I think that reading an essay‚ book‚ or even just a poem can bring endless imagination. Reading opens endless worlds‚ and often time helps people in the real world. In “No Name Woman” by Kingston Maxine H.‚ “Two Ways To Belong In America” by Mukherjee Bharati‚ and “What If Shakespeare Had Had A Sister” by Woolf Virginia‚ the authors write about how women have been repressed through the years in different cultures and different times. In “No Name Woman‚” Kingston writes about how her aunt was chased
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depression for home and India. Sudha also decides to relieve the octogenarian of his homesickness and secure a life for her daughter and herself. Sudha undergoes metamorphosis simiar to the character ‘Jasmine’ in Bharati Mukherjees Jasmine. Sudha transforms from a naïve traditional well matriarchal protected woman to modern and independent. This summarized progression from India to America might easily be understood as a stereotypical reification of cultural boundaries where India manifests all
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The Hindus Banjara‚ who are known by 53 different names‚ primarily language Lambadi or Lamani (53%) and Banjara (25%). They are the biggest wanderer bunch in India and are known as the root rovers of the earth. Rovers started making a trip from India to various areas of Europe many years back‚ and varying tongues advanced in the locales in which every gathering settled. The Banjara’s name is gotten from the word bajika‚ which implies exchange or business‚ and from banji‚ which means sellers pack
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cultural practices that India possess‚ one of the most unusual and absurd practice is the way the Indians pay reverence to the inhabited cows. The Hindus give more priority to their spiritual beliefs than their own lives. For example‚ in the famine of late 60¡¦s people were seen begging for food whereas the cows were seen passing by them undisturbed. Hindus have certain devotion for cows‚ they praise them and worship them. They are reactionary to any discrimination against cows. According to India’s
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ADOPTION OF CHILD IN INDIA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HINDUS INTRODUCTION “Adoption” means the process through which the adopted child is permanently separated from his biological parents and becomes the legitimate child of his adoptive parents with all the rights‚ privileges and responsibilities that are attached to the relationship. The dictionary meaning of the term ‘adoption’ is the act of taking and rearing of the child of other’s parents as one’s own child. Attitudes and laws regarding adoption
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and narrator Bharati addressed an issue of images of immigrants in America‚ and what it truly means to belong to a country. In Bharati short story “two ways to belong to America” she talks and her and her sister experience as first time immigrants migrating from India to America. At their arrival to America they were similar in a lot of ways‚ appearance and attitudes-views and sentiments. They were both seeking degrees-Mira in child psychology and pre-school education‚ bharati went on to peruse
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This is a brief perspective of British Hindus living in Cardiff‚ Wales. Indian immigration to the UK increased significantly in the 1960s and 1970s mainly doctors immigrating to fill the shortage of doctors. Indians living in Cardiff are the most successful community than any other ethnic community in Wales making them in a good financial position and influence in many political aspects of Cardiff. Most of them are well-educated‚ hard working‚ and honest and have the advantage of English as their
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The two short stories‚ “The Tenant” by Mukherjee and “The Red Sweater” by Ng bear many similarities as well as differences. The authors of these two stories go about conveying basically the same message‚ however‚ with a slight variety. In these short stories‚ Mukherjee and Ng go into detail of the lives of two young women struggling with their identities as immigrants in the American culture. This clashing of cultures‚ predominantly the Asian culture (in these cases)‚ against the American culture
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Getting into the US can in some ways be easy‚ if you have not done anything wrong that is. In Bharati Mukherjee’s “Two Ways to Belong in America”‚ I am introduced to a character Mira‚ who‚ up to a point is either refusing to gain US citizenship or thinks that having a green card‚ work visa‚ and pays taxes is good enough to call herself a citizen of the US. I believe Mira is acting incredibly selfish by not trying or even thinking of gaining US citizenship. I understand she does not want to lose her
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BCA at Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Comprehensive Vision Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University for Distance Education was incorporated in the year 1996 with a vision to reach more than 90 % of those students who cannot badger higher education because of reasons‚ which you all will personally and professionally cohort with. Some students have to shoulder responsibility at an early age because of the following reasons‚ and this is primarily why Bharati Vidyapeeth
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