ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He was born in Kasauli‚ Himachal Pradesh‚ on May 19‚ 1934 and grew up in Jamnanagar‚ Shimla and Dehra Dun. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers‚ children’s authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel‚ The Room on the Roof‚ when he was seventeen. For this‚ he won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novels‚ over 500 short stories‚ as well as various essays and
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Bibliography: * Brooks‚ I.‚ Weatherston‚ J. and Wilkinson‚ G.‚ 2011. The International Business Environment. 2nd ed. [e-book] FT Prentice Hall. Available through: Anglia Ruskin University Library <http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk> [Accessed 16 December 2011]. * Griffiths‚ A. and Wall‚ S.‚ 2011. Economics for Business and Management. 3rd ed. FT Prentice Hall. * Lipsey‚ R. G. and Chrystal. K. A.‚ 2007. Economics. 11th
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Introduction. When people speak about style they usually consider texts of verbal art [cf. 14] and it is believed that on the whole only masters of style deserve special investigation and of course masters of style are usually those who are writing artistic texts. But as is absolutely clear any text is characterized by a certain style [4]‚ and it doesn’t matter whether it is good or bad because even if the person is writing in a neutral way [17;18] all the same it is the stylistic
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Moreover‚ within a span of few pages we find the mention of a large array of animals and birds and Sita is noted to share a strange bond with them. She is carefree‚ and hardly shudders at the thought of taming the snakes. Her spontaneous handling of the serpentine creature is noted in the lines‚ “She had no quarrel with the snakes. They kept down the rats and the frogs.” The narrator’s hint at the importance of the ecological food chain in the lines cannot be overlooked. We find the narrator referring
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Emily G September 6‚ 2013 The Chesapeake and New England: A Tale of Two Colonies England was late to the colonizing game‚ lagging behind both France and Spain. But when England did set foot in the New World it left its mark. The early English colonization of what is now America can be broken down into two main settlements‚ the Chesapeake colony and the New England colony. The Chesapeake colony‚ which originated as the Jamestown colony in Virginia‚ was settled in 1607. The Chesapeake colony
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KUSHTET NË TË CILAT U REALIZUA REVOLUCIONI BORGJEZ ANGLEZ. PREMISAT Anglia ishte e para nga monarkitë evropiane‚ e cila në kushtet e një refomimi të gjithëanshëm kaloi gradualisht nga absolutizmi mbretëror‚ i mbështetur me forcë nga katolicizmi‚ në bashkëqeverisjen e vendit mes Parlamentit dhe mbretit‚ një zbatim i plotë i koncepteve humaniste të bartura dhe tek reformacioni protestant. Megjithatë një kalim i tillë e kishte origjinën në ngjarje‚ të cilat u zhvilluan në një periudhë më të largët
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period‚ and is the key source for the moment when the Anglo-Saxons ceased to be tribal and began to form kingdoms. Sutton Hoo is a burial ground dating from the early 7th century AD‚ and was probably the main burial ground of the pagan Kings of East Anglia. Therefore the grave goods may not quite be representative of the ’ordinary’ person and the ’everyday’ objects of Anglo-Saxon households. However‚ they give us an idea of the type of possessions the more elitist (wealthy‚ powerful‚ royal) had and
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Indian English Literature * Top English Writer & Their Famous Creations * R.K. Narayan: R K Narayan is one of the best known Indian authors of all time. An Indian author of very high repute‚ he is best known for his works of fiction. The setting for most of R K Narayan works is the fictional town of Malgudi‚ first introduced in his semi autobiographical book ’Swami and Friends’. Creations: The Dark Room‚ Malgudi Days‚ Talkative Man‚ The English Teacher. * Kiran Desai: Kiran
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highest rate of return for the next 20 years? 18) According to the Principle of Risk-Return Trade-Off‚ investors require a higher return to compensate for __________. 19) Suppose the Ruskin Oil Corporation has $150‚000 for both its book balance and its bank balance. It takes 4 days for a check to clear. If Ruskin writes a $3‚000 check‚ which of the following
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Introduction to People‚ Organization and Management BB130010S Assignment Two By Alexter Bin Molihan Anglia Ruskin University QUESTIONS: 1. What is personality? And what relevance has this concept to understanding behaviour in the workplace? 2. “Learning is the process of acquiring knowledge through experience which leads to an enduring change in behaviour.” Explain this statement‚ showing how it relates to a learning theory that you have studied on this
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