...District and Lake Baringo. In Tanzania, the huge population inhabits Kiteto, Monduli, Ngorongoro, kilimanjaro and Longido. The Maasai (or Maa) natives are pastoralists fall under the plain Nilotes ethnic group. Even though the ethnic group has urbanized in recent times from their nomadic, pastoral, and warrior ways of life into a more developed people, the traditions that exemplify their culture and their everyday lives stay virtually unchanged. This paper provides an overview of the Maasai identity, culture, as well as their political and social structure as it is associated with a typical Maasai culture. 1. Language and dialects There are various Maasai subdivisions found in their dialect, geographical locations, and socio-territorial. The Maasai converse in Maa language. The language has two inner subdivisions; the Ilsampur (Samburu), and Maasai. Maasai people live jointly amid two different kraals types. The enkang is the first type of kraal, which is a place where married people reside with their relations. The enkang is made of approximately thirty to fifty shelters usually huts surrounded by a rounded thorn fence. Every family includes one or two entrance in the fence. The huts of the wives are situated on every side of the main hut; the odd numbered ones get the gate’s right side, whereas the wives who are even numbered are positioned on the gate’s left side. The manyatta is the second kind of kraal where young males groups reside together with their sisters and mothers...
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...• Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson”! • A Language dies every 14 days! • First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer! • “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language! • There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous! • Ghosts appear only in 4 Shakespearean plays: Julius Caesar, Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth! • Stewardesses’ is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand! • No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple! • The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable! • ‘SWIMS’ upsidedown still looks like ‘SWIMS’! • The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter in the alphabet! • The town of Hamelin, Germany famous for the legend of the rat-catching Pied Piper has a Modern day Rat Problem due to the food left by tourists! • The name for Oz in the “Wizard of Oz” was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence “Oz.”! • ‘Aloha’ is a Hawaiian word that means both hello and goodbye! • The longest English word without a vowel is – rhythm! • The Times (UK’s newspaper) of 22 August 1978 contained the most number of misprints – about 97 ! In one story about the Pope, he was called “the Pop” throughout the article! • “The Mouse Trap,” by Agatha Christie is the longest running...
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...communication environment is not left up to chance, but is created by applying certain principles and strategies. A communication environment is not defined by the activities that individuals participate in while spending time together, but by the emotional tone that is set during that time. According to Adler and Rodman (2012), “A climate doesn’t involve specific activities as much as the way people feel about each other as they carry out those activities” (p. 237). It is important to realize that the emotions expressed in a relationship are a precursor for either a negative or positive outcome. Showing positive emotions, such as; love, compassion, and understanding will only produce a healthy communication environment. Whereas, acting judgmental and showing disdain or contempt will most likely speed the decline of a healthy relationship. Whether I like it or not, a communication environment will begin to develop the moment I start communicating with another person either verbally or non-verbally. If I want a newly blossomed relationship to prosper, it is vital that I start out on the right foot. How can I make the communication environment positive and not negative? I must use confirming messages to make the other person feel they are valued. This is the desire of every human being; to feel like they matter and that someone cares about their feelings and the...
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...the moment in life. Marvell uses figures of speech like metaphors, similes, and imagery to persuade the woman he loves to sleep with him, but he also wants to argue that life is short, and she should seize the day, both in life and sexually. The figures of speech that are in “To His Coy Mistress” enhance the themes of time, mortality, freedom and confinement, and sex, which makes the audience ponder the idea of carpe diem. Time is one of the major themes of Marvell’s poem and time is also one of the major characters of the poem. Marvell uses an important figure of speech, personification, when he writes, “Time’s winged chariot hurrying near, (Stillinger 677.23)” and in that quote time is personified as a criminal that is pursuing the speaker. In the poem, there is a striking metaphor, “Deserts of vast eternity,” (677.24) where the speaker of this poem doesn’t compare eternity to deserts, but instead talks about deserts that are made out of eternity. Marvell uses this metaphor and the abstract idea, like time, to show that the desert is a symbol of emptiness and loneliness. The personification of time and the metaphor of eternity shows how time flies, and how time will pass you by, so seize the day. Mortality, which is also known as death, is an intricate part of Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress,” because mortality receives attention for a whole stanza. In the poem, Marvell writes: But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before...
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...The Acts of the Apostles Following the wonderful story of the coming of God through man in Christ, the task of spreading the word and the good news fell on the hands of the apostles. It was their duty to expand the church and proclaim their message, exalting Christ and his kingdom. When it was time for Jesus to leave the earth he tells his disciples to continue his work and prepare for his second coming, a day only The Father knows. As the disciples leave Mount Olivet, the point of ascension, they congregate and try to figure out how to carry about God’s mission to the rest of the world, and wonder if the spirit of the Lord is still with them. Their answer came on the Day of Pentecost. On this day, as the disciples were praying and praising the Lord, the Holy Spirit descended upon them and they began to praise the Lord in foreign languages, languages familiar to the foreign onlookers – essentially speaking in tongues. The leaders of this movement were Peter and John, who took the initiative to fill in the vacuum that Judas had created when he betrayed Jesus by anointing and inducting Matthias into the group of eleven, thus making it twelve, just like how Jesus intended. As Peter and John begin their mission to illuminate the world on the good news, they come across a middle-aged man who has been lame since the day he was born. As they see him Peter looks at John and in a quick “let’s go” nudge to each other (as I would imagine) Peter heals the man in the name of Jesus...
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...Before reading A Long Walk To Water, I disagreed that there really isn’t a point to learn about other cultures. I was kind of neutral about this and just decided that I was more on the disagree side because cultures didn’t really matter to me and it wasn’t that interesting. To me, culture was just another thing that I just ignored. Now, after reading the book A Long Walk To Water, I strongly disagree with this statement because it was really cool learning about the Dinka and the Nuer culture. From the book, it explains that the Dinka and the Nuer both have scar patterns on their forehead. The Dinka have v shaped scars, while the Nuer have lines and dots scars. When Salva finds Auntie, he notices scar patterns on her forehead. In the novel it...
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...1 Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics, 1911 Computer Abstractions and Technology 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Eight Great Ideas in Computer Architecture 11 1.3 Below Your Program 13 1.4 Under the Covers 16 1.5 Technologies for Building Processors and Memory 24 1.6 Performance 28 1.7 The Power Wall 40 1.8 The Sea Change: The Switch from Uniprocessors to Multiprocessors 43 1.9 Real Stuff: Benchmarking the Intel Core i7 46 1.10 Fallacies and Pitfalls 49 1.11 Concluding Remarks 52 1.12 Historical Perspective and Further Reading 54 1.13 Exercises 54 1.1 Introduction Welcome to this book! We’re delighted to have this opportunity to convey the excitement of the world of computer systems. This is not a dry and dreary field, where progress is glacial and where new ideas atrophy from neglect. No! Computers are the product of the incredibly vibrant information technology industry, all aspects of which are responsible for almost 10% of the gross national product of the United States, and whose economy has become dependent in part on the rapid improvements in information technology promised by Moore’s Law. This unusual industry embraces innovation at a breath-taking rate. In the last 30 years, there have been a number of new computers whose introduction...
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...While the harmful behaviours caused by racism, such as drug and alcohol abuse, are often discussed by media, not all the consequences of racial prejudice are always apparent. The novel Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese demonstrates the destructive emotional and mental effects that discrimination can have on an individual. These consequences can start taking their toll even from an early age. This is shown when the Aboriginal children at the residential school refuse to speak their native language after a boy dies when he is punished for speaking his mother tongue. Here, the fear of being physically abused causes the children to gradually believe their native language is wrong and undesirable. This is an example of internalized racism, which...
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...OUR INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE AND ITS IDENTITY Language is species specific and species generic possession that is uniquely human. It is peculiar to human beings and it can be both an individual property (when it exists as knowledge) and a social property, (when it manifests to perform its functions). The survival of the language of a people is very vital to the people's survival on the whole. In 2012, the United Nations held a forum on ‘The Study on the role of languages and culture in the promotion and protection of the rights and identity of indigenous peoples’. The importance of language is summed up in the following quote: “Language is an essential part of, and intrinsically linked to, indigenous peoples’ ways of life, culture and identities. Languages embody many indigenous values and concepts and contain indigenous peoples’ histories and development. They are fundamental markers of indigenous peoples’ distinctiveness and cohesiveness as peoples.” This is because "Language is not only a vehicle through which a peoples culture can be expressed but also a medium of one's thought, imaginations, creativity, aspirations, desires, emotions, indeed the entire human need and capacity" (Banjo, 1971). According to Hale in Orkar (2006:5), losing one's language entails losing one's "culture, intellectual wealth, a work of art etc. It is like dropping a bomb on a museum." Language captures the entire essence of man. It makes man who he is and what he will become. Chomsky in Banjo...
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...TYPE OF WORK: * Masterly work of Andrew Marvell * Lyrical poem * Love poem * Seducing poem * Carpedium poem * Metaphysical poem * Startling comparisons or contrasts of a metaphysical (spiritual, transcendent, abstract) quality to a concrete (physical, tangible, sensible) object. * Mockery or satirizing of idealized romantic poetry and divines of love through crude or shocking imagery * Gross exaggeration * Expression of personal, private feelings * Presentation of a logical argument, or syllogism THE TITLE: “To His Coy Mistress” * Mistress - A young woman who has an affair with a married man - A person in- charge (manager, caretaker, courtesan) - A patron or a female sweetheart in 1650’s - The female equivalent of master * Coy -Pretending to be shy or reserved -Olden days referred it to the feeling of shyness - “To coy” (v) means to stroke - The lady is no easy catch * His - Third-person possessive pronoun -Refers to the young man The tying of both the words ‘mistress’ and ‘coy’ brings about the beauty of the poem which talks about complicated relationship and complicated communication between the speaker and his mistress. It’s a plea to a young lady by his lover. THE PERSONA (The Young Man): * First-person point of view * Presentation as the plea of another man (fictional) who is the persona of the poet * The young man is impatient, desperately...
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...by Bruce Dawe and War Time by Mary E. Fullerton examine the futility of war and death, and the inability of the human race to learn from past mistakes in order to avert future occurrences. Bruce Dawe’s free verse poem Phantasms of Evening, written in 1978, uses a mixture of simple statements and long sentences with no regular structure to express the jarring feeling of what feels like a never ending war. Dawe uses short sentences to create...
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...Narrative Conventions in My Girragundji The novella My Girragundji, based on true experiences, tells a heart-warming story about a boy, who, in times of stress, turns to a little green tree frog for support. Narrative conventions are used to display the changes Girragundji, the frog, makes on the protagonist’s life and identity. The language, plot, and characters all have a big influence on the main protagonist’s life. The writers Meme Mcdonald and Boori Pryor use the narrative convention of language to show change in the boy’s life. At the beginning of the story, the boy’s language is pessimistic and scared. Quotes from the book confirm this statement. ‘I’m too scared a hand will come through and grab me in my sleep’ (Page 10) suggests that the boy is too scared to sleep with his head near the window as he thinks a quinkin (Referred to in the book as a ‘hairyman’) will grab him in his sleep. Another quote states ‘I wonder what’s the point of living’ tells the reader the main character is negative and possibly thinking suicidal thoughts. However, when Girragundji enters his life, all traces of negative thoughts are gone, and he is much more positive. ‘The bullies don’t seem so big anymore’ is a quote from when after the frog enters his...
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...evidence, it can be argued that Mrs. Mallard's death in “The Story of an Hour” is not caused by joy, but rather disappointment that Mr. Mallard is still alive. Mrs. Mallard expresses a sense of happiness that her husband is dead multiple times throughout the story. Chopin describes Mrs. Mallard's reaction to her husband's death as a “paralyzed...
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...The question of the combination of different cultures is an ancient question. This is indicated by many proverbs. For example, people in the Britain used to say, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do." That is how for thousands of years people tried to avoid conflict between different cultures. Modern immigrants in the United States have much better living conditions than in the time of the Roman Empire. That is why they are not reluctant into local society. A constant flow of immigrants from different ethnic cultures has increased dramatically in the 1960s and 1970s. Approving massive immigration was a political decision to increase the population of the country and at the same time improve the economy with the help of cheap labor. The flow of immigrants continues to this days. Poverty and political frictions move millions of immigrants to the United States and other economically developed countries in search of a better life. Assimilation fell behind migration, and immigrants refuse to adapt to a new environment. Hence, cultural diversity in America leads to disunity of population because of clashes in economics, security of the country, and social relationship. Politicians assumed that adopting democratic laws for its multinational citizens, would create a chorus of American society with one common culture, traditions, desires and growing ethnic tensions. The motivation for immigrants was an opportunity to climb the social ladder and own a new international life...
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...Section #1: The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, starts off by introducing how the book was written. The anonymous narrator stumbled upon some manuscripts labeled with a red “A”, all of which happened some 200 years before his time. He decided to write a fictional story about the facts he found in the manuscripts and thus, The Scarlet Letter was born. The story begins in a Boston Puritan Settlement in the 17th century. Hester Prynne and her young daughter, Pearl, are being led from the town prison, bearing the infamous “scarlet letter”. A man in the crowd said she was being tried for adultery, after her husband left and was supposed to be “lost at sea”, and gave birth to a child. She will not, however, give the identity of her lover, and the red “A”, along with her public shame, is punishment for her sin and secrecy. The man in the crowd turns out to be Hester’s long lost husband, who is now practicing medicine and is going by the name Roger Chillingworth. Several years pass and, being banished by the town, Hester and Pearl live in a small cottage on the outskirts of Boston. The town repeatedly tries to take Pearl away from Hester, but with the help of the young minister, Arthur Dimmesdale, the two manage to stay together. Chillingworth has his suspicions about Dimmesdale’s health and the fact he may be hiding a secret, so he decided to move in with him to give him constant care. One afternoon, while the minister sleeps, Chillingworth discovers a mark on the man’s chest...
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