requirement of my coursework‚ I choose two short stories such as Everything’s Arranged and Dey Raju. This Everything’s Arranged by Siew Yee Killingley tells about a Ceylonese girl named Rukumani having secret affair with a Ceylonese boy named Devanayagam while studying at University. Their secret affair discovered by their parents. Rukumani have struggle and suffer because of their family members‚ relatives and their community as they try to get together in life. The Ceylonese‚ however educated‚ still hold
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For Hester and Edna‚ that dream did not exactly go as well as they had hoped. Hester gets pregnant during her love affair with Dimmesdale‚ which alerts everyone to their affair‚ or the fact that she had one. Hester’s husband has not been around to give her a child. Hester has a baby girl named Pearl‚ that she loves and cares for very much. At one point‚ Hester is threatened to have Pearl taken
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Black should stand up and fight for freedom through an influential speech‚the Ballot and the Bullet. The purpose of the speech‚ “the Ballot and the Bullet”‚ was to persuade the African American to awake from being treated unfairly in political affairs‚ voting rights due to their nationality etc to become the controller of their economics‚ political aware or even human rights and civil rights. This essay is going to evaluate the persuasiveness of Malcolm’s speech. Thinking of there might be a
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Hawthorne published in 1850‚ Hester Prynne‚ a young woman living among the rigid‚ cold‚ and highly religious society of the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony in the mid 1600’s‚ is ostracized and subject to a life of public shaming following an adulterous affair with a man who at this point in the story remains unidentified. In the beginning of the story‚ Hester’s husband‚ who now goes by the name of Roger Chillingworth‚ whom she had not seen for some time‚ arrives at her public condemnation and later speaks
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Lancelot is being manipulated through his love that causes him to do moral and shameful deeds outside the court. His public reputation was being jeopardize because his own personal matters. He is often distracted and never realize that he is putting himself in danger. Moreover‚ Lancelot succeeds on every trials he encounters but this
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Despite John’s previous efforts‚ Abigail and her band of young women have the courts convinced‚ forcing John to tell the courts “I have known her” (to know meaning to have sexual relations with) in order to establish Abigail’s motives‚ seeing as the affair would establish Abigail as a liar in the sense that she lied about Elizabeth stabbing her (this was the way Abigail accused Elizabeth)‚ discrediting Abigail once and for all (Miller 189). Discrediting Abigail would be a big deal since she was a great
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than expected and over a year passed‚ so Zelda broke their engagement and it was not until he published his first book and became rich that they married. Both Zelda and Daisy were unloyal to Scott and Gatsby respectively‚ it is known that Zelda had a affair (name) and that changed their relationship forever. Daisy failed to keep her promise to Gatsby‚ then they reunited for a short period of time‚ and then she just left town with Tom‚ and left Gatsby with
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ignoramus masses of our country is evident from their complete capitulation to its god-like worship. Yes‚ cricket is the “god of sports” in India. I am not being even the least sardonic when I say this‚ but unfortunately this is the sorry state of affairs in our country. Cricket has sounded a death knell to the growth of other sports. Traditional Indian games like hockey‚ kabaddi‚ kushti have been relegated to a bygone era. Even international sports like tennis‚ badminton and football have not been
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region and contain the threat of communism (Gasiorowski). The west also wanted to raise the strength of his biggest ally Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and appoint a new prime minister that will serve their interests. The CIA was very involved in the internal affairs in Iran to the point of managing a huge propaganda in order to weaken Mossadaq’s government. Even after the success of the coup‚ the
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“The Five-Forty-Eight” is a short story about a boss who takes advantage of a secretary with a mental health disorder and fires her the next day. As a result‚ the secretary follows her boss home‚ months later‚ on the five-forty-eight train to inform him how much better she is than him. The short story ends with the secretary humiliating the boss and becoming more self-assured. John Cheever’s short story‚ “The Five-Forty-Eight”‚ contains themes of sin‚ deception‚ and redemption that merge together
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