Amharic

like it had a place with such a creature (“In Search of Human Origins part one.” Nova, PBS, 3 June 1997).” Named after the Beatles’ tune “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” that was playing while the research crew celebrated the Lucy’s discovery. In Amharic, an Ethiopian language, she is warmly alluded to as "Dinquinesh," signifying "great thing. Lucy was a little bodied female that likely remained around 3"6" (107cm) tall and weighed approximately 60 pounds (27.3 kg) . Researchers can tell that…

who lives in America. One month before my visit, one of my friends gave me his contact information via Viber and suggested that I him during my free time. My introduction with this new refugee was very easy because we both speak the same language (“Amharic”). I took him to the closest Tim Hortons for a coffee and to discuss his experience in Toronto. He told me that he has been in Toronto four months. He came to Canada in October 2017 and has been enjoying Canada. My refugee friend said he was…

as Great Falls, it's easy for people like me to feel on the on the outside, like an outcast. My hair and eyes, instead of being blonde and blue like all of my classmates, are a dark hue. My family does not share a last name, and at home, we speak Amharic, instead of solely English. Throughout my early years of school, I endured countless amounts of taunting. I was hurt and afraid, and didn’t know why. When I first began school in Great Falls, the students had set expectations for my behavior; an…

I was a disaster waiting to happen. Every morning getting up felt like my heart was going to jump out of my chest. To make matters worse the language spoken in the United States was completely different than what I spoke; in my country we spoke Amharic. It was very difficult to comprehend some words and to also write in a different language. As I walked into the unfamiliar building that went unnoticed, I knew instantly that I was lost. I was left with no sense of directions and no sense of the…

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Public Voice Music plays an active role in our life. It can make us joyful and can bring dramatic change in our mood. We want to listen to music in any situation whether we are happy or sad. Musicians are highly influential in society in a way that they unite people of same generation regardless of culture, language, ethnicity, and religion. Teddy Afro, a brilliant Ethiopian pop star alive today, can be a very good example of this who united Ethiopians who have different political views,…

with Westernization have taken root and still hold with the integration of a non-native language such as French along with a mixture of French and the native language/ slang. However, in a movie such as “Price of Love”, it was spoken completely in Amharic. This is an interesting situation to consider whether the director made a deliberate decision to make a statement about the native language in contrast to the backdrop of imported goods and buildings in non-English…

“Successful men and women keep moving. They made mistakes, but they don’t quit.” said Conrad Hilton. Wikipedia states that Conrad Hilton was an American hotelier and the founder of the Hilton Hotels chain. My experience that relates to my introduction is when I once went to Ethiopia to see my family for the summer I didn’t do any writing in English, so I that made me lose my mind. One of Jackie Robinson’s nine values that relates to my experience is commitment. A way it is important to me…

I. Introduction I.I BACKGROUND INFORMATION The Garden Court was established on -- -- 1971 in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. It is located in the upmarket, central district of Bole. A family-owned restaurant, The Garden Court employs 13 workers who run a designated restaurant area, bar, and coffee area. It is one of the company’s many subsidiaries under the ownership of Bekele Molla Hotels, which includes hotel chains along the Ethiopia’s rift valley, Hebir Ethiopia Cultural Restaurant, as…

but to stress the menacing length of the services we would attend. My time was spent rationalizing the emotions of the large hysterical crowd, and attempting to translate the roars of the minister to English (not only because the service was in Amharic, but because of all the weight given to allusions to the bible). After service would end and my grandma went home, my mother and I would tuck the child underneath my bed. There it would stay as we ate dinner and had our lazy…