Rite Of Passage Research Paper
Rite of Passage
Every person begins their life with a birth and ends it with death. In our lives, there will be other rites of passage that will still have great importance; celebrating birthdays, graduation from school or collage, getting jobs, marriage, having kids, transition from child to adult and even divorce. Rites of passage help many people feel part of their respective society. Making their lives sweeter or bitter. Easier or harder. Better or more difficult. Their changes are huge, but not only for the person itself, but for their new roll on a society as well. Since forever, people want to be accepted. They even feel the need to be accepted in their society and it has always been the same but in so many different kinds of societies.
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Sometimes a rite isn’t for you to be a part of a society, sometimes its for you to feel like you are part of one such as a first communion or getting a job, and sometimes is for you to make your own community. Such as when you graduation, celebrating your birthday, getting married and creating your own family is a rite of passage. Cultural people do rites to honour their families and to take place in their culture, in some of these culture it is necessary to do some rites to be on them, in most cases is the rite of passage that prepares you to marriage and the rite of becoming and adult. But when it comes to religion, some rites are very important because it doesn’t only mean that you are accepted in their religious community but that you truly believe in that religion. Such as the confirmation or a bar mitzvahs. There are also smaller but important rites that belong to small things such as work. For example, there’s a rite called “the white coat ceremony” for doctors; that is when you finish your studies and have your first official
Every person begins their life with a birth and ends it with death. In our lives, there will be other rites of passage that will still have great importance; celebrating birthdays, graduation from school or collage, getting jobs, marriage, having kids, transition from child to adult and even divorce. Rites of passage help many people feel part of their respective society. Making their lives sweeter or bitter. Easier or harder. Better or more difficult. Their changes are huge, but not only for the person itself, but for their new roll on a society as well. Since forever, people want to be accepted. They even feel the need to be accepted in their society and it has always been the same but in so many different kinds of societies.
A rite of passage is a …show more content…
Sometimes a rite isn’t for you to be a part of a society, sometimes its for you to feel like you are part of one such as a first communion or getting a job, and sometimes is for you to make your own community. Such as when you graduation, celebrating your birthday, getting married and creating your own family is a rite of passage. Cultural people do rites to honour their families and to take place in their culture, in some of these culture it is necessary to do some rites to be on them, in most cases is the rite of passage that prepares you to marriage and the rite of becoming and adult. But when it comes to religion, some rites are very important because it doesn’t only mean that you are accepted in their religious community but that you truly believe in that religion. Such as the confirmation or a bar mitzvahs. There are also smaller but important rites that belong to small things such as work. For example, there’s a rite called “the white coat ceremony” for doctors; that is when you finish your studies and have your first official