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    Anita and Me

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    SOUTH ASIAN WRITING HOME ASSIGNMENT: Diaspora In South Asian Literature- As seen in Meera Syal’s “Anita and Me” Submitted by : 08/EL/47 Urmimala Bhattacharjee The mention of ‘home’ and ‘outside’ is not a specification of India at all‚ but rather

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    Hard Times For These Times In order to improve the sales of his own weekly magazine‚ Household Words‚ in which sales had begun to decline in 1854‚ Charles Dickens (lived 1812 – 1870) began to publish a new series of weekly episodes in the magazine. Hard Times For These Times‚ an assault on the industrial greed and political economy that exploits the working classes and deadens the soul‚ ran from April 1 to August 12‚ 1854. In the opening scenes that take place in the classroom‚ you become familiarized

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    Portrayal of Tennessee Williams’ Life Experiences in his Works To many‚ Tennessee Williams is just another playwright‚ but to others he’s a playwright with interesting views. Williams‚ "One of the most prominent playwrights in United States after World War II"(Liukkonen)‚ inserted many of his own personal experiences into his writing. It is the haunting and powerful life experiences included in Williams’ writing that makes him one of the greatest playwrights in the history of the American drama

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    Bibliography Bradley‚ David. "Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America." Transition‚vol.56‚ 1992: 20-46. Dyson‚ Micheal Eric. "Malcolm and Martin." Transition‚ n.56‚ 1992: 48-59. Hoyt‚ Charles. "The Five Face of Malcolm X." Negro American Literature Forum vol.4‚n.4‚ winter 1970: 107-112. Miller‚ Keith d. "Plymouth Rock Landed on Us: Malcolm X ’s Whiteness Theory as a basis for alternative Literacy." College Compostitionand Communication vol.56‚n.2‚ dec.2004: 199-222

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    Reading through the novel The Old Man and the Sea one‚ as a reader‚ can perceive several themes in the book. Hemingway suggests certain subjects for discussion which built up the whole plot‚ therefore giving us options to choose the one we believe is the main one. In the past weeks we have been discussing‚ in a debate‚ which is that main theme. My group’s theme was "Man Defeated" and although it is hard to affirm that this theme was the prevailing one of the book‚ we firmly defend it. Various arguments

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    Sohaliya Kumar How Did Socrates’ Life Affect The Morals of His Philosophies? In the fifth century‚ following the Peloponnesian war‚ in the golden age with Pericles ruling over Athens‚ Greece Socrates impacted and altered many lives in different ways. With his wits‚ bravery‚ courage‚ and audacious attitude Socrates added many philosophical beliefs that created a foundation for many other philosophical people to build upon. Socrates had his own method called the “Socratic method”

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    Invisible man

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    surreal--dream-like and sometimes nightmarish. In fact‚ the dream serves as a motif that is echoed over and over in the novel. The narrator dreams that his scholarship to a black college is merely a note reading "keep this nigger boy running;" his unconscious seems to be telling him that his faith in the American Dream‚ as it applies to blacks‚ is naive and dangerous to his sanity. From that point on‚ every time the narrator seems to be on the verge of success--in college or in speech making or in organizations--he

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    The Happy Man

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    «Life is full of compensations» Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham is one of the best known English writers of the 20th century. William Somerset Maugham (1874-1966)‚ a well-known English novelist‚ short-story writer‚ playwright and essayist‚ was the son of a British diplomat. He was born in 1874 in Paris and educated at King’s School in Canterbury‚ studied painting in Paris‚ went to Heidelberg University in Germany and studied to be a doctor at St. Thomas Hospital in England. Although Somerset

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    superman and me

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    Superman Saved my Life The best feeling in the world is overcoming an obstacle‚ especially one when people say it can’t be done. Sherman Alexie talks about this in his writing “Superman and me‚” where he tells us his life story about how he started out as a poor Indian boy living on a reservation and overcame many racial barriers to become a writer. Alexie uses rhetorical strategies such as ethos and pathos to pull the reader in and make them understand his life story. He also uses writing strategies

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    Life in the 1930’s shown in Cinderella Man In Ron Howard’s film‚ Cinderella Man‚ the story of the famous boxer James J. Braddock is told during his career in the late 1920’s and 1930’s during the Great Depression. Jim is a fierce boxer during the 1920’s and is very successful‚ but as the years go by Jim begins to wash up and lose his luck in the ring. He suffers an injury and loses his job as a professional boxer right as the economy begins to plunge as the country enters the Great Depression.

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