OLE MAS IN TRINIDAD The festival dates back to the 18th century‚ and the influx of French Catholic planters – both white and free coloured – their slaves‚ and free blacks in the 1780s. The white and free coloured both staged elaborate masquerade balls at Christmas and as a “farewell to the flesh” before the Catholic Lenten season‚ with each group mimicking the other in their masking and entertainment. The West African slaves of these planters as well as free coloureds had their own masking traditions
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The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Last night‚ I finished reading "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho. Ok‚ I know you can’t believe I only read it now‚ everyone already said that to me‚ and looked at me in that weird way as if I was living on Mars for the last few years. But well‚ I only got to read it now‚ and I totally loved it. A friend of mine told me a few days ago when I started reading "The Alchemist" that it was the kind of book that would either change your life or change your conception of
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COMMITTEE SYSTEMS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Definition: Committee |System in Local Government is a mechanism of ensuring greater democratic participation of the citizenry in the law making process. Committee could be established due to the large volume of business to be transacted‚ Local Government may find it imperative to entrust some of their functions to committees. In running the affairs of the local government‚ the Local Government Executive Committee may set up standing and ad-hoc committees
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revenue expenditure for CCC in 2010 and in the future. I will also discuss areas of concern in terms of level of revenue expenditure and outline issues that were taken into account in the preparation of the budget for 2010. Section 102 of the Local Government Act 2001 states that each LA must prepare a draft budget for the next financial year setting out: 1. The expenditure necessary to carry out its functions and 2. The income estimated to accrue it. In 2010 the total budget
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School Libraries Worldwide January 2010‚ Volume 16‚ Number 1‚ 17-28 ____________________________________________ Guided Inquiry: School Libraries in the 21st Century Carol Collier Kuhlthau School of Communication and Information‚ Rutgers The State University of New Jersey‚ USA Global interconnectedness enabled by information technology calls for new skills‚ knowledge and ways of learning to prepare students for living and working in the 21 st century. Guided Inquiry equips students with
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Busi 600 Literature Review Andrew Fagan Liberty University Professor Erickson Abstract The literature research reviewed in this paper attempts to address the topic of strategy implementation. The paper tries to establish an academic case for previously researched material on this subject by reflecting on the diverse views published in the literature. The different views expressed combine to formulate research to establish relevance as well as importance in this step of the Strategic Management
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inopportune times. “When there are customers waiting in line‚ it takes staff time away from serving customers‚” said Cook. “And then‚ it’s frustrating to customers when you can’t pay with credit cards.” After hearing about Square from contacts in the local business community‚ and seeing how well the service was working at a coffee shop owned by one of his business partners‚ Cook decided it would be worth trying out the cloud-based system at Federal Donuts in the summer of 2012. “Unlike a lot of POS systems
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Essay 16 Local Area Networks Marshall D. Abrams and Harold J. Podell L ocal area n e t w ork (L AN) communicat io ns s ecurity is address ed in t his essay. LANs are introduc ed as providing: (1) a privat e communicat io ns facility‚ (2) s ervic es ov er a r elativ ely limit ed g e ographic area‚ (3) a high dat a rat e for comput er communicat io ns‚ and (4) common acc ess t o a wid e rang e of d evice s and s ervic es. S ecurity issu es p ert in e nt t o L ANs ar e discuss e d. For e
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1. What was the first and most important decision of African American men and women after slavery? The first and most important decision of African American men and women after slavery was reconstructing the family unit. Families would have their children taken away and forced into apprenticeships‚ the women were not submissive to their husbands for slavery instilled in them a sense of independence and in men‚ a lack of authority‚ for he was not able to protect and provide for his family. (Pg
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Hemingway’s modernist style of storytelling requires an impersonal narrator. The narrator describes the scene‚ and interjects small actions into the dialogue‚ but remains a facilitator for the reader to concentrate on the dialogue and the action of the story. The narrator in this story seems to tell the story as if it were a video clip‚ a nameless railway station somewhere between Barcelona and Madrid‚ ghostly white hills‚ a faceless waitress and an anonymous couple. The use of this narrator makes
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