Part 1‚ Chapters 1 and 2 Summary Anita Desai’s novel of intricate family relations plays out in two countries‚ India and the United States. The core characters comprise a family living in a small town in India‚ where provincial customs and attitudes dictate the futures of all children: girls are to be married off and boys are to become as educated as possible. The story contrasts the life of the main character‚ Uma‚ the family’s older daughter‚ with Arun‚ the boy and baby of the family. Uma spends
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nation. For example‚ Anita Hill put her integrity on the block for sexual harassment by Judge Clarence Thomas. She may have lost the battle to Judge Thomas and his appointment as a Supreme Court Justice‚ but she won the war when it came to helping thousands upon thousands of women of every denomination in America to stand up to sexual harassment in the work place. African American women continue to gain leadership skills and positions to become educators‚ principals‚ politicians‚ professors‚ business
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Plot Summary The plot of To Kill a Mockingbird revolves around main character Scout Finch. She lives with her father‚ Atticus‚ and brother‚ Jem. Atticus is a widow‚ and Scout has no mother. The family resides in a fictional Alabama town called Maycomb‚ which is in the grips of the great depression. Even though many in the town are struggling‚ Atticus is a lawyer with a strong work ethic and a good client base‚ so the Finch family is doing pretty well - at least when compared to many of the other
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Shady plot What genre of stories does Jenkins want the narrator to write? Why? Answer :Jenkins had always called upon Hallock whenever he wanted a ghost story to be published in his magazine. John’s ghosts were live propositions as Jenkins called them. This time again Jenkins wanted Hallock to come up with another supernatural thriller‚ which would give the readers horrors and that is what the public wanted too. Does the narrator like writing ghost stories? Support your answer with evidence
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A Devoted Son by Anita Desai Summary This story takes place in a shabby suburb in India. Rakesh‚ the son of a vegetable seller‚ triumphs in medical school and afterwards. He is a devoted son‚ bowing to his father‚ marrying the girl his parents choose‚ and becoming the director of his own clinic nearby. His father grows old‚ becomes a widower and begins to develop physical complaints and unpleasant habits‚ such as spitting forcibly. Still‚ his son tends him‚ and even decides to take over the man’s
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Othello begins on a street in Venice‚ in the midst of an argument between Roderigo‚ a rich man‚ and Iago. Roderigo has been paying Iago to help him in his suit to Desdemona. But Roderigo has just learned that Desdemona has married Othello‚ a general whom Iago begrudgingly serves as ensign. Iago says he hates Othello‚ who recently passed him over for the position of lieutenant in favor of the inexperienced soldier Michael Cassio. Unseen‚ Iago and Roderigo cry out to Brabanzio that his daughter
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was quickly gaining ground as women began to be granted job positions which had been predominantly male roles‚ and were no longer confined to a life of dreary domesticity‚ this is reflected in the way Anita is living‚ and her general thoughts on the idea of living as a mother and house wife. Anita is a well-educated‚ self-supportive woman who rejects the male ideals of being a dainty‚ do-nothing
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CONGUGAL CACAPHONY IN ANITA DESAI’S NOVELS Suneeta Upadhyay‚ Research Scholar M.M.H. college‚ Ghaziabad‚ C.C.S. University‚ Meerut Indian novelist and short story writer‚ Anita Desai is specially noted for her insightful depiction of the inner life of the female characters in her writings. In most of her novels Anita Desai dwells on the themes incongruity‚ incertitude and hazards of human relationship particularly the man-woman relationship. D.H. Lawrence points out: The great relationship
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to leave his grandfather behind. Before they left‚ Adam’s grandfather gave him a shawl that Adam wears every Sabbath (A Jewish Holiday). Adam takes on the role that his grandfather used to have. He tells the family stories that have been passed down. Adam feels like the shawl connects him to his culture and to the past. Eventually‚ he will have his own grandson‚ also named Adam‚ and he will pass on the stories and shawl to him. I think this book is a good way to show diversity not only in the Russian
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Question 4c By introducing an additional pole 1/(s+alpha) to the system‚ The original transfer function G(s) has a DC gain of 1 and the additional pole has a DC gain of 1/alpha. Therefore‚ the new transfer function G1(s) has a DC gain of 1/alpha The DC gain of the new transfer function = 1/alpha . DC gain Is obtained by applying the final value theorem where limit of s goes to 0. Final value theorem can be applied as it is a stable system. Therefore the system has a larger DC gain when alpha
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