Africana Studies 1-1-2011 ‘The Mystic Drum’: Critical Commentary on Gabriel Okara’s Love Lyrics Chukwuma Azuonye University of Massachusetts Boston‚ chukwuma.azuonye@umb.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.umb.edu/africana_faculty_pubs Part of the African Languages and Societies Commons‚ Comparative Literature Commons‚ and the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Azuonye‚ Chukwuma‚ "‘The Mystic Drum’: Critical Commentary on Gabriel
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The mystic beat box Dasha Butler hour: 7th hr. 9/30/13 There once was a man named Tukin. He was walking through the forest for his daily morning routine. He was walking and tripped over a big pile of leaves. He found it awfully strange tripping over a pile of leaves. He started to dig up the pile of leaves. He saw a beat box and he picked it up and opened. A tape fell out and started talking. It said “you have three wishes‚ choose them wisely”. At first Tukin hesitated and started
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DENNIS LEHANE MYSTIC RIVER For my wife‚ Sheila [He] did not understand women. It wasn’t the way bartenders or comedians didn’t understand women‚ it was the way poor people didn’t understand the economy. You could stand outside the Girard Bank Building every day of your life and never guess anything about what went on in there. That’s why‚ in their hearts‚ they’d always rather stick up a 7-Eleven. —Pete Dexter‚ God’s Pocket There is no street with mute stones and no house without echoes
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Shaolin Monk is a Cultural dance founded in the ancient heart of China. A Back in c. 480 A.D it was documented by a very well respected legend from the home of China that a wandering Buddhist teacher from India by the name of Batou ended up in China and he was the founder of the Shaolin Monk dance. 1 The Monks have combined knowledge; discipline and kung Fu to make a very amazing dance form of their own. Most martial artists are familiar with the extraordinary powers of the Shaolin monk. 2 The
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The Burning Monk Malcom Browne 1963 Malcom Browne a 30 year old photographer from new york received a life changing call on the evening of June 10‚ 1963‚ it was his employer from associated Malcom Browne captures the moment in this photograph and when you look at it with the dramatic black and white contrast of the flames and thich quang duc‚ you feel as if you are just another bystander experiencing this monumental moment in history. This photo shows Thich Quang Duc’s relationship with
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Shakespeare’s Monk If there is one thing that Matthew Lewis’ novel The Monk: A Romance teaches us about writing‚ it is that William Shakespeare was an amazing creative author. Just about every facet of Lewis story is‚ at least in some part‚ borrowed from Shakespeare’s work. The most obvious allusion to Shakespeare in The Monk: A Romance‚ is the plot line of Lewis’ novel and Shakespeare’s work Measure for Measure. The story of Measure for Measure centers on Lord Angelo‚ who is given control
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On May 26th‚ 1637‚ a group of Narragansett and Mohican Native Americans along with English Puritans assembled an alliance. They all had one goal; eradicate the most powerful tribe in southern New England‚ The Pequot Tribe. They began conflicting over property‚ warfare‚ division of labor and nature. The English thought the Puritan men were lazy because the women did all the cooking and gardening. The alliance made a deal to not harm women or children. On that night‚ the group‚ led by John Mason
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Introduction (AGG) The Medieval Time was one of the most important times in history‚ because without the monks we would not have any written history of what went on during this era.(BS-1) Monks were the record keepers of the century. They would write about things that happened in the past and the happenings of their times. Monks were taught to read‚ speak‚ write and sing in Latin..(BS-2) Monks lived during the years of feudalism. Feudalism is a social structure where the monarch gave land to the
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Adrian Monk A Former police detective named Adrian Monk has suffered from intensified obsessive- compulsive disorder also known as OCD. As well as a variety of phobias since the murder of his wife‚ Trudy‚ in 1997. Despite his photographic memory and his amazing ability to piece tiny clues together‚ he is now on psychiatric leave from the San Francisco Police Department. Monk works as a freelance detective/consultant who is trying to get back on the force. The captain of the force wont let Monk
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Monastery. The Monks that lived there wanted to serve God with their souls. Not long after this happened‚ there were monasteries in every Christian land. There was a monk named Benedict‚ he made a series of rules for his Monastery‚ soon most of the other Monasteries adapted his original rules. Monks normally wore coarse wool cloth‚ with a hood to cover their heads‚ and a cord around their waist for a girdle. The gowns of the Benedictines were normally black so they were called “black monks’’. Many years
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