1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 GENERAL Sacred groves have existed from time immemorial all over the world as patches of densely wooded areas‚ harbouring unique flora and fauna with perennial water sources in the vicinity. Many sacred groves have been preserved as sust ainable resources‚ ensuring the basic capital intact and hence considered valuable gene pool and the first major effort to recognize and conserve biodiversity. In India‚ they are known from the Himalayas‚ Northeast India‚ and highlands
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http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-72pn7nr-nIC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=Wide+Sargasso+Sea+as+a+romantic+novel&source=bl&ots=q67_49-1Zd&sig=mg1yYZ5BQoOTGxBstpfUCmJV4ow&hl=en&sa=X&ei=b3-pT4HfDqaP4gSNuJi1CQ&ved=0CGkQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Wide%20Sargasso%20Sea%20as%20a%20romantic%20novel&f=false USE! Jane Eyre and WSS are romantic novels. Homage. http://trish-m.hubpages.com/hub/Bertha-in-Jane-Eyre-and-Wide-Sargasso-Sea http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/bronte_rhys.html http://www.victorianweb
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Alessandra Raengo Life in Those Shadows! Kara Walker’s Post-Cinematic Silhouettes1 Kara Walker’s installations have garnered international attention since the early 1990s for deploying an archaic representational form of portraiture – the cutout silhouette. They have been the target of considerable controversy2 for the perceived obscenity of her imagery and the alleged reviving of deep-seated racial stereotypes.3 Controversy that‚ I contend‚ is only partly a response to her iconography and more to
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This edition first published 2012 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & So n s in February 2007. Blackwell’s publishing program has been merged with Wiley’s global Scientific‚ Technical‚ and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell. Registered Office John Wiley & Sons Ltd‚ The Atriwn‚ Southern Gate‚ Chichester‚ West Sussex‚ P019 8SQ‚ UK Editorial Offices Art Is Not What You Think It Is 350 Main Street‚ Maiden‚ MA 02148-5020‚ USA 9600 Garsin gton Road
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Adivasi Adivasi is an umbrella term for a heterogeneous set of ethnic and tribal groups claimed to be the aboriginal population of India.[1][2][3] They comprise a substantial indigenous minority of the population of India. The same term Adivasi is used for the ethnic minorities of Bangladesh and the native Vedda people of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ආදී වාස).[4] The word is also used in the same sense in Nepal as is another word janajati (Nepali: जनजाति; janajāti)‚ although the political context differed
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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1933/12/02/scientist-mob-idol-1 http://www.newyorker.com/?p=331671 Albert Einstein - Scientist and Mob Idol BY ALVA JOHNSTON‚ The weekly magazine: “The New Yorker”‚ DECEMBER 2‚ 1933 The only scientists who kept the Business-as-Usual sign hanging out during the war were the mathematicians and astronomers. The other men of learning were engaged in war work. Physicists were making better range-finders‚ chemists were making better poison gases‚ and theologians
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SYNONYMS ---------------------------- admonish = usurp (reprove) merry = gay alienate = estrange (isolate) instigate = incite dispel = dissipate (dismiss) belief = conviction covet= crave (desire) belated = too late solicit = beseech (seek) brim = border subside = wane (drop) renounce= reject hover = linger (stay close) divulge = reveal heap = to pile (collect) adhesive = tenacious veer = diverge (turn) hamper = obstruct caprice = whim (impulse) to merit= to
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Question1. Describe the sculptures‚ chaityas and viharas of the Mauryan Dynasty constructed to spread Buddhism during Ashoka’s reign. The Mauryan period is an important period in the history of Indian art and architecture‚ with the foundations for Indian art being laid‚ which would later reach their height during the golden age of the Guptas. Our main pieces of evidence and material come from the time of the great Mauryan king Ashoka. Ashoka’s Maurya Dynasty consisted of present-day Pakistan
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Pierre Bourdieu 1979 Classes and Classifications Source: Distinctions. A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste. Conclusion. 1984‚ translated by Richard Nice‚ published by Harvard University Press‚ 1984‚ 604pp. – selected from pp. 466-484. Taste is an acquired disposition to ‘differentiate’ and ‘appreciate’‚ as Kant says — in other words‚ to establish and mark differences by a process of distinction which is not (or not necessarily) a distinct knowledge‚ in Leibniz’s sense‚ since it ensures recognition
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THE CLASH OF CULTURES IN HENRY JAMES: THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY‚ THE WINGS OF THE DOVE AND DAISY MILLER MASTER’S PROJECT UNIVERSITY OF CONSTANCE FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY DEPT. OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE WRITTEN BY MONICA O. V. IKE 1st EXAMINER: Dr. M. REIF-HÜLSER 2nd EXAMINER: Dr. Prof. ASSMANN CONSTANCE‚ APRIL 1998 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I want to express my gratitude to all the people who somehow have been a help and an encouragement in this work. To my parents for allowing
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