Kiran Desai is the daughter of Indian author‚ herself short-listed for Booker Prize on three occations. Her first novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard which was published in 1998 and won the Betty Trask Award was given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age thirty five. Her second novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006) was widely praised by many critics around the world such as‚ Asia‚ Europe and United States. And also she was awarded
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Overview: Teacher leaders assume a wide range of roles to support school and student success. Whether these roles are assigned formally or shared informally‚ they build the entire school’s capacity to improve. Because teachers can lead in a variety of ways‚ many teachers can serve as leaders among their peers. Teachers help their colleagues by sharing instructional resources. These might include Web sites‚ instructional materials‚ readings‚ or other resources to use
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In the last 50 years‚ I believe the internet has had the most impact on the world. The internet has changed the way we communicate‚ research‚ advertise‚ and shop. It has also been one of the most quickly advancing inventions ever made. Since the invention of the telephone nothing has compared in the field of communications. With the introduction to the internet brought a new wave of communicating. From chat rooms to email and instant messaging‚ the internet has provided the world with
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mentioning Islam. But it is unclear how an artwork can be blasphemous‚ or whether all blasphemy should be understood as hate speech. The objection of religious groups that works of art may be blasphemous is often ¨ dismissed as naıve. In In Good Faith‚ Salman Rushdie claimed that the people accusing him of blasphemy had made a fundamental error in their interpretation of the book‚ ‘‘Fiction uses facts as a starting-point and then spirals away to explore its real concerns…. Not to see this‚ to treat fiction
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Midnight’s children.Links to other texts. “The Arabian Nights” In Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children‚ the narrator repeatedly compares his own tales of his life to Scheherazade’s‚ and mentions that he can’t "count on having even a thousand nights and a night" (page 4) in which to tell them. The Arabian Nights‚ like Midnight’s Children is an example of what might be called a self-conscious text or a Metafiction: it is a story about telling a story. Midnight’s Children contains many metaphors
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courage to actually run away from it all and start a new life somewhere else. If the women escape‚ the entire family is against them‚ and after that‚ they will not be seen as a part of the family. “Good advice is rarer than rubies” is a story by Salman Rushdie. In overall it is about one of these women I just mentioned‚ who are forced into an arranged marriage. The main character in the story‚ Miss Rehana‚ is engaged to an Indian man who lives in Bradford‚ England. Like most of the women‚ Miss Rehana
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William Safran in his essay Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return (1991) identifies six characteristics that feature the categorizing of diasporic communities. The first feature‚ as he mentions‚ is the ‘dispersal from center to periphery’‚ a creation of a collective memory‚ non-belonging to or indeed non-acceptance by the host country‚ a strong wish to return to the ideal homeland‚ a belief that the homeland will be peaceful‚ secure and prosperous and lastly a continuous relationship
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T324: Keeping ahead in information and communication Technologies: Tutorial 11 Reminder about Final Exam Format: * The final exam will be based on all course material including the Blocks and Block Articles plus 2 exam articles/papers/publications that will be provided to students prior to exam for self-study at home. Adequate time will be given to students to study the 2 exam articles. * Students will only be allowed to bring a pen and calculator to the exam center. The calculator must
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1 History In 1958‚ Frank and Dan Carney had an idea for a great local pizza restaurant in Wichita Kansas. The small 25 seat restaurant only had room for 9 letters on the sign… the building looked like a hut… so ’Pizza Hut ’ was born! Fifteen years later‚ we opened the first UK restaurant and since then we ’ve become the biggest Pizza Company on the planet! (http://pizzahut.co.uk/restaurants/our-history.aspx) Task 1 Organizational Culture: “A set of understanding or meaning shared by a group
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Main article: History of cricket[->0] Early cricket was at some time or another described as "a club striking a ball (like) the ancient games of club-ball‚ stool-ball‚ trap-ball‚ stob-ball".[3] Cricket can definitely be traced back to Tudor times in early 16th-century England. Written evidence exists of a game known as creag being played by Prince Edward[->1]‚ the son of Edward I (Longshanks)[->2]‚ at Newenden‚ Kent in 1301[4] and there has been speculation‚ but no evidence‚ that this was a form
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