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    TOURISM The traditional relationship of Oba Liken of Ibefun and the people of Lagos and Ibiyeroye marriage may explain the notion that Eyo was introduced to Lagos from Ibefun. Chief Tajudeen Gbadesere revealed that‚ “the variant of Eyo staged was in the night entailing three consecutive outings in a performance where the use of Aropale and other paraphernalia were absent. Nevertheless‚ the place of Malaki and Ejilu in the historical origin of the fanciful Eyo play is brought out forcefully in a praise

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    Figures of Speech

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    to transfer the poet ’s sense. FIGURES OF SPEECH | EXAMPLE (in Filipino Language/Context) | 1. SIMILE - an explicit comparison that is made between two essentially unlike things‚ usually using ‘like’‚ ‘as’ or ‘than’. | Mala-porselana ang kutis ng mga gumagamit ng sabon na ito. | 2. METAPHOR - compare one thing to another in terms of a different object or idea‚ often using the word "is." In a figure of speech‚ they are plainly stated‚ to the point and directly said.  | Ang galit ay ang

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    Tsotsi Film Study Notes

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    for the baby on his own‚ Tsotsi spots Miriam (Terry Pheto)‚ with a young child strapped to her back‚ collecting water from a public tap. He follows her to her shack and forces her at gunpoint to feed the kidnapped child. Meanwhile‚ rich gang leader Fela (Zola) begins attempting to recruit Aap‚ Boston and Butcher to work for him. When Tsotsi takes the child to Miriam a second time‚ she asks him to leave the boy with her so that she can care for him on Tsotsi’s behalf‚ and Tsotsi agrees. Over time Tsotsi

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    444 Cases E ot nearly a decade‚ the EU and the United I States were engaged in a heated trade dispute over bananas. The EU had introduced tariffs and quotas that discriminated in favor o[ bananas grown in former European colonies and dependencies located in the Caribbean and Africa. The new rules were favorable to the European-based banana companies‚ whose production was heavily located in these preferced regions. However‚ the new rules were disadvantageous to the U.S.-based companies‚

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    world? What the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe calls “a balance of stories.” and “What if my roommate knew about contemporary Nigerian music‚ talented people singing in English and Pidgin‚ and Igbo and Yoruba and Ijo‚ mixing influences from Jay-Z to Fela to Bob Marley to their Grandfathers?” You many think Africa is not equal to the U.S however they have similar. This shows you that one humankind is not better then there

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    In the time of the butterflies summary chapters 5-8 Chapter 5 Back in the present (1994)‚ Dede considers how Fela‚ their longtime servant‚ thinks that she is possessed by the spirits of the dead Mirabal sisters. She had accidentally come across Fela’s shrine to the girls one Friday in the shed behind the house. She had ordered Fela to move the shrine‚ but Minou scolded her for being intolerant. Minou often stops at the shrine‚ which is now down the street. She asks Dede where Lio Morales now lives

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    Running head: EMLOYEE WELFARE PROGRAMS Employee Welfare Programs Dawn Hook Baker College of Cadillac Human Resources and Employment Law HRM401R Sally Randall June 8‚ 2010 Abstract This research will provide basic information regarding three employee welfare programs signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935. The programs included in this research paper are the social security program‚ the workers’ compensation program‚ and the unemployment compensation program instituted

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    for mines. A year later‚ the state adopted a liability act‚ which eventually developed into the Illinois Workmens’ Compensation Act (Stout). The Workers Compensation Act has evolved into many similar things. The railroad and airline industries used FELA‚ the Federal Employers Liability Act‚ to compensate workers who are injured or killed. Mother Jones and many others helped the workers get their

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    the sea‚ enforced by the federal Courts. Seamen have certain rights and remedies against their employers under Admiralty Law‚ if injured on the job or during a voyage. Jones Act – a federal law that extended the Federal Employer’s Liability Act (FELA) to give injured seamen the right to sue their employer in federal Admiralty courts for their work-related injuries. Longshore – literally means “along the shore”. Refers to maritime employment‚ other than work as a seaman. Includes work building

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    Shona Ethnoaesthetics: Beauty and the Shona Proverb by Kudzai Matereke Lecturer‚ Great Zimbabwe University; Ph.D. Candidate‚ University of New South Wales‚ Australia kudzaimatereke@yahoo.co.uk & Jacob Mapara Lecturer‚ Great Zimbabwe University; Ph.D. Candidate‚ University of South Africa jacomapara@yahoo.co.uk Abstract This paper seeks to examine how the Shona traditional society conceptualised beauty; drawing from the meaning and content of the Shona proverb‚ suggesting that traditional

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