domingo, 18 de noviembre de 2007

PROJECT WORK- Descriptive Essay-"Native American Spirituality."

To begin, human beings always have been trying to find an explanation of some things that happen around us but when people doesn't find the way to explain those things with a science method, they have to resort to do some tales or other things, and that's when the myth starts to grow up and take importance in the development of a culture, because the myth explain some unknown facts. moreover, Northamerican culture started it's devolpment when native americans create some myths to explain some changes in the nature and teach anybody values and virtues from the myths.

First of all, American indians used to believe that the nature is animated by a spirit and those idians called it "the great mystery" . furthermore, any story or myth is working out of this life-force. so, native americans respected the whole nature, especially, animals because they thought that animals teach a lot of things about nature. besides, they used to believe in "four directions" that guide the life, and they explained that in the narrative stories using animals or other things. but the objective is to show some values and virtues to people. nonetheless, I will focus in two things: native american myths and urban myths that are a continued of those indians myths, furthermore, a lot of horror movies were inspired by this urban myths and this urban tales express Northamerica culture today.

In summary, this topic have a lot of themes to talk about, and the real spirit that has the culture of northamerica is to create some intersting stories to explain some facts that happen everyday in our lives. in addition, this a great way to learn about this culture and know about their development. thus, we will see about urban and old native myths that built this culture.

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