Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn This book talks about Mama Lola life and family heritage and how she becomes a healer in the Vodou religion. Marie Therese Alourdes Macena Champagne Lovinski or known as Mama Lola to everyone. She is the most famous Vodou priestess in the United States. The ethnographic book was written by Karen McCarthy who came in contact with Mama Lola in the 70’s and came very interested in the culture of Haitian Vodou. McCarthy becomes part of Mama Lola’s family and
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Music - Defined in various ways‚ depending on its role in a given culture as well as on highly subjective individual opinion - The prevailing (Western) idea of music is as an art of organized sounds 2 Characteristics of Sound - Pitch - Highness or lowness - Dynamic level -Loudness of softness Pitch -The pitch of a sound depends on the rate of vibration‚ or frequency‚ of the sound-producing medium. - A faster rate of vibration causes a higher pitch‚ and a slower rate of vibration causes a lower pitch
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successful empire to last beyond a generation and see the peaceful succession of kings. The empire was relatively short-lived‚ as the Babylonians conquered them within only a few generations. Kings Further information: Sumerian King List‚ List of kings of Babylon and List of Assyrian kings The Mesopotamians believed their kings and queens were descended from the City of Gods‚ but‚ unlike the ancient Egyptians‚ they never believed their kings were real gods.[39] Most kings named themselves
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Yves Tanguy was a self-taught artist and his first paintings have been described as naïve. His surrealism is referred to as “nonrepresentational”‚ defined as artwork which is not immediately distinguishable and open to much interpretation. In “Mama‚ Papa is Wounded!”‚ we can see a vast‚ open landscape; a beach or simply a flat plane‚ possibly a desert. These objects are fairly abstract in shape and are not particularly recognisable. The object in the top left hand corner of the painting looks
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Mama Veronica‚ a Kenyan business woman whose ex-husband is a member of Parliament‚ lives in the deluxe version of a crumbling stone house at the end of the circular drive. Just beyond the compound?s entrance sits my temporary abode‚ the non-deluxe version that she rents to the Peace Corps. Smack in the center of one of the hills overlooking the lake‚ Mama Veronica?s property abuts the Peace Corp training facility‚ a vast‚ austere track of land populated with one story maze like buildings. Much like
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vulnerable‚ and pushed to their bodies absolute limit at six o’clock in the morning‚ “Mama Duck‚ good run.” The nickname stuck. At first it was a little odd‚ but it grew on me really quickly. Anyone that I had ever once encountered my presents understood the name. It was cute‚ so of course‚ I went with it. However‚ no one understood my nickname more than my little ducklings- my cross country teammates. They call me “Mama Duck”‚ because I am practically ready for almost any problem they throw my way
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Y Tu Mama Tambien is rather a unique movie‚ in which the director and writers did a good job in producing it to be a symbolic film. What I find to have been the most interesting part of the movie was the role of the narrator. Throughout the course of the movie‚ the narrator would enter into a scene with a rather detached tone and omniscience role‚ by revealing truths about each character which they refuse to acknowledge or even cannot know. This coincides with the fact that everyone does have their
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throughout her life reflecting on and from children. With all but one of her children being born to a crooked‚ cheating‚ alcoholic father‚ Mildred was making ends meet with little to no money‚ few jobs and a rundown car for her family. In the novel Mama by Terry McMillan‚ a young African American woman faces personal‚ physical‚ and proposed upon hardships on the road to self-discovery. After enough pain and suffering caused by one man‚ Mildred made
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flowers the man brought‚ the man sits down to socialize with the son. As the man sits down he picks up one of the son’s Doritos‚ and just as he is about to put the chip in his mouth the son slaps him. After slapping the man the son says‚ “Don’t touch my mama‚ and don’t touch my Doritos.” This 2010 Super Bowl Doritos commercial is an example of visual rhetoric‚ because it appeals to the audience using pathos‚ ethos‚ and what the camera focuses to not just persuade the viewers to buy Doritos‚ but also to
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HELP FOR SINGREESI UNICODE 1.8 Overview Singreesi is all about making Sinhala typing easy. It has been made so easy that you can type in Sinhala just like you are typing an SMS. For example‚ if you want to type ‚ in Singreesi you would type: ammaa The Sinhala output is in unicode characters‚ so you can copy them to your blog‚ etc Typing is quite intuitive and once you get the touch of it you can immediately start typing lik a like professional Sinhala typist. What’s new in 1.8? Some major bug
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