Campus Return Celebration: Walking Ghost Night (Essay Sample)

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Anthropology: Folklore Final Exam
Due to the high diversity of our university, I believe “Walking Ghost Night” will be the most suitable celebration to become our signature campus event once we are back to face-to-face learning. For “Walking Ghost Night”, we shall be celebrating it in the last day of October every year, a day when people all over the world celebrate Halloween. During the evening festivities, we shall celebrate our deceased friends, family members and loved ones with bonfires and feasts. Festivals play certain key functions in the lives of people. For instance, “Walking Ghost Night” will provide us with a sense of belonging, enable our social bonds to become stronger, give meaning to our lives by emphasizing on certain ideals and also relieving us emotionally. By celebrating “Walking Ghost Night” each year, we shall demonstrate and maintain the established order of our school life and use the day to pass a strong message of unity which will eventually initiate and sustain social change. For instance, African-Americans celebrate Kwanzaa (Flores-Peña et al., 283). In that particular festival they use the festival as a way of expressing their culture, ideals and the life that they expect other people to respect. In the same way, celebrating Halloween in our campus will be a way of expressing ourselves to the leadership of the institution and the rest of the world.
One main major activity that shall characterize our “Walking Ghost Night” celebrations is that we shall decorate