Day Of The Dead Speech

Mexican culture celebrates their independence with a holiday and fireworks on Cinco de Mayo. The American ritual for independence is celebrated on July 4th also with a holiday and fireworks. Another ritual that is participated in annually by both Mexican and American cultures is the celebration of Christmas. Gift giving is a common ritual during the Christmas season. There are also some very unique rituals specific to each culture. For starters, one the most distinctive rituals in all of the World takes place in the Mexican culture, Dia de Los Muertos. Dia de Los Muertos is a celebration with masks like skulls and dancing honoring late ancestors. Another ritual specific to the Mexican culture is the holiday recognizing the Lady of the Guadalupe. The ritual feast remembers the sightings of her near present day Mexico City. American culture also contains some unique rituals. A very patriotic ritual takes place in the grade school class everyday; it is called the Pledge of Allegiance. This ritual instills patriotic values as well as teaching loyalty to thy nation. Thanksgiving is another example of a ritual not in Mexican culture that is in American culture.

In Mexico, Dia de los Muertos is a celebration to honor the dead. This holiday was made for people struggle with losing loved ones, and celebrating it was found to be a good way to help them cope. Families can be seen in the cemetery bringing festive gifts to memorialize lost members.

I. Attention getting device: When most people think of how to honor the dead, right away they think of mourning but the indigenous people of Mexico had a different idea. Instead of mourning, they think of honoring the dead as a celebration with dancing, food, and reminiscing. The name of this celebration is called Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead in English.

Death, and the skeleton represented as Death, is seen in a much different way by the Mexicans than by most other cultures. It is seen in a mocking, cheerful light. A symbol that can be as playful as it is serious, it appears everywhere during dia de muertos as wood, paper mache, sugar, and plastic.

2) Support (Evidence) The celebration takes place at midnight on October 31st and goes on through November 1st and November 2nd. It is designed to honor the dead souls who, it is believed, return to their earthly homes on Halloween. Many families construct an altar to the dead in their homes to honor deceased relatives and decorate it with flowers, favorite foods and drinks of the departed (Markello). Some other decor are the widely known sugar skulls which represent the celebration of life and death. They can all be made differently in colorful and creative design combinations to personalize the skulls after the person they are made for. The intent of all this is to encourage visits by the souls, so the souls will provide protection, good luck, and wisdom to their families.

In the Latino death rituals are influenced by their catholic beliefs. They have a continuing relationship with the dead through prayer and visits to the grave. Grief can be expressed by crying. Women are allowed to wail while men are not to a lot of emotion. Death for Mexicans in Mexico has more understanding of death because the country is religious, real, poor, and young. Death is shown by statues, art, literature, and history portray death. Mexican children start at an early age to accept death. Mexicans and Latinos celebrate “Dia de los Muertos (day of the dead) to remember and honor the dead Lobar, Youngblut, & Brooten, 2006, p. xx-a)

Most people here they think that Funeral is the most important thing to remember the person that dead, show how they respect with that person. They believe that nobody is dead, they just move from the earth to the other place that called haven to live. They depend on what cause of the dead and they have different kind of celebrate between old, young or accident.

The bulge of skulls as a Day of the Asleep amount harkens aback to the canicule of the Aztecs. Aback then, skulls were important icons that illustrated their acceptance in the actuality of an animate afterlife. In Mexican culture, skulls abide to betoken afterlife and

While many people associate the Day of the Dead with Halloween because they occur at the same time of the year, they are not the same. Halloween is celebrated in Western Europe

As a little girl, I learned a lot about my Mexican heritage. I even joined my parents in their dance group and still involved in it today. Over the years it’s been so fun, and it helped me learn a lot about different Mexican counties. Who would've thought that I would learn so much just by dancing. I know it sounds crazy, but it’s the truth. Also being a little girl I learned about “Day Of The Dead” which in Spanish is called “dia de los muertos” which is a two day celebration. The day’s in which this takes place is September 1 and 2nd. September 1st we honor the children and September 2nd we honor the adults. When I was little I never fully understood why we celebrated people deaths. I always thought when someone dies we show our respects and grief about it, but throwing a whole

In Mexico, fiestas occur frequently throughout the year as a custom. Mexicans gather on these holidays to eat dance,take part in parades, and remember historic or religious events. Mexican Independence Day celebrates the separation of the country from Spain on September 16, 1810. Another famous celebration is Day of the Dead which is celebrated on the first of November. Although it may sound scary, this celebration is a cheerful time of remembering friends and family members who have died.

How do you choose the right religion for you? It's come down to the questions you feel it may answer. There is one belief that is going to completely answer those questions. It is supposed to help guide you in the right direction you choose to go. When it comes to the question of the afterlife. This helps oneself to ease the mind of what's to come. The afterlife is a major position that religion strives to answer. This is how they get people to follow. It is something that you will not find out until you leave this earth. So that why it is important for the religion you choose is right for you. Which version of the afterlife that you can see yourself following? Here are a few that you can consider.

For instance, they have the day of the dead. The day of the dead is a day dedicated to celebrating all the lost souls. They believe that if a family member passes their soul may still linger around on Earth and may not reach heaven on time. By celebrating the day of the dead, they believe that their ancestors may no longer linger the earth and be able to reach heaven in time. A lot of cities in Mexico make huge celebrations for this very well-known holiday.

I know think are confusing right now Hamlet and your father just died but before you do anything, I want to explain why your feeling what your feeling. Hamlet, it's tough to tell what you're suffering from but presumably grief or grieving. The reason it is tough to tell is that it is possible you could also have a mental condition called clinical depression. The reason however it is more likely grieving and not depression is because before your father died you're but after your father died, your uncle Claudius said you had “change of heart", which is indicative of the fact that before your father died you were not as moody and depressed. Grief essentially means that you feel as if darkness and gloominess, a deep sorrow especially caused by death. Some of the symptoms of the grief include mood swings, dismal and depressive thoughts and social isolation and all of which you illustrate throughout your story. Your grief has been compounded and building up since your fathers death. Your uncle says that it is weak and unmanly to wallow in your grief for so long, and your mother is not sympathetic of your grief and that you should his your signs of mourning.

During the party the girl must dance with all her relatives who come. The relatives give her a rose before they dance with her. After that everyone usually dances and eats. At the end of the quincenera the father puts on the girls pair of high heels to symbolize that she is finally a women. Another big celebration in Mexico is “Day of the Dead”. One of the most important traditions for day of the dead is the day of the dead alter.Day of the Dead altars are usually made inside peoples homes. It honors their loved ones who have died. In Mexico people call Day of the Dead “Dia de los Muertos”. On Day of the Dead they make skeleton heads formed out of sugar that have colorful designs on them. Day of the Dead usually last from October 31 to