1. What was the function of the griot in sub-Saharan African culture? The function of the griot in sub-Saharan African Culture was to transfer cultures through oral communication. They were West African professional singers and storytellers that told oral traditions including stories‚ histories‚ and epics‚ they were considered a repository of oral traditions. 2. Why were bananas and camels so significant in early African history? What do they represent? How did they change the way people lived
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PhD Research Proposal PhD Research Proposal 22 March 2013 Local/Regional Economic Development and Regeneration Having in mind that devolution opens up scope for a widening of economic disparities among the UK’s regions‚ I would like to explore mechanisms and policy solutions that the government needs to reinvent in order to secure UK-wide minimum standards. There is a growing consensus that a more nuanced strategy is needed which combines the decentralizing
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Poverty and Sub-Standard Education in America Culture within a society indicates a way of life including widespread values‚ beliefs‚ and behavior. These values dictate what is socially acceptable and exploit a preference in perspective that begins to formulate norms‚ an informal method of guiding behavior. Social interaction within each culture is directly related to the norms established within that location. Individuals who do not partake in these social interactions are considered outcasts
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1. What is anthropology? What are its four sub-fields and how are they briefly defined? Use your own words to answer these questions! Anthropology is the overall study of humankind. The four sub-fields of Anthropology are; Social-Cultural‚ Linguistic‚ Physical‚ and Archaeology. S-C Anthropology studies living people’s cultures using comparisons to learn how different they are from another culture. Linguistic Anthropology is the study of language in humans and can be studied with one particular language
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Sub-Saharan Africa: On my adventurous Journey around the world‚ I took a visit to Sub-Saharan Africa. The first country I came to was Somalia.While staying in Somalia‚ there is mostly plateaus‚ plains and highlands. Far north are the Karkaar Mountains‚ near the Gulf of Aden coastline. The whole country is as well slightly smaller if you compare it to Texas. Also‚ the terrain is mostly flat‚ and includes deserts. In this country ‚ the climate varies throughout some months such as in December to January
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Systems and Sub-Systems The Scope HRD is to develop i‚e. to increase effectiveness and potential of the individual‚ employees‚ roles‚ teams‚ inter-terms‚ and the organizations. Relevant HRD processes‚ help in enhancing effectiveness of these human units. However‚ it is necessary to have a formal and systematic way of achieving this. Such formal way of developing human resources is the HRD system. HRD system can be broken down into sub-systems. An integrated combination of all these sub-systems is
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Sub-saharan Africa has undergone changes with religion such as the changing of religious affiliation to Christianity and the practices of cosmology and ontology‚ however‚ Sub-saharan Africa has also remained constant with their thoughts being focused on various beliefs like a creator and evil. Christianity was predominantly the main religion in Sub-saharan Africa opposed to the Muslims of North Africa. Christianity in the Americas slowly began to send out missionaries to spread the Gospel and build
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During the time of my career working as an LPN‚ I decided to work on a Sub-Acute unit in a nursing home. The unit consisted of 30 beds and each nurse assigned 15 patients. One night during the evening shift‚ I noticed the other nurse administering medications in the hallway to a patient in a wheelchair. I approached the nurse and questioned if it is appropriate to dispense medications in the hallway related to the policy of the company. I further elaborated on during orientation‚ the preceptor
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bronze Parts of sub-Saharan Africa were divided among small indigenous Iron Age states or chiefdoms All people of Australia‚ New Guinea‚ and the Pacific islands‚ and many peoples of the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa‚ were still living as farmers or even still as hunter/gatherers with stone tools Empires with iron tools conquered or exterminated tribes with stone tools… but what lead up to this? Until the end of the last Ice Age around 11‚000 BC‚ all humans on all continents were still living
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The extract begins with a scene of relief and joy‚ a large contradiction to how it ends where there is sadness‚ anger and fear. The writer seemed to have purposely used this contradiction as a way to contribute to the mood of the passage and of its readers; to give a sense of how easy feelings change and how our mood depends greatly on our environment. We can observe these signs of relief and joy mentioned earlier through the way the writer describes how the patients in Ward Fourteen behave. Even
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