...made by the young man's father to the father of the girl selected to be his wife The initial visit is known as kaayaaet-aap kooito.On this first visit,the father was dressed in a robe of blue monkey fur.Upon arriving at the girl's home he would stand at mabwaita(the family altar) and send a message to the girl's father.He did this by placing a noogirweet(ceremonial stick) at the mabwaita.This was the sign that he wanted to begin talks regarding marriage.No cattle tugaap kooito(cattle of dowry) were brought that first visit,but an initial agreement was made.The father's arranged another meeting day. Kebendii kooita( negotiation for dowary) this is the first main visit of the suitor's father to the father of the girl.Usually one ox or one ox plus six sheep or goats,was taken at this time.Questions were asked about clanship,kinships and other matters which might be barriers to the marriage.At this point the matter of involvement in witchcraft was very important.If witchcraft had been practised by any member of the extended family at any time and also if there were any strange deaths. If this proven to be true, it usually caused the couple to separate. On the second main visit of the suitor's father to the girl's home, he offers her father teet-aap ko (the cow of inside the house).This was really not a cow but fourteen sheep and goats.By this time, the girl's father would have done some investigation about the son -in-law's character.If he did not find the young acceptable as...
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...Perfect Imagine you are a young girl. It is your first day at a new school. You have chosen the perfect outfit; your hair is immaculate; and your make-up is flawless… so you think. Fast forward to lunchtime and you find yourself sitting at a table for eight with a party of one. You are an outcast. Alone. Crushed. Social acceptance can mean everything to a person. And some people will do anything to feel accepted. In Marge Piercy’s “Barbie Doll”, the use of imagery and metaphor help create the theme that society’s pressure on young girls (and boys) to be perfect can lead to extreme endings. “Barbie Doll” begins with a young, ordinary “girlchild” (Line 1) innocently playing with her Barbie doll. The girl grows to be of puberty age, at a time when a girl’s emotions are very fragile, and is the subject of criticism from one of her peers. She states, “You have a great big nose and fat legs” (line 6). The girlchild is described as being a normal girl. “She was healthy, tested intelligent, possessed strong arms and back…” (Line 7-8) but the ridicule has a profound impact on the young girl. “Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs.” (Line 11) shows how the girl thinks everyone perceives her. Piercy uses imagery in lines 12 through 14 to describe how the girl lets this pressure of society’s opinion begin to change her self-image. “She was advised to play coy, exhorted to come on hearty, exercise, diet, smile and wheedle.” Exhorted and wheedle are synonyms for influenced or persuasion...
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...The Elements of “A Girl’s Garden” In “A Girl’s Garden” by Robert Frost, the theme expressed is the unique pleasure of a rural childhood, as well as the girl’s youthful exuberance about the garden she grew. The speaker is a neighbor of the girl, who is now an adult woman living in town. The speaker tells the story, attempting to convey the importance of the garden to the adult woman because of the joy she still takes in reminiscing about her experiences, regardless of the perceived success of her efforts. This is achieved by excellent use of tone, rhythm, and imagery. The tone of the poem is consistently light and pleasant. From the beginning the girl remembers the experience fondly, as shown in lines -4 “likes to tell how one spring when she was a girl on the farm, she did a childlike thing.” The poem goes on to describe how the young girl asked her father for a garden of her own. The father’s response of “Why not?” and decision to give her a small, walled-off piece of useless land, as well as his comments in lines 1-16 suggests that he was humoring her because he knew it would be quite an undertaking. In lines 7 � 40 “her crop was a miscellany when all was said and done, a little bit of everything, a great deal of none”, the text at first seems to change tones. Yet the speaker ends the poem by reiterating the woman’s pleasure of telling the story of when she was a “farmer”. When taken into context with the rest of the poem, the tone has not changed. Regardless of the...
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...Each culture has their own rites of passage in which a child becomes an adult. In Western society, some might consider graduation from high school as one of such passages. For others, a child becomes an adult when they are legally allowed to drink. Within the Western world, there exists cultures in which the right to call oneself an adult is a much more labour-intensive process. This is the case with the Native American Apache, who live throughout “Arizona, New Mexico, and Northern Mexico” (Eck, 2016). Every year, young adolescent girls who experience their first menstruation are subjected to a physically and spiritually intense process known as the “Sunrise Ceremony” (Apache Girls' Sunrise Ceremony, 2009). This four-day ceremony consists...
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...The short story “Volar” illustrates that to some people, freedom is not always freely given. Judith Ortiz Cofer does this through describing the desires of two characters living in a Spanish-speaking barrio community, a young girl and her mother. Although the two of them want different things, they are tied together by their longing to escape their current circumstances and their coexisting inability to do so. The title carries significant importance in the story. “Volar” is a Spanish verb meaning “to fly.” The idea of flight is visited several times throughout the course of the piece, first with the young girl and then with the mother. The young girl dreams of being Supergirl, powerful and omniscient, confident and focused on “the object of [her] current obsession” (p. 197). The dynamic qualities of her dreams contrast greatly to the dullness of her actual life. She wakes in a “tiny bedroom...in [a] tiny apartment” (p. 197), finding herself in a skinny body that certainly does not resemble Supergirl....
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...portrayal of death and the supernatural. Hardy often uses dark and depressing references to create the image for this concern. Hardy would also use various literary devises such as personification, similes and alliteration to get the main point across for his poems. In Tomas Hardy’s poems, “God’s Education”, “The Darkling Trush”, “The Moth Signal”, “The Phantom Horsewoman” and “Life and Death at Sunrise”, he would often use metaphors to clearly express one of his main concerns which are the portrayal of death and supernatural. Frequently in the poem, “God’ Education” which portrays a young woman dying and her love one watched her die. The obvious theme of the poem is death which assists the development of the tone. The tone of this poem is showing great sadness and lividness about her death, but most importantly, it is displaying the young man’s disappointment with God for taking the young girl’s life away. Hardy also created a tone for God which seems to be amusement. One of the first metaphors which is revealed is “I saw him steal the light away:” (V-1, L-1) When talking about the light in someone, imagine life, joy and meaning but God has apparently stole the light away from her life leaving her to be just a being without a purpose or reason. Also “That haunted in her eye:” (V-1, L-2) The light which vanished from her life, leaves her to be a hunting figure which is a common reference to a ghostlike state; God is literally taking away the life from this girl and does not even...
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...Assignment 1 Summary and Response - Week 1 Bari Williams Jr. Eng. 115 English Composition Dr. Roger Fontana April 16, 2016 “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” by Suki Kim, was about a young lady who moved from South Korea to the United States. She also pointed out how differently American culture was from her own. She is trying to transition her life from being wealthy to poor, being raised on a “hilltop mansion with an orchard and a pond and peacocks” to a “two-family brownstone in Woodside” which was owned by family friends. Her world came crashing down when her father went bankrupt, and in her country that is punishable by jail time. Kim and her family fled to America penniless. This was hard due to the fact that her and her family were used to living a catered life with chauffeurs and butlers. The writer’s purpose of this summary is talking about Suki Kim “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits. Another purpose explains how she discuss the language affecting on her fitting in on society, in Queens, New York. The Genre in this case, in some’s opinion can be literary. I for one feel that she is telling readers about going from rich to poor. Her main audience would be someone who might’ve experience poverty, or even live a wealthy lifestyle. I also believe that her audience could possibly be young, from another country. In this summary the tone and attitude setting is calm and compelling. She talks about growing up in a two family brownstone house, crammed but in...
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...“Her good nature wore out/ like a fan belt./ So she cut off her nose and her legs/ and offered them up.” This quote from “Barbie Doll”, by Marge Piercy, refers to a young girl who wishes to change her character and her appearance in order to live up to society’s expectations. In fact, instead of being complimented or admired for whom she truly is, people would rather criticize and condemn her for whom she isn’t. As a result of endlessly trying to alter her portrait, the “girlchild” eventually “wore herself out”. This poem suggests that unrealistic societal demands are destructive for a woman’s self-esteem and well-being. When comparing oneself to an idealistic notion of female beauty and behaviour, one can only expect to feel demoralized, discouraged and devalued. Indeed, "Barbie Doll," the title of the poem, symbolizes society’s view of a perfect woman; the way society expects every woman to be. In fact, by using “Barbie Doll” as the title to her poem, Marge Piercy wants the reader to compare and contrast the adolescent’s appearance to that of a Barbie doll. Stereotypically, Mattel’s Barbie dolls have tall, thin yet curvy bodies, with symmetrical, perfect facial features, blonde hair and blue eyes. This, in turn, leads to the protagonist’s void of self-confidence. Additionally, living up to such standards - all the while being a housewife who must clean the house, raise the children and please her husband - is very demanding on the female gender. Moreover, the doll is symbolic...
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...There are many traditions in the Hispanic culture, and I believe the one that is more commonly celebrated than any other tradition is a young girl’s quinceañera. A quinceañera is when a girl is about to turn 15 years old, and it stands for a girls transition to womanhood. It can be compared to the sweet sixteen celebration that is done for a teenage girl on her sixteenth birthday in the American culture. The quinceñeara tradition has been around for hundreds of years and it’s celebrated just as much today than it was before, though through the generations the ceremony part of it has had its changes. What is the origin of the quinceñeara? It is believed that this tradition dates back to the ancient Mayan and Aztec times. Though the significance has changed slightly since then. the significance that has stayed the same today is of the a girl coming to womanhood, but back...
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...enlightening information. Also, so people won’t get easily bored. To come up with an advert for such an individual, one has to make it really flashy. It has to be eye-catching so that it can be read by as many people possible. The Teen Task Force came up with an advert targeting the youth. Mostly, research and statistics show that the teenagers and college students are the ones involved in accidents at the highest level. The Teen Task Force came up with a photo, entitled Zero Fatalities, one of the many found in a brochure. The aim was to educate the teenagers on the driving laws and the painful repercussions of not sticking to the driving laws. It is a simple photo which surely sends an emotional message to the reader. The photo shows a young and beautiful lady that is so full of life. Her skin is smooth and flawless, which seems to speak of her great health conditions. Evidently, she seems to enjoy life as she is not sulking. The girl, however, has a scar on her face more of a cut indicating she must have been involved in some type of accident. She has another mark on her lip. The mark is red and raw, looking like more of a zit. It the kind of mark you get when you hit your mouth accidentally against something hard a painful experience obviously. Her left eye is red, implying that something impacted her right in the eye. For an individual who has been punched in the eye, he can confirm that it is an unbearable torment. Tears flow freely and involuntarily...
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...The rules-based solution The law is supported by ethics in this case. The child was taken from the parents’ custody due to their inability to care properly for the child while afflicted with addiction. Beings a child is unable to make clear decisions and not able to completely realize the effects of actions and choices adults/guardians make the choices for them. In the beginning of the scenario, the child was too young to decide that she needed to be extracted from her parents’ care so the court took her and placed her in a foster home with foster parents which by the nature of design is not meant to be a full blown adoption. The foster system is set up to be a temporary facilitation for kids in need. Once the parents were free of their addictions and could show that they were prepared to fulfill their role as parents they should be given the parental control over the daughter they never agreed to give up custody of. While it is sad that the girl does not want to go back to her parents she is still not old enough to make those types of decisions on her own and should be returned to her parents. The ends-based solution The law is not supported by ethics in this case. The child was removed from the care of her parents due to their inability to care for her due to an addiction in which they themselves created. While it is good that they have cleared themselves of the addiction they have lost their custody over the child and someone else stepped in to raise her for nearly 9...
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...“Cat in the Rain” is a short psychological story by Ernest Hemingway. The plot revolves around an American couple on a vacation in Italy; there isn't any preface to the story, we know nothing about the couple’s past. The narration starts straight off when the young woman sees a cat hiding from the rain in the hotel yard. At first sight the setting is ideal: a cozy room on the second floor, a lovely view from the window. However, there is one thing which spoils the whole picture, and that is the rain, which is why the couple stays inside. Rain is also often associated with sadness; to bring home this air of melancholy, parallel constructions are used: "The rain dripped from the palm trees. The water stood in pools on the gravel paths. The sea broke in a long line in the rain and slippedback down the beach to come up and break again in a long line in the rain ". The abundance of water is not accidental either; the rain, the sea, the pool – water symbolizes something inevitable; water is everywhere: it is on the ground, it is pouring from the heavens as though the nature weeps for something. This might also be regarded as a case of parallelism, since as the story progresses we realize that the feelings of the girl are not that positive. Here author also uses alliteration of sounds [r], [l]: "Rain dripped from the palmtrees, the sea broke in a long line in the rain", it brings the rhythm to the description of the weather. The conflict starts to unfold when the girl notices a cat in the rain...
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...In the beginning of Law of Order-Special Victims Unit/Episode: Perverted Justice, a girl in sitting in church. The young girl decides at the end of the service to approach the pastor and ask if he still has contact with his friend, a lawyer who works with Project Innocence. She states she has sinned and told a lie towards her father, who is currently in prison for that lie. The victim, the girl, told a lie that her father raped her at the age of six. The father has been incarcerated for seventeen years for this crime. The girl has now decided to tell the truth. She is a recovering drug/alcohol addict and is on her ninth step in a twelve step program. The pastor reaches out to his friend, the lawyer, who in turn, reaches out to his friend, who is currently a detective. He requests that she takes a look at the case and speak with the girl and the father and see if this is worth reopening. The father has always and still claims his innocence, stating the girl’s mother put her up to it, trying to get revenge on him. They had had several domestic cases throughout their marriage. The girl told the story, that the night in question, her father had come home to her cooking hot dogs for her and her...
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...TABLE OF CONTENT THESIS STATEMENT………………………………………………… …… 3 1.0 INTRODUCTION: ……………………………………………………. 4 1.1 THE ROOTS OF THE KIKUYU PEOPLE …………………………….4 1.2 WEDDING CELEMONIES……………………………………………..4 2.0 A LOOK IN TO AGIKUYU TRADITIONAL WEDDING…………4 2.1 NJURIO _ (proposal)……………………………………………………4 2.2 KUHADA ITHIGA _ (planting the ‘spear’)............................................5 2.3 RURACIO – (Dowry)…………………………………………………...5 2.3.1 BEHIND THE LESO…………………………………………………..6 2.4 NGURARIO _ (MARRIAGE CEREMONY)………………………………………7 2.4.1 EVE OF THE WEDDING……………………………………………..7 2.4.2 WEDDING DAY………………………………………………………..7 2.4.3 EVENING PARTY…………………………………………………………………..8 3.1 AFTRE THE CELEMONIES ……………………………………………………..8 4.1 TODAYS WORLD……………………………………………………………………..9 5.1 EFFECT OF URBANIZATION AND MODERN CULTURE TO THE RADITIONAL MARRIAGE……………………………………………9 5.2 SEXUALITY AMONG THE KIKUYU………………………………..10 5.2.1 POLYGAMOUS………………………………………………………10 5.2.2 CONJUGAL RELATIONS………………………………………….11 5.3 COME-WE-STAY……………………………………………………..12 6.0 CASESTUDY………………………………………………………………………12 6.1 Are luo Men and Kikuyu Women Compatible, Fidel Vs Veronica…………………12 6.2 INFIDELITY OF KIKUYU WOMEN………………………………………….…13 6.3 LET ALL NO TO WIFE INHERITANCE ……………………………………..……13 7.0 CONCLUTION………………………………………………………………………………13- 14 8.0 REFERENCES………………………………………………………15 THESIS STATEMENT Having being brought up in central Kenya in kikuyu land by my grandmother, my cousin Wanja always wanted to have a traditional...
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...freedom as the writer chooses the direction the story will head and the reader has the option of acceptance or denial about the theme in the story. The analysis is presented of two artists who have dwelled on the subject of freedom in their narration providing a clear understanding of the association between liberty and literature. The woman’s swimming pool is a story by Hanna Al-Shaykh, who portrays the conventional fights women face in Islamic-Arab countries. In the story, she plainly depicts the depleting pressure the young storyteller faces as she satisfies the objectives of going to the sea. The presentation of the narration is from a young woman side where accompanied by her grandmother embark on the journey to Beirut to make her fantasy on visiting the sea one day come true. The story denotes the contention of strict religious points of view and customary views, and the restrictions that a young woman faces when in between the traditions of two world. The young were raised believing in the Muslims tradition, and her views were restricted to the culture (Akbari 14). All through the story, it gets the opportunity to be evident that the sole tenacity behind the grandmother to the energetic bereaved storyteller is just to devastate her dreams, confer fear, rationally condition her and compel her down a road...
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