Ashay Chitre‚ a film maker living in Bhopal’s prestigious Bharat Bhawan‚ built by the state government to attract artists to this central Indian city‚ heard a commotion outside his window early in the morning at about 3 a m. It was a chill December and all the windows of Chitre’s house were closed. As Chitre and his wife Rohini‚ seven months pregnant‚ opened the window‚ they got a whiff of gas. They immediately felt breathless and their eyes and noses began to stream with a yellow fluid.
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enough to live for the day? “Charles” is about Laurie‚ who is starting Kindergarten and wants attention from his parents. In both short stories‚ the author‚ Shirley Jackson‚ described the characters‚ the themes‚ and the situations to create an illustration for the reader. Laurie and Mr. Summers are both portrayed as characters who want to push the boundaries of the rules. Shirley Jackson made Mr. Summers a single man‚ who organizes the lottery. Mr. Summers doesn’t like the idea of the black box
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1. The fact of the case is that Ms. Catherine Jackson evaded paying her electricity bill to the electric company Metropolitan Edison Co. The issue is that the electric company has disconnected her electricity services due to lack of payment. 2. The case was decided by the Supreme Court. It got to that court because the District Court granted Metropolitan’s motion to dismiss the petitioner’s complaint. There was then an appeal and the Court of Appeals granted certiorari which sent the case up to
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study of the Armenian tragedy‚ and offers analysis by presenting it as a case study of genocide and by seeing it as a historical process in which a domestic conflict escalated and was consumed by a global war. It also establishes a link between genocide and nationality conflicts in the Balkan Peninsula and the Turko-American areas. The author examines the genocide through official WWI documents from Turkey‚ Imperial Germany‚ and Imperial Austria. The main premise of his study is that the "Armenian
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young children! “Charles” a passage written by Shirley Jackson is a story about a young boy named Laurie who avoids getting in trouble by referring to himself by the name of Charles. Laurie is a sly young child further more he can act quite mischievous. The story is set in the 1950’s around a few locations Laurie’s home along with his Kindergarten where most of the story takes place. The main conflict is that Laurie is having trouble getting his act together in school. In other words Laurie is just
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The Bhopal disaster‚ also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy‚ was a gas leak incident in India‚ considered the world’s worst industrial disaster.[1] It occurred on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal‚ Madhya Pradesh. Over 500‚000 people were exposed tomethyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals. The toxic substance made its way in and around the shantytowns located near the plant.[2] Estimates vary on the death toll. The official immediate
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Tragedy‚ defined as “a lamentable‚ dreadful‚ or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster‚” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tragedy) was prominent between 1939 and 1945. An alternate definition‚ “a disastrous event‚ especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life‚” was also prominent during these 6 long years‚ due to the Holocaust’s estimated death toll being that of 9 to 11 million. The Holocaust‚ (Holocaust derived from the Greek word “holos‚” meaning completely‚ and “kaustos
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Many people think of a hero as a man or women that do an incredible act and more often than not many people look up to that one person. In the story A Worn Path by Eudora Welty‚ the main character Phoenix Jackson is defined as a hero. The hero in this story resembles what is known as unconscious heroism‚ which is a person doing heroic actions and not be aware that they actually are doing something heroic. Phoenix demonstrates this in many ways. Phoenix faces great danger during a trip she made down
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan was an exciting book from start to finish. This fiction book takes you on the adventures of the twelve year old Percy Jackson as he discovers who he really is. Being a demigod‚ a child of a Greek god and a mortal woman‚ Percy is in for the ride of his life. Percy Jackson is not what you would consider to be normal; aside from having ADHD and dyslexia strange things just seem to happen to him and no one seems to understand. His
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United States; Andrew Jackson led a period of time we know call the era of the “common man”‚ but during this time the words “common man” referred to all white men that paid taxes and owned land. This period of time lived up to what people characterized it as; a time where almost all men had equal opportunities. Politics‚ economic development‚ and reform movements began to favor all the white men and not only the elite landowners. At the beginning of the presidency of Andrew Jackson‚ not everyone was
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