However‚ her determination to get a better life that is safe from war helps her undertake this mission. Ghulam Ali‚ a patient and compassionate man‚ insisted on helping Farah get through the border. Farah’s faith in humanity begins to thrive as she accomplishes her mission and gets to safety. To conclude‚ Farah Ahmedi successfully got through the border from Afghanistan to Pakistan with the help of Ghulam Ali‚ along with the challenges of her mom’s asthma and her using a prosthetic leg over long
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succeeded in creating a humorous yet meaningful movie‚ winning best film of 14 from the Australian film institute. Music is used as the main film device in this movie. The main character‚ Muriel Heslop‚ has a childish obsession with the 80’s pop group ABBA. This music occurs frequently
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CHAPTER 1 About Participatory Notes ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬____________________________________________________ Introduction to Participatory Notes: Participatory notes (PNs / P-Notes) are instruments used by investors or hedge funds that are not registered with the SEBI (Securities & Exchange Board of India) to invest in Indian securities. Indian based brokerages buy Indian-based securities and then issue participatory notes to foreign investors. Any dividends or capital gains collected
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In both novels‚ a man’s honor is highly valued and those that fight for their honor are seen as aliens. Examples are Abbas from Midaq Alley and the Vicario brothers from Chronicle of a Death Foretold who do things that are not in their best interest and are always fighting for society’s expectations. Both characters are alienated from society in similar ways because they
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where 1.5 million Palestinians reside. Hamas has regularly attacked Israel with rockets from Gaza or allowed others to do so. It poses a strong and growing political threat to the more moderate Palestinian Authority‚ which is led by President Mahmoud Abbas and his technocratic
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The theme of "Midaq Alley" cuts to the heart of Arab society. Namely‚ it shows how a group of characters living in the same slum neighborhood responds to the combined promise and threat of Western-influenced modernization. Midaq Alley is about the Egyptian residents of a hustling‚ packed back alley in Cairo in the 1940’s. The attempts of several residents to escape the alley and move up in status end with dreams broken and unfulfilled. The opening sentences of "Midaq Alley" points to a world bypassed
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Most of them follow the Petrarchan pattern. Each has an octave followed by a sestet. In between the octave and the sestet there is a marked pause indicated on paper by some blank space. The octave in a Petrarchan sonnet always has the rhyme-scheme abba abba‚ though the sestet may have one of the various pattern such as cdcdcd or cddcee. Surrey invented a new pattern for his sonnets which later was to be adopted by most Elizabethan sonneteers along with Shakespeare. Both Wyatt and Surrey were highly
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the Petrarchan form‚ while poets like Drayton or Shakespeare write their sonnets using the English form (Cruttwell 9). Some poets tend to take from both forms to create their own‚ such as Sidney and Donne‚ who tend to use a mixture of the two: abba abba cdcd ee. “More through usage than through anything inherent in the forms themselves‚ the Italian form has developed associations of dignity and solemnity; the English‚ of comparative lightness and gracefulness (Booth 6).” The Italian form has also
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Infective endocarditis is a type of endocarditis which is classified as a cardiac disorder. It affects the endocardium which is the inner most layer of the heart‚ targeting mainly the valves but may also affect the heart chambers (Kumar‚ Abbas‚ Aster‚ 2015). This disease has an infective component which means pathogens have entered the area and disrupted the normal tissue (Cotran‚ Kumar‚ & Collins‚ 1999). Infective endocarditis may lead to severe valvular insufficiency‚ which inturn could possible
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the influence of the West seems positive‚ leaving Midaq Alley behind makes some people like Hussain feel as though they are superior to those still living in the alley. Hussain says to Abbas‚ “Shake off this miserable life‚ close up your shop‚ leave this filthy alley behind” (Mahfouz‚ 36) in an attempt to convince Abbas that a life away from the alley is superior to the lifestyle that the alley can provide (Mahfouz‚ 36). He
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