The image of woman in fiction has undergone a radical change in the 21st century. The Indian woman writers have moved away from portraying a traditional self-sacrificing woman toward a self-expressive individual woman. The chaste‚ patient‚ self-denying‚ dependant woman is no longer a female lead. Instead‚ the female characters are projected to be successful in their quest for identity and individuality. A number of women writers have made their debut in 1990s‚ generating novels which revealed the
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GENY0002 SESSION 2 2013 Academic Skills Plus Essay 2 Atwood writes: “What I mean by ‘science fiction’ is those books that descend from H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds‚ which treats of an invasion by tentacled‚ blood-sucking Martians shot to Earth in metal canisters – things that could not possibly happen – whereas‚ for me‚ “speculative fiction” means plots that descend from Jules Verne’s books about submarines and balloon travel and such – things that really could happen but just hadn’t
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Deja Craft Period 11 Fiction or Nonfiction? Walt Disney once said‚ “I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” Is this true? Can an individual learn better from reading a fictional story more than reading a nonfictional story? Can an individual learn better from reading a nonfictional story more than a fictional story? This is a hot topic for educators heading toward the common core. David Coleman‚ the principal of the
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Realistic Hero in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Tom Sawyer‚ the main character of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚ written by Mark Twain‚ is an average boy who is bored with his civilized life and escapes these constraints by pulling pranks. The character‚ Tom is presented as a realistic and convincing boy. He is kind and loving‚ but also cruel‚ stupid‚ and hypocritical. As the story progresses‚ Tom shows signs of maturity. The story of Tom Sawyer‚ as well as TOM being about a realistic
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significant impact of religion on contemporary politics and its perpetual distinction between the positive and negative influences that is associated with the effect. Religion has consistently been a resilient drive of change‚ development and settlement. Religion has been the core of several systems of human affairs that co-exist today including economics‚ welfare‚ law‚ philosophy‚ art and most importantly‚ politics.[1] However‚ according to historian Farhang Mehr‚ "... a realistic appraisal of the current
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I was headed to Japan. Traveling to an island that had seemingly leaped technologically ten years. Flying 17 hours to a country 13 hours in the future. Landing in a city that fears Gojira‚ a 300 foot‚ 50‚000 ton monster whose name is a combination of the native’s words (gorira) gorilla & (kujira) whale. Tokyo is dominated by technology but regulated by its rich historical culture. Riding through the subway‚ I was unable to ask for directions‚ read signs‚ nor understand what was said around me
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What is Utopia? According to The Random House Dictionary‚ utopia is a place or state of political or social perfection based upon the novel of Utopia by Thomas More. Philosophers‚ writers of all sorts of novels and movies are constantly trying to imagine and conceive plans for an idyllic state of today. The irony of utopia is that it means ‘no place‚ good place’ implying that utopia is an idealistic place that can never happen in reality. Then‚ what is dystopia? Thefreedictionary.com’s definition
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Justice‚ the One and Only “Gong Zheng Lian Ming”‚ the four words which mean honesty and uprightness‚ are hung up high on a horizontal wooden board across the doorframe of the courtroom. An official‚ with a serious look‚ sits sedately behind a table covered by red cloth at the far end of the room. A suspect is forcefully dragged into the center of the room. Shaking with fear‚ he is asked to kneel down in front of the official. “Bang!” The official strikes the table and here the interrogation begins
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Marigolds In the short story Marigolds‚ the theme that was most evident to me was that only when you really need something is when you realize its importance. The setting in which the story Marigolds takes place is a very small‚ poor‚ neighborhood. As told by the narrator it was‚ “When I think of the home town of my youth‚ all that I seem to remember is dust—the brown‚ crumbly dust of late summer—arid‚ sterile dust that gets into the eyes and makes them water‚ gets into the throat and between the
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Crossing Trust and family relationships are the two main themes in the short story “Crossing” by Mark Slouka. The story tells us about a father‚ who is going through a tough period‚ and his relationship to his son. He wants to obtain trust from his son trough a trip in the nature but runs into some challenges on his way. The father in the short story takes his son on a trip to a place at a river‚ because he wants to get closer to him on this trip. We get hints throughout the story that the father
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