riddled contemporary world. Weir presents a film that fits two genres‚ one of a crime and the other of romance. Within the first ten minutes of the film these two worlds it captures the differences of these two worlds through the use of cinematic techniques. The Amish world is introduced at the very start of the film where the opening visual
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story of an Amish family learn a lot about the ‘English world’‚ more than they wanted to know. The first theme I am going to talk about today is the differing cultures. In Witness huge differences exist between the Amish and modern ‘English’ society. These include dress‚ language‚ religion and lifestyle. The conflict between good and evil‚ individual and communal responsibility with both cultures emphasising adherence to prescribed codes to behaviour‚ dominate this film. The Amish have basic
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primary mode of subsistence are pastoralists. Pastoralists have an impact on different aspects with in the culture. The aspects that I will be discussing will be the Navajo’s beliefs and values‚ economic organization‚ gender relations and sickness and healing. The Navajo are the largest federally recognized tribe of the United States of America with 300‚048 enrolled tribal members. The Navajo call themselves Diné. Like most others‚ the Navajo were semi-nomadic from the sixteenth century up to
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Peter Weir – Witness Context A young Amish boy being a sole witness to a murder‚ policeman John Book goes into hiding in an Amish community to protect the boy until trial. Whilst hiding‚ he develops an understanding of the Amish culture and forms a relationship with the community. Themes 1. Acceptance of Violence in Western Society [Technology influencing the acceptance of Violence in society] 2. Good and Evil [When there is good‚ there is evil] 3. Identity and Belonging [Demographic
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Topic: Personal Opinions – Herbal Medicine Before western and modern medicine‚ herbal medicine was used to cure almost every kind of sickness in a natural way. Herbal medicine enhances the biological natural healing ability of our body‚ so that the recovery process gets accelerated and the body is able to maintain an ideal internal environment that is crucial for such recovery. A lot of herbs work by stimulating various glands so that appropriate hormones are activated. These hormones carry the
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http://books.google.com.au/books?id=FGA72pS2dhkC&pg=PA96&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false Witness by Peter Weir This unit was prepared by Peter Yorke‚ St Marys Senior High School. About the film and director Film genre Story and plot Characters Setting Issues and themes Film techniques in Witness Camera placement Editing Close study of two important sequences Other techniques Writing tasks References About the film and director Witness is an
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Old Order Amish and government regulations on employment and Social Security. The Amish regard the care of the sick and elderly to be one of their religious obligations; as a consequence‚ they believe that paying Social Security taxes (designed to care for the sick and elderly) would entail acknowledging that the government had that task rather than they. Thus‚ paying Social Security taxes would mean denying an important aspect of their faith. Lee‚ an Amish employer‚ employed other Amish to work on
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discriminated against in very different ways. For example‚ the long beard and long ringlet curls in the men’s hair in the Amish community‚ this is normal for them and if for some reason you don’t or can’t grow it or it gets cut off you are likely to be shunned by the whole community until it all grows back. Most people in society today like the short hair and clean shaven face but with the Amish it quite the opposite. So‚ therefore they are judged and made fun of‚ called names‚ etc. With Hinduism‚ it’s just
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Therefore‚ I disagree with the people that say that Utopias can’t exist because the Amish accomplished it. The Amish have a working good Utopia that many people live in. One of the main reasons Utopian societies exist is to make people happy in their lives. Many people move into Utopian Societies to have freedom. “The Amish faith forbids violence and active and military service.” (The Amish Lifestyle; paragraph #2) The Amish community is a real community with real people and they believe that since a
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