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    Game and Passage

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    body. On the basis of your reading of the passage‚ answer the following questions: a) What did Buddha find? (1) b) What news was brought to him and what was his reaction? (2) c) What desire took hold of him? (1) d) Why did he give up fasting? (1) e) What did he realize? (1) f) Find words from the passage‚ which are similar in meaning to the following: (2) i. Very bad pain. ii. A strong wish. 2. Read the following passage carefully: (8 marks) Once a famous tennis

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    Rite Of Passage

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    My first tattoo was a small tribal rose on my left calf I was 19 and the tattoo was free. After a few years I couldn’t wait to get it covered up. Another view of rite of passage is the Maori People‚ their intricate moko tattooing marks their rank the men are being heavily tattooed from face to feet and women wear only a facial tattoo on the chin. “You may lose your most valuable property through misfortune in various ways

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    Rite of Passage

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    In Conrad Philip Kottak’s “Rite of Passage” he mentions the three stages of a rite of passage. Anthropologist Arnold Van Gennep defines these stages as Separation‚ Margin‚ and Aggregation. Victor Turner‚ another anthropologist‚ focused on Margin‚ which he referred to as liminality. Not only can a rite of passage be an individual experience‚ but it can also be a communal experience which Turner called “communitas.” Many of us experience this “communitas” in different ways such as my Hispanic culture

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    Practice Assignment (Answers in bold Blue) Points possible: 20 Date: 06 November 2013 Read the passage‚ and then answer the questions below. Each question is worth 5 points. Taste of Success Actions speak louder than words. That is what English chef Jamie Oliver believes. Talking about how to make fine food was not enough. He wanted to open a restaurant. Saying that all young people can succeed was not enough‚ either. He wanted to give them a way to do it. Oliver named his restaurant

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    Rites of Passage

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    At some point in time‚ all individuals learn certain traits and go through some rites of passage to help them cope or survive their personal experiences. In The Scarlet Ibis‚ the narrator and his brother‚ Doodle has to learn to be perseverant‚ willing‚ and hopeful to achieve their goals of teaching Doodle to walk and to do various other things no one expected him to be able to do. One rite of passage for Doodle was learning how to walk. This is where those traits come in. At first‚ Doodle was pessimistic

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    Middle passage

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    Middle Passage The Middle Passage was the stage of the Triangular Trade where slaves was shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. The slaves were sold or exchanged for goods. Like Iron‚ cloth‚ gunpowder‚ brandy‚ Tobacco‚ sugar etc. The voyage took several weeks’ sometimes months to get to their destination. While the slaves were on the ship they were packed liked sardines and shackled like animals. Their hands and feet were chained to each other and they had to sleep in one

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    Odyssey - Passage

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    Odyssey – Passage: Book V lines 224-233 "My lady goddess‚ here is no cause for anger. My quiet Penélopê --- how well I know --- would seem a shade before your majesty‚ death and old age being unknown to you‚ while she must die. Yet‚ it is true‚ each day I long for home‚ long for the sight of home. If any god has marked me out again for shipwreck‚ my tough heart can undergo it. What hardship have I not long since endured at sea‚ in battle! Let the trial come."

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    Passage to India

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    The Indian vs. the European Religion and Way of Thinking Religion is probably the most definitive factor in the way Indians lead their lives‚ particularly if they practice Hinduism and this is why the clash between Hinduism and Christanity in A Passage to India parallels the conflict between the Indians and the British. Hinduism is best represented in the novel by professor Godbole‚ and Christianity is epitomized in Mrs. Moore who comes to India with the kindness and understanding heart of a

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    Crucible Passages

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    Crucible Passages 1. Page 11 Parris: “I saw Tituba waving her arms over the fire when I came on you. Why was she doing that? And I heard a screeching and gibberish coming from her mouth. She were swaying like a dumb beast over that fire!” 2. Page 15-16 Ann Putnam: “And so I thought to send her to your Tituba” Rev Parris: “To Tituba! What ma Tituba---?” Ann: “Tituba knows how to speak to the dead‚ Mr. Parris.” 3. Page 38 Ann Putnam: “Mr. Parris’s slave has knowledge of conjurin’‚ sir.” . . . Ann

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    Passage to india

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    Discuss the following passage; in particular the ways Forster presents Mrs Moore’s state of mind. ‘Quite right‚ now enjoy yourselves‚ and when you come back‚ tell me all about it.’ And she sank into the deckchair. If they reached the big pocket of caves‚ they would be away nearly an hour. She took up her writing pad and began‚ ‘Dear Stella‚ Dear Ralph’‚ then stopped‚ and looked at the queer valley and their feeble invasion of it. Even the elephant had become a nobody. Her eye rose from

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