Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Reflection: Blog 8

9.3.2 & 9.2 Reflection: Thinking back on the film "Roots" What Elements of Culture did you observe regarding early African Culture?

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  1. In the film "Roots" there are several elements of culture. The manhood training is an excellent example, as well as the final ritual. The dancing and singing in the movie is also culture. The way they name their children, and the belief that the child will develop seven of his or her name's characteristics is part of the culture. The way the women and elders are treated is culture. Their language is definitely part of their culture. The chores the children do, the weapons, and the clothing is culture. The greetings that are expected and their manners are also culture.
    -Rachel White

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  2. In _Roots_, the elements of African culture depicted include the style of clothes, the coming-of-age ritual, music, dancing, the tradition of naming a child, and the social statuses of women, children, men, and elders. Apparently English was their native language, so it counts as culture. Hunting tools, techniques, the value of courage (the story of the hog) and the belief to only kill when absolutely necessary are also elements of culture. Other than that, there's the wrestling scene, greetings, toys, etc. It's endless, this list...basically everything...

    --Victoria Wang

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  3. In Root, there were several examples of culture. The training of manhood is the best example. the music to dancing. The traditon of naming the baby is another great example, the statuses of women.

    **sabrina sigal

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  4. the movie roots showed african colture by the way that the people dressed the things tey ate the way they become men how they look at woman is colture. the places that they live is also colture, alongwith the how they look and think of the lighter skined man and their guns. that is just some of the way roots shows colture.

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  5. The movie "Roots" showed many examples of African culture. The best example is of the manhood training. Also the way they dress, the way they live their lives, and the way they do their jobs.

    Ryan Weiss

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  6. The movie "Roots" had many examples of African culture. Some examples are the manhood training, treatment of women, clothing, where they live, how a man names their child, and all the cultural singing and dancing.

    Amneh Yacoub

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  7. The movie "Roots" showed many examples of African culture. The manhood training is a good example. Also their singing and dancing. The way they name their children is also culture.

    ~Alexis Strauss

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  9. In "Roots", the naming of their children, singing and dancing, their consequences for not becoming a man, and their manhood at 15 are all included in culture.

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  10. in "Roots" they showed many examples of african culture The manhood training, treatment of women, clothing, where the live, and the name of their child

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  11. In 'roots' there were many examples of African culture. The different elements of culture include the types of clothing that the men and women wore, how women must be extremely respectful to men. The manhood training was also a huge element of culture, it showed how boys became men in only a course of days when they were only 15 years old. Another thing that was huge in the culture was how and why you name your child what you did. You name your child 8 days after he/she is born and you name them after the traits you want them to have. Lastly, the language that the people of the tribe spoke was a very important element.
    -Jasmine Salamat-amoli

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  12. The movie "Roots" showed different elements of culture through dress, traditions, and language. The clothing they wore was a piece of cloth around the waist and some jewelry. Some traditions included manhood training, elite being important, naming your child, and their celebrations involving song and dance. Lastly they had a spoken language in which they would use to communicate.
    -Alyssa Weakley

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  13. There were many examples of African culture in the movie "Roots". The different elements include how they dress, how their children are named, the process of boys becoming men at only 15, their language, songs, social statuses of the men, women, and elders, and the weapons they use.

    -Ariana Wang

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  14. There were several examples of culture in the movie Roots. One of them was the naming of the baby 8 days after the baby is born. Also when they boys that are about 15 years old need to get special training in order to become a man. Another element of culture in the movie was the clothing that they would wear

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  15. In Roots, there we SOOOO many examples of culture. THe way they dress, how they prepare their food, what they eat, who they worship, and the sequences in life. A boy is a man when they are 15, but need special training for it. They kill animals with arrows to eat. They wear cloths as clothes.

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  16. There were many examples of African culture in the movie "Roots". The different elements include how they dress, how their children are named, the process of boys becoming men at only 15, their language, songs, social statuses of the men, women, and elders, and the weapons they use.

    -Kai Yuricich

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  17. the roots contained many examples of african culture through one way or another. it included many things you would expect such as there clothing that was minimal.. as well as how elders are treated with respect. there were also things that were very unique such as the process of how a boy would become a man!

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  18. In the film "Roots" we saw in class, i observed many different elements of culture. Some were the dancing and music, their clothing, the naming of the baby, and the things one needed to do to become a man at 15.

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  19. In the movie Roots there are several elements of culture. The manhood training is an example, as well as the final ritual. The dancing and singing in the movie is also culture. The way they name their children, and the belief that the child will develop seven of his or her name's characteristics is part of the culture. The way the women and elders are treated is culture. Their language is definitely part of their culture as well.
    -Lauren Teebor

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  20. In the movie Roots that we watched in class there are many examples of culture. A few examples are how they name the children, how they dance and sing, and how they have to go through training to become a man at the age of 15. These are just three of the many examples of culture this movie shows.

    -Sydney Werdesheim

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  21. In Roots, we see how people are different and how their cultures are. We saw how they achieve manhood, and certain festivals.

    -Sammi Westfall

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  22. The movie "Roots" shows African culture mostly with the manhood training. Also the clothing in the movie show some of Africa's culture.

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  23. I saw their culture in what they wear, how they treat their family members, and their training for manhood

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  24. roots showed culture in the characters clothing, tradition and language
    -reece ticotin

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  25. In the movie Roots there are many examples of culture. A few such examples are their religion, social statuses of men, women, and elders, and manhood training.

    -Mike Turner

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  26. There were several examples of culture in the movie Roots. One of them was the naming of the baby 8 days after the baby is born. Another example is when the boys that are about 15 years old need to get special training in order to become a man. Another element of culture in the movie was the clothing that they would wear

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  27. There were many examples of culture in the movie Roots that we watched in class A couple of examples are how they sing and dance, how they name their children and to become a man they go through a training at 15. This movie shows many more examples but these are just three.

    -Rachel Valance

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  28. in the film roots there were a lot of examples of culture. The manhood training, for example, showed how you actually had to work to become respected in your village.
    -max weiss

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  29. in roots, there were several examples of culture. The training of manhood is the best example. the music to dancing. The traditon of naming the baby is another great example, the statuses of women

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  30. In the film "Roots" there are many examples of culture. The music and dancing are examples and also the training of manhood, the way the parents name their childern and how women and elders are treated.

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  31. Some culture is that at age 15 they become "men"
    And they get circumsized

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