My essay (?)

Nowadays, most people in the world acknowledge the term culture. Culture itself can have many different meanings. I am going to focus into lifestyles and how they were changed along the centuries. The cultures that I am going to delve are Indian, Egyptian, Celtic and Indigenous ones. These have experienced a lot of changes inside their own history.

Indians have kept their culture thoughts and beliefs along the years. They haven’t been transformed by any historical cause. Buddhism is still being a current religion inside India. Thanks to its idea of harmony between peace and death.
Egyptian culture is no longer among us. They used to be very organized when it comes to population. And their gods and goddess were much more animal-like and not much human alike.

Moreover, we also find the Celtic culture. Its history has been told through stories and books that describe how they were supposed to live in their lands and how they were invaded by other tribes. Also this can be compared to Indigenous tribes that were attacked and killed by conquerors. Both of these cultures were considered barbarians. And until today they are still fighting for their rights to live in their lands.

Ra and his Children

This short story is about the mythology that reigned over the beliefs of the Egyptians. Its true meaning is to explain how the world was created by a greater power. The beginning of the world starts with Rah, the mighty one. He created the elements of the world such as wind, water and earth. His children depicted these elements. He named every one of them. After the creation he also created humankind. As a mighty god he decided to become a man to reign over Egypt. All of the years where he reigned were peaceful and fruitful ages. But the evil lurking under his reign decided to came into light. That is how humankind started to think about deceiving Ra and all that is good. He summoned his children to manage how to deal with the evil. As the meeting was taking place they agreed to send Sekhmet to destroy and slain all evil on Egypt. She, as a lioness figure, killed all men and women that interfered on her way. Ra though that this was clearly not the solution. He sent messengers to pick up red ochre and ordered servants to make beer out of barley. They managed to make a trap against Sekhmet using both of the ingredients. This trap weakened her power and thoughts. When she came back to Ra, he granted her a new name and a new power to convinced her to stop her doings in Egypt. That is how Egypt earned a new goddess who represented a new delight and a new pain: the love.  

Assignment

“Hills Like White Elephants” develops the story in Spain. The true meaning of the story is about abortion. It can be interpreted by many different symbolisms though. The main concept of the story occurs between two persons. The girl in the story is that kind of person that you can relate to someone really young. The author primarily wanted people to take notion about the topic. The story itself can help us out to realize that humanity should take matters on its own hands.

The video exposes the true history behind the culture itself. This culture can be understood in many different ways. The video explained Buddha’s story. He was a man who never experienced real life. He always lived within the castle walls. But one day he went outside to see the surroundings. Then he discovered how life was full of flaws. So he started his search for inner peace. That’s what he found afterwards. I truly liked the video. It showed how sometimes we know about something but we really never understand it completely.

We went to the exhibition. It was under La Moneda. It was my first time there so it was really exciting. When we entered the exhibition we appreciated all the sculptures and reading that were there. Them all explained and depicted how other cultures can be conserved even nowadays. It was such a good experience to have gone there.

Buddhism is against abortion. This is truly against their belief. Life must be respected in all its ways. The text was about all the traditions and rituals that occur along the oriental countries. It also explained the meanings of some words and their why to our culture. The text contained a lot of information that our culture ignores. Abortion is a topic that should be treated worldwide, but it’s not.