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    ’Govinda aala re’ (name govinda) 7.) "Roll up you sleeves" (phrase from my SOP) 8.) Household male 9.) Namesake(Random) 10.) One In Hand Two In Bush (Cos I got placement offers from 2 companies) 11.) Rouble (was on Russian project) 12.) Salman Rushdie (had questions about his books in the interview) 13.) Slumdog Millionaire 14.) The properties of sun 15.) To win a rat race you need to be a cat 16.) everyone cannot be a moon(my surname) 17.) Hope 18.) India United and india divided 19

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    Q. Do you believe that freedom of expression is fundamental for the successful working of a democracy? . I believe that the freedom of expression is one of the cornerstones of a liberal democracy. A democracy‚ in the well-known words of Abraham Lincoln is a way of government “of the people‚ for the people and by the people.” For this political system to be realized in daily life‚ the unhindered articulation of the will of the people is vital. The freedom of expression allows for this articulation

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    Post-colonialism "Post-colonialism" designates a set of theoretical approaches which focus on the direct effects and aftermaths of colonization. It also represents an attempt at transcending the historical definition of its primary object of study toward an extension of the historic and political notion of "colonizing" to other forms of human exploitation‚ normalization‚ repression and dependency. Post-colonialism forms a composite but powerful intellectual and critical movement which renews the

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    Tha Arabian Nights The Arabian Nights constitute‚ in Marina Warner’s words‚ "a polyvocal anthology of world myths‚ fables and fairytales". The antecedents of these Arab-Islamic texts (also known as The Thousand and One Nightsand the Arabian Nights Entertainments) are Qur’anic‚ Biblical‚ Indian‚ Persian‚ Mesopotamian‚ Greek‚ Turkish and Egyptian. In them‚ oral and written traditions‚ poetry and prose‚ demotic folk tales and courtly high culture mutate and interpenetrate. In their long lifetime the Nights have

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    alters‚ exaggerates‚ minimizes‚ glorifies‚ and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality‚ its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else’s version more than his own. (Salman Rushdie‚ Midnight’s Children) There are times when we need to recall specific information‚ but we cannot. We waste the time to check what we cannot remember and we feel disappointed with the mind state. It means that the memorizing process works

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    In the out-[Need a title?]of-class assignment “The Appeal of the Real: Why Reality Television is so Popular”‚ the author‚ an undergraduate in an academic writing class seeks to argue that reality television benefits both its participants and viewers more than it harms them. However‚ the academic writing is ineffective in conveying the arguments the author wishes to present. The essay presented by the author lacks characteristics of an Aristotelian[Truly Aristotle?] academic writing‚ The main source

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    A Parable on Populism (and American Monetary Policy)  This popular and well-documented reading sees The Wizard of Oz as being about the collapse of the Populist Movement in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. In this scenario‚ Dorothy represents the common citizen‚ the Tin Man is the industrial worker‚ the Scarecrow is a stand-in for farmers‚ and the Cowardly Lion is politician William Jennings Bryan (seen by many at the time as being all talk and no action). They travel along

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    stories? Objectives: To recognize and emulate different types of storytelling To gain knowledge of the archetypal hero’s journey and the journey hero To read and annotate text for understanding Texts: Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie “Where I’m From” by George Ella Lyon Excerpt from The Odyssey by Homer Table of Contents Vocabulary Words 2 “Where I’m From” 3 Poem Pre-writing & Brainstorming 4 Visual Poem 5 Poem Rubric 6 Hero’s Journey

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    English like his ancestors such as Mulk Raj Anand‚ R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao‚ but this liking of Chetan Bhagat to portray Indian reality can be considered even an extension and partially extermination of his immediate predecessors like Vikram Seth‚ Salman Rushdie‚ Arundhti Roy who changed the face of Indian novel in English with their continue practice of shattering the standard of westernized looking as ‘other’ and ‘substandard’ discussed in Edward Said’s famed treatise Orientalism as he seems to be adopting

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    1.  What happened after Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest opened? 2.  ( T or F ) Arthur Miller’s The Crucible has one set: a courtroom during the HUAC hearings. 3.  ( T or F ) Ballet companies of today are afraid the public will boycott The Rite of Spring. 4.  Calling a wife "the little woman" and saying that certain minorities exhibit recognizable traits such as laziness or stinginess are examples of: 5. Identifying closely with minorities was Edmonia Lewis‚ whose talent

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