TO: Professor Cross FROM: Varun Malkani DATE: 2/4/2013 SUBJECT: Personal Best Examples I’m a member of the Filmmaker’s Society and recently had to take on a big leadership role at the end of last semester. As treasurer of the club I’m in charge of soliciting funding from the student council each semester and I have to attend a hearing to get our budget approved. Last semester‚ however‚ no one in our club was ever notified about the upcoming budget hearings until the day of. Since the budget
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My son the fanatic The generation gap is a dilemma which frequently occurs among immigrants‚ and in his short story My son the fanatic‚ Hanif Kureishi brings up the issue concerned. Kureishi introduces us to a father‚ who’s alarmed and puzzled by his sons’ strange behavior‚ which proves out to be against his own values. During this‚ Kureishi touches on the topics fanaticism and religion‚ and how these can change ones behavior towards ones family. Kureishi also focuses on how people relate to their
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The Social Role Of Being A Good Son Introduction: In my family I am expected to play two very different social roles as a son. Both my mother and father hold two different expectations of me. My mother would like me to play the role of model student by consistently achieving good grades and receiving a good education. However my father would have a lesser academic approach to the social role I should play as a son and would argue that my education should come second to moral attributes such as
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Principles of Christian Dream Interpretation Defining Dream and Vision: 1. Dream - “A sequence of images‚ etc. passing through a sleeping person’s mind” (Webster’s Dictionary) 2. Vision - “A mental image” (Webster’s Dictionary) 3. “In a dream‚ a vision of the night...” (Job 33:15) You will note from this verse the close connection the Hebrews maintained between the dream and the vision. The words are used almost interchangeably. Both dreams and visions involve the viewing of images on the screen
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Death of a Salesman:A Postmodernist Study Abstract: This study makes an attempt to analyze Death of a Salesman in an attempt to mirror the struggling modern characters who live in the world of postmodernism but are the slave of the preventive beliefs of modernism. This play is the story of all human beings who are in search of success‚ Love‚ Pride‚ and Ambition‚ but are oscillating between the modern and postmodern values. They find themselves disintegrated and isolated in the cruel language
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having to maintain one’s cultural background at the same time as embracing others’. In his short story “My Son the Fanatic”‚ Hanif Kureishi treats the drawbacks of immigrating while bringing it together with more universal matters such as growing up. We are introduced to the Pakistani protagonist Parvez‚ who once migrated from his native country. He now lives in England with his wife and their son‚ Ali‚ who hasn’t been brought up very religiously in spite of them being Muslims. This is presumably related
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Critical Analysis of Saur’s Interpretation of "Tartuffe" Pamela S. Saur’s article “Moilere’s Tartuffe” provides us with a well-built synopsis of Moliere’s character Cleante. In the play‚ Cleante is a very smart man: he’s observant‚ educated‚ and intelligent. Despite all of this‚ Saur argues of Cleante‚ saying “If the play were merely ’a struggle between Tartuffe and Cleante‚’ that the ending would be different. The victory would go to Tartuffe” (Saur 10). Saur is missing the entire point of Molière’s
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ARABY-POSTCOLONIAL INTERPRETATION In the short story of Araby‚ James Joyce attemps to expose many ideas and themes that places the setting of Araby in a postcolonial era. The narator describes the setting of "NORTH RICHMOND STREET AS A BLIND‚ QUIET STREET‚ HAVING HOUSES WITH INPERTURBABLE FACES‚" This dull and dark description of the enviroment goes on throughout the story connecting this sombre setting Dublin with the mondane activities of the people. eg. (people doing their jobs‚ going
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Intro to Philosophy Paper on Personal Identity October 7th 2008 I have chosen to write my paper on personal identity. Personal identity asks the question‚ “What Am I?”‚ “Does my identity change over time”‚ and “What happens to me when I die?” I plan to show there is no such thing as personal identity based on the many different circumstances and factors that can be conflicts in a persons life. Who you are is what factors make you unique from another person. It can consist of values and
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My Interpretation of “The Chrysanthemums” “The Chrysanthemums” is one of John Steinbeck’s popular short stories. “The Chrysanthemums” represents inequality of gender‚ limitations‚ and feminism. The story is about a married woman living in the early 1900s who longs for a more exciting‚ meaningful existence. Elisa Allen is intelligent‚ accomplished‚ attractive‚ and ambitious. Yet she feels confined in her life and marriage. Steinbeck uses the world around Elisa to give the
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