THE VODOU PRIESTESS: MAMA LOLA I found Karen McCarthy Brown’s Mama Lola to be an innovative and intimate “ethnographic spiritual biography” exploring the lived realities‚ material and immaterial‚ of a Haitian Voudou priestess and her family in New York City from the late 1970’s through the 1980’s. (xiv) Brown’s approach is innovative because she treats her subjects’ as multivocal and fluid. Brown heeds her own advice and contrary to most ethnographic scholars before her‚ appropriately represents her own
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play in her life? How does she relate to and serve this lwa? Has the role of the lwa changed in her experience over time‚ and if so‚ how? The lwa Ezili is a complex figure‚ many female sprits are grouped under the term Ezili. However in “Mama Lola” Karen McCarthy Brown discusses three of these female sprits as being the most significant‚ they are Lasyreen‚ Ezili Danto and Ezili Freda. Each of these sprits‚ represents a different understanding of womanhood. Therefore each of these embodiments
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The author William Shakespeare shows the theme‚ the course of true lover never does run smooth‚ in his play Romeo and Juliet. Juliet who is a Capulet fell in love with Romeo who is a Montague. Despite their deep love‚ everything seemed to pull them apart. Shakespeare shows this theme by introducing the hatred between the Capulet’s and the Montague’s‚ the banishment of Romeo‚ and the death of the two lovers. The hatred between these families is not as simple as it seems. From the very beginning of
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Lecture Notes on Short-Run Producer Theory and Profit Maximization Lalith Munasinghe Production Functions We begin with a few definitions. Firm: An organization that turns inputs into outputs. Production Function (PF): The mathematical relationship between inputs and outputs. The PF is a technical relationship that specifies how much output can be produced from any possible combination of inputs. Example: an automobile is an output made from a complex combination of a variety of inputs
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Worldviews Observed in the Film “A River Runs Through It” Laura Paul Colorado Christian University People come from different parts of the world and possess different beliefs based on the way they were raised. It doesn’t matter where you are if you pay close attention you will notice there are many worldviews around you. The film “A River Runs Through It” is conveyed from a biblical worldview‚ however the film itself portrays another worldview as well. This story is
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Reaction to “Babel Runs Backward” I found this article to be incredibly enlightening. I was moved by the idea that there are thousands of languages spoken today that may not be spoken tomorrow. The authors do a fantastic job in creating a sense of responsibility and urgency in the reader. By using modern‚ non-third world languages as examples of languages endangered of becoming extinct‚ such as Welsh‚ and Hawaiian‚ not only is the reader able to easily understand the scope of the problem‚ but
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An excerpt from A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean 1. In our family‚ there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana‚ and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ’s disciples being fishermen‚ and we were left to assume‚ as my brother and I did‚ that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that
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Directions: Eliminate all the run-on sentences. 1. They walked through the forest‚ twigs snapping beneath their feet an owl hooted a frog croaked the sounds of the woods were all around them. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. While sledding down the hill
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CHAPTER 22 Managing a Holistic Marketing organization for Long Run Trends in Marketing Practices Reengineering: Appointing teams to manage customer-value-building processes and break down walls between departments. Outsourcing: Greater willingness to buy more goods and services from outside domestic or foreign vendors. Benchmarking: Studying "best practice companies" to improve performance. Supplier partnering: Increased partnering with fewer but better value-adding suppliers. Customer partnering:
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On the other hand‚ in the article When Self-Determination Runs Amok by Callahan‚ he explores the concept of active and passive euthanasia‚ but for him it’s not so much of an ethical debate – as it is for Rachels – but rather divides his theory into three parts. First‚ he speaks about the legitimate conditions under which an individual may kill another. Secondly‚ he speaks about meaning and limits of self determination‚ arguing that this type of view only leads to a "idiosyncratic view of the good
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