What is a ritual?
A repetition of warship of something or someone or a repetition to gain something mentally or spiritually.

What are examples of rituals?
Sunday mass, bar mitzvahs, movie festivals, The Olympics, most sporting events and large gatherings for fundraising or me to we.

How are rituals related to nature?
They often have to do with months or seasons or even the lunar calendar and its effect on people. It


Why is repetition critical to the enacting of a ritual?
Because you need people to remember certain parts of the ritual and there is nothing that can be committed to memory better than something repeated over and over and over and over and over and over.

List event that are repetitive in your live or the world around you.
Going to school, getting ready for events or just going out, meal times or the news starting at the same time every night.

What acting would you repeat on a regular basis?
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Do rituals have symbolic value? Explain the value of symbolism in ritual.
Yes most often they do. In Sunday mass or most religious services there is one item or person who represents a greater power or being. IE. The cross, the torah, or the flying spaghetti monster. http://www.venganza.org/

How are rituals associated with theatre?
The first “plays”, if you can call them that, were in ancient Greece and it was a reenactment of the birth or death of one of their gods. What they would do was dress up in masks and gowns and kill a goat in front of people and it would be an entertaining thing to go see. Now people still dress up in masks and gown but there is less goat blood spilled.

How are rituals related to memory?
Rituals are like learning a song for performance or going to church, whatever it is that you do during the ritual usually gets drilled into your head so you remember it. It does have a brainwashing aspect to it but that is often overlooked for the purpose of the ritual.

How are hierarchies related to status? How does one assert one's status over others?

When someone is in a position like CEO, Principal or president they are usually very proud of themselves and expect respect. When someone is in a lower ranking position they usually don't get as much respect but they might deserve it. People who have power are usually wealthy well off people and people who are well off and wealthy usually have or get power. Someone with a lot of power assert their status by using their status. Usually lines like "I out rank you," Or "I'm your boss." Usually come up here or there; once again having to do with power or status. If you think about it power and status are really the same thing or at least always go together. There's a thought for the day.

Which of your faces/masks/personas is really you?

Please devote a paragraphy to a well structured, well edited response. This is due: Wed. Oct. 8
I think it's my home face that is the real me. If everyone was exactly started acting like the do at home, outside that would be an interesting world to live in. Everyone has a different persona with everyone. What I mean by that is that if for whatever reason you decided to lie or something to the person you have to keep going with that lie and you have to say things to move around them finding out it was a lie. Another thing is status. If someone is your buddy of course you're going to talk casually with them but if its a a family friend who you don't really know that well you say things that you think will please them. So yes I think my house or more specifically "room Spencer" is my actually me.