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    critical presentation of what socialist realism is using Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s I Will Marry When I Want and Festus Iyayi’s Violence as a case study. The texts have their historical and fictional settings in Kenya and Nigeria respectively. The Marxist theory‚ upon which the socialist realist literature set their canon‚ is that which is characterized with class stratification and struggle. Therefore we see two categories of characters; the Ahab Kioi wa Kanoru‚ Jezebel‚ and the Kiguunda‚ Gicaamba‚ Wangeci

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    In “Decolonising the MindNgugi Wa Thiong’o makes the call to African writers to begin writing literature in their own languages‚ and to make sure that literature is connected to their people’s revolutionary struggles for independence from their colonial regimes. He begins with the historical meeting he was invited to with his fellow African writers in Kampala‚ Uganda. In this conference‚ writers who wrote their stories in African languages were automatically neglected. He also continues to point

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    What was the contribution of Terence O’Neill to the affairs of Northern Ireland during the period 1949-1969? R: Very little‚ no allies in parliament S: O’Neill policies C: background of O’Neill. Northern Ireland before his election N. O’Neill‚ paisley Brookeborough Faulkner... P1 Brookeborough government‚ tensions‚ O’Neill election P2: O’Neill policies. p3: opposition to his policies. P4 O’Neill’s fall What was the contribution of Terence O’Neill to the

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    How significant was the role of Daniel O’Connell in the success of the Catholic Association in the years 1823 to 1829? During the Catholic Association’s campaign for religious equality in the form of catholic emancipation it can be seen that the largely prominent and most significant figure ‘who transformed Catholic resentment over the emancipation issue into a nationwide campaign’1 was that of Daniel O’Connell. However‚ it can also be seen that other key factors were a major contributor to the

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    PDF processed with CutePDF evaluation edition www.CutePDF.com THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI (ORIGINAL JURISDICTION) COMPANY APPLICATION NO. (M) 123 of 2012 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT‚ 1956 (1 OF 1956) SECTIONS 391 & 394 AND IN THE MATTER OF SCHEME OF AMALGAMATION OF BRAHMAPUTRA INFRAPROJECT LTD WITH BRAHMAPUTRA INFRASTRUCTURE LTD IN THE MATTER OF BRAHMAPUTRA INFRAPROJECT LTD APPLICANT/ TRANSFEROR COMPANY (A Company incorporated under the provisions of the Companies Act‚ 1956

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    THE WALRUS • MARCH 2OII lltSIHilliiKHIIIIIIIIIillHIIIiniltli BOOKS Crímínou8 Minds A new wave ofcrime writers is exploring Canada’s darken corners BY RICHARD POPLAK ILLUSTRATION BY JACK DYLAN BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY: and beaver-shaped shortbread. Rush espies the young Rosalind Canon‚ CanLit Wunderkind of the moment. She is flush with a Dickie nom‚ a considerable book advance‚ and the adulation of the culturocracy. Why not me? whines Rush‚ borrowing the italics Stephen King made

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    God ‚it was‚ we had spent some early anxious days until‚ we found out that‚ he is none other than our professor and vice-principal‚ a soft spoken and scholarly Mokshagundum Krishnamurthy‚the nephew & heir to sir M.Viswesraiah.. During April 1962‚ some of us who were awaiting our final results had called on him at his residence in Bangalore to pay our respects and express our condolence on the death of his uncle Mokshagundum Visweshraiah at the ripe age of 101 years. He was chief Engineer

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    A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind Matthew A. Killingsworth* and Daniel T. Gilbert nlike other animals‚ human beings spend a lot of time thinking about what is not going on around them‚ contemplating events that happened in the past‚ might happen in the future‚ or will never happen at all. Indeed‚ “stimulus-independent thought” or “mind wandering” appears to be the brain’s default mode of operation (1–3). Although this ability is a remarkable evolutionary achievement that allows people to learn

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    have bodies and minds. With our bodies‚ we eat‚ talk‚ breathe‚ move and touch the world. With our minds‚ we think‚ understand‚ memorize‚ desire and create ideas. Modern science can well explain what goes on in our bodies as a result of biomechanical and electrochemical interactions. But what about our minds? It seems that thoughts are not substances; they have no shapes or weights and cannot be touched. It is always controversial that whether our minds are immaterial souls or our minds are brains.

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    Red soils develop in a warm‚ temperate‚ wet climate under deciduous forests and have thin organic and mineral layers overlying a yellowish-brown leached layer resting on red layer made of iron oxide(ferric oxide). Red soils generally form from iron-rich sediments. They are usually poor growing soils‚ low in nutrients and humus and difficult to cultivate. These soils are developed on old crystalline rocks under moderate to heavy rainfall conditions. They are deficient in phosphoric acid‚ organic matter

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