"An Astrologer’s Day" has a deceptively simple plot‚ although the full significance of the story becomes evident only after a second or even third reading. Part of the difficulty arises from the fact that the author deliberately avoids markers that would benefit the reader: there is no clear indication where the story occurs or when it does‚ although it is possible to make an educated guess about both. The story begins almost in medias res (in the middle) and concludes on what appears to be an ambiguous
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Prospects and Retrospect of Tourism Industry in Tamil Nadu M. Kannan Assistant Professor in Commerce‚ Kaamadhenu Arts and Science‚ Sathyamangalam. Introduction Tourism is travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes with a view to enhancing the knowledge and widening the wisdom of an individual. The World Tourism Organisation defines tourists as “people who travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than twenty four hours and not
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With Columbus Day rapidly approaching us‚ a day celebrated by millions upon millions of people who dearly believe that he is a hero‚ you begin to wonder. Do these people know what they are celebrating? While yes‚ he “discovered” the New World‚ however people fail to acknowledge that Columbus was in fact a mass murderer. In all likelihood‚ he brought to life “the worst case of genocide imposed on one nation of human beings by another”. Instantly you may have asked yourself why I placed quotation
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But the Fourth of July‚ Independence Day‚ is something more than just another holiday. It is the birthday of a great idea-not merely the idea of independence‚ not merely the idea of the rights of humankind‚ but also the birthday of a profoundly idealistic and profoundly influential charter of liberty. The revolution signaled by the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4‚ 1776‚ laid down the principles which have been the foundation stones of human progress ever since-the
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Mother Tongue The essay I want to write on is Mother Tongue‚ which is written by Amy Tan. This article recalls me some adversities when the first few days I came to the United States. Amy is an ethnic Chinese writer who was born and living in United States. She was faced with language problem during her life. In this essay‚ Amy Tan talks about her mother’s broken grammar and the dialogue in English without grammar between her mother and her. But when Amy talks with other people‚ gives a speech‚
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Veronica Keys ENG 112 6/20/11 Explication Essay 1 Why Mother Savage Why Mother Savage takes place in Virelogne during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The narrator retells the story behind the ruins of a thatched cottage. At thirty-three years of age‚ Mother Savage’s son volunteered in the war (on the French side)‚ leaving his mother alone. Mother Savage lived alone in her cottage until the Prussians came one day. Since she was known to have money‚ she had to take four of them. They seemed
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An Astrologer’s Day is a story of an astrologer who conducts his business near a court. He starts his work almost at midday . He spreads his professional equipment‚ which consist of a dozen cowrie shells ‚ a square piece of cloth with obscure mystic charts on it‚ a notebook and a bundle of Palmyra writing . He’s a fine get-up of an astrologer‚ with his forehead shinning with sacred ash and vermilion. He has dark whiskers and sparkling eyes. To crown the effect‚ he wears a saffron-colored turban
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In the short stories of Mother Tongue by Amy Tan and Public and Private Language by Richard Rodriquez‚ both essays describe an influence on the English language and what impact they had while coping with that language. For Amy tan in Mother Tongue‚ she roots the common source for who had what kind of impact on her learning of that language. In Public and Private Language‚ Richard Rodriguez establishes a view point on why it is important to be given a public identity. Both stories come together to
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text from Arakin’s book‚ the 2nd course How we kept Mother’s Day 1. Let us begin with analysis of the text. The discourse pattern should be characterized first as a completed story by a well – known Canadian writer Steven Leacock. As far as we know‚ this writer is famous for such works as “Nonsense Novels”‚ “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”‚ “My Remarkable Uncle” and others. 2. The author titles his work as “How we kept Mother’s day”. It is done explicitly‚ so we can predict the contents of the
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