Beggars

anything in your culture comparable to the song? 4. Compare marriage songs in Hausa society with those of other cultures you are familiar with. 5. How many figures of speech in Hausa have you identified in the song? List them. The language of the beggar and cadger Two semantically-related but socioculturally different phenomena pervade Hausa society and culture making them almost unique to Hausawa when compared with other Nigerian communities. These are the culture of begging (bara, pronounced…

Homer, the author, reflects upon Penelope's loyalty towards Odysseus by connecting that with her hospitality towards the suitors, even though they invaded her home. Also, Homer demonstrates Telemachus’ friendliness towards Odysseus disguised as the beggar into Odysseus being revealed near the end of the epic. This is visible through the use of complex language. One of the most important cultural values in The Odyssey is the idea of Xenia, or Greek Hospitality. By all means, Penelope shows great…

Children rights: Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory. There are many types of rights like human rights, legal rights, civil rights etc. As well as adult, children also have human rights and civil rights, and legal rights –but do not have the full legal capacity of adults. Typically,…

The suitors were mean to who they thought was the beggar but was really Odysseus. For example, “In the hall, the ‘beggar’ is taunted by the evil suitors, but Penelope supports him” (Homer 929). Odysseus strives against the suitors taunting him because he is only thought of as just the ‘beggar’. Furthermore, Odysseus struggles when the suitors won’t allow him to try the bow and arrow. Penelope made a deal with the suitors…

Several short stories have criticized the characteristics of the upper class in England; Authors, Oscar Wilde and Katherine Mansfield, have criticized the upper class through their stories. Katherine Mansfield’s stories “The Doll House,” “A Cup of Tea,” and “The Garden Party,” and Oscar Wilde’s story, “Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime,” portray how the upper class tends to be self-centered, untruthful, insensitive, and superficial. The first negative characteristic of the upper class is their…

Though a rather uncreative title, Coming out of Church lacks nothing in interest visually. The painting, done by Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, was created some time before 1875 in Spain reveals the harsh class differences and cultural norms of the mid 1800’s while also revealing the artists own personal outlook on these phenomena. Madrazo cultivates a scene of gloomy metaphor in his use of rain, and a visual representation of his opnion on the class division through the use of gesture, costume,…

The Odyssey By: Homer I can compare the Odyssey to the Illiad because they are both epics about the Mycenean or the Bronze age. The Iliad tells the final chapter in the story of two major Bronze Age “Greek” alliances battling each other. The Illiad is also a turning-road kind of epic and like the Odyssey, is very long. It ended when the Greeks defeated the Trojans while the Odyssey concentrated on how Odysseus can go back to his family, while his family struggles after the war. Both are seminal…

Long ago, before Athens was a city, people were restless. There was nothing to do and nowhere to go. People had fire, they had civilization, but they were bored. Without entertainment, the people lost their will to live. They stopped praying at the god’s temples and stopped making offerings to the gods. That made the gods take notice of the humans’ situation. “Have you seen the humans recently Zeus? They have stopped praying, and the seem to be very unhappy.” Said Athene. “Yes, I have seen…

opening of the movie the narrator gives a description of the prince and his upbringing and how he was cursed. Since the Beast lacked discipline from his missing parents the prince was bound to be cursed and because of the prince’s response to the old beggar his entire kingdom was cursed, which included his staff and home. After being cursed the beast confined himself to the walls of the castle. Because of his confinement, instead of learning how to love the beast became meaner and grew a short…

though it could mean his death. When we look at how Eumaeus was a servant, there are two things that stand out. The way that he takes care of the swine as if they were his own and how he took care of Odysseus even when he was in disguised as an old beggar. When you look at the characteristics of Odysseus you can see that he has these same qualities that Eumaeus has. If Odysseus had not been in Eumaeus life,…