Elizabeth Miller ES 2400 Sec 01: Intro American Indian Studies Final Research Paper The Ojibwa Tribe and their Dances and Ceremonies “When Ah-ki’ (the Earth) was young‚ it was said that the Earth had a family. Nee-ba-gee’-sis (the Moon) is called Grandmother‚ and Gee’-sis (the Sun) is called Grandfather. The Creator of this family is called Gi’-tchie Man-i-to’(Great Mystery or Creator). The Earth is said to be a woman. In this way it is understood that woman preceded man on the Earth. She is
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Celtic Coming of Age Ceremony From Childhood to Adulthood Boys 13 is the age in which a ceremony or ritual takes place. This is a belief because of the significance of the number‚ 13 is a number of transitions. "1" represents the individual person stepping onto divine path of the "3" goddesses. Numerogical meaning  it add all numbers until there is only one 1+3=4 Four is a number of wholeness or the full circle of life. Girls Coming of Age is at first menstruation
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brief length‚ Paul D’Angelo’s The Step Not Taken is at its essence a monomyth. Monomyths represent a character’s transition from innocence to experience by means of a journey. They are comprised of three stages: separation‚ struggle‚ and return and reintegration‚ and are one of the most widely used archetypes in literature. By being able to identify them‚ a deeper understanding of the author’s message can manifest. Monomyths are initiated by separation. It is the stage at which a character‚ usually
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Joseph Campbell’s monomyth‚ or the hero’s journey‚ is a basic pattern that its proponents argue is found in many narratives from around the world. This widely distributed pattern was described by Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).[1] An enthusiast of novelist James Joyce‚ Campbell borrowed the term monomyth from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.[2] Campbell held that numerous myths from disparate times and regions share fundamental structures and stages‚ which he summarized in The Hero with
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Monomyths are one of the leading archetypal examples commonly found in literature. It is a quest or a journey braved by a hero that takes them through three stages; separation‚ initiation and reintegration. One of the clearest examples is the essay‚ the Step Not Taken by Paul D’Angelo. The narrator represents the hero on a journey to understand the misery of other people he comes across. Through all of this‚ the hero rebounds with an epiphany that changes his outlook. In the beginning‚ our hero
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Concepts learnt from class The Japanese tea ceremony is a very beautiful and meaningful traditional culture of Japan. It is a choreographic ritual of preparing and serving Japanese green tea‚ called Matcha‚ together with traditional Japanese sweets to balance with the bitter taste of the tea. Which in every step in the tea ceremony‚ is made by the heart whether to prepare the sweets till to making tea. Having witnessed or taken part in the Japanese Tea Ceremony even for only once‚ they will understand
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The Wabi Aesthetic and Meaning in Chaynoyu (Tea Ceremony) Chanoyu (tea ceremony) seeks to embody a particular kind of beauty: wabi. Together with the concept of yūgen (mystery and depth) as an ideal of the nō drama and the notion of sabi (lonely beauty) in haiku poetry‚ wabi is one of the most characteristic expressions of Japanese aesthetic principles. Because wabi as an aesthetic brings together many diverse elements‚ it is difficult to encompass it in a simple definition. It can
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govern the Japanese Tea Ceremony are harmony‚ respect‚ purity‚ and tranquility‚ which combine with what might be called the Zen aesthetic of emptiness to give the Tea Ceremony its distinctive feel. In Zen‚ everything which is not necessary is left out; this is as true of the mind as it is as of the physical setting. The spirit of austere simplicity pervades the Tea Ceremony. Each utensil has a specific purpose‚ and only those utensils which are necessary for the Ceremony are brought into the tea
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"The Hero’s Journey: An Analysis of Cameron Crowe’s Film Almost Famous Using Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth" an analysis of Almost Famous (2000) Almost Famous (2000) is a dramatization of writer/director Cameron Crowe’s real-life experiences as a teenage rock reporter for Rolling Stone. Based on thinly-veiled autobiographical material from the precocious beginnings of Crowe’s early career‚ the screenplay shapes sentimental memories into movie magic. But how did Crowe give his own coming-of-age
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Japanese Tea Ceremony Introduction: The tea ceremony is an ancient tradition that shows cultural knowledge‚ respect and order to other people. Body: The Japanese tea ceremony is also known as Way of tea. This was because they show their manners and respects by way of preparing tea and the way how it is prepare. This activity is a Japanese cultural ceremony that includes the form of presentation and making of the matcha that is a green tea. This ceremony was created and influenced by a way
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