Last Viceroy Lord Mountbatten March 1947 June Plan (Main Provisions) 1.The Legislature of Punjab and Bengal were to decide whether the province was to be partitioned or not. If either of the two favored partitioned‚ it was to be effected accordingly. 2.A boundary commission would be set up to demarcate Muslim majority area in Punjab and Bengal‚ if they decided to opt for the new constituent assembly. 3.It would be
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In Stephen King’s short story “Survivor Type”‚ King uses imagery‚ setting and irony to ask the question “What will a person risk in order to survive?” In this short story‚ Richard Pine‚ a medical school graduate‚ surgeon and a pill pusher is on his way back home to the United States with 2 Kilos of heroin‚ when the cruise ship that he is on sinks after an enormous explosion. Dr. Pine manages to get onto a life boat that takes him to a deserted island which Pine describes as small enough to spit across
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While it is true that the marxism and psychoanalytic criticisms also suit The Great Gatsby‚ they do not suit it as strongly as feminism. The psychoanalytic criticism circles around the perplexing romantic relationships portrayed in the novel and discusses the pattern of psychological behavior’s stemming from the characters fear of intimacy that ultimately results in emotional devastation. While it does have some good points‚ I believe that it is the least fitting for the story. Not because I honestly
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contemplation upon flowers by Henry King" is about a man who wants the flowers to teach him to become humble. But instead the flowers taught him three lessons. His first lesson that he learnt was to become brave and to remember the place where the flower came from‚ as referred to line 1‚ 5-6 " Brave flowers that I could gallant it like you"‚ " You are not proud you know your birth for your embroidered garments are from earth." Line 1 can also be identified as a literary device known as personification
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Rhetorical criticism‚ perspectives in action (pp. 39-59). Lanham‚ MD: Lexington. F. I. Hill wrote the article The “Traditional” Perspective in 1972; later edited in 2009. This article was meant to inform readers about how to apply traditional criticism through the use of the theory of rhetoric. It was divided into two sections; the first being an overview of traditional criticism‚ and the second being the application of this in his critical essay of “Mr. Douglass’s Fifth of July”. This paper works to
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in an accident. 2) If you get on a bus and the number of seats available is low‚ then sitting next to someone would be better than standing. However you could give your seat up for someone who needs it more‚ e.g. elderley person. 3) Being polite when you sit next to the person if you do not know them. 4) The three year old may cry or be noisy and distracting to other passengers. The child may not sit still in their seat and may try to run up and down the aisle. However an adult would not act in
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Since its publication in 1981‚ Joy Kogawa’s Obasan has assumed an important place in Canadian literature and in the broadly-defined‚ Asian-American literary canon. Reviewers immediately heralded the novel for its poetic force and its moving portrayal of an often-ignored aspect of Canadian and American history. Since then‚ critics have expanded upon this initial commentary to examine more closely the themes and images in Kogawa’s work. Critical attention has focused on the difficulties and ambiguities
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Final Paper: Passage # 5 Shakespeare’s play‚ King Lear‚ demonstrates power struggles between parents and children in the form of a tragedy. The main conflict of the play is between King Lear and his two daughters‚ Goneril and Regan‚ whom he gave his inheritance to. One of the most significant passages of the entire play is where Goneril‚ the eldest daughter of King Lear confronts him for the first time‚ and they argue about the issue of King Lear’s one hundred followers. This dispute is literally
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Lewis’ The Lion‚ the Witch‚ and the Wardrobe. In the Professor’s house‚ there was a wardrobe alone in an otherwise empty room. Characters can walk straight through the back of this wardrobe into the mysterious land of Narnia. Lucy was the first one to discover this and met a faun (half man/half goat) named Mr. Tumnus. Edmund later stumbled upon Narnia and met the evil White Witch. Eventually‚ all four kids ended up in Narnia together and this is when their true journey began. The literary elements
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The Lion King’s Inspiration? In 1994‚ Walt Disney Pictures released the movie The Lion King. The movie became what could perhaps be the best-animated feature of all time. Disney Pictures has always stated that this was an original story and not based off of anything else. However‚ “Most of the critics whose reviews appear on one of the several Lion King Web pages… compare the movie to Hamlet…” (Schwalm). Likewise‚ many people cannot help but draw comparisons between The Lion King and certain
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