the Kikuyu culture (ni atuaika muthuri kana mutumia). Through this‚ an individual became a full participant in the dewllings of the society as a whole‚ beyond the village (Itura). The rite of passage is for boys aged between 14 and 15 years‚ which involved them going through the circumcision event usually done by the older men in the village. For the girls‚ they too had to undergo a rite of passage event involving circumcision and learning about how to become a proper Kikuyu woman. Due to heavy pressure
Premium Culture Psychology Learning
Notes on ‘A Call’ by Seamus Heaney * The word ‘call’ has both everyday and special associations. In this poem ‘call’ contains both casual and serious meanings.The call here is the phone call home but the speaker also meditates on the idea of a person being called home to God as in the medieval play ‘Everyman’. * The opening of the poem‚it could be argued‚ isn’t poetry‚it is ordinary‚everyday speech.And yet the arrangement of the lines on the page and the overall rhythm create a musical flow
Premium Management Strategic management Writing
is not a main character. The character’s name is Joe Gargery‚ a blacksmith. The most of the novel he was married to Pip’s older sister‚ Mrs. Joe Gargery. Taking care of Pip made his sister rude and unhappy ever since their parents passing. At the end of the novel‚ a man named Orlick is a part of her death and Joe soon marries again to a young woman named Biddy. Biddy and Pip have always remained friends growing up. Being a blacksmith is no shame for Joe‚ nor does he complain about it‚ but makes the
Premium Marriage Family Love
TOPIC: What was the role of enslaved women on the British West Indian Sugar Plantation? RATIONALE In history women have been often perceived as useless and inadequate. This assessment is to highlight the role of enslaved women who resided and worked on the sugar plantations in the British West Indian islands before the abolition of slavery. In order to effectively understand the enslaved women’s role and situation‚ their social and economic states have to
Premium Slavery Slavery in the United States Domestic worker
factors which have contributed to it becoming one of the largest cities in the United Kingdom. Leeds started off as a small village with a population of around 200 (in 1086). The town was founded by the Lord of the Manor‚ Maurice De Gant‚ in 1207. Around this time Leeds was a small and insignificant town which consisted of butchers‚ bakers‚ carpenters and blacksmiths‚ yet the main industry was the production of wool‚ (Localhistories‚ 2013). The factors I will be concentrating on to show the
Premium Leeds
Sample Orr and Ozark‚ MO Sample Orr During the elections of 1860‚ the United States was divided by decisions concerning slavery. The Missouri territory came to the United States as part of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. The House of Representatives put forward an amendment to the admission of Missouri that would prohibit the introduction of slaves into Missouri and freeing the children of slaves at the age of 25. The Senate passed the bill admitting Missouri without the amendment‚ but it
Premium Missouri
D.T. Niane’s book Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali tells the history of Mali’s former ruler from the perspective of a royal griot‚ Djeli Mamoudou Kouyate of the village of Dejliba Koro (Siguiri) in Guinea. According to Niane‚ he is not trying to write a traditional history book‚ rather‚ he is trying to present the history of Sundiata’s empire through the traditional African form of memory using oral tradition as his only sources. He claims that the West has taught historians to avoid oral traditions
Premium Sundiata Keita Mali Empire
of these weapons relied strongly upon the areas local blacksmith. The blacksmith was often the most skilled man in the kingdom. He made everything from nails‚ to shoes for horses‚ to weapons. The making of medieval weapons was particularly hard. Although iron was a fairly easy metal to work with‚ it had a fairly high melting point which meant you had to heat it quite a bit before you could do any work with it. Also the hotter the blacksmith got it the weaker it became when cooled. The atoms would
Premium Middle Ages
army) had 7500 warriors‚ all fully trained compared to the 3000 voluntary village workers and only 2000 professionally trained soldiers that made up Harold Godwinson’s English army. Likewise‚ William had many archers and slingshots (unlike the English) that could kill and do a great amount of damage from approximately 180 meters away! The Normans were also well equipped with some of Normandy’s finest auxiliaries – blacksmiths‚ carpenters‚ medics and cooks – as well as a few mercenaries; they were
Premium Battle of Hastings Harold Godwinson
the world to adapt its vast‚ original repertoire of dance tunes and learn newer‚ more modern techniques of playing to adapt to the more modern dance music repertoire. TURLOUGH O’CAROLAN- AN IRISH HARPER Turlough O’Carolan was born in 1670 inthe village of Nobber‚ County Meath and died on the 25th of March 1738. He was one of the last Irish harpers who composed music and a weighty number of his works are written in the form of single line melody. Carolan began playing the harp at 18 years of
Premium Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Baroque music