An Unknown Girl In the poem ‘An Unknown Girl’‚ Moniza Alvi uses poetic techniques such as metaphors‚ personification‚ alliteration‚ repetition and similes in order to depict her struggles in rediscovering her cultural identity. Along with references to India and the scenery surrounding the narrator‚
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The Unknown Girl By Moniza Alvi The title ‘unknown girl’ may suggest that the poetess is in search of her roots‚ culture‚ traditions and heritage. She is unknown to her country‚ the place from where she belongs. She is trying to find out more about her home-country. This poem is a first-person narration from the poetess’ point of view. It us a free verse‚ autobiographical poem which is written in a single stanza containing many local dialects‚ for instance‚ ‘bazaar’‚ ‘hennaing’‚ ‘kameez’ and
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The Unknown Citizen "The Unknown Citizen" by W.H. Auden‚ is a commentary on government and the materialism of modern man. The poem is written in the form of an obituary inscribed on a monument built by the government in commemoration of an average‚ upstanding‚ and decent community member. Throughout the passage‚ the speaker lists facts about the citizen’s life which he believes prove that the deceased was a valuable person. In actuality these facts represent nothing more than the socially accepted
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Rebekah Worley February 21‚ 2012 Mitchell Section 4 Biol 311 Staining and Identifying Unknown Bacteria Introduction: The microbiology lab up to this point has been used to teach the students how to stain and identify bacteria. There are several types of staining through which the bacteria can be identified based on the color and shape. The staining methods used in the lab are Gram Staining‚ Capsule Staining‚ Endospore Staining‚ and Acid Fast staining. One of the most significant method of
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Imran Hyder 4th Period English An Unknown Girl An Unknown Girl is written by the poet Moniza Alvi. Moniza Alvi is a renowned Pakistani-British writer. Her mother is British and her father is from Pakistan. She was born in Pakistan and later moved to the United Kingdom. This could reflect why An Unknown Girl is about the struggle Alvi or The Unknown Girl has trying to relocate her cultural identity and cling onto it in a nation where the culture is slowly drifting away and being replaced by western
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NTRODUCTION Often in the study of microbiology‚ the need to identify an unknown microbe may arise. This aids in the recognition of which microbes are harmful or pathogenic as well as those that may be beneficial to us in some way. This report will detail how a similar project was performed in order to identify two unknown micobes using the techniques that were learnt during the course of the semester. We embarked on the project with the knowledge that we would have to identify a Gram(+) as well
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that can assist in identification of bacteria are their ecological habitats and more advanced methods such as genetic and molecular composition. Using various techniques one is able to distinguish and ultimately assign then genus and species of the unknown bacteria. Methods: Gram Staining: The Gram stain separates bacteria in two distinct classes and is also useful in distinguishing morphology. Through this technique one is able to identify bacteria as either gram positive or gram negative. The gram-negative
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Introduction to Microbiology – Case Study 1 Kristen Alejos You are working as an emergency room nurse in Topeka when a mother brings in her 8 year old son because of severe‚ bloody diarrhea. When questioned‚ the boy said that it hurts when he goes to the bathroom and his mother said he had vomited in the previous two days. When asked about their previous movements‚ the mother and son both mentioned a backyard barbeque that had taken place 6 days earlier. The boy complained that his mother
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Kevin Warwick’s “Into the Unknown‚” he argues that instead of measuring intelligence in a single dimensional value‚ difference aspects like culture and values should be taken into considerations throughout the process. In “The Social Imagination‚” James Flynn expresses a similar viewpoint on the study of intelligence‚ claiming that psychologists tend to overlook and underestimate the social contexts that could possibly alter the results of
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Unknown Lab Report Dr. Nathan Cahoone Microbiology 204 December 9‚ 2010 Introduction There are many reasons for knowing the identity of microorganisms. The study and test was done by applying all of the methods that have been learned so far in the microbiology laboratory class for the identification of an unknown bacterium which I was using unknown #25. Results Unknown #25 had the following morphology on a streak plate: medium sized butyrous cream colored colony. Gram-staining was utilized
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