Showing posts with label Assignment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Assignment. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Tradition (Insert witty rhyme)

This will be less extensive due to time requirements and lack of a pre-written idea of what I am doing.
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When should tradition be upheld, done away with, or modified?

Tradition is the act of passing customs or beliefs from one generation. Our parents did it to us when we were kids, and we will do it with our children, we always pass on a tradition to our young. That is the way of nature, all living sentient beings, and even non-sentient in a way, do it. My favorite example to use is Christmas, or any of the the other winter holidays, because everyone celebrates then. Why do we do it? Because our parents did it and our parents before. A celebration to be thankful for the people who have given us life and have shared their traditions with us.

Now we aren't going to throw away Christmas obviously because people enjoy celebrating that, but how about Halloween? Do away with Halloween?! But I love getting candy! That's not what I meant dear reader. I'm saying that the Halloween we know in this era is not the same as when it first started. The story is that there were two rival but similar religions that would take a straw representation of their god and burn it upon the hill while singing and chanting, then on the way home they would beg for food. Eventually this turned violent, the religions sabotaging the other's straw god or beating up other members. To prevent being caught they would dress up to hide their identity. Sound familiar? The dressing up and begging sound familiar, but we modified the tradition to be less violent. Not all traditions need to be upheld all the time, slavery is a tradition that should never continue, anti-lgbt rights as well. Tradition is something we need, but we also need it to grow with us.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Literature Conjecture

What is Literature? Why is it, or isn't it important? Explain.

Literature is a culture, a culture of excelled pieces through form or expression and expressing of permanent ideas of permanent or universal interest. literature is important because like any other culture, it helps us to understand ourselves and the world around us. literature is the writings of prose or verse, not just words printed on paper. The words must flow into sentences and then into paragraphs which all combine together to form a universal theme and thus growing into literature. Creating a piece that will live in the esteem of Literature forever, as Shakespeare most famously has done.

Literature will always be important because it teaches the truth of human nature. It also inquires about the truths of nature and possibly existence of the great and powerful beings such as gods and our reaction to these concepts. To analyze the truth of existence or nature, it is to say that this will potentially become literature. It does not matter if it is fiction or non because both are literature, just one is aimed to also entertain. These notions are most singularly because they can be defined in infinite ways. Literature is important because it helps advance our views towards something new and better.