Essays on Voodoo

Buddhism, like all the other Eastern religions, originated from “Animism”, which is the belief that everything in the universe has an essence, a spirit or a soul. As a way of life, it is similar to the other religions in promoting morality, generosity, kindness, harmony, and respect for all living beings including mother nature. Alike Hinduism, Buddhism believes in the following: 1. Reincarnation, wherein the soul is reborn into another body based on the level of spiritual attainment from the previous life. 2. Karma, which is either the positive or the negative effects of an individual’s actions. 3. ...

The ideal viewer of this image is a person who is studying gender roles in modern culture and society. This advertisement is not typical because it represents a woman as the power-holder who looks down on men and controls them. This image is trying to reach both men and women who are ready to question the position of women in the world. Males and females may view this image differently because the opposite sexes are put in completely different roles. Men are reduced to the labor force being muscular and naked while the woman is dominant and holds the ...

Show Specs

Leave It to Beaver, CBS Main characters are Beaver Cleaver, Wally Cleaver, June and Ward Cleaver, and Eddie Haskell. Storyline In a 1958 episode of Leave It to Beaver entitled, "Voodoo Magic," Eddie, Wally and the Beaver are headed to the movies to see both "Voodoo Curse" and "Massacre at Blood River." Wally and the Beaver's mother, June, wants them to see something a little tamer and forbids them to watch either movie. They defy her and end up watching "Voodoo Curse," after Eddie convinces both Wally and Beaver to go. Upon returning home, June asks Wally and Beaver ...

Today, technology showcases its exertive existence than ever. Televisions, laptops, desktops, tablets and laptops are the products of this technological era with their use being notable to many across the globe. However, its embracement has raised arguable disputes among different scholars with both negatives and positives getting attached to their use. Children are perceived to be vulnerable and on the benefiting side of the use of media such as the computers. Is the television usage on the collision course or constructive to the lives of the users? This paper explores the use of the television and its implications to ...

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The Walker Within: How Zombies Define Humanity Since it first hit comic store shelves in 2003, The Walking Dead has captivated readers, gaining even more prominence when it was made into a television series by the same name in October, 2010 by AMC. The allure of zombies as a trope is strong; they offer an antagonist that is truly unrelenting and impossible to reason with, while their ability to carry on despite massive and traumatic injury allows for high levels of blood, guts, and gore, appealing to the horror fans that are the zombie genre’s main audience. ...

A billboard advertisement for a company called Voodoo, this ad was selected because it inverts the traditional roles of power between men and women. Intended for women’s gaze, the billboard ad animalizes and objectifies men, empowers women, shocks “conventional” morality, and does all the above under the cloak of anonymity. Clearly, the Voodoo advertisement’s intended audience is young, career-oriented, ambitious women with a flair for fashion and hipness. Pictured in the ad is a slender, leggy woman wearing tight red leggings (the winter hosiery) and black leather shoe-boots with stiletto heels. She also wears a leopard-print blouse, ...

Angel Heart is a psychological thriller and crime mystery that was filmed in 1987, and based on a book titled Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg. After first viewing the film Angel Heart, i didn't think it was so interesting at first. I'll admit i was a little confused, the plot of the film was a little puzzling to me, but eventually i caught on to what was really happening in the movie. I thought the movie was actually very cool to watch. The input of the voodoo scenery and all the extra subjugations added a controversial curiosity to the ...

It is known that the Hebrew faith is one of the oldest faiths in the world. In the Hebrew Bible, only the Old Testament is present, and although both the Jews and the Christians worship the same God, their Bibles are quite different. It is believed that the Hebrew faith originated in Africa. Scholars know that the African continent is one of the oldest places of the world. According to David Rose, the Jews come from Asia and Africa and their language belongs to the group of languages called Semitic. Hebrew includes elements from both Arabic and Latin languages. ...

Informative Speech: Unearthing Voodoo’s True Relevance to Erase the Historic Misinformation

- Specific Purpose: To enlighten the audience specifically young White Americans regarding the true nature and relevance of Voodoo - Introduction: - Most people believe in religions. - The discrimination of dominant race and religion to other relatively minority religions like Voodoo. Transition: Ask the audience especially those from White race regarding their notions on Voodoo. Give examples of wrong notions. The speaker accepts having judged the Voodoo without gathering facts to support the judgement. - Body - Voodoo is a religion not only of African-Americans nowadays. It is already widely spread across the ...

This paper focuses on the Haitian cultural group. Haitians are a group of people whose nationality is Haiti. The term Haiti is derived from Taino Indians’ language, and it means mountainous country. Haitians speak creole as their national language. Currently, the population of Haitian immigrants is 0.3 percent of the total US population (Buchanan, Albert, Beaulieu and U.S. Census Bureau, 2010).

American Community Survey of 2009 reports that 81 percent of people with Haitian ancestry who live in the United States and aged 5 years and above spoke a language other than English at home (Buchanan, Albert, Beaulieu, and U.S. Census ...

In the 18 - 19th centuries, slavery was a common practice, exercised by the world’s powers (Girard 36). Haiti represented a significant slave source for France, which colonized the island and imposed its rule by force as early as 1625, up until 1804, when Haiti gained its independence after a severe bloodshed revolution (Reinhardt 251). After defeating the French colonizers in what is called the most successful slave revolt of all times, Haiti was drastically blocked and boycotted from an economic perspective, having no other option than to make a settlement with France in 1825 (Schuller 149; Farmer 127). The settlement implied a ...

The horror anthology series American Horror Story has derived much of its tensions and drama from the past. Some of the more unsavory elements of American history have been mined for horror, from serial killers to Holocaust survivors to the horrors of early mental institutions. In the case of the third season, Coven, the major theme is witchcraft. Set in contemporary New Orleans, the season revolves around a cold war between a white coven of witches descended from the Salem witches, and a black voodoo coven, dating back hundreds of years to the antebellum South. According to Gibson, “America’s popular cultural ...

Cultural Overview

Leila is a woman aged 34 years old. She is of Haitian descent, and she resides in the State of Connecticut. She is married with four children: two girls and one boy. She is also five months pregnant. Leila lives with her husband and children in the same house. In addition, her Uncle and two siblings also reside in the same neighborhood as she does. They meet quite often and even share some meals together. Leila also has no friend apart from members of her ethnic group. Besides, she spends little time with her friends. The only people with whom ...

In reading about the voodoo art and objects, I was fascinated by the Three Figures on Motorcycles by Jean Herard Celeur. The figure is dedicated to the Haitian spiritual figure ‘Gede’ who is a major character in the voodoo religion. The artwork is also associated with the issue of negative perception of the Western people on the voodoo culture. The bizarre imaging of the artwork resembles how the voodoo spiritual figures are imaged as unusual and offensive (Wittmer, 73). The Haitian spiritual figure ‘Gede’ is very important in the voodoo art and religion since it personifies the death and sexuality. ...

Vampires

Vampires - in the lower mythology of Europe dead at night getting up from the grave or being in the shape of a bat, sucking the blood of sleeping people, Sender nightmares. Vampires are "unclean" dead - criminals, suicides, deaths of premature death and the dead from the bites of vampires. The image of a vampire is not rare for the cinema and literature, although vampires from works of art, usually, have some differences from the vampire mythology. In folklore, the term, usually, used to refer to the blood-sucking essence of Eastern European legends, but often referred to as vampires ...

The onset of jazz music was a luxurious and monumental thing for New Orleanians. Though music was essential to life in New Orleans throughout the nineteenth century, no sound that welcomed everybody. New Orleans was a diverse place where Creole, French, Spanish, and African cultures, among others, all lived elbow to elbow, with seemingly nothing in common other than a love for music. During the 1870’s could be heard everywhere. New Orleans was filled with the folky sounds inspired by European immigrants, and the distinct beats of African and Caribbean inspired musicians. As the turn of the century approached, these two ...

Essay

Educational institution Introduction The 4.06 minute astounding animation “Sebastian’s Voodoo”, released on 7th June 2008, is the second short film of a young brilliant mind animator Joaquin Baldwin, who was born on 21st February 1983 in Asuncion, Paraguay. For creating this exceptionally beautiful short animation movie, a second year college student received 107 Awards and Honors, winning as well a prize for the 5th place in NFB (National Film Board) Online Short Competition.

An analysis of good vs. evil via the prism of voodoo myth

For the main purpose of this essay I have chosen to evaluate this animation’s main idea, the everlasting opposition between good and evil via the ...

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Mary Conde’s book ‘I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem’ uses the Salem Witchcraft Trials as a background for the political implications of a post slavery scenario where the political implications are great. There are also some ironies which can be observed since the Puritans who ended up as abolitionists entertained the worst excesses as regards cleansing and purifying the nation of witches and Conde plays on that notion with subtle irony. The sense of catastrophe is also imminently felt especially in the analogous dynamics of the novel. Tituba is imbued with fantastic and wild notions of witchcraft which also impart ...

The evident identity of Louisiana as an exceptional yet unique kind of integrated cultures has been captured using many phrases by many scholars. This savory mixture has also been identified alongside its historical dishes, gumbo. Capturing this unique and complex assortment of cultures has eluded many scholars, researchers and anthropologists. Some authors have however come close to identifying this complex assortment describing tradition, folk life and folklores. A major event labeled Louisiana Purchase that occurred in 1803 played a major role in shaping the future of this state. This marked a major experiment to incorporate the very diverse state into ...

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“Zombie is a mythical character archetype of modern mass culture. Under the zombies, it is understood as a rule, or a fantastic way to busy corpse, or a living person, completely lost control of himself and his body or someone else's subordinate commands. In a figurative sense, the word can mean a person who is under the strong influence of something - usually no convictions or hobbies” (Ackermann, H. W.; Gauthier, J.) The concept of zombies back to the West African voodoo religious cults, cultivating the idea of ​​powerful magicians who can resurrect the dead people ...

Zombies have long been thought of as creatures of myth and lore. The fear of death is common in most all cultures and zombies play right into that fear making them a source for legends, movies, and popular culture. Despite Hollywood style zombies we now think of, zombies actually have a rich history stemming from religions such as Voodoo. By looking at the origins of zombie legends one can better understand their cultural meaning. I propose that there is scientific evidence supporting that it is possible for zombies to exist, just not in the traditional Hollywood means. By looking at both ...

Thesis Statement

When one mentions the word, ‘zombie,’ our minds rattle up the inconspicuous vision of rotten corpses snaking their way to transfixed, screaming and terrified victims. What one sees from the earlier Hollywood movies of the 30s and 40s to the early 21st century is a great transformation of the zombies from one being created to obey the orders of its creator to its creation from viruses and man-made environmental hazards. From the sluggish, disfigured and emancipated zombie to highly intelligent, quick and horrific zombies, the transformation of zombies Hollywood-style is conspicuous for all to see. Zombies would never have existed ...

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This paper intends to discuss how the concept of zombie evolved over the time and impacted Hollywood cinema. Paper will also describes influence of zombie on Hollywood cinema over past few decades. Over the past ten years Zombies impacted Hollywood cinema in great way hence paper will also discuss that aspect.

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Zombie impacted Hollywood by showing existence of neither dead nor alive people. The word, ‘Zombie’ is used for dead who is resurrected. If Zombies have been a concern of curiosity and fear, they have also entertained people by their portrayal in stories, comic series, and video games and in ...

In the events of 1982, Wade Davis, an ethno botanist traveled to Haiti to investigate on the history of Haitian zombies. In his investigations, he found out that living beings can be turned into zombies with some unique powders’ such as Tetrodotoxin and Datura. When these two powders are combined together, they may force a living being to get induced in a deathlike state there after fully controlled by the voodoo priest known as the Bokor. What followed next was the awakening of the bodies. Essentially, the zombies would hang around the graveyards as they had the ideal knowledge of their ...

Jazz can is the classical music of the Americas. New Orleans is the city considered the birthplace of jazz. The history of slavery holds the clues to why jazz became so popular in New Orleans and later became loved around the world. Slaves were given very strict rules to remind them that they were no longer in Africa. They were forbidden to do anything that might seem to be a an African tradition. The masters of slaves did not allow dancing if the step was done by crossing one leg in front of the other. Things like singing and using ...

Voodoo (or Vodou) is a religion that came out of the African diaspora, in which Africans were taken from their native continent by European and American slavers and brought to the Americas. This resulted in the melding and appropriating of various religious and cultural attributes of Western religions into traditional African beliefs, leading to diaspora religions like Vodou and Santeria. Voodoo started in the 18th century in Saint-Domingue, which was a French slave colony; here, Africans were somewhat forced to convert to Christianity. In this process, a collection of beliefs taking elements from Christianity, Catholicism, and traditional African religions like Vodun and ...

The election of Ronald Reagan to presidency in 1980 was a big victory for conservationists. Some of the most famous domestic policies by President Reagan addressed tax cuts and the other economic policies that came to be famously known as Reagonomics. These economic policies were anchored on the reduction of capital gains and income tax, the reduction in the government regulations on the economy, cut down on government spending and control money supply to curb inflation (Jacobs, Meg, & Julian, 118). Notably, Reagan fired nearly 12,000 striking air control workers instead of increasing their pay in line with the austerity ...

Cyberpunk is a fiction genre that depicts a high-tech environment while focusing on low-life characters in the story. Cyberpunk was influenced mainly by postmodernism, so it depicts advanced technology while also focusing on revolutions in the social order. “The Matrix” is an example of a cyberpunk film that uses a desperate and dark setting with advanced technology to address the despair in the social position among the human characters and their fight with the oppressive machines. “Count Zero” depicts a struggle for power in cyberspace between various corporations and the roles of low-life characters in that power struggle. The common theme in “The Matrix” ...

Introduction

Planning to set up a new American business in one of the most historical cities in the Caribbean is not a very bad idea. This paper will discuss the different cultural and economic challenges and barriers an American may potentially face if ever he has plans to start up a new or a locally known line of business in Haiti. In terms of population and opportunities for success, Haiti could be one of the best choices especially for investors and businessmen coming from the Dominican Republic, which only lies adjacent to Haiti.

A brief background about Haiti’s profile as a country

Before we could fully identify and then understand the potential barriers ...

The common element in Kongo burial practices is the relationship of the living to their ancestors and recently deceased relatives. An ancient, syncretic religion, its absorption of Catholic influences and elements of various African traditions enhanced the tendency of idiosyncratic belief systems to develop among the individual villages. This diffusion of belief and practice facilitated the spread of a diverse and versatile religion from Africa to the New World where it has exhibited remarkable coherence in the expression of burial practices. The trans-Atlantic slave trade strengthened the emotional need to connect with the past, not only with one’s departed ...