Development of Drama in Africa Micheal Etherton in his book Development of Drama in Africa, looks at Traditional drama in contemporary society. He looks at how contemporary drama has borrowed several aspects of the traditional drama. Etherton also looks at travel theatre groups in Africa and their development. The nature of contemporary drama in Africa can only be understood by studying its historical roots. Modern drama, operas and performances trace their origin to ritual dramas in Africa. Etherton analyses the modern village festival. The Kalankiiwa festival that he and other colleagues from Ibadan University attended. He, in his research, reinforces Aristoliean rules of drama; he looks at drama beyond the final product and focuses on the means of production of drama. The effects of colonial history are evident in modern-day drama. Is modern African theatre functional, according to Micheal Etherton? Contemporary African theatre is functional as it is a means of moving society to speak the ills that exist in neocolonial African Society. Etherton further states that “African theatre is not confined within constructed architectural spaces but is flexible and…
Life Review Life review refers to the increase in the vividness and consciousness of memories for re-analysis or resolution. It is a fundamental part of the aging process that differs from individual to individual. Life review is a universal process that occurs in response to old age, terminal illness, or near-death experience. Some people go through the process without realizing it. It is a response to the approach of death when individuals recognize they can no longer feel that death is only for other people. A life review brings life-long memories that had faded slightly into sharper focus. Unresolved issues tend to take center stage during this time. This research paper will focus on the life review as pertains to old age by interviewing an older person. The Interview I chose my maternal grandmother as the interviewee for this interview. I settled on her because she raised me for a short while during my childhood, and we have remained close ever since. My grandmother also tends to be forthright and doesn’t sugar coat things. She is 66 years old, and…
Doping as A Performance Enhancement in Sports Introduction Doping primarily entails the usage of illegal drugs in sports events by individuals with the aim of boosting their performance. It is practiced illegally, as it is against the benchmark laid down by sports competition regulatory bodies or organizations. People cunningly practice it and are never noted anywhere in the sportsbook of record. Steroids are one of the drugs commonly used by baseball players and athletics. Despite enhancing the performance of the people in sports, doping does harm the health of human beings and portrays a bad image of the original intent of games. This context addresses some of the merits and demerits that are associated with doping in sports. Pros To begin with, it grants players freedom of taking risks they consider fit. Introduction of Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED) into human anatomy enhance one’s performance in terms of speed, zeal and one can be active for a longer time. It helps a person achieve a better outcome with less hustle and minimal body injuries. Whether it was done via injection, pills,…
What is eSports betting? Esports betting describes wagering on organized video game competitions. Similar to traditional sports, eSports consists of teams, leagues, officials and stadiums. You can attend the matches live or stream the games online. Players compete in a series of popular video games: Call of Duty, FIFA 20, Counter-Strike, League of Legends and Dota 2, to name a few. Esports winners compete for prize pools as massive as £30 million, with some players clinching up to £3 million per competition. Being a growing sport with over 300 million fans worldwide, many bookmakers now offer betting markets for it. Some of them even provide exclusive bonuses to UK eSports betting fans. And considering the sport offers as many betting opportunities as football or basketball, it’s a sport worth every bettor’s attention. On What Games can you bet in eSports Betting? Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) CS: GO is one of the most popular games in the world, and it’s also one of the easiest games to play. Two teams of players compete in shooting each other out in a…
Enset Plant Enset/ensete is commonly referred to as Ethiopian banana, false banana, Abyssinian banana, or Ensete Ventricosum. The plant resembles a banana plant, although the banana plant belongs to the genus of Musa. Enset is an edible flowering plant with its root being edible and fruits being inedible with hard, black rounded seeds. Enset is a gigantic non-woody herb plant with it large banana-like leafs. The leaves are 1 m wide and 5 m tall with a salmon-pink midrib. At the end of the plant life, flowers occur once from the center, and after flowering, it dies. The plant is cut before flowering deriving food, and the most common food is Kocho. The leaf midribs are scraped, and its pulp taken through the fermentation process for 10-15 days and then steamed and baked to flat bread. The plant provides staple food to around 20 million people in Ethiopia. Cultivated Enset Tradition enset cultivation is based on gender role cultivation, which is highly essential. The men generally do cultivation, transplanting, and propagation of the enset while women work on…
Karma and the Self Hinduism and Buddhism are among the eastern religions that have gained wide recognition around the world. The religions have helped popularize two concepts, Karma and the Self. Both Karma and the Self are discussed in the scriptures of both religions. The concepts are critical to one crucial mission of both Hinduism and Buddhism, the alleviation of suffering in the world. Both believe that karma and our mistaken views regarding the self cause us to suffer in life. They take it as part of their mission to inform their followers regarding karma and to correct their misguided view regarding the self. The concepts are discussed in the Dhammapada, Buddhist scripture, and the Bhagavad Gita, part of scripture read by followers of Hinduism. The views regarding karma and the self in the two scriptures differ. In the Bhagavad Gita, Karma is discussed under the title “Karma-Yoga,” which is translated to mean “The Path of Action” (Easwaran, 2007). The discussion of the concept arose when Arjuna asked Lord Krishna why he asked him to engage in a terrible…
Deities and Buddhism The relationship between yogis and Buddhism has, for a long time, existed. This relation is attributed to the fact that the traditions followed in both have a common descent in terms of the area they evolved. Additionally, the terms employed in practice and principles in both have some parallelism; hence, most of their teachings appear identical. Both Buddhist and yogis hold on to the belief that suffering is part of being human and escape from it is inevitable and that only through showing compassion to self and others can one be free of the pain experienced while living, additionally, the yogic philosophy believes in a supreme power, a belief that is similar to Buddhist who trust in the existence of deities and in supreme celestial beings though at varied levels of supremacy. Both Buddhists and Yogis perceive bondage and suffering as inevitable through the course of life and in the existence of supreme beings with the importance attached to the reality varied. Jayaram reiterates, “Bondage and suffering according to the Buddha, desire is the root cause of suffering,…
H1N1 outbreak US 2009-2010 Abstract A flu strain caused the H1N1 outbreak of 2009 – 2010, multiple organizations were involved to the response towards the H1N1 epidemic, at the beginning of the epidemic FDA designed management systems to help in response, that includes a seven-team structure that was supposed to address some health-related issues of the epidemic, many people were not pleased with the way FDA was responding to the explosion which leads to uproar from the citizens and even some boycotting the vaccine. FDA, in collaboration with CDC, clarified the use of MCMs to both the public and health providers. Introduction The outbreak of H1N1 in 2009-2010 was as a result of a novel flu strain, the response to the outbreak involved multiple governmental organizations (Sagy, Feder-Bubis, Novack, Peleg-Sagy & Greenberg, 2018), it was first detected in the United States and it spread at a speedy rate to the rest of the world, the virus contained a unique combination of influenza gene that had never been identified either on people or animals. The infection mostly attacked the young…
Protagoras’ statements on punishment Give precise reasoning given and not given for punishment. The text talks about why human beings punish those who commit offenses. It states that punishment is only meaningful if it is given with the goal of preventing future offenses. This is achieved by preventing the person and those who see getting punished for repeating it in the future. These are quotes from Socrates. However, it also states that a punishment should be given by focusing in the past as that would just be a vendetta with no meaningful outcome. How true is it on how communities/cities and individuals punish? Give reasons why/why not? The text has a lot of truth about why punishments are given in today’s society. The law courts hand sentences to criminals to prevent them from repeating them in the future. This is the core message that Socrates said. The same is applied to individuals. For example, a person will ground his/her child so that he/she learns from her mistakes. A community will also deny certain individuals privileges so as to teach them…
Proposal Submission for Assignments 1 and 2 Coca Cola Company is the number one soft drink manufacturer in the world. Its products are consumed nearly 1.9billion times in a day. Its headquarters are located in Georgia in the United States of America, with branches in almost 200 countries globally. Coca Cola is globally recognized and has a powerful brand image. It has a logo that is well known across the world. It is the leading beverage company in the world, and it has been able to sustain this through its unique marketing strategy and the variety of flavors. Despite all this, the world’s financial crisis and the rising strength of the American dollar resulted in reduced profits. Another challenge they face is the ever-changing customer preference for healthier drinks and beverages in place of Soda. Nearly 70 percent of Coca Colas income generates from outside the United States, and the critical factor for this is it meets various customers’ preferences. The company’s image resonates with people quickly, and a wide variety of people embrace it. The image of Coca Cola…