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    culture; and the third and the final country : United States : where he learned to adopt the American culture to such an extent that‚ in the beginning‚ he had to try to adjust with his Indian wife‚ in which he eventually succeeds. Actually Lahiri takes the readers on a voyage in the life of an ordinary but an ambitious man. At first the readers may not sound the narrator ambitious‚ but on looking deep in to the story‚ one can easily find the ambition of the narrator in establishing himself

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    Literary Analysis-The Namesake The important theme of naming and identity is introduced at the very beginning‚ when Ashima calls out for her husband. She does not use his name when she calls for him‚ since "it’s not the type of thing Bengali wives do" (Lahiri‚ J. p. 2). Their husbands’ names are considered too intimate to be used. The Bengali tradition of pet names and "good" names. Only close family uses the pet name in the privacy of the home‚ while the "good" name is used in formal situations. Ashima

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    Gogol starts kindergarten‚ his parents want him to go by “Nikhil” at school and “Gogol” at home. Gogol is bothered by this because he feels he does not want another name. “He is afraid to be Nikhil‚ someone he doesn’t know. Who doesn’t know him.” (Lahiri 19). He believes changing his name will change his identity. He thinks his name came through the train accident his father had. Gogol thinks that Nikhil is someone else and doesn’t want to be two people. As soon he turns eleven he then learns how

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    R.K.Narayan R. K. Narayan (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001)‚ shortened from Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami‚ was an Indian writer‚ best known for his works set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He is one of three leading figures of early Indian literature in English (alongsideMulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao)‚ and is credited with bringing the genre to the rest of the world Narayan broke through with the help of his mentor and friend‚ Graham Greene‚ who was instrumental in getting

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     THE  GLOBAL  ARENA     Group  project:   VIETNAM’S  COMMITMENTS  UNDER  WTO  AND  AFTA   AND  THE  IMPACTS  TO  AUTOMOBILE  INDUSTRY     Lecturer:  Professor  Dhruba  Lahiri     Group  members:   • Tran  Vu  Hoang  Long   • Tran  Nam  Quoc   • Nguyen  Cong  Hoang   • Nguyen  Pham  Duy  Trung     Studied  objects:   • Vietnam’s  automotive

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    INDIAN POSITION ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT 1.1 the origin of the International Criminal Court The origin of the International Criminal Court (ICC) date back to the world war II‚ when international military tribunals were established (Nuremberg and Tokyo). Their competences were limited to war crimes‚ but their contribution had been fundamental to the extension of the crimes treated to crimes against humanity and peace. The first attempt to form an International Criminal Court has

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    www.lpude.in DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION ENGLISH - II Copyright © 2012 All rights reserved with publishers Produced & Printed by USI PUBLICATIONS 2/31‚ Nehru Enclave‚ Kalkaji Ext.‚ New Delhi-110019 for Directorate of Distance Education Lovely Professional University Phagwara Directorate of Distance Education LPU is reaching out to the masses by providing an intellectual learning environment that is academically rich with the most affordable fee structure. Supported by the largest University1

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    Q. The Forest Research Institute is situated at - 1) Nagpur 2) Mysore 3) Dehradun 4) Ernakulam Answer- 3) Dehradun Q. Most of the unemployment in India is - 1) Technological 2) Cyclical 3) Frictional 4) Structural Answer- 4) Structural Q. Which one of the following has launched guidebook on standards fir exporters? 1) UNIDO 2) RBI 3) SEBI 4) IBA Answer- 1) UNIDO Q. Which of the following is called the pink City of India? 1) Lucknow 2) Kolkata 3) Jaipur 4) Kota Answer- 3) Jaipur

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    Hughes 1059: Hughes describe how he lost faith in jesus at the age of twelve. How did the grown-ups in his life contribute to the experience? Hughes says that he lost faith in jesus when he was twelve because jesus never showed up to save him and it was then that he started to believe that there was no jesus because if there really was one that he would come and spare a twelve year old of the misery. The grown-ups in his life contributed to the whole experience in a negative way. They put too much

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    without him being around all the time like he had been before and needs to take up the responsibilities of doing things around the house that Ashoke handled before. "She begins to shiver violently‚ the house instantly feeling twenty degrees colder" (Lahiri 169). Ashima feels lonely after the death of her husband and makes the decision to move back to where she once called home. Living in America so

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