New Job

I believe that starting a new job is a rite of passage because it may change someone's lifestyle completely. The amount of sleep, what you eat, and times you are able to see your friends are just a few ways in which your life may alter once a new job is started. I know when I started my new job, my lifestyle changed with everything from the amount of homework I would get accomplished each day to the amount of time I was able to see my family. I was forced into redeveloping my schedule in order to accomplish and manage my life in a equal manor

Apartment passage

I think that getting an apartment has a rite of passage to it.  Moving from a dorm to an apartment is a big deal. Your parents move you in, and then the first stage is to be alone from your parents and your school community. You are separated from having all your friends right next door to you, and are alone in your building most likely. Then you have to learn how to pay bills and make your own food. You also have to clean more rooms and become self-sufficient. This is the liminal period. Then in the period of re aggregation, you become more independent and start having dinner parties and learning to live on your own and be alone. 

The assembly of a young Adult

Every year that leads up to your High School graduation is a rite of passage in itself. The three stages being very simple: Grade School, Middle School, then High School, the ultimate result ideally being adulthood. By the end of these three phases of school you are to be considered an adult and should be able to make decisions on your own, whether that may be to attend College, or to go straight into the work force. Whatever decision you make should be influenced by the rite of passage you have just completed and should be able to make an educated decision determining the rest of your life. For me this was my main rite of passage. Every phase preparing you for the next, progressively getting more difficult as you matured and grew into being more of an adult. The phases act somewhat as an assembly line, starting with the basics and growing more complex when more parts are added, to ultimately create a quality end product, which is ready to be released into the world. Some abuse this passage, and some take full advantage of it, which is all part of the process. In the end, the only goal is to create an educated adult, capable of making his or her own decisions in pursuing their ideal life.

the scouts

The scouts have played a large role in my life growing up.
Being in the scouts really was a right of passage. After completing the three steps, manhood is achieved; The first being Tiger Cubs, then Cub Scouts, and finally Boy Scouts. Tiger Cubs was an introduction program. This was set up for young children, (in kindergarten) to learn how to work together. This will be important for the future, Boy Scouts is not only about one's self, but about teamwork. After Tiger Cubs comes Cub Scouts. Cub Scouts meet once a week. Children learn how to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, curdius, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. Boyscouts was the ultimate test of patients. From 5th grade till 12th grade, this taught a child to become a man. Not only was the progress noticable physically, but also mentaly. Boy Scouts led up to the final rank; becoming an Eagle Scout. As an Eagle Scout, one is concidered a man.

Driven

One right of passage I think most to all young people go through is getting their drivers license. The first phase could be having to take drivers ED, so we can take the written test and hopefully pass. Once you do pass, you then get to do your behind the wheel with some old batty man or woman telling you how to drive. After all the practice and preparation you turn 16 and can take your drivers test. 

Now not everyone passes there drivers test on the first shot. Specking as someone who had to take the test twice I know the trauma that goes into taking the test but it is something everyone must do if they want to get there drivers license at the age of 16. But once you do pass it has to be one of the greatest feelings of your 16 year old life. You could wait till your 18 and just take the test then but that would mean waiting.......

way over there compared to right over here

i found the article comparing rituals and taboos of the fishermen in southeast asia to those of american baseball to be super interesting. The more i thought about it i found comparisons in my own life, like very time i play a show i have to change the strings on my guitar regardless of how many times its been used or when i played hockey i had a similar ritual of retaping the blade of my stick before each game. i can even think of instances of other people being this way. i have a close friend who tightens the straps on his bike pedals even if it appeared they were nearly too tight for him to get his foot in initially. The comparisons between a culture on the opposite side of the world and my goofy friend are uncanny even those in which i take part in.  

Posessions as a coping method

Sita, being posessed by a ghost, was able to manage her fears and apprehensions about sexual relations and child birth, as well as adapt to her new life in her husbands village. Sita had many traumatic experiences in her short fifteen years, the death of multiple siblings, and the violent murder, raping, and suicide of her fellow classmates as well as her cousin. These past events along with her fears and the stress of marriage and a new life allowed for Sita to be posessed by the ghost of her cousin Taraka. In north Indian culture, people who have died by murder or suicide are the most likely to become malevolent ghost, and also more likely to linger and haunt their families and villages. After the birth of her first child, Sita's possessions turned into fits and became less and less frequent, having been possessed allowed for Sita's workload to be lightened, extra support from her marital family, and permission to visit her retired father every summer. It seems that while Sita's possessions may have been real in her own mind, that they also allowed her certain benefits and acted as a coping method to adjust to her new life at such a young age. When the writers checked in with Sita many years later they found her to be a confident woman managing her family and her childrens education. Sita herself said that her fits only came about "whenever there is a fight in the family or I see a dead body".