passing on knowledge‚ stories and the history of the Baka people‚ and music for pure enjoyment. With the Baka there is no distinction between musician and audience‚ everyone is able to listen and participate with confidence. For example when the storyteller told the story of the chimp that stole the mother’s baby all joined in with the choruses or with harmonies and with percussion accompaniment. This communal music making constantly helps to strengthen the bonds between the individuals in the groups
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Stories are pieces of history passed down through generations. However‚ as those old stories are told again and again many of the pieces get lost in translation. This results in the same old story with new details. The longer the stories are told the more details are added or lost‚ and before long the old story that was accurately told is gone and is replaced with a completely new story filled with fabricated details that would be almost unrecognizable to the ones who told the original tale. In
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Global Journal of Science Frontier Research Volume 11 Issue 9 Version 1.0 December 2011 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Inc. (USA) Online ISSN : 2249-4626 & Print ISSN: 0975-5896 Evaluation of Rural Water Supply Schemes in Selected Communities in Oke-Ogun Area‚ Oyo State‚ Nigeria By Toyobo A.E.‚Tanimowo N.B Akintola University of Technology‚ Ogbomoso‚Oyo State‚ Nigeria Abstract - The study examine water supply schemes in selected
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Discuss the relationship between Modernity and Tradition in French-Caribbean Creole culture In order to address the question‚ we should first fully understand the terms modernity and Creole culture and then analyse how the two intertwine‚ and then decipher to what extent there is a relationship. The definition of Modernity used in this essay will be that modernity is’ the quality of being current or of the present’. Whereas for Creole culture we have more difficulty‚ Creole culture can be the people
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meanings of myth than in the aspect of strict storytelling. The stages of his Hero’s Journey‚ however‚ are easily adapted to modern storytelling in movies and perhaps in games" [1] Christopher Vogler in The Writer ’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers and Screenwriters‚ adapting his paradigm from Joseph Campbell ’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces and Vladimir Propp ’s Morphology of the Folktale [2]‚ makes claim that ’all stories consist of a few common structural elements found universally in
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MINH TRAN – DMA # 1 Barbie-Q By Sandra Cisneros Cisneros opens her tale with a possessive pronoun: “yours”‚ which confounds readers and draw their immediate attention. Without delay‚ they are then brought into the world of Barbie Dolls: “yours is the one with mean eyes and a ponytail” and “mine is the one with bubble hair”. Here‚ we are overwhelmed with details of the dolls’ costumes - “Red Flair”‚ “sophisticated A-line coatdress with a Jackie Kennedy pillbox hat”‚ “white gloves”‚ etc. - listed
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presented by Khalida Brohi . Khalida Brohi is of Pakistani descent and comes from a tribe of indigenous people‚ called the Brohi. Brohi means mountain dwellers. Khalida reminds me of the narrator of Time of the Butterflies‚ Dedé‚ because they both are storytellers who have sad stories to tell about their past. Their stories also share common themes such as feminism‚ change‚ religion‚ and courage. The ted talk is about ending a Pakistani tradition of honor killings. An honor killing is when a male member
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brings the piece to the next level of being “the better story” (Martel‚ 317). “‘For a good novel to work‚ [one has] to suspend [their] disbelief’” (Cole‚ 24). An author should attempt to push their audience to the limit of impossibility. However‚ a storyteller cannot stray to far from factual truth. Thus‚ one must find the perfect balance in order for a story
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Stories of place Discovering new places is an important part of many enjoyable experiences. We use maps to guide us in our exploration but also to locate our findings. It is not rare that we use these personalized maps to share our knowledge of a place. Throughout the time‚ the importance of the relationship between personal stories‚ walking the land‚ experiencing places and knowledge became a continual topic of discussion. There is reasonably substantial literatures that explains how stories facilitate
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out to the children two more times but still they did not reply. We can assume that the children ignore the woman because the children do not know her‚ or because the woman left her home and has not returned until now. In paragraph eight‚ the storyteller tells us that the woman is near the two children and they get a sudden chill. This changes the argument that the woman was ignored because she left her home. The woman is ignored not because she left the West Indies‚ but rather because she does
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