The Shaman usually has at least one or more spirits in his or her personal service. ... There are also spirits which control the weather, spirits which interact with humans, and others who inhabit the underworld. ... Shamans: Spirits may be encouraged to occupy the Shaman's body during public lodge ceremonies. ... The spirits are then asked to depart and perform the needed acts. ... Traditional housing: There were many variations across North America: conical wigwams or tipis, long houses, and cliff dwellings. ...

• Word Count: 11626
• Approx Pages: 47
• Grade Level: High School

In a ceremony for a birth, marriage, or a new house, a shrine is set up and offerings are made to the shrine, and the Sangha (community of ordained monks) are invited to a meal. ... These rituals are often connected with indigenous traditions of worshiping the gods and spirits with little specific Buddhist perspective. ... In some countries such as in Great Britain, marriages are not allowed to be held in ordinary houses, so Buddhists often marry in Buddhist temples. ... This tying - "tying of the spirits" represents the union of the bride and groom on both physical and spiritual levels, as we...

• Word Count: 3001
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

Each house had a roofless katalan where kitchen utensils and jars of water for cooking and washing were kept. The houses of the lower classes usually had only one room, with little or no furnishings. The houses of the nobility had several rooms. ... On the wedding day a timawa (freeman) fetches the bride and takes her to the groom's house where the marriage ceremony was to be held. ...

• Word Count: 5518
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

They often begin at the back of the house and finish at the door step, this is done to chase away any evil spirits or negative energy from the past year. ... After the fest comes chuxi, which means 'spending the night', red candles and oil lamps are placed around the house to vanquish evil spirits. ... On the sixth day the lion dances begin, the Chinese thought that lions could chase away evil spirits. ...

• Word Count: 3094
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The money she makes has paid for her house and food. Her house is an expression of her hard work and Delia is proud of this: Mah tub of suds is filled yo' belly with vittles more times than yo' hands is filled it. Mah sweat is done paid for this house and Ah reckon Ah kin keep on sweatin' in it (Hurston, 1996: 1492). ... It is as though all of her worries are gone and it is just her and the spirits: She stayed to the night service - "love feast" - which was very warm and full of spirit. ... In Walker's ins...

• Word Count: 3271
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

She is trying to contend with the loss of her husband to the work force overseas, the loss of her children as they become adults, the rental of her house to another family, and the exile from her youth as she lies on the brink of menopause. Kate's husband had to go overseas to earn more money to support the family, at the same time renting out the house that they had built their lives together in. ... It is normal and acceptable for children to leave the house as soon as they are old enough to support themselves, for at this time it is their turn to raise a family of their own. ...

• Word Count: 2771
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In an ile, people are related to each other not by blood, but by being in the same orisha "house-. ... The godparents become the spiritual parents of the spirits reborn in their godchildren. ... The eggun, the spirits of the dead, are honoured before the orishas. ... The water acts as "a kind of spiritual cleansing and as a subtle "trap- for impure spirits."" ... Some light cigars so that its smoke may attract spirits - especially African spirits. ...

• Word Count: 8386
• Approx Pages: 34
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Evil Macbeth EVIL MACBETH Darkness in our society is indicative of evil. For instance, a black cat, a dark night, a dark place are all symbols of evil. There are only a few good people out there today. In Macbeth William Shakespeare proves to us that there is evil in all of us but in the end the good triupths. In this play the main character Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth represent evil the king and queen of Scotland become murderers and the most hated people. ...

• Word Count: 12917
• Approx Pages: 52
• Grade Level: High School

Introduction In this comparative study I will examine the representation of the magical creatures in two adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: the eponymous video registration of Benjamin Britten's opera performed at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1981, conducted by Bernard Haitink,...

• Word Count: 9832
• Approx Pages: 39
• Grade Level: High School

In Aesop's "The Hen and the Fox-, which is a European oral story, a wryly little fox sneaks into a hen-house and sees a hen sitting up top on a rafter out of his reach. ... His supernatural powers often come to him from earth and sky spirits in dreams, or are given to him by magicians. ...

• Word Count: 2543
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Here, following Baby Suggs" words they begin to reclaim their bodies and their spirits. ... Otherwise the singing would have begun at once, the moment she appeared in the doorway of the house on Bluestone Road. ...

• Word Count: 3712
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

Here, following Baby Suggs" words they begin to reclaim their bodies and their spirits. ... Otherwise the singing would have begun at once, the moment she appeared in the doorway of the house on Bluestone Road. ...

• Word Count: 3715
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

In modern society, one would think that there isn't any place for fantasy and superstitions, but the United States is full of people who are convinced that psychics can predict their future, they have ghosts living in their houses, aliens visit the Earth in flying saucers, and even that they can talk to the dead.7 People believe in the supernatural because they want to believe, because it makes them happy, even if those beliefs exist against logic or opposing evidence.8 In Detroit, "ghost-busting is back big time," with "at least five "ghost hunting" clubs" springing up in the met...

• Word Count: 3126
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Iris is having a conversation with him trying to push him to get out of the house for once. ... Iris again encourages him to get out of the house and we see how close together they are. We see Derek leaving the house with Iris. ... When he gets home, his dad says you can get a job soon to try and push him out of the house more. ... Derek's dad bans Craig from the house saying "we don't want any trouble". ...

• Word Count: 2621
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Todd goes to the old man's house and tells him that he will not report him in exchange for stories about the old man's duties in the concentration camps. ... The camera then zooms into the door, and the scene ends with a cut to a close up of Todd in Dussander's house listening to the old man's story. ... First, a link between the two is established by a close up of both Dussander and Todd, each in their own house, laying awake in bed, thinking. ... There is a shot of Dussander's house, and in front of the house there is a lost animal poster identifying the cat ...

• Word Count: 3287
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

"John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven spirits which are before his throne;" (Rev. 1:4). ...

• Word Count: 5075
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: High School

At the time, he was riding by the Valmonde residence while she was in front of the house. ... "The roof came down steep and black like a cowl, " the narrator says, and the shade of oak trees surrounding the dwelling suggested that it was a tomb rather than a house. ... When his father was in charge, they were in high spirits. When Madame Valmonde enters the house, Desiree is on a couch holding the baby. ... From a drawer in the house, he withdraws the letters he had received from her during their courtship. ...

• Word Count: 2905
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

After they left, they started a halfway house for ex-cult members. ... She talked to dead people's spirits. ... They also write their own decrees (wishes for themselves or the world that they expect the spirits to take care of). ...

• Word Count: 2513
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

In the year 1095, there was fighting in the the Christian Byzantine Empire. The people were fighting amongst themselves. Pope Urban II wanted them to stop this continual warfare. It was like a plague upon Europe. Urban also described the Turkish attacks on the Christian Empire. Rather than fi...

• Word Count: 3115
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She worked as a servant in the Parris's house and was a Caribbean born in Barbados in the West Indies. ... They said the spirits the girls saw could be just hallucinations resulting from their sickness, or they could be the Devil in disguise, but the government officials simply ignored them. ... Chief Justice Stoughton, however, thought that the evil spirits would not disguise themselves to people who were willing to cooperate with them. ...

• Word Count: 2567
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Schumann then, left his stay at the Wieck house and changed houses quite frequently as if to find a safe heaven from his inner turmoil. Finally, he found a house that suited him in 1836, a pleasant cottage which remained his home until his marriage. ... During this time Friedrich would lie to his daughter about Schumann, deliberately feeding stories to her to dampen her spirits. ...

• Word Count: 4114
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Schumann then, left his stay at the Wieck house and changed houses quite frequently as if to find a safe heaven from his inner turmoil. Finally, he found a house that suited him in 1836, a pleasant cottage which remained his home until his marriage. ... During this time Friedrich would lie to his daughter about Schumann, deliberately feeding stories to her to dampen her spirits. ...

• Word Count: 4114
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Despite the encouragement of the house overseer, Frank Crawley, and Maxim's sister, Beatrice, the heroine struggles in her new life at Manderley. ... Swept up in the preparations, the heroine's spirits begin to revive. ... But their exile owes not only to the physical destruction of their home; a house can be rebuilt. ...

• Word Count: 3026
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

The book opens with a chapter called "The Custom House," in which the narrator of the book writes a long description recalling his days as the chief executive officer of the Customs House in Salem, Massachusetts. He describes the customs house as a run-down, half-finished building located on a rotting dock and characterizes his coworkers as elderly and incompetent. ... As he stands on the scaffold, his fellow minister, Reverend Wilson, coming back from the house of late Governor Winthrop, passes him. ...

• Word Count: 3653
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

Culture CULTURE What is culture? Culture includes language, ideas, beliefs, customs, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, and works of art, rituals, and ceremonies, among other elements. The existence and use of culture depends upon ability possessed by humans alone. This ability has been called the capacity for rational thought. The term symboling has been proposed as a more suitable name for the mental ability of humans, consisting of assigning things and events certain meanings that cannot be grasped with the senses. ...

• Word Count: 4734
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate