"I’m a very normal high-school girl who loves all stories and literature in the world so‚ so much that I would like to eat it all! I’m just a normal "Literature Girl"!" Tooko Amano is the main heroine in Bungaku Shoujo. She is a yokai‚ who loves to eat books. Tooko is an upperclassman in her third year and usually referred as ’Tooko-senpai’. When she makes her first appearance and through the series‚ there isn’t much shown about herself or background. But instead‚ she helps out any given situation
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“Kokoro: A Reflection to the Main Literary Theme” “But even now‚ I feel a certain pride and happiness in the fact that my intuitive fondness for Sensei was later shown to have not been in vain” (Soseki 12). This quote from Soseki’s Kokoro provides an excellent glimpse to the meaning and translation of the title. The word “Kokoro” as the title is meant to reflect the fact that the narrator has feelings for and shares a rather unexplained desire for Sensei. The reason why the author chose
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The samurai is a class of highly skilled warriors‚ constantly developed in Japan after Taika reform of 646 CE. The reforms included land redistribution and heavy new taxes‚ meant to support and elaborate Chinese-style empire. Samurai is usually assigned in Japanese as bush or buke‚ were the military nobility of medieval and early-modern Japan. The samurai indicate their origins to the Heian Period expedition to conquer the native Emishi people in the Tohoku Region. At the same time‚ warriors were
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GM India inks with SBI for Vehicle FinancingGeneral Motors India and State bank of India have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to provide auto financing to all General Motors India vehicles both at wholesale and retail levels. The agreement was signed between Mr. Ankush Arora‚ Vice President‚ Sales‚ Marketing & After Sales‚ General Motors India and Mr. P. Nandakumaran and Mr. B. S. Bhasin‚ Chief General Managers for retail and whole- sale financing respectively for State Bank of India.Speaking
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1. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines 2. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles 3. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis 4. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth 5. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov 6. Them – Joyce Carol Oates 7. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec 8. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen 9. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal 10. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch 11. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen 12. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry 13. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
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Analysis on Pyramus and Thisbe "Leaving the person I love in danger and continuing to live on is the same as being dead." -Hyuga‚ Natsume. Pyramus and Thisbe were a couple that preferred dying instead of living life without each other or considering that his or her beloved was in danger. Pyramus and Thisbe were deeply in love with each other‚ but could not be together for their parents had prohibited them from being with each other. The young lovers wanted to be together so badly and so they decided
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The moment they got back to the mansion‚ Mikan Yukihira had never left her room. She had been trying to compose an original song over the piano‚ but so far‚ none of them had been promising. Her fingers felt numb and clammy from playing too much‚ she almost wanted to call it quits. She put her head on the piano keys‚ which reverberated loud sounds‚ but she did not care. Actually‚ she found it quite soothing‚ it really expressed her frustrations that she wanted to scream out loud‚ but she knew she
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Usa Jinguto Usa Jingu is a shrine located in 2859‚ Ōaza Minami Usa in Usa-shi‚ Ōita-ken. Its history dates back to approximately 708-714 (The Nara Period) when the shrine was founded in Kyushu. A temple called Miroku-ji was adjacent to it in 779‚ making it what is known to be the first shrine-temple combination (jingū-ji) ever. The resulting mixed building‚ called Usa Hachimangu-ji‚ lasted over a millennium until 1868‚ when the Buddhist part was seperated to agree with the Kami and Buddhas Separation
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3. Stylistic Analysis As long as a language is produced from a human being‚ it inevitably reflects its speaker’s background (e.g.‚ their birth‚ their generation‚ or their social class). Even if they use the same language such as English‚ Asians may hardly speak or write in the way British do. That being so‚ given the exceptional roots of Ishiguro as an English-language writer‚ it seems fairly understandable for many critics to assume that this idiosyncrasy (i.e.‚ some remnants of Japan)‚ more or
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Seiyuus are Japanese voice actors‚ they can work in a variety of productions‚ including movies‚ television series‚ radio and even providing voices for video game characters. Here is a list of seiyuu casts whom appeared in many animes that we have watched in our daily lives and have made great impression on everyone. Each of these seiyuu casts and including three of their respective voice-overed shows. These are only some of the shows that these seiyuus have voice-overed. Male Seiyuus 1)
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