the ones killed were women and children. That’s saying that their intentions were to kill off the population of that tribe in its entirety. Why was the Sioux Ghost Dance considered to be a form of rebellion? The Ghost Dance was the relationship between righteous behavior and pending salvation. This salvation was welcomed by a ritual dance and moral conduct. Some of the rules of this moral conduct were: “Do not hurt or do harm to anyone. Do not fight. Do what is right, always. Treat one another justly
work and focused for the majority of the book on the Ghost Dance. This is something that up until Andersson’s publication of his work had not been accomplished in any other study. It was Andersson’s own belief that, “In order to understand the Ghost Dance one would need to first need to understand its effects both on Wounded Knee and people who had some form of interaction with it.” This view led Andersson’s own perspective on the Ghost Dance to be somewhat ambiguous as the focus remained on the
Preparations 17 Restrictions 17 Food 18 Clothes 18 1.3.3. Chap Goh Mei 19 Preparations 19 Restrictions 19 Food 20 Clothes 20 1.3.4. Hungry Ghost Festival 21 Preparation 21 Restrictions 21 Food 22 Clothes 22 1.3.5. Dragon Boat Festival 23 Preparations 23 Restrictions 24 Food 24 Clothes 24 1.4. Mooncake Festival 25 1.4.1. History 25 1.4.2. Preparations 26 2. RESEARCH
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin