PLOT SUMMARY – SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Danny Boyle Jamal Malik‚ an 18-year old Mumbai slum kid‚ get right through to the last question on ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ and the chance to win 20 million rupees. But straight after the show breaks for the night‚ he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. The show’s quizmaster Prem Kumar‚ himself a product of the slums‚ is unwilling to share the limelight with the young upstart. A night of mistreatment and torture fails to elicit a confession‚ so
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In Margaret Meek Spencer’s essay on “Reading” in Keywords for Children’s Literature‚ Spencer provides background on the progression of reading throughout history and how it developed from accountants using it to keep track of trade deals‚ to a fundamental learning skill in schools. Now‚ with access to books that have a wider range of genres than ever before‚ books become an even more important part of a child’s life. As Spencer states: “[Reading] not only extends their linguistic competences‚ their
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Happy Endings. Or Are They? Never have I read a short story quite like Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood. As a matter of fact‚ a good amount of my peers and I have become baffled on whether or not to even refer to it as a legitimate story. It is divided into four parts‚ each giving a very frank and emotionless set of love scenarios. She purely tells it like it is; simply fact-based and stoic without any sort of feeling whatsoever. One thing leads to another‚ and that is that. Overall‚ the language
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the author of The Lightning Thief‚ once said‚ “Names have power.” This quote means that every name can be traced back thousands and thousands of years and the history and the meaning of the names become a part of it. With so much powerful meaning tied to the name‚ it can affect a person’s life thousands of years after the event occurred. The name can either be destructive‚ or beneficial. The story told in Romeo and Juliet is a perfect example of how names can affect a person’s life. Romeo and Juliet
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There are several arguments that Calloway concludes with in The Victory with No Name. The primary argument is his notion that Native Americans deserve more credit than what American history has given them. Calloway states‚ “the day when American Indians won their greatest victory became an aberration in the national story and a blank spot in the national memory‚” and argues the book will “restore the memory” of this victory (10). Moreover‚ Calloway demonstrates that “St. Clair’s defeat” represented
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In Margaret Atwood’s short story‚ “Happy Endings‚” she explains that no matter what kind of story someone has‚ death is something that everyone has in common. Atwood states “So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun.” She means that the end does not matter because eventually everyone will die‚ the beginning is the important part of a story. Atwood says that the beginnings of a story are more fun because that is where all the details are. The beginning can happen however it wants to‚ but
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uses the placement of his character’s names to show the nature of their relationship and where each of them is situated in contrast to the other. In Pyramus and Thisbe‚ the word order of their names clues the readers in on how they stand with each other‚ both in the relationship and positional sense. Saepe ubi cōnstiterant hinc Thisbē Pyramus illinc (often when Thisbe had stood on one side Pyramus had stood on the other (71)) Ovid uses this placement of the names to show that when the two lovers are
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motivation or belief in herself; she experienced setbacks as her time period lacked gender equality; she worked a few teaching jobs. Despite that‚ she became a famous journalist‚ member of the transcendentalist movement‚ and a women’s rights advocate. Margaret Fuller’s first job was that of a teacher. It wasn’t her dream job‚ but she didn’t lose hope or quit pursue her dream of writing because of her current situation. She kept working and of
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Slavery by Another Name Slavery has been known to be one of the cruelest treatments on African Americans; but there is something worse than slavery which isn’t really recognized as much. The Convict lease system was reported to be harsher than slavery. The convict lease system was a system of penal labor practiced in the Southern U.S‚ beginning with the freedom of slaves at the end of the American Civil War in 1865 but climaxing around 1880. Convict leasing peeked by regulating Black codes and
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Origin of the Name Libon Early Spanish documents referred to the town as Libong‚ a name it retained roughly until the nineteenth century‚ when the letter “g” was dropped. A number of interpretations were given about the origin of its name. An 1823 history of municipalities written by a former governor of Camarines‚ Antonio de Siguenza‚ claimed that it was adopted from the name of of one of Juan de Salcedo’s captains. This theory could easily be di
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