Introduction Undercover‚ a novel written by Beth Kephart. Like a modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac‚ Elisa ghost-writes love notes for the boys in her school. But when Elisa falls for Theo Moses‚ things change fast. Theo asks for verses to court the lovely Lila--a girl known for her beauty‚ her popularity‚ and a cutting ability to remind Elisa that she has none of these. At home‚ Elisa’s father‚ the one person she feels understands her‚ has left on an extended business trip. As the days grow shorter‚ Elisa
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Scholarship plays an important role in the life of every human being whether men or women. This section of the blog focuses on those Indian scholarships and grants which are provided specifically to women. Generally financial aids for women are designed with a unique objective whether it is to encourage women to become leaders in their respective fields‚ research and development programs‚ doctoral schemes and many more in order to lead a brightful career. Several organizations of India have came
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family over in India she reads the letter out loud word for word‚ because of her excitement. Mrs. Sen. Struggles to accept that she is in a new country and she won’t be able to return to India in 3 years time. Lila parents and Mr. Pirzada all find it difficult living in America. Lila parents find it hard because they have no Indian culture in America. So to keep their culture strong they invite people with the same culture over just like Mr. Pirzada. They invite Mr. Pirzada over for dinner every
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Modern English poetry in India is one of the many new literatures which began to emerge at the end of the Second World War‚ after the end of colonialism. Unlike the Africa and Caribbean creative writings‚ modern Indian poetry in English did not have an obvious direct relationship with the cultural movements that had led to national independence. The emergence of modern English poetry was a part of modernization which included urbanization‚ industrialization‚ mobility‚ independence‚ social change
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Psycho Psycho is a 1960 horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Anthony Perkins‚ Janet Leigh‚ Vera Miles and John Gavin. The film is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The main theme that Hitchcock tries to express to the audience is dual or split personalities. Everyone has a subconscious battle with good and evil; he shows this in many different ways using lighting‚ different camera techniques‚ mise-en-scene and silence. Also he used a string orchestra to add
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and episodic elements (Mittell‚ 61). Many episodes will involve individualized cases handled by Annalise and her team‚ while other storylines carry from episode to episode. The bulk of the serialization will center on the murders of Sam Keating and Lila Stangard. Like other narratively complex programs‚ "a
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In My Brilliant Friend‚ a fictional book by Elena Ferrante‚ Elena and Lila grow up in a poor neighborhood overrun by the violent crimes of their corrupt neighbors. Affected by the legacies of their poor parents‚ prosperity and love troubles are constant struggles for the younger generation of the neighborhood. These struggles trigger emotional reactions from both the parents and their children‚ prompting more violent actions in the neighborhood. Ferrante expresses the theme that anger‚ greed‚ and
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Claire Lanahan English 11 Honors 1B Due 12/5/14 Nonfiction The nonfiction novel‚ Lucky‚ written by Alice Sebold‚ is a memoir of a life changing and detailed experience of the author’s violent rape and its aftermath. Alice survives a brutal attack and learns that life is about survival. Entering college for the first time in her life‚ not having a strong relationship with her parents and just a few friends to confide in; the assault only creates her emotional health to spiral
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The year was 2384‚ the air was dry‚ and the sky‚ hazy in the nation of Heatherton. The parched land‚ dotted with identical‚ beige-colored‚ stucco‚ single-story buildings‚ extended for miles. Heatherton’s monotonous vista terminated abruptly at an ill-boding barrier indicating the beginning of the Outskirts‚ a nickname given to the bleak‚ seemingly endless desert beyond the ominous‚ barbed-wire‚ electrified fence. After the War of Devolution wiped out one-third of the human race‚ few organized nations
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younha Lila Abu-Lughod’s Veiled Sentiments is an ethnography on the Bedouin tribes of Egypt‚near the Western Desert and Libyan border. Abu-Lughod did her fieldwork between 1978 and1980‚ and lived with a host family in a particular Awlad ‘Ali (Bedouin) community.Theanthropologist had initially planned to study “the patterning and meaning of interpersonalrelations‚ in particular between men and women.” (25) However‚ Abu-Lughod soon discoveredthe prevalence of informal poetry performances by many
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