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    East is East is a film about a Half-Pakistani family lives in England. The father‚ George/Jahangir Khan is from Pakistan and wants his children to feel connected to his home country. Ella Khan however is the mother of the family and is from England. Because of this there is a struggle for the seven children to find their identity. Mr. Khan expects his children to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways‚ but the children does not really feel like they belong to Pakistan. After having lived their whole

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    Film Review: East Is East

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    The movie East is East takes place in Salford‚ Manchester in the early seventies. The family Kahn owns a fish and chips shop on the corner.   The father George Kahn‚ tries to raise his 7 children as good Muslims. But the job is not easy when he has to please both his British wife Ella and the Pakistani community. When his oldest son rejects to get married and leaves the bride at the altar‚ Georges world seems to collapse‚ but then he gets an idea. He can marry off two of his other sons and get

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    1.1. Throughout this century‚ a famous painting entitled The Man with the Golden Helmet was believed to be the work of the Dutch master Rembrandt. Some years ago it was proved to have been painted by someone else. Some people would say that the truth about this painting changed. Do you agree? Explain. The book tells us that truth is the accurate representation of objective reality‚ and that our assumptions‚ and wishes do not affect the reality of the facts. With that being said; I would say yes

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    The Middle East‚ Byzantium‚ and East Asia There were many similarities and differences between Byzantium and the Middle East and East Asia. Both regions were based on religions that were founded by prophets‚ but Byzantium and the Middle East had religions that were monotheistic‚ and East Asia did not. They also differed in the fact that the Middle East and Byzantium focused on academic development‚ and East Asia focused on military development‚ but were similar because both developed new ways to

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    Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences Urban Studies | Bachelor Thesis | 2009- 2010 Opportunities divided Development along the East Coast Road in Tamil Nadu‚ India Kaj Beetstra Opportunities divided Development along the East Coast Road in Tamil Nadu‚ India University of Amsterdam | Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences Urban Studies (In Dutch: ‘Planologie) | Bachelor Thesis Date: 11 May 2010 Student: Kaj Beetstra Student number: 0515337 Address: Willem Schoutenstraat 55-1

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    Dutch Legal System

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    The Dutch Legal System The Kingdom of the Netherlands was founded in 1813. It was part of France from 1795 until 1813‚ before 1795 the greater part of the current territory was governed by a confederation of sovereign provinces. Government Structure ’Central government is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system. Since 1814 there has been a hereditary monarchy occupied in turn by Kings William I‚ William II and William III‚ followed by the Princess Regent Emma and Queens Wilhelmina

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    gov/collection/gallery/dutch.shtm DUTCH AND FLEMISH PAINTING OF THE 16TH-17TH CENTURIES Religious and political turmoil in the 1500s split the Low Countries into two nations with differing social values and artistic tastes. Flanders remained Catholic and royalist; Flemish artists such as Rubens and Van Dyck glorified the Church and monarchy with grandiose themes‚ lively compositions‚ and vivid colors. The United Netherlands‚ however‚ became a republic populated mainly by Calvinists. Dutch Protestants like Rembrandt

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    rather than divide‚ facilitating trade among East Africa‚ the Persian Gulf‚ Indian‚ Southeast Asia‚ and China along maritime routes complementing the Silk Road that had long bridged eastern and western Eurasia by land” (Hansen and Curtis 471). The Dutch and the Portuguese stepped in‚ and intruded on the Indian Ocean. The goal of the Portuguese was to build new networks of trade and create a big empire‚ however they were not able to accomplish this. The Dutch‚ who became involved in the Indian Ocean trade

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    East Pakistan

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    By Syed Hussain Shaheed Soherwordi Pakistan had a unique geographical feature. It consisted of two distinct blocks of territory. East Pakistan was not only separated geographically from West Pakistan by one thousand miles‚ but the departing land was India - a hostile neighbour‚ who from the day one did not recognise Pakistan’s existence. Hindu leaders gave statements at the time of Pakistan’s creation that it was a temporary division and very soon Pakistan will come into Indian fold again. For

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    Dutch Lady Milk Industries

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    [1.0] INTRODUCTION [1.1] Background of the Company After World War II‚ some local importers and wholesalers of Malaysia imported sweetened condensed milk in wholesale quantities from a large company in Holland. To market this milk‚ a Singapore based company named Friesland (Malaya) Pte Ltd was formed in 1954. One of the brands that this company started selling was called the Dutch Baby brand. In 1963‚ a sweetened condensed milk factory was commissioned in Petaling Jaya‚ and Pacific Milk Industries

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