Rites of Passage Essay

The poem Rite of Passage by Sharon Olds is a poem about a mother chaperoning her son’s birthday party. The boy and his friends are in first grade and of course they are behaving as first graders would. They say things like, “How old are you? Six. – I’m seven. –So?” (8) And “I can beat you up, / a seven says to a six” (13-14). The boys are behaving their age. The boys are competitive, irrational and youthful. However, the mother envisions her son and his friends as mature men. She first introduces them in the opening line as “guests” rather than peers or playmates. She describes them as “short men, me in first grade with smooth jaws and chins” (3-4).

1 According to Google Dictionary phrase "rite of passage" means a ceremony or event marking an important stage in someone's life, especially birth, puberty, marriage, and death. Sharon Olds gave her poems title "Rite of Passage" because in this poem she describes the state of adolescence and the rites of passage that lead to adulthood. Olds wrote about young boys waiting to be men. The spiker, who is the birthday boy's mother, describing the veiled adults in the children that arrive to her son’s party, "as the guests arrive at my son's party." The author wrote, "short men, men in a first grade," Olds chose "first grade" as a symbol of growing children because when child goes to first grade he or she becomes little independent from parents,

They pray the prayers of the faithful and the Lord’s Prayer. After this has done the priest will give his final blessing to the parents, God parents, baby and also family. The significant symbols that are important for baptism are baptismal font , water , oil , candle and white cloth.

A recent rite of passage I went through was graduating from nursing school and becoming a RN. To complete this rite of passage I had to complete all the pre-requisites for nursing school which took me 4 years. Then I did the nursing program which was 2 years. To celebrate finishing the nursing program I attended a pinning ceremony which is a ritual where the nursing graduates get a pin that represents the completion of the education required to sit for the nursing boards. This pinning ceremony was more important than walking at graduation. The majority of my classes did not attend the graduation ceremony but all attended the pinning. Once I took the nursing license test I got a card that says registered nurse. I was finally able to call myself

Originally developed by anthropologist Arnold van Gennep in the early 20th century in his book Rites de Passage, the term liminality refers to the concept in which participants are in the threshold stage of disorientation and suspension from the previous social norm that they were used to. When an individual goes through a rite of passage—also coined by van Gennep—he is cut off from his “old life” and is born again into a new person. However, before he can fully become a new person and finish his rite of passage, he is suspended in a liminal stage that bridges the old self with the newly acknowledged self. In other words, he is in a stage of disorientation and amorphous identity. Found throughout all

When a Jewish boy is then 13 he has a Bar Mitzvah, meaning ‘son of the

In the Lakota tribe people performed both the rite of passage and the rite of purification as a part of their spiritual practice. A rite of passage marks one 's stage of life into another and is often what most people observe in their lives. Rites of passage include birthdays, graduations, weddings, etc., basically any phase in one 's life that gives that individual a new role in society. On the other hand, the rite of purification was to purify one’s mind, body and soul of its impurities. It is a ritual performed to seek the benefits of better health and preventing corruptions spiritually and mentally.

A twelve year old boy holding an Airsoft, sitting on a swing in a park at 3:30 p.m. in broad daylight was shot not two seconds after officers arrived at the scene. He died the following day from injuries.

The event is well detailed as well as sequenced. They start with praise and worship to welcome the presence of God. In the process of praise and worship Matthew talks to the congregation to let them know if God did it for someone surely he can do it for you. Times like these it’s good to know that I have a sister in christ that can relate to my situation. They let us know that we are not alone that’s why God created us that we can

One of the videos that piqued my interest was the video that showcased Mescalero Apache Girl Rite of Passage to become a woman. This particular video piqued my interest because in my own experience, girls in the United States do not seem to have such a traditional ceremony/rite of passage. I know that there are similar rites of passage in other cultures, for example the quinceanera in Latin cultures, but the Apache rite of passage from girl to woman is especially interesting to me. This is possibly because this rite of passage is still practiced today.

Think of a monumental time in your life. Your monumental time in your life is probably different to an Apache girl, Dachina, and the main character, Martin, in a story the medicine bag. In Dachina’s rite of passage is doing by doing a four day tradition to become a women. During the four day she has to do stuff like, dance for ten hours straight. Then, in Martin’s rite of passage his grandpa comes to give him the medicine bag. During this, Grandpa is dying so he has to give Martin the medicine bag before he dies. In my essay I explain, the similarities and differences between the two rites of passage. I also explain, the advantages and disadvantages between video and text.

Watching the news is a rite of passage for any newly crowned adult. It’s a sign to you and everyone you know that you’re a grown up god dammit, you keep up with what’s going on in the world. Because of the news you can name like 75% of the presidential candidates, you’re aware of every tragedy going on overseas, and each day at work you get to ask someone if they heard about the *insert feel good story here* that you saw the previous night. The news is making you such a well-rounded and mature human being.

In Conrad Philip Kottak’s “Rite of Passage” he mentions the three stages of a rite of passage. Anthropologist Arnold Van Gennep defines these stages as Separation, Margin, and Aggregation. Victor Turner, another anthropologist, focused on Margin, which he referred to as liminality. Not only can a rite of passage be an individual experience, but it can also be a communal experience which Turner called “communitas.” Many of us experience this “communitas” in different ways such as my Hispanic culture that experiences quinceneras. Quinceneras are a rite of passage for young girls’ transition from adolescence to womanhood. I for one never experienced this rite of passage.

The Apache and Lakota rite of passages have their similarities and differences in the sense of their practices. For example, the Apache rite of passage for the young women is more physical than the Lakota rite of passage. The Apache rite of passage is represented in a video while the Lakota rite of passage is represented in a book therefor, the audience may find some advantages and disadvantages when learning about each rite of passage.

My wRite of Passage topic connects to my believes in many different ways. Not only Planets and Galaxies, but space in general has always fascinated me. In so many ways space has affected what I believe, when I was young I thought that the sky was the sky and that was that, or that space was blue and clear all the time. What I learned as I got older is that our sky is like a wall preventing us from seeing what is behind it, but when the sun goes down and it gets dark outside the wall goes down. I can see everything in space. Stars, the moon, and even planets if you look close enough. My thoughts have changed over time about what is in space. At first I thought that our planet was the only planet that had life and that there was only one small galaxy that was