adversity His parents had named him Piscine Molitor Patel after a swimming pool in France. Pi’s schoolmates made fun of his name. He was being bullied and teased by them. However‚ Piscine was never discouraged. He changed his name to "Pi" (the mathematical symbol‚ π). At first‚ he introduced his new name to his schoolmates in every lesson‚ but his attempts failed. He never gave up because he was tired of being taunted with the nickname "Pissing Patel". Until the Mathematics lesson‚ Pin resorted to stunt
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1 TNPSC CSSE-I ORIGINAL PAPER EXAM HELD IN 2010 – FULLY SOLVED Questions : 200 DEGREE STD.‚ Marks : 300 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE & GENERAL ENGLISH 1. Who is the Governor of Reserve Bank of India at present ? A. B.Y. Reddy B. C. Rangarajan C. Bimal Jalan D. D. Subbarao. Match List I with List II correctly and select your answer using the codes given below : List I a. Sirpi b. Gnana Koothan c. Erode Thamizh Anban d. Puviyarasu List II 1. Thoni Varungiradhu 2. Iduthan 3. Anru Veru Kizhamai 4. Surya
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Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist‚ Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel‚ an Indian boy from Pondicherry‚ explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. The novel was rejected by at least five London publishing houses[1] before being accepted by Knopf Canada‚ which published it in September 2001. The UK edition
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Languages are‚ of course‚ one of the prime tools of cultural expression. So it should not surprise us to discover that the decline of indigenous cultures is also having a serious effect on the languages of the world. Indeed‚ an indigenous language disappears every two weeks. It is estimated that by the end of the 21st century‚ 5‚500 of the current 6‚000 languages now spoken will simply be as dead as Ancient Greek and Latin. Behind each language is a culture‚ the expressive richness of a living tongue
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Life of Pi Essay Kamalpreet. Singh The Life of Pi was a story about a boy Indian boy named Piscine Patel was stranded at sea for 222 days after his ship which was going to Canada with his family sank. The story starts with him growing up as a child and practicing on his own accord many different cultures such as Hinduism‚ Islam and Christianity as this is happening the amount of money the zoo makes compared to the work they do coupled with his fathers will to stay with the times‚ forces his
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me‚ but of him and me. We were‚ literally and figuratively in the same boat" (164). In the great story‚ Life of Pi‚ told by Yann Martel‚ two very different creatures surviving on the same boat takes a lot of determination. A relationship between Pi Patel and Richard Parker can be defined on both literal and metaphorical levels and both pertain to different aspects of Pi’s inner thoughts and himself. During chapter forty seven‚ Pi makes a confession that shocks all of us. "A part of me did not want
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having the required connections is class struggle‚ which shows Marxist theory. This means in order to get a good paying job and have a decent life‚ it is connected to the people you know‚ and not the qualifications you have. “Former federal minister Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind‚ who has joined the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has said that former and current rulers are busy looting and plundering national wealth”
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Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST) SINGULARITY ANALYSIS AND COMPARITIVE STUDY OF SIX DEGREE OF FREEDOM STEWART PLATFORM AS A ROBOTIC ARM BY HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS AND SIMULATED ANNEALING ASHWIN MISHRA Department of Mechanical Engineering‚ Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology‚ Surat 395007‚ Gujarat‚ India DR. S. N. OMKAR Department of Aerospace Engineering‚ Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560012‚ Karnataka‚ India Abstract In this study singularity analysis of the six degree
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Everyone in the world has someone they admire or a role model. A role model is someone who is inspiring and that you look up to. Who is your role model? My role model is my dad‚ Hetal Patel. He is my role model because he never gives up; he is supportive‚ and respectful. The main reason my dad is my role model is because he never gives up. His dad died when he was 14. Another bad thing was his mom did not work so he had to get a job and go to school. It was tough‚ but he never gave up‚ and he
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infinite and unable to be understood‚ just like Piscine Patel. Piscine’s nickname is Pi and it has a symbolic relationship with the mathematical pi. Pi is sixteen when he is shipwrecked‚ and pi is also the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Not only is the mathematical pi symbolic towards Pi‚ but it also provided him protection from school. Many of Pi’s classmates made fun of his full name and called him names such as “Pissing Patel”. When Pi transferred to a new school he took the first available
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