Essays on Tradition Page 10

One of the first Native American novelists, D’Arcy McNickle is also regarded as one of the best. His realistic fiction depicts the hard lives of rural Americans on reservations, farms, and ranches during the Great depression of the 1930s. His sensitive stories detailing the consequences of Euro-American ethnocentrism neither romanticize nor demonize Native Americans. Although…

AbstractThe 1950s was regarded as a watershed in the history of marriage in North America. From 1947 to the early 1960s, an increasing number of Americans started asserting more independence in the realm of matrimony. As a result, the nuclear family emerged. Fewer dependents allowed the nuclear family to have greater purchasing power. In the…

Abstract There are four main legal traditions in the world. They include Common, civil, socialist, and Islamic legal tradition. These legal traditions originated from different countries long time ago and they all had a common goal; to serve as a method of social control. This paper observes the history of these legal traditions and proves…

What factors seem most important in the transition from traditional to modern society? Why do they seem so crucial? 2. AND… In what ways was socialism a response to that transition? In what ways did it look toward a new transition? Individual identity, racism, political morality economics, ecology, nationalism and globalization are the most important…

            The latest trend in the twenty first century in education is the online degree program.  According to elearners.com, “Nearly 3.2 million students were taking at least one online course during the fall 2005 term, a substantial increase over the 2.3 million reported the previous year.”  Pioneers such as University of Phoenix are now reaping…

The Analects contains the teachings of the eminent Chinese philosopher, Confucius. Although the philosopher never wrote anything down, his disciples have collected his teachings and preserved it. More than just a book of his teachings, Confucius’ Analects is really a capsule of Chinese society, containing the rudiments of social fabric that hold their community together…

Music has been an essential part of Indian life since Vedic times, according to Dale Hoiberg and Indu Ramchandani. Even today, Vedic hymns are chanted at religious functions (p. 29). Hoiberg and Ramchandani observed that Indian music encompasses a wide range of instrumental and vocal traditions, including classical, religious, popular, theatrical, and modern (p. 29)….

The main theme of “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, is tradition. Traditions are beliefs, legends, customs, information and other things that are passed down from generation to generation. This theme is shown in many different ways throughout the story. The first way tradition is shown in the story is with the ritual that the town…

If you study the form of traditional grammar, the rules of classical languages were followed considering that English did not have grammar of its own. English followed Latin grammar. Let’s start off with: Mechanics: Proper Punctuation Traditional grammar is characterized by proper punctuation. The basic rule of punctuation requires that each sentence conclude with a…

Tradition is an important part of everyone’s life. Others hold tradition above everything else. Adults feel that it is very important to follow these established customs and cannot even imagine rebelling against them although they may be hurtful in some ways. They may not even remember the reason for these customs in the first place….