She paved the way for all blind and deaf students graduating college ‚ and collaborated with the government in making braille the main language for blind people in the U.S. Helen keller was an advocate for disabled people. She made sure to secure their rights to education‚ employment‚ and citizenship responsibilities throughout her life. Helen was kind and thoughtful she
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Indian Food The traditional food of India has been widely appreciated for its fabulous use of herbs and spices. Indian cuisine is known for its large assortment of dishes. The cooking style varies from region to region. India is quite famous for its diverse multi cuisine available in a large number of restaurants and hotel resorts‚ which is reminiscent of unity in diversity. The staple food in India includes wheat‚ rice and pulses with chana (Bengal Gram) being the most important one. To know more
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"Compare the ways in which cross-cultural identity is explored in Alice Pung’s Unpolished Gem and Mira Nair’s The Namesake" The struggle to find self identity within the upbringing of two different and contradictory cultural groups is the main theme for Alice Pung’s memoir Unpolished Gem and Mira Nair’s film The Namesake. The main characters for each‚ Alice Pung and Gogol Ganguli respectively grow up the children of immigrants from developing to western countries who are torn between respecting
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language‚ haptic communication‚and chronemics. Other examples are media content such as pictures‚ graphics‚ sound‚ and writing. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also defines the communication to include the display of text‚ Braille‚ tactile communication‚ large print‚ accessible multimedia‚ as well as written and plain language‚ human-reader‚ augmentative and alternative modes‚ means and formats of communication‚ including accessible information and communication technology
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Rabindranath Thakur Rabindranath Thakur‚ anglicized to Tagore pronunciation (help info) (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)‚γ[›] sobriquet Gurudev‚δ[›] was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region’s literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive‚ fresh and beautiful verse"‚[2] he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.[3] In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however‚ his "elegant prose
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(গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ; Gônoprojatontri Bangladesh)‚ is a country in South Asia. Located on the fertile Ganges-Brahmaputra delta‚ it is part of the ancient and historic region of Bengal. The name Bangladesh means "Country of Bengal" in the official Bengali language. To its south lies the Bay of Bengal‚ while it is bordered by the Republic of India on the north‚ west and east‚ and Burma (Myanmar) to the southeast. It is separated from Nepal and Bhutan by India’s narrow Siliguri corridor and is situated
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known as Bangla. Due to the independence struggle of not wanting Urdu to be declared the official language of Pakistan‚ Bengali nationalism led to the victory of the country during their nine month civil war. This artwork‚ titled “Mother #2”‚ painted by Bengali artist Bishwajit Goswami‚ should be included in an Asian Art Museum because of the use of Bangla and the use of Bengali clothing throughout the piece.
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The teachings of Islam are closely adhered to in Bedouin society. This creates some of the gender ideologies and differences seen in Veiled Sentiments‚ by Abu-Lughod. These gender ideologies reflect how a women must act in order to be seen by society as a “good Bedouin with close ties to kin and a devotion to Islam.” (Veiled Sentiments‚ Abu-Lughod. Page 219) Religious practices and engagements are very important parts of this society because they dictate how a woman must dress‚ act‚ what she can
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been different with Graham-he’d made more than enough for both of them” (Lahiri 254) | One of the main themes in this story is pressure. Throughout the story Gogol feels pressured by his parents to follow the Bengali culture‚ to marry a Bengali girl‚ to eat Bengali food and to live the Bengali lifestyle. Myself being of the South Asian decent‚ I can relate to Gogol as well. My parents expect me to marry a Sri Lankan boy because they believe a Sri Lankan boy can make me happy. They also want to continue
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religious‚ social and educational reformer who challenged traditional Hindu Culture and indicated the lines of progrees for Indian Society under British rule. He is sometimes called the maker of modern India. He along with Dwarkanath Tagor and other Bengalis founded the Brahmo Sabha in 1828 which engendered the Brahmo Samaj an influential Indian Social-religious Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life and education (1772–1792) 1.2 Early political and religious career (1792–1820) 1.3 Middle "Brahmo"
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