Rabindranath Tagore | Tagore c. 1915‚ the year he was knighted byGeorge V. Tagore repudiated his knighthood‚ in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacrein 1919.[1] | Born | May 7‚ 1861 Calcutta (Kolkata)‚ Bengal Presidency‚ British India | Died | 7 August 1941 (aged 80) Calcutta (Kolkata)‚ Bengal Presidency‚ British India | Occupation | Poet‚ short-story writer‚ song composer‚ playwright‚ essayist‚ and painter | Language | Bengali‚ English | Nationality | Indian | Ethnicity
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Reading Response 1: Douglass Fredrick Douglass was a slave who against the closed minded thinking of the society he lived in‚ rose above and taught himself to read and write which changed his life for the better. After his master had forbidden his learning any further‚ he continued to learn by making connections with the local boys in the city which lead to his successful escape from the south. Douglass explains the conflict between literacy and slavery as being connected. Douglass writes‚ “education
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Imagine a set of binoculars; with two small peep holes for your eyes to see through and two larger lenses which magnify whatever it is that one may be looking at. Now there are two types of people in the world‚ one who looks through the small lenses and views the bigger picture‚ and one who takes a look through the bigger lenses to see a more narrowed finding. Those who see the bigger picture will have a different perspective than those who choose to look at the narrow view as will their beliefs
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EXPOSITORY WRITING LANGUAUGE LAB BY EDUTECH Edutech‚ a company well known for its personality development softwares has launched another new invention called the language lab. Language lab is software specially designed for the enhancement of communication skills. It is beneficial for a beginner as well as a professional. The product is user friendly and interactive. A person with no technical knowledge can also use it easily. It has several interactive sessions that provide a platform to the users
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repeated even among poorly-educated peasants: a brilliant political slogan! ’All power to the Soviets’ - again‚ simple and catchy‚ even if Lenin did not intend to enact it! Followed by effective propaganda is good leadership skills. Lenin was an "orator of enormous impact and power‚ breaking down complicated systems into the simplest and most generally accessible forms" and hammering them home with his audience. The help from others also helped Lenin rise to power. Lenin was helped by the Germans
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Pestilential- deadly 10. Stoics- an ancient philosophy Standard six questions 1. The author of “Excerpt from De Officiis‚ Book III” was Marcus Tullius Cicero. Cicero was a roman philosopher‚ politician and lawyer; he is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators/prose stylists. 2. This
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responsibility for actions are also included within the range of ethics. The particular aspect under which ethics considers free acts is that of their moral goodness or the rectitude of order involved in them as human acts. A man may be a good artist or orator and at the same time a morally bad man‚ or‚ conversely‚ a morally good man may be a poor artist or technician. Ethics has
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and the ones from Babylon and Egypt came from the 16th cent. B.C.E. The exact dates of Indian clepsydras are not certain. In Ancient Greece‚ water clocks were placed in many different public locations. They would be used to time the speeches of orators. You would also often find them in the Greek court to monitor and limit speech time. In Egypt‚ for the temple rites and sacrifices to be performed at the correct hour‚ the water clocks were often used by their priests to know the correct time during
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part of his modifications of the Forum‚ Caesar had the Rostra built at its present location‚ this time in marble. The podium measured twenty-four meters wide and twelve meters deep (about 80x40 ft.). The Rostra had a height of three meters‚ so the orators on the podium stood high above the crowds. Thanks to Shakespeare’s version‚ the most famous speech at the Rostra was given
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The Confessions of St Augustine shows that faith is a series of stages. Faith is a journey filled with trials and attempts. It involves reevaluating one’s life. Throughout his confessions‚ Augustine lays out all the sins he executed. His journey comprises of a transition from sinfulness to faithfulness. Augustine begins by telling about his childhood. He concludes he doesn’t remember much since children’s memories are short term. But as the book transcends to his adolescent years‚ we slowly
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