REL 526- Religions of the World NAME: Blair Bonifield
Reading Assignment #1a
Choose the option that most accurately describes how much of the following reading assignment you have completed: John Fire/Lame Deer, “Symbols All Around.”
a. I read 100% of the reading.
2. What is the significance of symbols to Lame Deer? What are some examples used?
a. There are lots of symbols used by Native Americans and they all help tell a different story and these symbols have a bigger meaning then what most people see them as. A few symbols that were mentioned in John Fire’s paper and that are important to Lame Deer are seen, as everyday objects to us are a diamond, a boiling pot of water and a circle. The diamond represents a brave thing that a warrior has done. The boiling pot represents the water and the sky and helps Sioux Indians and The Lame Deer remember and recognize “The medicine man”. And the circle represents community and infinity and is the most well-known and appreciated symbol in the Native American culture. All of the symbols have different meanings but help share stories and are of high importance to Lame Deer and many other Native
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The Living-dead is our closest link to the spiritual world. The Living-dead can be protectors for families and warn them of up and coming trouble. The Living-dead is still considered a part of the family that they were in when they were fully human. That being said the living dead are not fully treated like family. It is said that the living dead should not come around too often or humans will resent them the relationship between humans and the living dead is just supposed to be an occasional meeting. Humans are also supposed to offer food to The-living dead and show hospitality or else illness and other misfortunes might appear and could be connected to the anger and rage from the living-dead feeling unwelcomed. The Living-dead become fully dead and become spirits once the last living person on earth who knew them
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Using Native American mascots can symbolize Native American cultures. Florida State Seminoles logo and mascot represents
In both the Odyssey and The Amber Spyglass the dead and the living cannot touch each other. Odysseus tried to embrace his mother in an emotional scene after finding out that she had died: Mother, why will you not wait for me, when I am trying to hold you, so that even in Hades ' with our arms embracing we can both take the satisfaction of dismal mourning? Or are you nothing but an image that proud Persephone sent my way, to make me grieve all the more for sorrow? There is the same sad scene within Pullman’s book.
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The setting in the story takes place near Owl Creek. The story has a lot of symbols. The symbols in a story may be important or not important. In this story all the symbols are important. Symbols mean something in this story.
Here are some of those tribes The Tlingit tribe, The Haida tribe, The Bella Coola tribe, The Chinook tribe, The Tsimshian tribe, and the Coast Salish are some of the native american tribes who carve these magnificent symbols. All the totem pole stand for something whether it feeling and emotions such as pain, anger, shame, sadness, or possibly happiness if you learned how to carve
We are going to tell you about something beautiful that they saw. The story will be about fall and something beautiful. The story will also be about deer that they saw. This took place on a nice fall day outside in Indiana.
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Capitalism has always been a subject of controversy throughout American history. As America expanded west and developed many new advancements in technology, more specifically the railroad, many people sought to make big profits out of the new and advantageous land. A common argument that historians often put forth about the settlement of the West was that big businesses and entrepreneurs had capitalized on the mostly untouched valuable resources of Western United States and had turned them into commodities thus destroying Native American society. Before America’s expansion into the West, Native American tribes lived in a society free of the capitalistic ideals, which in turn, made them less concerned about profit and more concerned about their
The deer is revered by many cultures. Southwest Native Americans, and a handful of Mesoamerican tribes, in particular, especially sanctify the animal (“Native American”). Assyro-Babylonians described deer as a link between early life and the netherworld, and Norse mythology details their ability to move between the worlds (Thompson)(“Stories, Legends, and Teachings). Throughout the nations, deer are viewed as symbols of kindness, peace, caring love , and fertility . Cervines have long been a symbol of the interconnectedness of humankind and nature, since they are intimately interwoven with the fate of mankind.
Summer Reading Assignment: The Great Gatsby Chapter # 6- Select a passage that reveals the nature of the narrator. Discuss how this passage contributes to your understanding of the work as a whole. Identify the narrator’s tone and literary strategies that shape it; comment on the narrator’s purpose in this chapter, as well as the effect the narrator is having on your reactions to the events and characters.
One of the best days of my life was when we went deer hunting in South Dakota with my dad, brother, uncle and two cousins, but before I tell you about my trip let me tell you how it started. We left early in the morning to head to South Dakota where my cousin Jacob, who had just got a job as Game warden in Custer State Park, was taking us deer hunting. We got as far as Fargo, North Dakota when my cousin Keith asked my dad where our license were. Then to our surprise we forgot them back at home. We were lucky enough to have my two aunts and mom bring us the license because they were going to Fargo that day anyways for a girls shopping day.