Bowling alley turned into church‚ repository of religious art in Bulacan By Levine Andro Lao The Diocese of Malolos has inaugurated a past leisure destination—a bowling alley in front of a resort—as one of its parish churches in Bulacan‚ formally naming it as Santisima Trinidad‚ after the religious persona to whom the locals have been devoted to for more than a century now. “This structure where we now have our church‚ as we know‚ had been a bowling alley. But it no longer looks as one‚” said
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billions of dollars‚ or separating a country‚ they play a big part in our lives. The Seattle gum wall‚ the wall on the border between Mexico and the US‚ and the Berlin wall are a few examples of important walls in the world. The Seattle gum wall in Post Alley‚ by Park Place Market‚ is the second most germy tourist attraction in the world. It is a wall filled with 26 years worth of chewing gum. The tradition started in 1990‚ when people got anxious waiting in line for the movie theaters. People used to use
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everyone’s daily lives. This concept is relevant in the 1940’s in Cairo‚ Egypt and 1950’s in Columbia. Both societies are highly traditional and are reluctant to change. The society in the 1940’s of Cairo is depicted by Naguib Mahfouz in the novel Midaq Alley which is about society’s adherence to change in things similar to typical tradition. Gabriel Marquez portrays the Colombian society in the 1950’s in the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold by illustrating the death of Santiago Nasar‚ the protagonist
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end alley where not much happens and community is very important. The story mostly details the lives of Abbas‚ Hussain Kirsha‚ and Hamida as they break away from the community and each end up in some sort of trouble. Naguib Mahfouz clearly illustrates in this novel that relationships such as inter-community relations‚ like marriage and religion are becoming less important due to the British imperialism. The results of elevating the individual ends in the death of Abbas and mutilation of Hamida‚ showing
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‘Midaq Alley’ is a novel written by the well-known Egyptian author‚ Naguib Mahfouz. It is a microcosmic display of Egypt during the British mandate at that time. The novel mainly focuses on an alley located in one of the crowded streets of Cairo. Omnisciently narrated‚ it gives us a detailed analysis of the Egyptian people during that time of oppression. Mahfouz conveys his message by the creation of external factors such as the British and WWII and making them play an eminent role throughout the
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1 Re-covering Women: Reading Two Partition Stories. Priyadarshini Dasgupta Coordinator‚ Senior Section‚ Shree Bharati School‚ Kolkata. Dibyabibha Roy Assistant Professor in English‚ Maheshtala College‚ Kolkata. “Playing British Gods under the ceiling fans of the Faletlis Hotel – behind Queen Victoria’s gardened skirt – the Radcliffe Commission deals out Indian cities like a pack of cards …… A new nation is born. India has been divided after all.” (Sidhwa 140) The available histories
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According to humanism‚ human life is precious because he is the measure of all things. But Pooro’s life proved that human life is everywhere not only in chains but also in torture. Pooro was married to Rashida. Her arm was tattooed on with a new name‚ ‘Hamida’. With that inscription‚ her Hindu name ‘Pooro’ became old and lost. Pooro became not only homeless but also unknown to herself. She became a refugee in an unknown land. The compulsion that was applied for the conversion and the stoic surrender that
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on this work. We essentially analyzed Bob Dylan’s songs as if they were poems. For my IOP‚ I compare/contrasted two of his songs. Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison) 11 Medium I found this book very interesting White Teeth (Zadie Smith) 11 Medium Midaq Alley (Naguib Mahfouz) 11 Medium The character
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Laden’s mother) independant personality.Mohammed (bin Laden’s father) had many other wives and they made Hamida the outcast and called her al-Abeda (the slave). This did not help bin Laden’s status in the house‚ because after the other children heard his mother’s nickname‚ they came up with one for him‚ and they started to call him Ibn al-Abeda which meant (son of the slave). His mother‚ Hamida‚ was soon sent to a home for Mohammed’s ex-wives. The only attachment bin Laden had to anyone in the family
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History of India (c.1550-1750s) Project: Harem Politics in Mughal India Abstract The Harem Politics in Mughal India has shaped the paradigm of the politics of this period in more ways than can be imagined. This paper seeks to deconstruct some of the myths and realities about an oft overseen aspect of the Mughal period and look at how the lives and contributions of some exceptional women shaped what we call the Mughal state. Introduction This paper can find its inception in Indu Sudareasn’s
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