Download or read book Oral Literature of the Maasai written by Naomi Kipuri and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1983-12-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oral Literature of the Maasai offers an extensive collection of types of oral literature: oral narratives; proverbs; riddles; and a variety of songs for different occasions. The versions in this book were collected by the author from a specific Maasai community in Kajiado County of Kenya. The author listened to many of the narratives and participated in many proverb and riddle telling sessions as she grew up in her Ilbissil village of Kajiado Central Sub-county. However, she recorded most of the examples of oral literature in the early seventies with the help of her mother, who performed the role of the oral artist. Many songs were recorded from live performances. The examples ring with individuality, while also revealing a comprehensive way of life of a people. The images in the literature reveal the concrete life of the Maasai people living closely with their livestock and engaged in constant struggle with the environment. But like all important literature, the materials here ultimately reveal a people with its moral and spiritual concerns, grappling with questions of human values and relations, struggling for a better social order.

Download or read book Transactions written by Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Films of Steven Spielberg written by Douglas Brode and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pictorial study puts Steven Spielberg's career in focus: from his first feature, "The Sugarland Express", through his phenomenal blockbusters, including "Jaws", Jurassic Park", and "Schindler's List". Photos.

Download or read book Prima Facie written by Richard Thomas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with more than eighty compelling and often humorous essays, Prima Facie explores a wide array of subjects-human nature, free will, war, evolution, religion, political correctness, death and taxes. Author Richard Thomas reflects on these subjects and his own life to determine why people act the way they do. Thomas proposes three laws to explain human behavior: Reciprocity. This law states that everyone should have an equivalent exchange of goods for services rendered. We all want fair treatment from our associates. The Leg Up. This law claims that a person will climb over someone else to improve his situation or enforce his supposed superior status. LCD. This law maintains that humans tend to drag each other down to the lowest common denominator (LCD). One person cannot be better than someone else. Thomas argues that the various systems we have created to control our interactions with one another have turned the human race from once fearful, huddling prey into predators who now stalk their own kind. Prima Facie asks us to examine our own lives and beliefs, requires us to recognize the negative impact our everyday behavior has on others, and encourages us to take back responsibility for our destiny.

Download or read book Field Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.

Download or read book Bes The Omnibus written by William Forde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bes is a story suitable for the New Millennium reader aged between 9-13 years. It tells a story that loosely links with the three character types I introduced in 'The Bear with a Sore Head', 'Solo and Solomon' and 'Elephants Cry Too.' It is the first day of a New Millennium and the 'maker of all time' who is disappointed with the humans of the earth, sends a three dimensional spirit to the earth in the form of a strange looking animal. that is part bear, part sheep and part elephant. The three-dimensional spirit is 'Bes', whose form is in the shape of part bear, part elephant and part sheep. Bes is given 40 years in which to spread a message of peace and love to all of the earth's creatures. If Bes can persuade the animals to live in 'peace and love' its purpose will have been served and as a reward to the animal kingdom, the 'maker of all life' will give all animals supremacy and rule over all humans.

Download or read book Strong Women of Biblical Times written by Kathryn Charles and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When recording the stories of daring human exploits, the authors of the Bible seemed to have concentrated on the heroic men of ancient times, such as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, David, Jesus, Peter, Paul, and John, to name just a few. The stories of those courageous men are thrilling to hear and to read about; however, this narrative will consider the strong, brave, and valiant women in the Bible whose lives were not as embellished as their famous counterparts, but still were influential in shaping the history of biblical times. According to Dr. Lockyer in All the Women of the Bible, there are approximately two hundred named women in the Bible and an equal number of unnamed women. Out of the sixty-six books contained in the Holy Bible, there are only two of them named for women—Ruth and Esther; nevertheless, women can be seen throughout the Old and the New Testaments being used by God in mighty ways. Despite the patriarchal society of biblical days, there were strong women who played significant roles in leadership, courage, humility, and compassion in ancient times. The purpose of this writing is to highlight a few of these women and to give the reader insight into the character of each individual. It will also tell of the motivation for the strength of each one and the consequences of her actions.

Download or read book BLOOD ON ORCHARD STREET written by CHARLES MORST and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read in to the world of crime like you never seen before Mike Hallman is a veteran of the police force for the last twenty two years, and had been assigned to a case that may alter the way he views crime. The way that he solve them, and the idea of murder. As him and his loyal partner; Detective Brandon Small gives their effort to cracking what might be the most disturbing case in his career. The clock ticks as the suspect of a gruesome murder eluded police officers and has Hallman on a chase that will surely leave him speechless. As a murder of a young woman unfold in a little town all is not what you think? What secrets lies on Orchard Street? In this fiction based crime novel; Author Charles Morst gives you crime to really shoot your brains out for. This twisted, thriller will leave you on the edge of your seat wanting more.

Download or read book How to Relax While Flying written by Donna M. Trickett and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Relax While Flying, will not only help you to pass the time more enjoyably, as you wait for your flight to leave, but it will transport you to places you may never have been before, through the playful and honest storytelling-style of Donna Trickett. How to Relax While Flying, is filled with stress-reducing lessons derived from each true short story. Each chapter describes a trip Donna made with her airline pilot husband, Nelson, for over 50 years. You will laugh at their honeymoon standby mishaps, sing to Mr. Rogers in first class and discover the unique beauty of Palmer, Alaska; Riccione, Italy; Hana, Maui; Jasper, Alberta; and the Isle of Man, to name but a few. You’ll take on a more positive outlook on air travel, as you gain a pilot’s perspective and learn truths about airline safety. As a bonus, chapter 27 has valuable tips for standby travelers and chapter 28 has tips to promote relaxation while flying.

Download or read book Hassaniya Arabic Mali written by Jeffrey Heath and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most countries of the Maghreb, the local Arabic vernaculars are increasingly inundated by vocabulary, grammatical forms, and even syntax from literary Arabic (used in mosques, schools, and media), and oral poetry is receding except for popular song genres. The Arabs of the TimbuktuGao region, by contrast, are a peripheral linguistic minority with little exposure to literary Arabic. They continue to speak a relatively pure beduin Arabic, closely related to varieties spoken in Mauritania and southern Algeria. These texts, recorded in 1986-1989 and presented here in transcription along with facing English translations, document this language, as well as the remarkable verbal culture of these people. The ethnographic texts cover such topics as the annual salt caravans from Timbuktu to Taoudenni, the perils of the pastoral life, and adjustments to city life. The "poetic" texts include recitations of locally familiar poems, typically integrated into narratives or otherwise contextualized. The poems, consisting of quatrains (gaf) and more extended poems (tal'a), are often satirical or even bawdy in nature.Jeffrey Heath is Professor of Linguistics and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of many fieldworkbased works, including grammars, dictionaries, and text collections on languages of Australia and on Songhay languages of West Africa.

Download or read book Meanwhile Back at the Flock written by Mary Ellen Shoemaker and published by Jlj Pub. This book was released on 1980-02-01 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Greatest Fairytales of All Time in One Book written by Lewis Carroll and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 7268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this unique collection of the most beloved fairy tales of all time: Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm Complete Fairy Books of Andrew Lang Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (J. M. Barrie) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) Five Children and It (E. Nesbit) The Phoenix and the Carpet (E. Nesbit) The Story of the Amulet (E. Nesbit) The Enchanted Castle (E. Nesbit) Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Collection (L. Frank Baum): The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Marvelous Land of Oz The Woggle-Bug Book Ozma of Oz Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz The Road to Oz The Emerald City of Oz The Patchwork Girl of Oz Little Wizard Stories of Oz Tik-Tok of Oz The Scarecrow of Oz Rinkitink in Oz The Lost Princess of Oz The Tin Woodman of Oz The Magic of Oz Glinda of Oz At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) The Princess and the Goblin (George MacDonald) The Princess and Curdie (George MacDonald) Wonder Book (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Tanglewood Tales (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Oscar Wilde) A House of Pomegranates (Oscar Wilde) All the Way to Fairyland (Evelyn Sharp) The Blue Bird for Children (Maurice Maeterlinck and Georgette Leblanc) The King of the Golden River (John Ruskin) Rootabaga Stories (Carl Sandburg) Knock Three Times! (Marion St. John Webb) The Cuckoo Clock (Mary Louisa Molesworth) Friendly Fairies (Johnny Gruelle) Raggedy Ann Stories (Johnny Gruelle) Raggedy Andy Stories (Johnny Gruelle) Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi Old Peter's Russian Tales

Download or read book Builders of the Chinese Church written by G. Wright Doyle and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1807, when the first Protestant missionary arrived in China, to the 1920s, when a new phase of growth began, thousands of missionaries and Chinese Christians labored, often under very adverse conditions, to lay the groundwork for a solid, healthy, and self-sustaining Chinese church. Following an Introduction that sets the scene and surveys the entire period, Builders of the Chinese Church contains the stories of nine leading pioneers--seven missionaries and two Chinese. Here we meet Robert Morrison, the heroic translator; Liang Fa, the first Chinese evangelist; missionary-scholar James Legge; J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission; converted opium addict Pastor Hsi ("Overcomer of Demons"); Griffith John and Jonathan Goforth, both indefatigable preachers; and the idealistic advocates of education and reform, W. A. P. Martin and Timothy Richard. Readers will be inspired by their courage, devotion, and sheer perseverance in arduous work, and will gain an understanding of the roots of the two "branches" of today's Chinese Protestantism.

Download or read book The Big Book of Fairytales Fantasy Classics written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 7311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you collection of fairy tales, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm Complete Fairy Books of Andrew Lang Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (J. M. Barrie) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) Five Children and It (E. Nesbit) The Phoenix and the Carpet (E. Nesbit) The Story of the Amulet (E. Nesbit) The Enchanted Castle (E. Nesbit) Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Collection (L. Frank Baum): The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Marvelous Land of Oz The Woggle-Bug Book Ozma of Oz Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz The Road to Oz The Emerald City of Oz The Patchwork Girl of Oz Little Wizard Stories of Oz Tik-Tok of Oz The Scarecrow of Oz Rinkitink in Oz The Lost Princess of Oz The Tin Woodman of Oz The Magic of Oz Glinda of Oz At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) The Princess and the Goblin (George MacDonald) The Princess and Curdie (George MacDonald) Wonder Book (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Tanglewood Tales (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Oscar Wilde) A House of Pomegranates (Oscar Wilde) All the Way to Fairyland (Evelyn Sharp) The Blue Bird for Children (Maurice Maeterlinck and Georgette Leblanc) The King of the Golden River (John Ruskin) Rootabaga Stories (Carl Sandburg) Knock Three Times! (Marion St. John Webb) The Cuckoo Clock (Mary Louisa Molesworth) Friendly Fairies (Johnny Gruelle) Raggedy Ann Stories (Johnny Gruelle) Raggedy Andy Stories (Johnny Gruelle) Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi Old Peter's Russian Tales

Download or read book The Gleaning Time Arc Two Into The Fields written by Angela Pritula and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Raven the Dove and the Owl of Minerva written by M. Glouberman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents a substantial revision to received ideas about the relationship between biblical and ancient Greek conceptions of human nature.

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