developments‚ social upheavals‚ festering insurgencies‚ military actions and environmental challenges. Why IANS? The Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) was established in 1986‚ initially to serve as an information bridge between India and its thriving diaspora in North America. Today it is a full-fledged‚ 24 by 7 agencies putting out the real-time news from India‚ South Asia and news of interest to this region around the world. IANS serves several hundred outlets across the entire media spectrum‚ in
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Alexandra Karolidis Holly McIndoe English 100 Thursday March 21‚ 2013. “Shelley’s Monster: A Misrepresentation of the Masses?” In Karen Piper’s “Inuit Diasporas: Frankenstein and the Inuit in England‚” Piper argues that the creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a manifestation of the Northern Arctic inhabitants‚ specifically Greenlandic Inuits and Eskimos and the risks associated with their arrival in England. The early 19th century marked a time in which England became more
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Olmec The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E.‚ the __ people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture‚ wide-ranging trade‚ ceremonial centers‚ and monumental construction. The __ had great cultural influence on later Mesoamerican societies‚ passing on artistic styles‚ religious imagery‚ sophisticated astronomical observation for the construction of calendars‚ and a ritual ball game. (p. 75) Chavín __ The first major urban
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group into Egypt‚ emerging years later as one nation looking for freedom and the Promised Land. Later on they had three kings who were able to build them a temple which then got destroyed. The destruction of the temple led to years in exile‚ the Diaspora. History stated the Hebrew were originally tribes from Mesopotamia. They abandoned the polytheism of the ancient world. The tribes called by their neighbors: Hebrews: originated in Sumer. 1350 B.C.E.‚ they develop a belief in worshipping a
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outsider and the hegemonic power discourses in the fiction that they are writing today. Jhumpa Lahiri as an immigrant novelist clearly fits into the school of writers better known as the writers of the ‘Indian Diaspora’. The word ‘diaspora’ has been taken from Greek‚ meaning “to disperse”. ‘Diaspora’‚ is the voluntary or forcible movement of peoples from their homelands into new regions…. [Ashcroft‚ Griffiths‚ Tiffin] Normally‚ disapora fiction lingers over alienation‚ loneliness‚ homelessness‚ existential
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Brown Girl‚ Brownstones Paule Marshall Online Information For the online version of BookRags’ Brown Girl‚ Brownstones Short Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/short/brown−girl−brownstones/ Copyright Information ©2000−2005 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections‚ if they exist‚ are offprint from Beacham’s Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: "Social Concerns"‚ "Thematic Overview"‚ "Techniques"‚ "Literary Precedents"‚ "Key Questions"
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or Chaozhou people (commonly known as Teochew Nang) are Han people who are native to the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong province of China and speak the Teochew dialect. The Teochew diaspora can be found almost anywhere in the world‚ especially Southeast Asia‚ North America‚ Australasia and France. The diaspora‚ at least estimated‚ contains over 10 million people‚ which is as much as the population of Chaoshan itself. They speak a language closely related to Hokkien‚ and their Teochew cuisine
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MAHA SHIVRATRI Maha Shivratri is a Hindu festival celebrated every year in reverence of Lord Shiva. Shivaratri literally means the great night of Shivaor the night of Shiva. It is celebrated every year on the 13th night/14th day of the Maagha month of the Hindu calendar Easter[ Easter is a Christian festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament. Easter is a moveable feast‚ meaning it is not
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Forensic anthropology complements humans rights work in many ways‚ as summarized in Burns’ article. Burns breaks apart forensic anthropology and human rights work‚ by describing what the fields are fundamentally as well as‚ describing the history of forensic anthropology and the steps a forensic scientist takes. Burns also shows how each discipline promotes each other‚ differ from one another‚ are enacted simultaneously and what they can accomplish. Altogether‚ Burns argues that human rights crimes
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brought about alienation among person that was never observed. He makes a conscious effort to show the marginalization of people deprived on the basis of caste and religion to raise the important issues such as belongingness‚ identity‚ ethnicity‚ diaspora‚ nation and multiculturalism. Multiculturalism might be the new idea of living in nations like Canada and Australia‚ however it is one of the noticeable highlights of Indian social life where individuals are utilized to live‚ in spite of their different
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