Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s‚ 2001. print. 456-9. Leo Tolstoy. “Letter to Gandhi” Cultural Conversations: Presence of the Past. eds: Stephen Dilks‚ Regina Hansen‚ and Matthew Parfitt. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s‚ 2001. print. 464-6. Rabindranath Tagore. “Letter the Gandhi and Accompanying Poems.” Cultural Conversations: Presence of the Past. eds: Stephen Dilks‚ Regina Hansen‚ and Matthew Parfitt. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s‚ 2001. print.
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On August 12‚ 1819‚ the whaleship Essex set sail for the fertile whale hunting grounds in the Pacific Ocean. Little did the crew of the ship know that many of them would not return. In fact‚ the ship did not return. The book In the Heart of the Sea written by Nathaniel Philbrick recounts the actual events of the Essex. The ship was having a bit of tough luck amongst the sea‚ between squalls and elusive whales‚ but what impacted them the most happend about in the middle of the ocean. The Essex was
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Cooper Turner English Holland 8/22/12 “An unreliable narrator can draw you into his or her worldview and perhaps even make you take sides before a writer reveals a broader perspective‚ one that he/she has missed or omitted. Even if a story is written so you doubt the narrator from the beginning‚ an unreliable narrator is still the one taking you through the story‚ so you hang on to their words. Perhaps a certain dialogue or an event will uncover details the narrator does not realize
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MUKESH KUMAR Email: mukeshkumar5392@yahoo.com Mobile no: 9717316942 Address: Devi Mandir E Block Tagore Garden Extn. New Delhi 110027 CAREER OBJECTIVE: To Work with a Progressive Organization and in a Challenging Environment where I can Contribute My Skills to enhance my Productivity and at the same time achieve the Organizational Objective with Attribution of Time‚ Quality and Discipline. PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION: Done full time B-tech (2009-13) from Electrical & Electronics
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: An Ecocritical Interpretation Lieutenant Asit Biswas Bio-Notes: Lieut. Asit Biswas is an Assistant Professor‚ Dept. of English‚ and Associate NCC Officer‚ Acharya B.N. Seal (Govt.) College‚ Cooch Behar‚ W.B. ABSTRACT: Shakespeare studies in India started as early as in the early decades of the 19th century when the Indians seldom engaged in Shakespeare interpretation and so the term ‘ecocriticism’ was unheard of. What we mean by the phrase ‘Critical studies of Shakespeare’
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Reading Log #1 (Ch.1-20) • The protagonist of the novel is Pi Patel • The narrator keeps shifting from Pi to the author • Pi had studied religion and Zoology at UfT • Pi dislikes agnostic people for their thought of god • The author tells us Pi’s about 40‚ reserved and cautious yet still excitable • Pi’s uncle Mamaji was a champion swimmer. He taught Pi how to swim • Mamaji would tell stories about historic pools around the world. The best he claims is the Piscine
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Throughout life‚ events happen that can greatly affect the quality of a person’s day. Everyone has their own perspective which determines how they view these events. An optimist and a pessimist can have the exact same day and have completely different opinions on how it went. If approached with optimism‚ events in life become more manageable. The themes of staying positive and being thankful even in the worst of times are shown in Yann Martel’s novel‚ The Life of Pi‚ by Piscine’s perseverance when
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Cecilia Polanco Assignment Due: 5/3/18 Film 100-XE60- Professor DeRosa Castaway In the movie Castaway the director Robert Zemeckis proves that through the motif of time and clocks as he takes us through a journey in the film through the main character Chuck Noland’s point of view as he finally realizes that only in the absences of being on his timely schedule‚ or in a situation that wasn’t so important to be on time‚ that he finally realizes the importance of things in life. His motto at the
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found what history knew was that Amelia Earhart died in July 2nd‚ 1937‚ in a plane crash. But there is an entire final chapter of Earhart’s life that people don’t know about. She spent days -- maybe months -- heroically struggling to survive as a castaway‚" said Gillespie. There has been three huge search and rescue missions since the late 90’s to explore the area where the bones were found. After exploring the site one of the investigators said "We found records of bonfires being lit in the area
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influenced his writing‚ providing the rich cultural background of Life of Pi. The task for writing the novel wasn’t easy; Martel spent six months in India visiting mosques‚ temples‚ churches and zoos‚ and then an entire year reading religious texts and castaway stories. After the research‚ the actual writing required two more years. Being a novel backed up with countless research is rare. Besides that‚ Life of Pi is a masterpiece on its own. Given that a candidate for the Booker Prize has to be the best
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