Waking up at UC Santa Cruz Waking up is a part of everyone’s everyday life. It signifies a transition from one state, being asleep, to another, being awake. By this simple definition, waking up is a ritual. Defined during a class lecture on April 7, 2014, by Professor Rofel as “a stereotyped sequence of activities that marks – and produces – a transition from one social state to another,” the process of waking up includes activities that produce this transition from asleep to awake. Furthermore, I would like to add that a ritual is also a series of behaviors and activities that are executed regularly and can include either an individual or a group of people. While the word ritual often brings to mind religious events like baptisms, quinceañera …show more content…
For example, every Tuesday morning I have an alarm set to go off at 8:20am, 8:40am, 9:10am, and 9:20am. The first of these three alarms are set on my phone and the last alarm is on my roommates phone since she has class at a later time but likes to get up early to go enjoy breakfast at our dining hall. To begin with, I do not actually get out of bed and begin waking up until 8:20am. The reason why I set the 8:20am alarm is so when it goes off, I have the pleasure of rolling over and turning it off and “going back to bed.” This way the initial dread and panic of waking up is thus delayed and reduced, and so, when the second alarm goes off at 8:40am, I do not get irritated at the beeping sound of the alarm as much. Now, as soon as my 8:40am alarm goes off, I immediately reach for my phone, turn off the alarm, and cancel the 9:10am and 9:20 am alarms. Often deemed unnecessary, these last two alarms are precautions for myself to avoid oversleeping and missing class. Additionally, the last alarm, which is on a separate phone, is strictly for the worst-case scenario if my phone’s alarms ever do not go off or I accidently set it for PM instead of …show more content…
While my own waking up ritual makes me unique as an individual, there are various parts of my ritual, which are similarly performed by other groups of people. For example, my waking up ritual takes place in my room, but my room is located in a dormitory building where various other students reside, who also wake up around the time I do. Thus, in a way, I am just another ant in a ant colony as we all go through the actions of changing our clothes, visiting the bathroom, engaging with social media, and packing our backpacks all in various different orders based on personal preferences as we prepare for our different classes. This sense of being just another ant in a colony reinforces my own sense of identity as a college student as I go about my routine alongside the other students who live in my hall. Similar to how orientation introduces us to college life, your every day college ritual starts to form once you have learned to adapt to your new cultural
When a person's faith is also an alternative for their culture and morals, it proves challenging to take that sense of security in that faith away from them. In Night, Elie Wiesel, a Jewish student living in Sighet, Transylvania during the war of 1942, uses his studies in Talmud and the Kabbalah as not only a religious practice but a lifestyle. Elie and his fellow civilians are warned, however, by his Kabbalah teacher who says that during the war, German aggressors are aggregately imprisoning, deporting, and annihilating millions of Jews. When Elie and his family are victim of this aggression, Elie realizes how crucial his faith in God is if he is to survive the Holocaust. He vows after being separated from his mother and sisters that he will protect he and his father from death, even though as death nears, Elie gradually becomes closer to losing his faith. In the end, to Elie's devastation, Elie makes it out of the Holocaust alone after his father dies from the intense seclusion to malnutrition and deprivation. Elie survives the Holocaust through a battle of conscience--first by believing in God, then resisting his faith in God, and ultimately replacing his faith with obligation to his father.
Throughout history and literature women are often referred to as birds, especially those of domesticated species. Women being referred to as a pet corresponded to the rise of patriarchal society, “… from this point, civilization has seemed to trap women in stereotypes related to nature which are domesticated, like caged birds” (Clark 342). Women had to fit into the roles society formed for them, trapping them in a lifestyle not appealing to all women. In The Awakening, Kate Chopin uses avian symbolism to emphasize Edna’s entrapment, so as to show the stages of Edna’s awakening.
As the sunrises over the crisp fall horizon, followers begin to surround the sacred space in anticipation for what is about to take place. The sacred space is soon surrounded by people who are dressed in the sacred colors, some wearing necklaces of their totem, while others wear headdresses that adorn with their sacred symbol. People begin to drink, play music, and prepare a banquet feast for each other, creating a festival atmosphere in hope that today’s ritual will be a success. As the ritual gets set to begin followers begin to crowd into the sacred space, surrounded with pictures and names of those who have reached greatness. As the ritual begins, music is played in order to bring everyone together and prepare for the events that are about to unfold. It is now that the followers have a very simple focus, to aid in the success of the ritual. Those who celebrate the ritual take there places in the middle of the sacred space, with the followers surrounding them; now that the ritual has begun the celebrants begin to perform and focus on certain actions in order connect themselves with the transcendent sacred. The followers who look on begin to aid by chanting, allowing themselves to also transcend. In hopes that the ritual was a success, everyone does their part until the last second of the ritual is completed, it is only then that it can be decided if the ritual was a success and they can either celebrate or grieve by signing in their most sacred song, bonding them once again with each other.
“All I had to do was to close my eyes for a second to see a whole world passing by, to dream a whole lifetime.”(83) Elie Wiesel chose a unique way to write his novel Night in order to draw attention to what was happening. Wiesel attempts to engage his readers by using diction, imagery, and organization.
Co-sleeping is an issue that is vital on different traditional and cultural influences. Due to modifications in socio-economic status, social ethics and values, there are variations of cultures amongst countries and regions viewing on co-sleeping (Huang & Wang, pg. 170). For example, in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany and several other industrialized countries, the predominant medical belief is that co-sleeping is to be depressed and discouraged, despite the lack of research that can validate and establish that co-sleeping is mostly dangerous, unsafe, and hazardous (Huang & Wang, pg. 170).
For anyone, there are time when things are going to change whether the change is planned or not. For military families change and loss often are not planned, and they have no choice in the matter. For any one person or family to move through change or loss it is important to go through the steps of transition, also know by Hall (2008) as the transition journey. The three phases of the transition journey that have their own focus and tasks are endings, neutral zone, and new beginnings (Hall, 2008). Not everyone follows the transition journey exactly, but this is a good example and tool to help individuals and families through the process. The three phases of the transition journey are going to be explained in further detail in this paper.
How is a normal ritual a basic necessary component of human cultural behavior, and how this normal cultural behavior can change into a disorder.
For the purpose of this research study to review the continuality of hitting the snooze button after the alarm goes off can cause issues in sleeping patterns and the drive to get up from the bed to begin a virtuous morning. The goal within the target behavior of excessively hitting the snooze button too much is to limit the number of times the snooze button is pressed to about half of the individual’s baseline average. Many issues of excessively hitting the snooze button can be a cause of lack of sleep the prior night, this can be a vast issue for many individuals that are in need of an extra couple of minutes to sleep in order for them to be fully assured that they are able to get out of bed fully rested. I have a few proposed treatments that can be a huge factor that may actually change the way the individual sleep and gives the individual an opportunity to cut the baseline average in half then eventually have the possibility to totally modify that behavior.
(Transition Statement) Understanding the sleep cycle is the first part of understanding dreams and how dreams happen.
Overall, I didn’t enjoy this story, even though I tend to like modern adaptations. For one thing, I liked the adaptation in Folk & Fairy Tales called Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane, it had a cute vibe to it. Anyway, there are a few reasons why I didn’t care for A Kiss to Wake the Sleeper. In short, the story was strange especially towards the end. In the beginning, I didn’t have any problems except for the fact I didn’t realize it was an adaptation until I saw ‘sleeper’ on page 413. To be honest, I didn’t see the title that would have clued me in that this was a Sleeping Beauty adaptation, but that’s not the point. However, one of my points is that the transition between talking about SCID to nuns and castles felt strange - it caught me off guard.
Roy Rappaport (1999) showcases the idea that ritual is a fundamental aspect of human society. A community requires trust, and rituals are a necessary function of society, which creates that trust. For example willingly enduring a painful initiation as part of a ritual creates a sense of trust. In this essay I will discuss the theoretical works of Durkheim, Rossano and Douglas to attest to rituals preserving social order. While the works of Gluckman and Turner provide an interesting insight into reintegration through ritual, and Geertz provides an alternative view to the idea that rituals preserve and reiterate social order.
My morning always begins around seven o'clock when I am awakened by a sweet, gentle, little voice calling . . . "DADDY, I GO F'RIDE!" This is followed by a dainty smack of tiny lips on my cheek, then another smack of Mom's lips on my lips. A few minutes later, the front door slams shut and I slip back into a slumber. The next thing I hear (a few hours later) is the bloodcurdling, screaming caw of a pterodactyl about to swoop down and pluck me right out of my bed. Actually, it's only my alarm clock. I don't dare hit the snooze button, as I do not even want to hear that again.
The Ancient Greeks had surprise dream encounters with their gods. Native Americans turned to their dreams for guidance in life. Shamans dreamed in order to gather information from the spirits. Sleep and dreams define eras, cultures, and individuals. Sigmund Freud’s interpretation of dreams revolutionized twentieth-century thought.
When the alarm goes off in the morning, my first thought is, fuck, this is way to early. Then I open my eyes; look at my alarm clock and wonder, if I hit the snooze button, would I get up after five more minutes. The answer to that is always no, I need to get up now, or the kids will be late to get to the bus. After fifteen to twenty seconds of debate in my own head, I lift my head off my pillow. I twist to the right and sit up at the same time. Then ...
I wake up at 6 A.M. to the loud, obnoxious alarm going off. I have about six alarms set. I continue to lay in my bed till 6:20. This almost defeats the point of waking up at 6 because I get nothing accomplished throughout those 20 minutes. I then start to get ready. This consists of putting on clothes, brushing my hair & my teeth, and making myself something for breakfast. My breakfast can range from an apple to a protein