Abstract
This paper describes the author's ancestral history, beginning with three hundred years ago when his ancestors lived in Senegal. The paper relates the entire saga of his family history from their lives in Senegal, to the kidnapping of one of the family members by another African tribe to be sold as a slave to a British slave trader, to the arrival of that slave to North Carolina. The paper continues by describing subsequent generations born in the US and ends with the writer's birth in 1925.

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"Great-grandfather Louis was very intelligent - and had a talent for music. Maybe that was from old Mbiti, who was forbidden to play drums as a slave. Louis was trained to be what they called a "house negro" - sort of a butler for a highbrow family. Well, old Pete Devereaux was a drunk, and his affairs caught up with him. Eventually, everything was sold off - including my great-grandfather."

Tags:drummer plantation light-skinned, first freeborn black, ragtime

Abstract
This paper concentrates on four specific areas of Chinese religious and philosophical teachings that concern the practice of ancestor worship. These traditions are Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhis, and traditional folk religions. A general overview of the rituals specific to each tradition is noted.

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This paper discusses the themes found within the short stories, "The Ancestor" by Bi Feiyu, "Thoughts of Home" by Sonu Hwi and "The Hateful Age" by Niwa Funio. It particularly explores the themes of conflicts of culture with regard to death. It then describes how these conflicts are expressed differently among characters, but still arrive at two basic principles of old versus new cultural expressions and generational differences in respect of those who came before.

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"Death is treated differently, when the death is not welcomed, or when those you are among when you die are connected to you by memory of your earlier days and by some semblance of how you lived as in Thought of Home. In The Moon on The Water there is a touching scene of the widow placing a treasured possession in the coffin of her dead husband, placing the mirror upon his stomach, rather than his chest as he had died with a heaviness and pain, upon his chest. (247) While in The Brothers Shu playful young people tease one another about death, as recourse for the predicament of their love. (50-51) Death in the stories of the very old, told by those who never knew them in youth is welcomed even openly longed for by those who are left behind, while in other works death of the young is an unwelcome threat or a silly expression of the overly dramatic."

Tags:narrator, post-modern, expression

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This paper uses the short story "The Place" to show the Native meanings of environment, elder, and ancestor. It also uses other readings to show that Indian tradition can be applied to capitalist societies.

Tags:first, nations, studies

Abstract
This paper looks at Arthur P. Wolf's article, "Gods, Ghosts and Ancestor's", which discusses the complexities of Chinese religious beliefs and practices, and explains the main thesis of the article. The paper highlights Wolf's thesis, which asserts that the supernatural categories that the Chinese believe in, namely, gods, ghosts, and ancestors, are determined by the social structure of Chinese society. The paper shows how Wolf proves his point through case studies, personal anecdotes, interviews, and observations of ritual, custom, and lifestyle.

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"Ancestors, the second class of supernatural beings that Wolf discusses in his article, are in many ways equally revered. The spirits of the deceased watch over and protect the living members of that family line. Wolf shows that there are strict rules regarding which family members can or must be worshiped. The rank of ancestor spirits closely mirrors the rank of family members. For example, the head patriarch of a family line will be given the most prominent spot on the family altar. Those family members who are not respected as much will also not be revered as diligently during times of worship."

Tags:revered, spirits, deceased, beggars, bandits, practices, worship, social, status, class, structured, cosmic

Abstract
The writer evaluates the painting and discusses its expressive content. The paper notes that Teha'mana was a young Tahitian girl whom Paul Gaugin had taken as his bride. It explains that Gaugin left her and their baby in the year the portrait was painted. The writer explains that Gaugin seemed to relate to Teha'mana as a possession, painting her without emotion. The paper discusses the use of Tahiti as a setting for Gaugin to paint in. The writer discusses Gaugin's art in the light of other art of the same period. In conclusion, while the paper states that Gaugin should be praised for using techniques that were bold and revolutionary and that he shattered age-old concepts of painting Tahitian subjects from a European perspective, he should also be castigated for doing so at the expense of human emotions, with regard to the women in his life.

Table of Contents:
Evaluation of Expressive Content
Historic and Stylistic Context
In Conclusion
Works Cited

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"For Gauguin, Teha'amana fit nicely into this perceived notion. After all, Gauguin wanted to blend into the culture of Tahiti, and in his mind, this was an effective way of blending. Teha'amana would simply be added to his collection of "trophies," much like his collection of art. She would function as a subject for his works, until he was ready to make her a casualty of his drive to become rich and famous.
"Indeed, Teha'amana ultimately became a casualty of Gauguin's ferocious egotism when he left Tahiti and returned to France in 1893 - the same year that he painted this portrait. Teha'amana bore him a child, but he abandoned both of them upon his return to France. Is it any wonder that Teha'amana looks expressionless in the portrait? Perhaps she was aware of what was to come to pass.
"Marc S. Gerstein offers support for this interpretation in describing a similar painting of Teha'amana, entitled "Faaturuma": "As so often in Gauguin's Tahiti, he suggests muted undertones of sadness, disquiet and dissolution resonating beneath the luxuriant surface of his mystical paradise." (Impressionism: Selections From Five American Museums 80). "The small painting on the wall acts, at one level, to enhance this emotional atmosphere."
"Through its placement next to the subject's head, this image of a typical Tahitian dwelling becomes like an object of her veiled thoughts, evoking vague feelings of longing, loneliness and dislocation.""

Tags:tahiti, papeete

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"SANTERIA: AN EXAMINATION OF A RELIGION AND ITS PRACTICES

Introduction
This research examines the Santeria religion and its practices. Throughout this examination, both similarities and differences between (1) Santeria as the religion is practiced in Cuba (where it developed) and (2) Santeria as the religion is practiced in Puerto Rico (one of the many other Latin American populations in which the religion became rooted) are identified and reviewed.

The Development of Santeria in Cuba and Puerto Rico
The origins of Santeria may be traced to the Yoruba people who are native to Nigeria (JAcobs, 1990, pp. 349-370). The Yoruba practiced a mythological, animist religion which made its ..."

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"Neanderthal: The Fossil Evidence
During the 2.5 million years of human evolution, there have been several developmental offshoots. The different hominid branches, however, may be blurred by interbreeding. One European subspecies, Neanderthal, appeared approximately 125,000 years ago. Whether this subspecies eventually gave rise to modern humans is currently a topic of considerable controversy. On one side, researchers argue that modern Homo sapiens evolved gradually from existing hominid populations throughout the world. In contrast, others postulate that H. sapiens developed in Africa 200,000 years ago, and then replaced other archaic hominid types. The truth may be that both arguments are partially correct.


The human lineage began with the emergence of Homo habilis:..."

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"This paper will discuss the history of the Chinese family from the time of the late Han dynasty (approximately 200 A.D.) to the early Ch'ing dynasty (approximately 1700). During this long period, there was very little change in the role and structure of the Chinese family. In terms of structure, the extended family was the preferred unit because it increased the strength and stability of the family group. Over time, this idea was expanded until clans and lineages became predominant elements in Chinese society. Other structural elements in the traditional Chinese family centered around authoritarian values, such as male dominance and respect for the elderly. One of the major roles of the family during this time was to help provide a secure basis for social order. In addition, the family was important because it provided purpose and meaning in the life of the individual."

Abstract
Nathaniel Hawthorne creates in his fiction a sense of American history as a weight on characters in his present, holding them to certain values, visiting upon them the guilt of their ancestors, and linking them to a continuity beginning and continuing on American soil.

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"Nathaniel Hawthorne creates in his fiction a sense of American history as a weight on characters in his present, holding them to certain values, visiting upon them the guilt of their ancestors, and linking them to a continuity beginning and continuing on American soil. In The House of the Seven Gables, the key issue hanging over the characters in the present is the way their ancestors made their wealth and the people they destroyed as they did so. The family in the present has inherited the guilt of that past and must either succumb to it or overcome it. The first possibility is represented by the house they seem unable to escape, and the latter is represented by an outside force that helps the family escape that house.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables tells of the Pyncheon family and the curse that was visited upon it. The ..."