effective communication. Cultivating the art of listening helps to build bridges and enhance relationships‚ says Santosh Babu All happy families resemble one another‚ each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Thus begins Leo Tolstoy’s epic Anna Karenina. What he meant‚ perhaps‚ is that communication is complete when the mind is happy and uninhibited‚ and distortion creeps in when the mood is sullen and sad. Most problems in an organization‚ family or group are the result of people failing to communicate
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Russia also officially known as the Russian Federation is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic. At 17‚075‚400 square kilometres (6‚592‚800 sq mi)‚ Russia is the largest country in the world‚ covering more than one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area. Russia is also the world’s ninth most populous nationwith nearly 144 million people as of 2015. Culture Russian culture has a long and rich cultural history‚ steeped in literature‚ ballet‚ painting and classical
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Prologue: Yali’s Question Jared Diamond has done extensive field work in New Guinea. His indigenous New Guinean politician friend Yali asked why whites had been so successful and arrived with so much "cargo" compared to the locals. Diamond rephrases this question: why did white Eurasians dominate over other cultures by means of superior guns‚ population-destroying germs‚ steel‚ and food-producing capability? Diamond’s main thesis is that this occurred not because of racial differences in intelligence
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3/27/13 Vivian Leigh There have been hundreds of thousand world renowned actors and actresses from all over the world. Many of which have won numerous awards and have made quite a name for themselves. Often times actors and actresses start from the very bottom‚ even from childhood working hard to get where they are or once were. This is much like actress Vivian Leigh. She had a hardworking childhood‚ and worked her way up the food chain to earn what is now considered a household name. “Born on
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appearance when a new resident‚ Mr. Ozu‚ understands the brief Tolstoy reference she makes‚ this event panics her. She reflects post conversation‚ “‘All happy families are alike‚ all unhappy families are unhappy in its own way’ is the first line of Anna Karenina and‚ like any self respecting concierge‚ I am not supposed to have read it … for although common people may be sensitive to great works though they do not read them‚ literature‚ in the presence‚ cannot aspire to the lofty
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Opinion Essay Outline Theme: Does Classical Art Remakes Preserve Cultural Heritage for Future Generations? Sub-topic: Classical Art Remakes I. Introduction Hook: New idea – it is well forgotten old (Geoffrey Chaucer) Thesis: I strongly belief that classical art remakes preserve cultural heritage for future generations‚ and the purpose of this paper is to prove it. II. Body A. Topic sentence: First‚ until further arguments
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previous publications that Tolstoy has always harbored a somewhat pessimistic outlook on the idea as a whole‚ and he continues to stress this point by describing the life and hardships of one Ivan Ilyich. The famous quote from his previous novel‚ Anna Karenina‚ gives us an insight into Leo Tolstoy’s overall outlook on what it is to be a family. He doesn’t seem to understand the merit of a traditional familial system as he regards all healthy familial relationships as
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Kalidas 31 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 32 Adventures of Tom Saweyer Mark Twain 33 Agni Veena Kazi Nasrul Islam 34 Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carrol 35 Ancient Mariner Coleridge 36 Animal Farm George Orwell 37 Anna Karenina Tolstoy 38 Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare 39 Arms and the Man G.B.Shaw 40 Around the World in eighty days Jules Verne 41 Baburnama Babur 42 Ben Hur Lewis Wallace 43 Bhagwat Gita Ved Vyas 44 Bisarjan R.N.Tagore 45 Canterbury
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Characters A. The Hero – Lord Raglan in The Hero: A Study in Tradition‚ Myth‚ and Drama contends that this archetype is so well defined that the life of the protagonist can be clearly divided into a series of well-marked adventures‚ which strongly suggest a ritualistic pattern. Raglan finds that traditionally the hero’s mother is a virgin‚ the circumstances of his conception are unusual‚ and at birth some attempt is made to kill him. He is‚ however‚ spirited away and reared by foster parents
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Happy endings and unrealistic characters‚ should they be‚ or should they not be? Do realistic characters who get happy endings‚ even after they have a horrible ‘life’‚ peeve you? Characters who don’t deserve a happy ending but get one anyway are unrealistic and teaches the reader nothing about real life. Authors should use more realistic characters in their stories‚ along with more realistic endings. A happy ending is not always a good way to end a sad story and people learn from storybook characters
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