Town crier

Sembene Ousmane is touted as the Father of African cinema, not only for being one of the earliest film makers, but that he can equally boast of a filmography that encompasses all the basic styles and genres that characterize the broad categorizations of African cinema. Social realist narratives, colonial confrontation, and return to the origins, according to Manthia Diawara, are the three basic trends of films in Africa (Diawara 1992, 140). Right through his illustrious filmmaking career that…

watching my stoic father limp round the trailer made me think that his sour joints were an act. I felt those years nearly instantly, on my back. Considering the man couldn 't shed a tear when my mother passed, says a lot about him. I wasn 't much a crier myself, but I shed what I had. She had fought a good fight. This being said, in the field behind…

With all of this emphasis placed on reading, I wasn’t really exposed to writing until the end of my primary school education which hindered my writing incredibly. I remember being in fourth grade and having all of these creative writing assignments that I was making less than average grades on, and being frustrated because this was the first time that I wasn’t exceling at something. At that time my imagination was expressed through reading fantasy stories instead of writing them. I was…

As our lives evolve and as we continue to become members of not just or local community, but members of many globalized communities, our personal and our organization’s communication skills will continue to evolve and expand in many different channels, many of which have not been invented, but may well be in use in the next five years. After careful thought and exploration, I chose to major in Strategic Communication because I realized the amazing and personal impact, communication has on both…

market dominated by a few large firms prevalent since the early 1950’s. Mass Media has done a complete transformation, and with each change there has been a better outcome each time.A few great examples are the development of newspapers superseding town criers because newspapers offered an opportunity to record information. Magazines then superseded newspapers due to a broader scope of news, radio superseded magazines because it allowed information to be spread among a lot of people…

Newspaper were the original form of literature within California and California first newspaper, “Californian” was a weekly newspaper that appeared in Monterey on August 15th, 1846. Walter Colten and Robert Semple formed a partnership to publish the newspaper and a found an old printing press and Agustin V. Zamorano imported the printing press to Monterey from Boston. “Californian” weekly newspaper was written in English and Spanish and continued to be published in The Monterey until May 1847.…

the right thing at the right time? Who are the people I most need, and to whom should I, therefore, pay more attention than to the rest? And, what affairs are the most important, and need my first attention?” At this point, the King sent out the town criers to announce to the wise people of the kingdom. To my point of view according to the story, this first thing I observed was that the King was the ruler of the kingdom and had four groups of wise people who had come to explain and interpret…

Death and the Afterlife Traditional Roman beliefs on Death and the Afterlife: Ancient Roman people had very specific ideas and beliefs about death and the afterlife. Romans often had traditions that would help a person’s spirit travel form earth to the underworld. Mostly of very high importance was ensuring a proper burial. Along with this other steps were taken such as a coin being placed of the mouth of the deceased, as payment to the demon boatman they believed carried the dead across the…

Do you remember the excitement as a child to receive something in the mail? Every day you would run to the mailbox with hopes of getting mail. Children in today’s society don’t know the excitement that comes with the mail. Today’s children will grow up to expect emails, texts, and other forms of technology. What is the true importance of written communication? Some may say that there is none while others wish we could go back in time to when that was the only communication we had. The true…

The man with the limp beckoned Seth and me over. We gathered in front of the fireplace. “We’re not finding anything. We should call the police—” The man in the printed shirt held up one finger to shush us. “Listen . . .” Everyone froze. “I thought I heard something,” he whispered. “It might have just been the old house creaking. But let’s turn off the lights and see if anything moves.” All the lights went out, leaving us in almost total darkness except for the pale platinum moonlight…