Ironically‚ Robles cannot speak more than very simple Spanglish‚ though he is fluent in German from having served in Germany in the United States Army. In Tijuana‚ Robles becomes friends with ex-con Jimmy (Daniel Stern) and a waitress named Dolores (Kamala Lopez-Dawson). Unable to contact his mother‚ Robles makes repeated attempts to cross the border‚ all ending in failure. Jimmy offers to get him back to home for a price. Having left home without his wallet‚ Robles works for Jimmy as doorman at a
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F.Y.B.A. Revised Syllabus (2008-2009) INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY G-1 Section-I (First Term) Chapter-1 : Sociology as a Science a) b) c) d) e) Lecture hours per chapter Definition‚ Subject matter and Scope of Sociology Nature of Sociology as a Science‚ Perspectives in Sociology‚ Development of Sociology as a discipline in India : A brief historical Outline Importance and Application of Sociology – Public Sociology – Information Society and Social Problems‚ Policy Making and Action
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“I have never seen a man look and smile‚ sit and walk like that‚ he thought. I‚ also‚ would like to look and smile‚ sit and walk like that‚ so free‚ so worthy‚ so restrained‚ so candid‚ so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.” (Siddhartha pg.35) Siddhartha’s goal throughout this book is to conquer himself and become one with nature. This path takes him from living rich like a king to being humbled as a poor river
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Happiness and the Good Life for Siddhartha The good life for Siddhartha is happiness. Siddhartha is able to live the good life by finding happiness as described by Richard Taylor in the chapter “Happiness”. In his chapter “Happiness” from An Introduction to Virtue Ethics‚ Richard Taylor discusses things that can confused with happiness and says that “happiness is a kind of fulfillment” (“Happiness”). Siddhartha’s main goal is to be happy by fulfilling his longing to find his inner self or Atman
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Aunt Jennifers Tigers Poem Summary by Admin on November 11‚ 2012 in English Aunt Jennifer’s tigers is a poem by Adrienne Rich illustrating her feminist concerns. In the male dominant world‚ a women of her time was only supposed to be a dutiful homemaker. This poem through the world of Aunty Jennifer‚ tells us about her inner desire to free herself from the clutches of abusive marriage and patriarchal society. Poem Summary The first stanza opens with Aunt Jennifer’s visual tapestry of tigers who
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Demian is more didactic‚ explanative and may even remote to a priest’s sermon in the sense that it wishes to inform the audience about a topic related to morals and show a different perspective of the world; in Siddhartha‚ the tone is reverent towards Kamala and objective towards events in life. When Hesse writes Demian using the first person and addressing the world and people outside of the book‚ his text becomes like the transcription of a speech‚ which changes the audience’s interaction with the text
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It is important to read and discuss Mukherjee’s "A Wife’s Story" as an integral part of twentieth-century American literature and not as an "exotic" short story by a foreign writer. As the essay accompanying "A Wife’s Story" points out‚ Mukherjee identifies herself very strongly as an American writer writing about twentieth-century Americans. Although most of her stories are about South Asian-Americans (South Asia in the contemporary geopolitical arena usually consists of Bangladesh‚ India‚ Pakistan
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My grandmother Kamala‚ is a woman of true respect. She grew up in the Kirthabra moutains‚ bordering Karachi and proclaiming it the most beautiful place in the world that “overlooked the heavens”. She grew as people would call “blue blooded”‚ ridiculously rich but far from conceited. Her family consisted complete vegetarians- never eating meat or eggs as if to preserve what bodies are given. She had five brothers and she was the eldest child. My grandfather Bhagwan was similar‚ yet completely different
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is a Keatsian sensuousness in Deshpande’s poetry which shows the poet’s rapturous love of colours and perfumes. But the themes which are recurrent and dominant in her poetry are isolation and lost love. Many of these poems show how Deshpande‚ like Kamala Das‚ writes in an unin¬hibited way but as Eunice de Souza has observed‚ there is in her poetry “a great deal about blood and sweat and clenched teeth‚ and about “lashing” and “throbbing”‚ the final effect for the reader is not one of intensity but
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