company of women)‚ and a number of translations and non-fiction books on Delhi‚ nature and current affairs. The Library of Congress has ninety-nineworks on and by Khushwant Singh. Setting Khushwant Singh recreates a tiny village in the Punjabi countryside and its people in that fateful summer.When the flood of refugees and the inter-communal bloodletting from Bengal to the Northwest Frontier at last touches them‚ many ordinary men and women are bewildered‚ victimized‚ and torn apart. Plot It is
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The Bantu People The Bantu people are known as the 60 million African Americans who speak the Bantu language throughout Africa. Bantu-speaking people can be found in Rwanda‚ Angola‚ Burundi‚ Zimbabwe‚ and South Africa‚ among other nations in the southern part of Africa. Many believe that Bantu tribes probably began migrating from Northern Africa around 3‚000 BCE. They most likely brought an assortment of skills with them such as the ability to farm‚ and work metals. Migration continued until around
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Successful People To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Stand and Deliver by Ramon Menendez and Thomas Musca are two similar stories where the main characters are both very determined. They both want to make a difference and are both very confident men. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Atticus Finch‚ the main character‚ is a white older man that is a lawyer. During the book‚ he has to defend a black man who was charged with raping a white woman. During that time period‚ black people were seen by the
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found in the northern Japan on the island of Hokkaido. Ainu people are distinct from the people of Japan .The Ainu are smaller in height then the people of Japan. Men wear large beards and their moustaches are a sign of beauty and their noses are straight and long. One of the strangest thing in their culture is the sacrifice of a bear they treat bears as their own children and when they are big enough they sacrifice the bear .Then Ainu people think that bear is a strong spirit so a women is made in
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and the country has few natural resources. But the discovery of petroleum in 1959 injected huge sums of money into Libya’s economy. The government of Libya used some of this wealth to improve farmland and provide services for the people. Almost all of Libya’s people are of mixed Arab and Berber ancestry and are Muslims. Until the early 1900’s‚ Libya consisted of three separate geographical and historical regions. It became a united‚ independent country in 1951. Libya’s official name is the Great
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ЭКЗАМЕНАЦИОННЫЙ БИЛЕТ № 9 1. Беседа на тему: “The British / American / Canadian People: A Social Profile”. British nation is considered to be the most conservative in Europe. It is not a secret that every nation and every country has its own customs and traditions. In Great Britain people attach greater importance to traditions and customs than in other European countries. Englishmen are proud of their traditions and carefully keep them up. The best examples are their queen‚ money system‚ their
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28th‚ 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington‚ DC. Some say that it was an effective speech and some say it wasn’t. In his speech Martin Luther King Jr. tried to convince his audience that all people should be treated equally. He believed that black people should have the same rights as the white people and not be punished as brutal than whites. In his speech King use pathos‚ ethos‚ and logos to try and get his audience to agree with him. He begins his speech by telling a short story about how
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The People of the Philippines by the Philippine Tourism Promotions Board 1 The Filipino is basically of Malay stock with a sprinkling of Chinese‚ American‚ Spanish and Arab blood. The Philippines has a population of 70 million‚ and it is hard to distinguish accurately the lines between stocks. From a long history of Western colonial rule‚ interspersed with the visit of merchants and traders evolved a people of a unique blend of east and west‚ both in appearance and culture. 2 The Filipino
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to the population share of about 6 per cent. In the 2013 Raghuram Rajan panel report‚ Tamil Nadu was ranked as the third most developed state in India based on a "Multidimensional Development Index".[10] The region has been the home of the Tamil people since at least 1500 BCE.[11] Its official language Tamil which holds a status of being a classical language. Tamil has been in use in inscriptions and literature for over 2500 years. Mythical traditions dictate that Lord Shiva himself taught sageAgastya this
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The definition of a sense of identity is the condition of being oneself and not another. In Ordinary People‚ Judith Guest refers to Conrad Jarrett as "A newborn fawn without his mother (46)." Ever since Conrad lost his brother‚ Buck‚ in a tragic boating accident‚ he feels guilty and that he is to blame. He loses his sense of identity‚ but with the help of Jeannine‚ Dr. Berger‚ and Calvin‚ he is able to reevaluate himself and become an "ordinary person" once again. Con’s definition of himself changes
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