many of her loved ones to the sea. Maurya‚ the mother‚ had been grieving for her missing son‚ Michael‚ and was in a fitful sleep at the beginning of the play. Her daughter Cathleen had been taking care of the household tasks while her younger daughter Nora enters with a bundle of clothing from the priest. When Maurya shows signs of waking up the girls hide the bundle from their mother‚ for it might be Michaels clothing. Besides grieving for Michael‚ Maurya now begins to worry about her only remaining
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when it reached the outskirts of the city and was stored The water flowed into pipes and was distributed around the city Artha-sastra 3000 C.E. Ancient Indian treatise on government Written by Kautilya‚ a crafty elderly Brahmin Advisor of Chandragupta‚ founder of the Mauryan empire Presents schemes for enforcing and increasing the
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Start Here." * ------------------------------------------------- MORE: * ------------------------------------------------- Millington * ------------------------------------------------- Bundling FlagPost a comment The play begins with Maurya‚ who has fallen into a fitful sleep. She is certain that her son‚ Michael‚ has drowned‚ even though she has no proof‚ and has been constantly grieving for nine days. Cathleen‚ her daughter‚ is doing household chores when Nora‚ another daughter arrives
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voice of a narrator. The authors of dramatic pieces use dialogue to tell their story. Therefore‚ the characters in a play‚ tell the story using speech. Actors impersonate the characters by reciting the words that are written in the play. For example Maurya the main character in Riders to the Sea‚ says the closing words to her son before he left home: “You’d do right to leave that rope‚ Bartley‚ hanging by the boards…for it’s a deep grave we’ll make him by the grace of God.” The actors must also follow
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XLRI(HR)Batch of 2013-2015: the xlri interview I cam across ‚ this guy really worked hard ‚ here is his interview: How I went about the interview preparation. 7 April 2013 At the outset‚I am going to warn you that this post is going to be long and tedious.I am writing this piece not for my personal satisfaction‚but for thousands of aspirants who are mediocre like me;who ruined their high school/graduation academics‚and did not achieve anything significant in last 20 odd years of existence
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Riders to the sea is written by famous Irishman drama writer John Millington Synge as one of his magnum opus. Riders to the sea was written in 1903 and performed on 1904 at Irish National Society. It is a one-act tragedy with four characters: Maurya(mother)‚ Bartley(son)‚ Cathleen(daughter) and Nora(another daughter)‚ based on how Irishmen struggle with the ferocious sea and being hopeless. The whole play talks about one main story: the family’s struggle with the sea because their income money for
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geo-strategic location on Central Asia just between the Middle East and South Asia. It has been a focal point of the ancient Silk Route and human migration. Afghanistan has been led by great warriors like Alexander the Great‚ Genghis Khan‚ Chandragupta Maurya over the ages. It’s is bordered by Pakistan (southeast)‚ Iran (west)‚ Turkmenistan‚ Tajikistan‚ Uzbekistan (north) and China (far northeast). Political history of Afghanistan started in 1709 with the rise of the Pushtans‚ when the Hotaki dynasty
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Han vs Gupta During the classical era‚ China and India emerged as the two powerhouses of the East asia region. Despite both empires using similar tools to implement social and political control‚ there are minute differences in beliefs and regional demographics that change the way these techniques are implemented. Both cultures used military dominance‚ a strong leader figure and previously established social hierarchies to remain in power. However‚ while the Chinese formed a strong‚ centralized
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Unit One Exam Make-up We spend our daily lives living in a civilization‚ an advanced state of society with a high level of culture‚ science‚ industry and government. Living in today’s society has set our way of life apart from the way of life from the early and advancing civilizations. Today it’s effortless to get wrapped up in our society and take for granted who and what got us to this point in time. The Early civilizations and the advancements they made built a foundation to start living
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Culture of Gandhara Civilization Gandhara is the region that now comprise of Peshawar valley‚ Mardan‚ Swat‚ Dir‚ Malakand‚ and Bajuaur agencies in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP)‚ Taxila in the Punjab‚ and up to Jalalabad in Afghanistan. It is in this region that the Gandhara civilization emerged and became the cradle of Buddhism. It was from here that Buddhism spread towards east as far away as Japan and Korea. The intriguing record of Gandhara civilization‚ discovered in the 20th century
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