2012 Sports Rituals The only reason why your team won the last game was because you wore your lucky hat‚ and the only way they will win the next game is if you wear your lucky hat again. Is it perchance by magic? Have the gods conspired to make sure your team gets to the playoffs because you wore a particular hat? Of course! It wasn’t just any hat; it was your lucky hat! Rituals in sports are very common‚ and every fan holds their own superstition. Superstitious rituals are defined as
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"Baseball Magic" The use of ritual magic is to ensure success over activities in which uncertainty and limited control exist. In baseball‚ players tend to have daily rituals which are seen as superstitious in order to ensure good performance. Players may eat the same meal in which they won last time‚ or touch jersey and fix cap after every pitch and so on. These rituals are seen with hitters and pitchers the most. Baseball and any other sport is never certain‚ a team may win one day and lose the
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Laura Sessoms Professor Pettis Comp 1503‚ CRN 1102 September 18‚ 2012 Christmas Rituals Every year‚ my entire family and I get together for Christmas dinner. For as long as I can remember‚ I remember all of my family just sitting in the living room and talking to everyone about how our Christmas has been. My Aunt and Uncle Corrine and Robert Kemp hosted the party every year. It was the one time of year that our whole family would gather. Falling asleep the Christmas eve night
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The Shawnee Tribe Did you know that the Shawnee Indian tribe is a fascinating tribe? I recently have learned that they are nomads. Nomads are people who travel instead of settling in one place. Southern Ohio‚ West Virginia‚ and western Pennsylvania were a couple of states they once lived in. Until around 1660 Iroquois drove out the tribe to southern Carolina‚ Tennessee’s Cumberland basin‚ eastern Pennsylvania‚ and southern Illinois. They had tried to return‚ but again they were forced to leave
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The two tribes in Chinua Achebe’s book‚ Things Fall Apart‚ must solve their differences after a member of the Mbaino tribe killed the wife of a member of the Umuofia tribe. Their solution to this problem was to take a virgin to replace the killed woman‚ and a young man named Ikemefuna from Mbaino. Eventually‚ the young boy was killed as a sacrifice by Okonkwo and his fellow tribesmen. This event was both surprising and unnecessary. There are a few other steps these tribes could have taken to restore
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Rituals of Death According to the dictionary a ritual is a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order; the prescribed order of performing a ceremony‚ especially one characteristic of a particular religion or church (Oxford Dictionaries‚ 2012). Rituals will vary amongst cultures but the purpose of a ritual is similar in its meaning. They are done to make feeling and faith perceptible. The rituals performed around death is done to provide
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Ibans form the major ethnic group on this land with about 30.1% of the total population per the year 2000 census. The Chinese‚ who generally live in the cities‚ are the second largest group at 26.7%‚ followed by the Bidayuh‚ Melanau and other native tribes of Sarawak who are collectively known as Orang Ulu. The Malays constitute a large portion (23.0%) of the population as well‚ mainly concentrated along the coast. The Melanau The Melanau are a people who live on the island of Borneo‚ primarily
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The Hopi Tribe Did you know about the Hopi tribe? Well the Hopi tribe is a pretty good tribe. The Hopi have a lot of traditions. The Hopi did have a good location. The Hopi are people who have a lot of facts. The Hopi have a lot of old day traditions. The Hopi did a dance with snakes in their mouths called the Snake Dance. The Hopi often ate a sweet plant base diet and sometimes bread. The women did not do the hunting. The men and young boys did the hunting. They often hunted elk‚ turkey
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"The Bends" is also known as decompression sickness or caisson sickness. When a person is scuba diving‚ the water pressure increases as he or she goes down further. As depth increases‚ the pressure of the air breathe must also increase‚ causing more of the air to dissolve in the bloodstream of that person. The main components of air are oxygen‚ which is continuously used by the body‚ and nitrogen‚ which isn’t used by the body‚ so when a diver ascends or rises too quickly to the surface‚ the pressure
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Indian Tribes India is the home to large number of indigenous people‚ who are still untouched by the lifestyle of the modern world. With more than 84.4 million‚ India has the largest population of the tribal people in the world. These tribal people also known as the adivasi’s are the poorest in the country‚ who are still dependent on haunting ‚ agriculture and fishing. Some of the major tribal groups in India include Gonds‚ Santhals‚ Khasis‚ Angamis‚ Bhils‚ Bhutias and Great Andamanese. All these
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