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克萨卡艾多UID: 166822

Issue207  第1篇 让砖头来得更猛烈些吧！
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作者：克萨卡艾多     共用时间：38分25秒     483 words620after revising
从2005年2月15日21时1分到2005年2月15日21时38分
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Rituals and ceremonies help define a culture. Without them, societies or groups of people have a diminished sense of who they are.
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It is human gregarious nature that people are always tend to locate their position in the society, and make sure which group they belong to.  Subsequently, a question arises, that is, how can people accomplish this desire of position locating?  Only with the help of rituals and ceremonies, will people be able to do this locating, as the speaker asserts?  From my point of view, though rituals and ceremonies help define a culture, people are not lost their sense of who they are without their help; and people should take into account other components of culture which assist people to locate themselves.

Rituals and ceremonies, as part and parcel components of a culture, play their significant role to reserve religious, traditional, and other kind of prominent factors belong to a culture, with which a culture will be defined.  The reason is that rituals and ceremonies of every culture are so distinctive that no one would mix them up but easily distinguish one from another.  The famous ritual of buffalo dance can clearly define the Indian culture, though it is just a fraction of the whole Indian culture, it is distinctive and several important characteristics of the Indian culture are exhibited through this ritual, such as the passion, courage, bravery, love of life and so forth.  And the spring festival can define Chinese culture by showing some features of Chinese culture.  Praying in the churches can define the western culture.  In brief, rituals and ceremonies contribute greatly to make it possible for a culture being defined.

However, as the trend of modernization and globalization, there is an inclination of rituals and ceremonies to decrease in number, lose their particularity, and even fade away.   One phenomenon is that traditional rituals and ceremonies are supplanted by modern methods.  The traditional Christmas cards are taken place by “E-cards” which are sent through internet.  Another is that as a result of globalization, some rituals and ceremonies are becoming less and less distinctive.  Some rituals and ceremonies are share throughout the world, such as Olympic Games, which initially stemmed from the ceremonies of sacrifice Zeus and now are held and attended by all the nations on the earth, and one can never distinguish a culture or a group of people by this ceremony.  One more case in point is Christmas, which was once the ceremony appeared only in the Western Christian countries, while it is now enjoyed by people of different color, different languages, and even different believes and thus lose its particularity to define a culture and locate a group.

Without these rituals and ceremonies, people are not lost in the ocean of cultures and groups, but still, they can locate which group they belong to.  Because the essential nature of culture: the values, the belief, and the religions are still in our minds.  A more efficient society gives up the outdated form of rituals and ceremonies, but the essences of them are reserved, and with the help of these essences we will not lose our destinations.  And other important components of culture, such as arts, languages, and history which can help people define who they are and which group they belong to as well.  One example is the language, without the rituals and ceremonies; people still have distinctive languages to help them locate the group they belong to.  Even an Indian no longer perform the buffalo dance and wear the strange ornaments any more, through their language they can preserve their culture and make sure they are Indians.

To sum up, rituals and ceremonies help to define a culture, but their usefulness has been exaggerated.  Without them, people can still locate themselves in the society by the means of other components of a culture.

克萨卡艾多UID: 166822

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作文修改是互的
搂住可以先给别人改作文然后把自己的附在下面，别人自然就会给你改了÷
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It is human gregarious nature that people are always tend to locate their position in the society, and make sure which group they belong to. Subsequently, a question arises, that is, how can people accomplish this desire of position locating? Only with the help of rituals and ceremonies, will people be able to do this locating, as [if I were u i would use"that is what"instead of "as"] the speaker asserts? From my point of view, though rituals and ceremonies help define a culture, people are not{won't] lost their sense of who they are without their help; and people should take into account other components of culture which assist people to locate themselves.



:) this is my frist time to use the colorize tool,and i got something to do now  :o will come back as soon as quickly.