livelihood of the people often sung to go with the movement of workers such as the kalusan (Ivatan)‚ soliranin (Tagalog rowing song) or the mambayu‚ a Kalinga rice-pounding song; the verbal jousts/games like the duplo popular during wakes. Other folk songs are the drinking songs sung during carousals like the tagay (Cebuano and Waray); dirges and lamentations extolling the deeds of the dead like the kanogon (Cebuano) or the Annako (Bontoc). A type of narrative song or kissa among
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VIII. LITERATURE 4.1 ORAL: Like other ethnic tribal groups of the North East India and Assam‚ the Rabha tribe also have their own distinct language‚ literature and culture‚ which they express through mythology‚ folk songs‚ ballads‚ proverbs‚ etc. This community has rich oral literature‚ which passes from generation to generation. The Rabha oral literature can be classified into three major groups- namely (1). Folk songs‚ (2). Proverbs‚ riddles‚ sayings and charms‚ and (3). Folk-tales. Folk Songs:
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Chapter One A General Introduction to Folk Customs 1. Folk customs: a definition Folk customs‚ or folk ways‚ comprise the part of cultural life that people of a country or nation have created‚ practiced and transmitted in their endeavors to satisfy their needs at various stages of their history and society. Deep-rooted in the cultural life of a community‚ folk customs are passed down from generation to generation in a temporal dimension and spread from one place to another in a spatial dimension
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How Urban Legends Work In this essay the author Tom Harris tells us how urban legends effects us on how we live‚ the stories that are told can either give us a lesson to be learned or it gives us a warning‚ some stories can be horrific as in the story about the traveling sales man who met a women in Las Vegas and had a few too many drinks and had be drugged and had his kidney removed by a body organ harvesting gang and woke up in a bathroom tube covered in ice and a note to call for help before
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Korean traditional performance. LA 2012 I have grown up in Korea since I was born but I have never been to Korea traditional music concert in my life. It was my very first time to try to listen Korean music. I didn’t expect that much how much it would to be interesting for me. My first thought about the Korean music was “boring” because I know its beat and rhythm are really slower then other countries music. But my whole experience at the music concert totally made my bias different. Last time I
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Gravity Hills: Urban Legend Urban Legends are stories‚ usually false or exaggerated‚ that are repeatedly told and embellished over time until they are believed to be true. Gravity Hills is known to be an urban legend and it is also surrounded by scary stories. It’s said that in various hills of California‚ if a car is parked on neutral it will somehow roll up the slope of the nearby hill. There have been stories due to this belief that children died in the hills as they helped push their school
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The fairy tale that I am analyzing is Mulan. Mulan is the story about a traditional Chinese girl who secretly takes the spot of her father in the war. Although this story in a few aspects defies the traditional‚ gendered fairy tales‚ there are many parts of this fairy tale that are sexist‚ racist‚ and stereotypical. These are the parts of the story that are not traditional. At the beginning of the story‚ Mulan is portrayed as a girl who wants to honour her family‚ especially her father. She is quite
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Multicultural Education Scenario Steps required for multicultural education to be effective are trust‚ tolerance‚ understanding‚ and open mindedness. The most important step is gaining the trust of pupils by including the culture of all its students (Johnson‚ Musial‚ Hall‚ Gollnick‚ & Dupuis‚ 2005‚ p. 121). All students have to be taught tolerance for each others abilities‚ limitations‚ and differences. By understanding the cultural differences in all of us‚ we can learn to understand each other
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The medium is the message”- Marshall McLuhan Recently‚ I have fallen into a bit of a Slenderman groove. I am sure this will be met with a lot of eyerolling because I am about four years late to this party but as a creation‚ Slenderman is a fascinating phenomenon. Despite being visually creepy‚ Slenderman highlights the strength and weaknesses of the Internet simultaneously. In fact‚ I think Slenderman is a subversive masterpiece in terms of monster creation. Of course when Victor Surge first created
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A couple of hundred years ago‚ Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow‚ he said‚ which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don’t know why we put things off‚ but if I had to guess‚ I’d have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure‚ fear of rejection‚ sometimes the fear is just of making a decision‚ because what if you’re wrong? What if you’re making
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