Desert Flower Every country has their own cultures and traditions‚ some of the cultures and traditions control us. In Africa‚ a girl named Waris‚ she was 3 years old who forced to have a FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) as others girls who had this brutal practice. But‚ she had no choice to run away from this practice because it’s one of the traditions that the woman has to get circumcision to be a pure girl and virgin until getting married. Waris kept her pain inside of her heart‚ inside of her
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DESERT FLOWER Waris Dirie was born into a family of nomads in a Somalian desert. Growing up‚ she was privileged to run free with nature’s most majestic animals‚ and learned a respect for nature that many of us as Americans could never fathom. However‚ these thrills are just on the surface of what life is really like for African women. She suffered through intense traditional mutilation in her childhood‚ and endless hours of hard labor in the fields everyday. At the age of 13‚ she ran away
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Career: By chance‚ Waris was discovered by photographer Terence Donovan‚ who helped secure for her the cover of the 1987 Pirelli Calendar. From there‚ her modeling career took off‚ scoring advertisements for top designers such as Chanel‚ Levi’s‚ L’Oréal and Revlon. In 1987‚ Waris played a minor role in the James Bond movie The Living Daylights. She also appeared on the runways of London‚ Milan‚ Paris and New York City‚ and in fashion magazines such as Elle‚ Glamour and Vogue. This was followed
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interwoven with the culture abundance that came with the ‘contact’ of the outside world. From being socially and cultural isolated from the outside world‚ the Wari found that endo cannibalism was a form of expressing love and community. Conklin amplifies here that these practices were deeply embedded in the social relations and culture of the Wari‚ and so they were deeply disturbed by the contact in the 1960’s that ended their funerary cannibalism. She continues that while exo cannibalism also
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emphasising the deceased as a part of a larger social network. In Wari funerals‚ close blood relatives (the consignes) arrive first for mourning‚ followed by those related through marriage (Affines).
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Plot Summary By Michael J. Cummings...© 2009 .......Wounded‚ the narrator takes refuge at nightfall with his valet‚ Pedro‚ in an apartment in the turret of a grand but gloomy chateau in Italy’s Apennines Mountains. Pedro had broken into the building‚ which appears to have been temporarily abandoned‚ so that his injured employer would have a place to rest. .......The furnishings are elegant but old and run-down. On the walls are tapestries‚ armorial trophies‚ and modern paintings in frames
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Plot Summary The plot of To Kill a Mockingbird revolves around main character Scout Finch. She lives with her father‚ Atticus‚ and brother‚ Jem. Atticus is a widow‚ and Scout has no mother. The family resides in a fictional Alabama town called Maycomb‚ which is in the grips of the great depression. Even though many in the town are struggling‚ Atticus is a lawyer with a strong work ethic and a good client base‚ so the Finch family is doing pretty well - at least when compared to many of the other
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Summary on Ships in the Desert In the story Ships in the Desert‚author Al Gore presents the idea that because of human’s behaviors‚the relationship between humankind and the earth has been transformed. In other words‚human civilization is now affecting or destroying the entire global environment. When the author was traveling around the world to examine and study the destruction‚he found that the Aral sea‚which used to be the fourth largest inland sea in the world‚is disappearing
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness is the work for which Abbey is best known and by which he is most frequently defined. It contains his views on a variety of subjects‚ from the problems of the United States Park Service to an angry indictment of the evils of technology masquerading under the guise of progress. No voice is more eloquent in the praise of America’s remaining wilderness nor more vitriolic in attacking those who would exploit and destroy it for profit. In the introduction
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PLOT SUMMARIES OF ELEONORA Eleonora is about an unnamed narrator and his love life. The narrator lives with Eleonora‚ his cousin and his aunt. Their valley is isolated from others and no strangers ever enter it. The narrator only knows Eleonora‚ his aunt and the valley. This valley is named as the valley of the colored grasses and it is described as a paradise of fragrant flowers‚ fantastic trees‚ and a "River of Silence”. They live there together for fifteen years before they realize that love
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