Star Spangled Banner Analysis
This familiar anthem The Star Spangled Banner is America’s long-standing and unchanging tradition that is played at every sporting events nationwide, school events, assemblies, Independence Day events, etc. It was invented when the U.S entered World War 1 by a man named Francis Scott Key who gave his poem to his brother, who noted that key’s poem fit the melody of The Anacreontic Song. It started out playing at the World Series game in 1918, where from that point in time it has been playing every sporting event since then. The Star Spangled banner exemplifies how traditions and norms such as anthems, origin narratives, and symbols are invented and meets the need of a national group, also known as an invented tradition. Even if it’s for just
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Religion is a set of beliefs on how the world ought to be, revealed through supernatural power and lived out as religious or secular spirit. It is different from nation to nation. It consists of: ritual activities that enforce, recall, instill, collective beliefs of a group of people, powerful symbols, and community of believers to give it a voice. By using knowledge of different cultures (symbolic and material) around the world most Middle Eastern women wear hijabs, which is the headscarves they wear that. It is tradition for a Muslim woman to wear the hijab for modesty as well as privacy, as it also represents a rite of passage (change in status) from youth to womanhood. Note that this is one of the few choices that they get, “For example girls might remove their headscarf when they came to school, or they might decide they don’t want to wear it anymore” (Adely 74). Clothing is a part of a culture that binds people of the same culture together. This refers to how symbols, help understand a particular society, such as clothing can have a sense of connection. In other words, these girls would feel like they are all connected by wearing the same thing. The modest covering represents their commitment to the culture and their respect to Abdullah. Since adolescents have a choice to when and where to wear it, that means that they want to be patriotic and they know what it means to be. As kids, people learn what they have to do every day to show they are patriotic for their country. If that means wearing their hijabs in the public eye or in
Religion is a set of beliefs on how the world ought to be, revealed through supernatural power and lived out as religious or secular spirit. It is different from nation to nation. It consists of: ritual activities that enforce, recall, instill, collective beliefs of a group of people, powerful symbols, and community of believers to give it a voice. By using knowledge of different cultures (symbolic and material) around the world most Middle Eastern women wear hijabs, which is the headscarves they wear that. It is tradition for a Muslim woman to wear the hijab for modesty as well as privacy, as it also represents a rite of passage (change in status) from youth to womanhood. Note that this is one of the few choices that they get, “For example girls might remove their headscarf when they came to school, or they might decide they don’t want to wear it anymore” (Adely 74). Clothing is a part of a culture that binds people of the same culture together. This refers to how symbols, help understand a particular society, such as clothing can have a sense of connection. In other words, these girls would feel like they are all connected by wearing the same thing. The modest covering represents their commitment to the culture and their respect to Abdullah. Since adolescents have a choice to when and where to wear it, that means that they want to be patriotic and they know what it means to be. As kids, people learn what they have to do every day to show they are patriotic for their country. If that means wearing their hijabs in the public eye or in