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    Post Colonial Impact on Urdu Language Lovers in Anita Desai’s In Custody Dr.A.CHANDRA BOSE‚ PhD.‚ Assistant Professor of English The Madura College (Autonomous) Madurai‚ Tamilnadu -625 011 boseac@gmail.com Introduction Anita Desai is an important women novelist in the firmament of Indian fiction in English. She unfolds lot of complex things for example‚ struggles of innocents‚ problems of human relationship and decay of Urdu language

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    Review: Fasting‚ Feasting by Anita Desai The most recent novel of Indian born author Anita Desai‚ Fasting‚ Feasting (1999) tells the story of two middle-class families and the allegorical struggles of the individual members to find individual identity and happiness. This meticulously constructed prose gravitates towards the position of women in the family unit and explores socially ordered gender imbalance in domestic life. Featuring a traditional Indian family in provincial town India and a typical

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    because they want to fit in‚ they’re too lazy to use the standard language‚ or they’ve lost the respect of their culture. However‚ there are some advantages and disadvantages of using incorrect grammar or slang that has an effect on our society. In Anita Jain’s A Nameless Respect‚ she shows how her father and mother still use their form of “you” to answer each

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    “Unfinished Masterpieces” is a short story about Anita Scott Coleman who is reminscing about her childhood friends Dora Jones and a vagabon named Mr. William Williams. Anita describes the two characters based on what they did with their lives. She is writing about this in order to convey to the audience the message that one should use the time they have to make something of their life‚ a masterpiece. Dora Jones is fascinated with creating figures using mud which causes her to be isolated from others

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    interesting novel that provides a perspective of fate and how one’s action causes a reaction. Nicky and her father are living at their new house after their lives were changed drastically‚ which leads to more unexpected events. The simplistic novel‚ by Anita Shreve‚ represents that with every unplanned action there is a consequential event occurring afterwards that leads into the unknown journey of life. After a dramatic life experience‚ one can only imagine the emotional toll it takes on one’s self‚

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    parallels between the authors’ usage of the shawl. Ozick’s usage of the shawl represents a maternal presence and the comfort‚ nourishment‚ and protection that a mother provides her children; while‚ Erdrich uses the shawl to represent protection and the spirit of a lost loved one. In both “The Shawl” by Ozick‚ and “The Shawl” by Erdrich‚ the shawl represents the need for protection and comfort and the spirit of someone that is Cynthia Ozick’s story‚ “The Shawl”‚ follows the lives of three Jewish women

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    or cloth and colorful. Two seemingly similar dance styles stick out in particular: the men’s grass dance and the women’s fancy shawl dance. Although the men’s grass dance and the women’s fancy shawl dance are both physically demanding powwow dances dominated by the drum‚ they differ greatly in origin‚ style‚ representation‚ and regalia. Both grass dancing and fancy shawl dancing are seen at Native American powwows throughout the United States. The

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    Themes DISAPPOINTMENT “Victor hadn’t much faith in his mother’s promises. They had a way of getting postponed or cancelled on account of some small accidental lapse on his part.”We can see from this line that Mrs. Fernandez has let Victor down before and though her promise is as simple as giving him a pineapple cake‚ she cannot do so. REPUTATION Mrs. Fernandez has shown from the beginning that she is embarrassed by her son. “… Mrs Fernandez sighed to think how much easier it would have been

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    Anita Jackson’s LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY  People Matter - the most important asset of our business is the employees. Our business cannot operate without employees‚ and it cannot achieve its potential unless each employee has the ability and the right‚ to feel that they matter.  Customer service is number one – Our clients are just as much a part of our business as our employees. With the determination and dedication of our employees‚ we can service our clients‚ and identify what makes

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    The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick are two short stories that when read in comparison can be seen as lacking similarity. It is often the case that when literature is read in contrast to another work there are a vast number of obvious differences between them. Aside from the two stories having apparent diversity in authors and characters it can be found that various other elements are exceptionally varied from one another. However‚ in many cases if a closer look is taken

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