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    My Locality Is Thoothukudi..If I Have Seen It For The First Time Then My View’s Will Be The Following‚ wE hAVE bOUGHT a neW hOME iN tHOOTHUKUDI we aRE moVING tHERE .I Came By The Toll Booth And Came To The New Bus Stand And I Saw A Bridge Over A Railway Gate .The People There Said It’s Called As 3rd Gate Bridge ‚Then After travelling A Few Metres From The Bridge We Reached The Old Bus Stand Of Thoothukudi‚ Then We cAME tO oUR nEW hOME‚ Refreshed Ourselves And Then We Went To The Big Mall In

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    Jamaica Kincaid‚ a writer from Antigua shares her personal experiences and clarifies how English imperialism affected her life‚ her personality‚ besides how it made other people treat her. She wrote about it in an autobiographical essay “ On seeing England for the first time” in 1991. People in Antigua lived their whole life learning and glorifying England’s history; none of them had gone there. Jamaica had waited her whole life to go there and see how it would look like. She had the chance to go

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    Jamaica Kincaid Girl

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    Girl‚ written by Jamaica Kincaid‚ is a short story about the relationship between a mother and daughter. Actually‚ it reflects the true living background in Kincaid’s time by listing a series of imperative sentences‚ which show how the mother had a certain life style on how she wanted her daughter to live up. In this story‚ the setting and tone and characters interlace and work together to create an intense description of the daily conversation between the mother and daughter‚ and they present the

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    Jamaica Kincaid Analysis

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    the assimilation that England performs on Antigua.I would have liked to usr more evidence from Kincaid’s actual writings. and expose the influence England forces on Antigua. My thoughts for the y next timed write is to cleanly identify problem and correctly write without any fragments. In the beginning of the passage Kincaid describes the beauty and greatness that England is presented in. And the how the inhabitants nationalistic inhabitants where it as if a statement‚Kincaid expresses Antigua’s overall

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    Mary Tudor is the first queen regnant in the history of England‚ who reigned from 1553 until her demise in 1558. She is greatly recognized for her religious persecutions and execution of over 300 Protestant subjects (Loades 54). Mary Tudor‚ Queen of England‚ was given birth on the 18th of February 1516‚ at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich. She became the only surviving baby of Henry VIII and his first wife‚ Catherine of Aragon. Mary was known as Mary 1‚ Queen of England and Ireland. After Edward’s

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    My First Time in London

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    My first time in London I think that the most exacting trip that I have ever made was the one when I went to London England. I was on summer vacation in Thailand at the time and was supposed to be returning home to the Dominican Republic; however‚ I had a better idea‚ I was going to England instead. Leaving through the airport in Bangkok was absolute chaos; they were building another airport at the time to accommodate the increasing number of people‚ and judging by my experience‚ it couldn’t come

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    Ways of Seeing

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    Juan Carlos Navarro Instructor Thornberry WR115 April-23-2013 EVERY IMAGE EMBODIES A WAY OF SEEING It’s very impressive to me‚ the distinct level of interpretation that every person can have upon a single image. It’s also surprising to understand‚ that it only takes an instant to look at an image that you find interesting and it will capture your attention‚ and have a powerful effects on you. I agree that the environment that surrounds‚ and the experiences that you may have in your life‚ affect

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    Ways of Seeing

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    Ways Of Seeing (Chapter 7) In today’s world‚ marketers and advertisers are fighting for every spot they get to display their ads and market their products. The ultimate aim is to get as much exposure as possible. This in turn‚ they hope‚ will translate into sales. The literature “Ways of Seeing – Part 7” underlines the theory of publicity. I chose this literature because it elucidates the backbone of marketing

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    Jamaica Kincaid: Girl

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    Reflections on Jamaica Kincaid’s Short Story‚ Girl Seeing a child who is ostracized for being a slut is a mother’s worst nightmare. The short story Girl‚ is a perfect example; insofar as‚ it deals with the experience of being a young female in a poor country‚ and a mother’s concern for her daughter’s respect. Girl mainly consists of single lined sentences of advice that the mother gives to her daughter in order to prevent her from losing respect for becoming a slut. However‚ in doing so

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    In History Jamaica Kincaid

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    In “In History‚” Jamaica Kincaid tells the readers two stories of historically significant figures‚ Christopher Columbus and Carl Linnaeus. She first explains the discovery of New World and then describes how Linnaeus created the modern version of binominal nomenclature. In between these two stories‚ she vaguely mentions her own history‚ coming from “a place called Antigua”; her own story is only a small proportion compared to the stories of Columbus and Linnaeus (Kincaid 622). Significantly‚ no matter

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