The hardest changes are the ones you have no choice’s in!! Found my self on the sweet end of a bad deal. I wasn’t only given money, and every thing you can buy with it, but the free benefits that went with it. What trouble could there be in making money? The humdrum life of a nine to five was easy to want to give up, but not like this! These first memories are of how it all started off badly with the amount that would have made a great nest egg towards a little place in the woods where I could just fish my life away. With a good woman next to my side I would make a family and be a grandfather by fifty. The first thing I needed to do was fmd that woman, but the property, and learn how to fish. When I went from alone to not enough room it was so different, but not bad either. What kind of screwed it up was to many people knowing about it just at the same time. I would have never been seen in these areas alone afraid that some one would see me and I would loose the only job I got. Now to think about it I would have been better off with not placing that first bet. Well hells bells I did and the things in that business will never be the same again. Thank god that some of the scum that was there is gone now but it will only slow down the flow of want to be “s”. When you don’t have them you want them, when you have them they aren’t what you asked for. The though that more then one is a blessing? There was fun in the learning of that lesson that cost even more then just sweat and tears. “Who would think that the one that screwed you would end up where she did in the end!” Sir George Brandon
Have you ever placed that bet or took the chance at cards for that big pot? Do you wonder what it is like to have money and some fame? Do you want people to do what you say without question? Well, it can happen, but the downside is the fact that there is a cost and others' lives will be decided on your whims. Are you ready for that? You know you will never worry about being alone because money buys love too. Easy come, easy go! In the end, it will never end. There is too much give-and-take. Just don't be the one being taken from; giving is hard to do when you waited so long for it!
On his own terms, Brandon more than fulfills his promise to take the reader on the transatlantic journey of the orisha and to explore the complexities of African memory in the diaspora." —American Historical Review "He adeptly addresses broader issues, such as power relations within Caribbean slavery, multiculturalism, and the forms of religious accommodation to cultural change. In addition, he offers a fresh and cogent assessment of the production and reproduction of African beliefs and practices in new contexts. Brandon's exemplary archival research is supplemented by skillful participant observation." —Choice The Yoruba religious tradition arose in West Africa, but its influence has spread beyond Africa to millions of adherents in the Americas as well. Santeria from Africa to the New World retraces one path taken by this tradition—a path from Africa to Cuba and to New York City. George Brandon examines the religion's transatlantic route through Cuban Santeria, Puerto Rican Espiritismo, and Black Nationalism. In following the historical and anthropological evolution of the Yoruba religion, Brandon discusses broader questions of power, multiculturalism, cultural change, and the production and reproduction of African retentions.
This book is, in a sense, complementary to the author's Prolegomena to the Study of Yeats's Poems. Based on the reasonably definitive Collected Plays (London, 1952; New York, 1953), it essays for each play a correction of any error in final dating if such error exists; a full publication record (keyed to a complete bibliography), followed by a reference to Wade's Bibliography for every translation there recorded; notations on first production if the play has had production; a statement of what is known about dates of composition and revision, and relevant concerns; resolution—in careful glosses—of conceivable obscurities; reference to really important critical comment; and pertinent suggestion of parallel passages. Appendices present notes on uncollected or unpublished Yeatsian drama and on the many errors of the 1953 American edition of the plays. This comprehensive study will be valuable to all Yeatsians and students of the Irish Renaissance in general, as well as anyone seriously concerned with modern drama. Like its sister Prolegomena, it will be a particular timesaver to neophytes in Yeatsian scholarship.
This comprehensive atlas explores the varied ritual practices and religious beliefs in the ancient cultural region thought to be the cradle of civilization. The captivating history of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the area known as the Fertile Crescent, unfolds through a pictorial and illustrated journey. Through a robust glossary, sidebars, and thematic introductions the social studies content of this fascinating subject becomes easily digestible, for even the most reluctant reader, while the further reading section inspires future research.
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