Traditional oaths play decisive roles in customary law arbitration and are recognized and accorded due respect by the courts. This position is now threatened by four emerging factors. First, all ...customary law arbitrations (including those based on juju oaths) are now subjected to stringent conditions before the courts will enforce them. Secondly, there are discordant voices in the Supreme Court on the legal relevance and juristic value of traditional oaths. Thirdly, in August 2005, the gruesome activities of some shrines where juju oaths are administered in some Igbo communities were exposed in the mass media. This exposure has given traditional oaths a bad image. Lastly, the onslaught of Islam and Christianity is taking its toil on traditional oaths. There is the need to protect traditional oaths from these threats.
Tearooms in Burwell, Cambridgeshire) cheese and crackers, cheese and Rice (a record company name) chrissakes cor blimey crikey, criminy (Criminy Tickets: a blog devoted to knitting), cripes, criwens ...dad gum, dagnabbit, dagnammit, dangnabbit, doggone, gat dangit drat egad for crying out loud (a song by the Meat Loaf rock group) gadzooks gee, gee whizz (Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z: a 1956 Warner Bros, cartoon), gee willikers godfrey daniel (a rock group) golly gee willikers good garden party, good grief (an episode of TV comedy series Arrested Development), goodness gracious (BBC radio and television sketch comedy show) gorblimey gosh, gosh darned great scott (the name of a now-defunct supermarket chain in Detroit, Michigan) jason crisp, jebus, jeepers creepers (a 1939 Looney Tunes animated short starring Porky Pig), jeez, jeezy creezy, jiminy christmas, jiminy cricket (the Walt Disney version of "The Talking Cricket" from the novel Pinocchio) judas priest (an English heavy metal band from Birmingham) jumping jehosaphat (a recording by Mud, an 1968 English rock band) land sakes, lawks a mercy my goodness, my gosh odds-bodkins sacré bleu strewth suffering succotash (a favorite exclamation of the cartoon character, Sylvester the cat) wish to goodness zounds At this point, I find Korzybski's (1950, p. 170) comment particularly apposite: "Age after age of world-wide worship of man-made gods, silly, savage, enthroned by myth and magic, celebrated and supported by poetry and the wayward speculations of ignorant 'sages'."
Reconstructing a Family Clapper, Michael
Winterthur portfolio,
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This article analyzes the Civil War sculptures of John Rogers, particularly Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations (1865), his most critically acclaimed work and his personal favorite. In Taking the ...Oath, Rogers proposed a compassionate, conciliatory attitude toward the contentious issue of Reconstruction by invoking the model of a sentimentalized family. This work was one of about eighty “Rogers groups,” mass‐reproduced cast‐plaster sculptures that became a common expression of middle‐class taste and values. Taking the Oath offered a prescription for healing the wounds of the Civil War while leaving traditional social hierarchies reassuringly intact.
Though King Arthur has long enjoyed a reputation for justice, Malory's presentation of his rule in the Morte Darthur questions that reputation. Though Arthur's Pentecostal Oath provides governing ...principles for his knights, his lack of enforcement of those principles creates injustice within the kingdom and eventually destroys it. (LB)
Kitt explores the ritual logic in the last instructions, focusing on the rituals of the last night. Relying on theories by James Fernandez, Paul Ricoeur, and Roy Rappaport, she argues that the ...metaphorical transformation of these ritual participants into players in primordial dramas is accomplished through ritual strategies that heighten the communicational register and bind the actors to a dense metaphorical domain. She shows that some elements of the instructions for the last night add up to a highly sanctified "liturgical order," although this notion is modified slightly from that of Rappaport, who coined the term. Further, she also shows that the ritualized dimensions of these instructions reflect relatively common behaviors found also within Christian, biblical, and even older warring traditions.
The Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court holds the power to assign opinions when in the majority. This basic power was unformed in the early days of the office. White explains the manner in which ...this power. and the norms of internal opinion circulation at the Supreme Court more generally, took shape during the 19th century.
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