chips of wood‚ which were used for the lottery for generations‚ with slips of paper; “the proper swearing-in‚” the recital performed by the official of the lottery and the ritual salute – all of these traditions have been forgotten by the villagers. The villagers have never dared to question the meaning of the lottery‚ at least not in public. They all assumed that they must‚ and was encouraged by the older generation‚ carry on the tradition‚ no matter what the tradition is. Never have they ever attempted
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frantic‚ Harris hurried out of the building and nearly collided with a pair of passing men. However‚ this turned out to be the stroke of luck that Harris and his wife needed. The two villagers had heard of a distressed lady found in an adjacent village whose cause of distress was very much a bewilderment to the villagers. “Perhaps you could go and see if she is your wife‚” said
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Sherwood Forest was a place where many people weren’t wealthy they were known as villagers and they were owned by lords and landowners. The villagers worked for the landowners and lords to keep their land in order. Basically the villagers worked for free because everything they earn or find the landowners take it from them‚ some didn’t have enough money to provide food or anything else for their families. When the villagers got tired of working for nothing they would all go run into Sherwood Forest to
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The Floating Villages The Mekong River runs through Cambodia and Vietnam where it flows out into the South China Sea. This hugely important river is home to a number of floating villages throughout Cambodia and Vietnam. However changes in the river levels and the effects of pollution threaten these established communities and there place in society as well as how they utilise the space around them. On a boat trip of the Mekong River in July this year I got to see‚ firsthand‚ how these floating
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Introduction: The present village Panchayat is a kind of local self-Government. The system has three objects. One is to make the villagers better habituated with the exercise of franchise.The second is to relieve the Government from the details of the local affairs. The third is to let the people manage their own affairs. Old system of the Village Panchayat and it decay: In the pretty old time there were village Panchayats in India. They were very powerful organizations. They were
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the system after talks with the administration‚ nurses and local villagers present there. A short distance from Neere‚ nestled in the lap of the Matheran’s forests‚ lies the village of Dhodani. This is a small village‚ seemingly tribal. All the basic facilities here are in a miserable state. Be it roads‚ electricity‚ water supply or basic health care ‚ there appears to be a complete unavailability of any resources to the poor villagers. We noticed the differences in the society and how there people
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Lesson 2 Q2(a)- Why did Mrs. Packletide want to kill a tiger? Ans- Note: This question is to be answered on the basis of your own understanding‚ experience and thoughts. It is strongly recommended that you prepare the solution on your own. However‚ sample solutions have been provided for your reference. Mrs. Packletide wished to shoot a tiger and get her pictures published. This was to show off in front of Loona Bimberton who had recently obtained a tiger-skin and couldn’t stop boasting about
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reason why they allow people use the path crossing the school. The professor explains him that the path is important for the villager because it connects them with their place of burial. Obi feels upset for this‚ and decided to close the path with barbed wire. He doesn’t want that the Government Education Officer has a bad impression about the school if he sees the villager using the path for a pagane ritual. The conflict in this story is the encounter between two different points of view‚ one is
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Live-in-Field Experience‚ Summer 2012 BARD‚ Comilla Shafayat Zaman Khan ID-0921004 Letter of Transmission 2nd August‚ 2012 Prof. Director School of Liberal Arts & Science (SLAS) Independent University Bangladesh Chittagong Subject: Submission of report on LFE‚ Summer 2011. Dear Sir‚ I have the pleasure to inform you that I have accomplished my final report of LFE (Live-in-Field Experience) Spring 2012. I‚ the member of Group-03‚ would like to submit the report on Live-in-field
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quest for clean water has become a life or death ordeal in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan ’s massive storm surge and quick action needs to be taken to prevent further disease and dehydration. Our proposal is that we should help provide the villagers with the installation of ram pumps‚ villages will benefit in creating a more accessible water system and a healthier environment. The ram pumps will provide clean water to save people from waterborne diseases such as dysentery‚ cholera and typhoid
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