Richard Rodriguez’s essay “The Achievement of Desire” can be described as an autobiographical text in which the author includes some self analysis in comparison to what he describes as the only description of “myself”(Rodriguez p.547): The Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart. What Rodriguez is doing by writing this essay is to add further notion of the “scholarship boy syndrome” for future scholarship boys. His motif for doing this could be to make the reader reflect on the advantages and disadvantages
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today. Gandhi was an advocate of nonviolence‚ he was at the forefront of the Free India movement of the 1930’s and 40’s and played an integral part in India becoming an independent nation. This essay will focus on a few of Gandhi’s many achievements‚ it will look at how for the time period his philosophy of non-violent protest was considered a radical concept and how this philosophy of non-violence not only helped free India from British rule but also inspired protest and civil disobedience the world
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Short Essay on 15th August – The Independence Day of India By Devansha on November 30‚ 2011 in Essays The great dream of our freedom fighters‚ nationalists‚ and revolutionaries was realized on 15th Aug. 1947‚ when India became free and independent. It was an epoch-making event of great significance‚ which ushered in an era of liberty‚ self-rule and prosperity for our nation. Since then 15th Aug.‚ has been celebrated all over India as our Independence Day. It is a national festival-a day to remember
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substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour‚ when the world sleeps‚ India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes‚ which comes but rarely in history‚ when we step out from the old to the new‚ when an age ends and when the soul of a nation‚ long suppressed‚ finds utterance.... We end today a period of ill fortune‚ and India discovers herself again." - Jawaharlal Nehru At the strike of midnight of the August 15‚ 1947‚ India shook off the shackles of British Rule and became free. It was a
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THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE-1857 • During the War of Independence the Governor General was Lord Canning. He had assumed the charge of his office in 1856. • Wajid Ali Shah was the Nawab of Awadh. He was sent on exile to Calcutta and his state was annexed by the British in April 1856. • Three-fourth of the infantry and nearly two-third of the whole Bengal Army was composed of the people from Awadh. • Maulvi Ahmadullah devised the distribution of chapatti scheme during his travels in
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Muller English 101 March 1‚ 2013 Educational Achievement and Upward Mobility In many cities throughout the United States‚ people live in a state of poverty‚ lacking the basic necessities of food‚ clothing‚ and shelter needed to survive. Governments have tried numerous policies to life people out of poverty‚ from financial aid to affirmative action programs. Yet‚ Government aids are not enough to guarantee educational achievement. Educational achievement is the single largest influence on an individual’s
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Independence Day Of India Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny‚ and now the time comes when we will redeem our pledge‚ not wholly or in full measure‚ but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour‚ when the world sleeps‚ India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes‚ which comes but rarely in history‚ when we step out from the old to the new‚ when an age ends and when the soul of a nation‚ long suppressed‚ finds utterance.... We end today a period of ill fortune‚ and India
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When India attained independence‚ she was no nation‚ she was divided into princely states and provinces; she was backward economically‚ educationally‚ scientifically and even culturally. It needed men of genius and destiny like Gandhi‚ Nehru and Patel to knit her into a nation. Since the dawn of independence‚ we have been striving to solve various problems facing the motherland to make her a united democratic and solvent nation. What we have achieved is praiseworthy‚ what we have failed to achieve
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The Independence of Kosovo Generally speaking‚ one can state that theories possibly explain specific actions of a country or a government‚ but that governments do not automatically act accordingly. Therefore the question arises‚ whether Kosovo’s independence can be explained by a single theory of international relations and‚ if so‚ to what extent one theory can explain the processes that took place in Kosovo. On 17 February 2008‚ Kosovo’s declaration of independence was adopted at a meeting of
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Source A: Lenin was a great leader yet the most humble of men. For his achievements in the October revolution‚ in defending the foreign invaders and destroying the whites‚ in bringing peace and prosperity‚ we are forever in his debt. (A Russian view of Lenin written at the same time of his death in 1924) Was this an accurate assessment of Lenin and his achievements? One man with a gun can control 100 without one." Lenin‚ Vladimir Ilich 1917 Lenin was a man with principles that tried his best
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