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with bodily fluids (sweat, blood, saliva, urine, vomit and mucus) of an infected and symptomatic person. Symptoms of EVD include; a fever, severe headache, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, and unexplained bleeding or bruising (Sarwar , Sitar & Ledgerwood, 2010). This deadly disease has now made its presence known in the United States, and no one knows the time of its exit. This happened just because of a missed diagnosis and miscommunication. The coverage of EVD in the media…

relatable elements into 14 lines with a bit of humors along the way. He tells the good and the worst of social networking. In the first stanza he said that Facebook is an endless high school reunion which it’s okay with my opinion. However, Sarcasm and sitar is used in the first line of the poem and throughout almost the whole poem. It allows the reader in placing themselves in the speakers’ shoes and understands the speakers’ point of view. He used rhyme scheme to make the poem interesting and…

As the 69th Cannes Film Festival progresses, an attempt at revisiting the only Indian film to have won Grand Prix there In a year when no film from India has made it to the competition section at Cannes, it is interesting to note that the only time an Indian entry won the top honours there was a year before the country was born. Almost 70 years back, in 1946, Neecha Nagar by Chetan Anand shared the Grand Prix with 10 other films. Among the very first films to follow the approach of social…

The 1960’s were a time of social and political evolution, but this thirst to change was not limited to such causes and spread to other cultural elements, most importantly music. The decade was a time for performers to experiment with new and exciting ways of making sounds and performing music. Ways that had never been seen or heard before. Artists who would never have been popularized a decade earlier were finding a following in the free spirited 1960’s culture. Artists like Bob Dylan, Pink…

traditional boyband music. However, in December of 1965, with the release of Rubber Soul, The Beatles released their first cohesive record, as well as their first album that explored deeper lyrical themes and instrumental experimentation (such as the sitar on the track “Norwegian Wood”). While Rubber Soul was largely folk-based, the 1966 album Revolver saw the group push the pop envelope even further, writing songs…

The calabash and the horn The calabash and the horn are objects of great cultural value in the bakossi and ngemba ethnic groups in the South West and North West regions of Cameroon respectively. While the calabash Is typical to the bakossi and the horn to the ngemba, both are sometimes used together in some cases. To a stranger, the calabash is simply a bottle gourd or a calabash gourd which is a large vine fruit and a horn is a hard curved and pointed outgrowth on the head of some animals like…

TATA GROUP Tata Group History: Tata group was founded by Jamsetji tata in 1868 as a trading company. Now the group has expanded its operations to 80 countries across six continents. The group has over 100 companies which are operating separately. The major companies under the umbrella of TATA group are Tata consultancy services (TCS), TATA power, TATA motors, Taj Hotels, TATA chemicals, TATA communications, TATA global beverages, Titan industries, TATA teleservices. They are the pioneers in…

entire audience was full. I learned a lot about Indo-Caribbean music and dance, since I was introduced to so many acts in one night. Before today, I was never exposed to this culture and its songs. I also learned that my partner knows how to play the sitar, a plucked stringed instrument played in Indian music, and can sing beautifully. Being a part of the show was obviously a large commitment, and it shows her passion for her…

The Mughals ruled northern India from 1526 – 1857 AD where the Lodhi’s was the last dynasty to rule India. The invasion started all because of India's reputation of being the only known source of diamond mines in the world and it's flushing International trade attracted many invasions. “North Indian kingdoms resisted invasions by Arab and Turks for centuries, but soon small Islamic empires or Sultanate were established in several parts of the north. Before these invasions, Muslim trading…

The earliest stringed instruments known to Archaeologists are bowl harps and tanburs.(3) The bowl harps were made with Tortoise shell and calabash. The next most common are types of harps. The world's museums contain many such "harps" from the ancient Sumerian, Babylonian, and Egyptian civilisations. Around 2500 - 2000 CE more advanced harps, such as the opulently carved 11-stringed instrument with gold decoration found in Queen Shub-Ad's tomb, started to appear.(3) A tanbur is defined as "a…