Are we losing our Mother-Tongue? It is‚ and it’s getting worse. In an increasingly urbanised India‚ mother-tongues are under siege and facing a sustained attack from the three Ms of migration‚ market and mixed marriages. The mother tongue is the true vehicle of the mother wit. Another medium of speech may bring with it a current of new ideas. But the mother tongue is one in which a man is born. It is through the vernacular that the new conceptions of the mind should press their way to birth in
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female growing up in a prejudiced time period‚ Alice Walker lived through cruelty and isolation. After finding her voice and standing up for herself‚ Walker was able to confront the challenges life presented. Her experiences led to accomplishing extraordinary things like becoming an author. In one of her novels‚ The Color Purple‚ Walker creates Celie‚ the main character‚ to demonstrate her beliefs in women’s rights and equality for all. Alice Walker uses characterization and point of view to illustrate
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Purple by Alice Walker the lack of courage and bravery that Celie had to leave several of her abusive relationships is clearly the allegory for America even today. The text emphasizes the conflicts/factors that greatly influenced Celie’s decisions mainly in staying in the abusive relationships she was in for the great amount of time they lasted. Walker uses an abundance of violence throughout the book which mostly revolves around women such as Celie beat to try to get her point across. Walker uses frequently
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Action Verbs Action verbs are something that a person or thing can do may be used alone as the main verb of a sentence e.g. run‚ jump‚ reach‚ swim‚ walked‚ fell etc. Action verbs can also be actions you can’t see such as ’thought’ or ’wanted’ Action verbs can be time-telling verbs. They tell when something takes place - in the present‚ in the future or in the past List of action verbs starting with A Abstract Accelerate Accommodate Accomplish Accumulate Achieve Acquire Act Activate
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Purple Book Blue Life “The Color Purple” written by Alice Walker‚ and published in 1982 won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1983. It illustrates the hardships and emotional trauma that came with growing up and living as an African-American woman. It also addresses many issues within american social culture and gender roles. The novel centers upon the growth and development of a girl named Celie. She was raped at 14 by her own father and then forced into a marriage with a nefarious apathetic older
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Definition of Software: Software means computer instructions or data. Anything that can be stored electronically is software‚ in contrast to storage devices and display devices which are called hardware. Categories of Software: Software is often divided into two categories. System Software Application Software History of System and Application Software: Systems programmers invariably wrote in assembly language. Experiments with hardware support in high level languages in the
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SOUTH AFRICA IS OUR ONLY REAL MOTHER ● The hand that rocks the cradle‚ ● Is the hand that rules the world. ● These are the wise words of William Wallace. ● I agree with him: A mother knows how to educate her children. ● For us South Africa is our only real mother. ● Plinius said: People undertake great journeys to faraway places to see things that they don’t appreciate in their own country. ● Our Mother South Africa cares about us‚ and therefore she takes us to her Art Museum filled
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Dance of The Happy Shades Summary Walker Brothers Cowboy Story The story is divided into two sections: the first section is short‚ and the second makes up the bulk of the story. The first is general and reflects certain abstract ideas while the second is concrete and details one specific event. A girl meets a woman her father dated before marrying her mother. Through the encounter‚ she comes to view her father in a new light by realizing that he is not only a family provider but also a man with
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Could you be Rich without cash? Yes‚ you could. In " It’s all I need to bring today" by Emily Dickinson and " We Alone" by Alice Walker‚ both teller share theme‚ feeling‚ and repetition. Though both were expressing a thought or idea‚ both told a different story. In both poems‚ thoughts and ideas were expressed in both different and similar ways. Although the authors develop their themes differently‚ they both use feeling‚ images‚ and repetition in their work to express their message. In the Poem
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I’m alive" (Walker‚ 29). These desperate words of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple display Celie’s disconsolateness in her life and her submission towards those around her. Nettie‚ Celie’s sister is a fighter‚ refusing to allow any man or women to diminish her spirits‚ hopes‚ and dreams‚ at any cost. Whereas Celie‚ too weak and fearful to defy anyone who demands more than what she desires to offer‚ suffers through these trials‚ unable to find her voice. In The Color Purple‚ Alice Walker analyzes the
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