Narrative Strategies and Chronotope of Violence in Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun By Ayodabo J. Sunday Department of English‚ Elizade University‚ Ilara-Mokin‚ Ondo State‚ Nigeria Introduction As an event in a specific time and history‚ the exploration of the Nigerian civil war as a theme in fiction returns us to the focus on memory and its connection to narrative forms. The war happened in 1967-1970 when the South Eastern states‚ led by Lt. Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS‚ 12(1)‚ 2007 ISSN: 1083−4346 General Electric Performance over a Half Century: Evaluation of Effects of Leadership and Other Strategic Factors by Quantitative Case Analysis Richard H. Frankea‚ Anthony J. Mentob‚ Steve M. Prumoc‚ and Timothy W. Edlundd abc Department of Management and International Business‚ The Sellinger School‚ Loyola College; 4501 North Charles St.‚ Baltimore‚ MD 21210 rfranke@loyola.edu‚ amento@loyola.edu‚ steve.prumo@verizon.net
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small places without any ventilation‚ light‚ plumbing or a place where their children can play even sometimes exposed to get robbed‚ having a high risk of diseases and without fire escapes. In this photo taken by Jacob Riis for his book "How the other half lives" we can see how people that pay a cent to spend the night (the ones that can afford it because many of those people don’t have the money to pay it) in those bedrooms with unsanitary conditions without any space to put
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Chapters 17-20 #2. How were the lives of the Plains Indians in the second half of the nineteenth century affected by technological developments and government actions? Intro: Talk about American ideals; Expansionism‚ Nationalism Previous events of the first half of the nineteenth century: Louisiana Purchase → Prophet and Tecumseh‚ religious and violent revolt‚ 1808 on fought‚ War of 1812 Indians help the British (Battle of Thames) Jackson (INDIAN HATER)‚ Mexican American war‚ Improvements
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American writer Amy Tan (1952- ) shows connections between women within a family throughout her novels The Bonesetter’s Daughter‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ and The Hundred Secret Senses. Tan illustrates the kind of relationship the women share‚ how their opinions on life differ‚ and how they resolve their differences. Ms. Tan uses her own experiences with life and her family to inspire her fictional stories. In Amy Tan’s novel The Bonesetter’s Daughter‚ the main female characters are Ruth and Lu Ling
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a good movie has to be an action‚ comedy‚ or horror movie for me. Second‚ the movie itself has to contain a plot worth watching. To further elaborate on the subject‚ here are my favorite 5 movies. Which of course is The Matrix‚ Fight Club‚ Saw 2‚ Half Baked‚ and Snatch. The Matrix is a movie about a computer hacker Thomas Anderson has lived a relatively ordinary life. But to his intelligence he thinks is in the year 1999‚ that is until he is contacted by the enigmatic Morpheus who leads him into
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‘Unrelated Incidents’ and one other poem. The language employed in poems ‘Unrelated Incidents’ and ‘Half-Caste’ effectively portrays the discrimination both poets receive. The writers’ use of language shows how they feel and how they deal with the discrimination. Both poems show positive diction. ‘Unrelated Incident ‘ is written as third person‚ making it feel we are being directly spoken to and half-caste is written in first person so the reader can empathise with the characters feelings. ‘Unrelated
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Abstract: Finding the half-life of Aluminum-28 is the purpose of this lab. The class met at the Radiation Center and exposed small amounts of aluminum to energetic neutrons and watched the samples decay. After creating a table with background count and gross counts of the aluminum remaining at fifteen different one-minute intervals‚ this allowed the net counts per minute at each interval to be found as well. Next a graph of the net cpm verses time was plotted. After each interval was plotted
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granted‚ something we learn when we are so little that we can’t even remember how‚ something that for all of us was always part of our lives. Helen Keller with her need of language to give sense to life‚ Frederick Douglass with his ways of learning and Amy Tan with the importance of the “Mother Tongue” language‚ convey to us a totally different view of how language changes‚ develops and gives meaning to our lives. For Helen Keller‚ when she was around seven years old‚ language was a mystery. In a selection
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new ones is a very stressful undertaking. Amy Tan is a daughter of a Chinese immigrant mother‚ who believes in the American dream. Her mother went through some difficult
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