In 1990‚ Salman Rushdie published his children’s novel‚ Haroun and the Sea of Stories. The novel is an allegory for many of the political and social issues his family was facing at the time‚ as Rushdie was in hiding due to the controversy of his 1988 novel‚ The Satanic Verses. Rushdie wrote the novel for his son to understand the events going on in their lives. The novel follows the young protagonist‚ Haroun Khalifa‚ who lives with his parents in a town that is described as "a sad city‚ the saddest
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Khan Academy Description: Khan Academy is an educational website created by Salman Khan in 2006. This website teaches maths and other subjects in different level. The website uses interactive multimedia. Interactive multimedia is when the user has the control over types of multimedia such as images‚ texts‚ videos‚ sound and animation. Business Requirements: The purpose of Khan Academy is to provide free education for anyone from anywhere in the world as it contains lectures from different subjects
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In the Genghis Khan video‚ the facade that the villain exhibits reflect the qualities that are associated with masculinity. The most pronounced sense of masculinity from the video was the sense of control and dominance that the man establishes. The lead character is the man who plays an evil villain. This main character establishes supremacy at the beginning of the video starting when the troops stand at attention as the villain walks by. The man who is handcuffed on the table resembles the villain
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Limca * Mountain Dew * Sprite * Thums Up PEPSI ( a PepsiCo Product) Tagline: ( Youngistaan ka WW) Brand Ambassador: Ranbir Kapoor Shahrukh Khan was losing his appeal among youngsters. Hence‚ the company’s choice fell on the newly-minted Ranbir Kapoor. It may be remembered that in the last Youngistan campaign‚ Shahrukh Khan shared screen-space with Ranbir. Even in that campaign‚ the actor appeared only as the
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Train to Pakistan‚ originally published in 1956‚ is not a very good book‚ but quite enjoyable much of the time. Khushwant Singh‚ less than ten years after Partition‚ in 1947‚ wrote a novel of less than 200 pages and still managed to create what’s probably best described as an uneven mess. Ideas‚ allusions‚ characters and bits and pieces of story float all over the book. There’s no denying that Singh‚ who has since become a famous public figure and intellectual in India‚ prefers to lecture rather
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So Iff the Water Genie told Haroun about the Ocean of the Streams of Story‚ and even though he was full of a sense of hopelessness and failure the magic of the ocean began to have an effect on Haroun. He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one currents‚ each one a different colour‚ weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity; and Iff explained that these were the Streams of Story‚ that each coloured strand represented
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follow. Amongst the characteristics to make a good model‚ my ideal one must be optimistic‚ strong at leadership‚ understanding and caring for people around. I used to have a lot of role models. When I was a little child‚ my role model was Genghis Khan because he was strong and determined. He had been a leader of a group of people of the desert until he became the great king of Mongo Empire. As I became a little older‚ at the age of studying‚ my role model turned into scientist. I admired Marie Curie
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CONTRIBUTION OF MULK RAJ ANAND. “If Indo-Anglian novel as secured a place of prestige‚ it is mainly the result of the of the contribution of the leading writers like Anand‚ Narayan and Raja Rao. Each of them has contributed in his own way to the rich thought and technique of the poem. If Raja Rao has virtually ‘indianized’ English in his narrative‚ Narayan forte is his genial ironic comedy‚ whereas Anand’s strength lies in the pathos of the lives of his characters.” Mulk Raj Anand was born
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may have contaminated their dropped food? Presumption rests on an incantation that may not have even originated in the United States. Folklore has it that the five-second rule may have been an invention of a thirteenth century Mongolian ruler Genghis Khan‚ who supposedly allowed it to be a “12 to 20-hour rule.” In countries like Russia it’s asserted as‚ "Promptly picked up is not considered fallen". But throughout the rest of the countries the rule is not well known. No matter where the rule comes from
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khan’s empire‚ he was the one of the amazing leader. That’s who we are Mongolian people.[ii] In 13th century‚ The Mongolians empire was very strong all the way through Genghis Khan’s death. During that time everything was under control of Genghis Khan. He was a dictator of all Mongolians. After his death the empire was divided into several powerful Mongol states‚ but these sadly broke apart in the 14th century. In late 17th century Mongolia came under Chinese rule for while. Mongolia won its independence
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