“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go,” wrote Dr. Seuss. People read all the time. They read information, newspapers, blogs, and Facebook. A recent survey by The U.S Department of Education and The Nation Institutes of Literacy shows that 32 million adults cannot read and write. The number of people who actually read a book in past year was 80 percent; however, 24 percent of them are the age between 20 to 35 years old. I am one
time I know how to speak and understand Amharic which is my first language though I have no clue how I got used to it. Since Amharic was spoken mostly throughout my country and at home, it wasn’t hard for me to understand what is said and interact with most people; actually for a four year old I was good at it. I am really not sure if I am called a multilingual but after Amharic my second language was English and
The focus of this work is to investigate and explore the link between ethnicity and food, exploring to what extent food mediates and carries ethnicity and nationalism. I will also attempt to analyse how certain practices I witnessed are identity markers. For the purpose of my study I have chosen Hamer Ethiopia, an Ethiopian restaurant in West London. My ethnographic study is based upon participant observation, casual conversation and short interviews due to the language barrier. I have also included
1.2 The Research Problem Curses and cursing practices have been existed as universal phenomena since the time of immemorial. However, unlike blessing, Curse words are words we are not supposed to say; as a result curse words themselves became highly influential. The topic itself is perhaps too taboo for academicians. (Jay, 2000:18). Sigmund Freud, a well-known psychologist, discusses the term taboo largely in his book “Totem and Taboo”. He considers taboo as restrictions that are different from
The term civilization refers to what is considered the most advanced stage of structure and social development. One of the biggest shifts that forever changed the fate of the human race was the event of the Neolithic Revolution. The Neolithic Age began sometime between 10,000 and 7,000 B.C.E. The Neolithic Revolution is thought to have been triggered by a shift in climate that allowed peoples in the right locations to begin experimenting with early forms of agriculture. It is important to note that
Foreign Parents It was the summer going into 6th grade I was so excited for soccer season to start at my middle school. I would regularly check my calendar during the monotonous summer days to see how many days left until tryouts. My foreign parents are very strict and stubborn so I decided it would be best to inform them ahead of time so they don’t cancel my tryout plans. “Pappa, please, please, please don't go to work on the second weekend of August. I need to try out for soccer!” I said enthusiastically
The memoir I selected was Everything You Ever Wanted by Jillian Lauren. She describes her troubles as a college dropout, a drug addict, and a harem member; then she talks about how she turned everything around when she married a rock star and adopted an Ethiopian baby boy with special needs. Her tone gives off vibes of strength and courage. All throughout the memoir, she also expands upon her own experiences as an adopted child, and how adopting a child herself (after many failed pregnancy attempts)
Ethiopia is an Eastern African country located in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia a country divided by the Great Rift Valley is home to millions of years of archaeological history. Addis Abada is the capital of Ethiopia and home to over 3 million people. Ethiopia has a total population over 99 million people, a number that has been greatly influenced by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In addition, it is around twice the size of Texas and Ethiopia is second only to Nigeria as the most populous country in Africa
In Somalia, the language spoken is Somali, which is fairly similar to the language Oromiffa and semi-similar to three other languages Arabic, Hebrew and Amharic. With the language similarities, an individual is given three names, the first name is specific to the person, the second name is the child’s father’s name and the third name is the child’s father’s grandfather’s name, leading to the fact that siblings
students English starting from a lower grade through high school. English was the official language used in the school. However, it hadn’t been practiced as much because none of the students were confident in their English. It was easier to practice Amharic or Arabic than English with classmates. Students were beginners to a new language and it was unthinkable for one to be able to read and write English in a short amount of time. Practice is really vital for improving and growing one’s
A place that has many wonders of the world that include, the Great Pyramids, a huge Sphinx, and a valley of kings tombs. What is this place: Egypt. Egypt links northeast Africa with the Middle East. This place dates back to the time of the pharaohs. Egypt is very appealing to me because of its many attractions, all the amazing Gods that Egyptians worshipped, and of course the Nile River. One thing I would love to visit Egypt to see is the Great Pyramid of Giza. Even though it would probably be really
I was born in a little town in Ethiopia. When I was about five, I started school. I was tiny, so all people used to like me especially our neighborhood. We had a neighborhood next to our house that we only socialized with the only girl; her name was Sara, and she was 13 years old. She was smarter than the other kids so my mom would send me to school with her. One day, we were walking inside the school together, and I saw a big hole and there was a mud in it. I did not tell her that I see it immediately;
Youth Group: I attend youth group at my methodist church. Every year we fast for 30 hours in a fundraiser to raise money for the international Christian charity, World Vision; we run door-to-door food drives to donate to local downtown soup kitchens; we organize food and goods for those food kitchens; and we provided many miscellaneous services such as volunteering at the pumpkin patches, organizing goods at the World Vision warehouse, collecting used clothing to donate, writing letters and cards
Ethiopia’s current leader, Mulatu Teshome Wirtu, elected as their president since October 7, 2013. Ethiopia’s current government is Federal republic and Parliamentary republic, and their national language is Amharic Language. The Masked Dictator Meles Zenawi, the former leader of Ethiopia, was a very confusing man with a mixed legacy. To the rest of the world, Zenawi seemed like peaceful leader that was pushing Ethiopia forward economically and as a country. He was a man of many faces that had
Around the world, there are many countries that have their own distinct culture, ideas and, invention. At some point, there are one too many things that different countries have borrowed from each other making them similar. However, there are also specific qualities that set them apart from each other. If you take Ethiopia; a country located in East Africa, for example, and compare it with The United States, same as North America, there are many ways we can name their dissimilarities. For one, they
I was born in Somalia, a country torn by a civil war where free public education does not exist. I lived there with my grandparents, who both wanted me to have the best education available. They both have started teaching me at an early age, where they taught me the Somali language, Arabic alphabet, and math, because they believed that learning these subjects at an early age will help me accelerate. As I reached school age, they have taken to the school in order to be tested. My test scores revealed
European colonization caused devastation and humiliation towards African colonies. The imperialistic colonizers were in total dominance with their substantial amounts of power over these colonies. They had stronger militaries, and more advanced weaponry. In theory, African colonies had little to no chance of remaining independent, but remarkably, Ethiopia managed to do it. Ethiopia remained independent and prospered due to the efficient leadership that came from Emperor Menelik II. Menelik ruled
Emperor traditionally took the title King of Kings, Lion of the tribe of Judah as a title. There are over seventy different ethnic groups within Ethiopia's mountains. The dominant group were the Amharas. Selassie was an Amharic, and the government traditionally was predominantly Amharic. The people of Jamaica in 1930 were in a hopeless situation. They had been exploited from the first days of slavery on the island. There were minimal opportunities for improvement. With such Biblical inferences and
followed by the description itself could be reliant on its gender. Instances of grammatical genders include Indo-European languages comprising German, Russian, Hindi and Spanish languages. Others include Semitic languages like Hebrew, Arabic and Amharic languages along with Australian Aboriginal, Northeast Caucasian, Afro-Asiatic and Dravidian languages. Contemporary form of English is not often considered as having grammatical gender though the classic version of English had the component. A number
from an Egyptian mother and an Ethiopian father. Egypt and Ethiopia are located in North East and East Africa respectively. My mother being an Orthodox and my father a Muslim, they shared different religious beliefs and cultures. They used Arabic, Amharic, Tigrigna and French to communicate with me and my sisters at home. At such a very young age I got exposed to different cultures that has shaped me to become the bicultural person I am today. At the age of 2, my family and I moved to Egypt. Even