BARNOLIPI - An Interdisciplinary Journal - Volume - II. Issue – I. June 2012. ISSN 2249 –2666 www.reflectionedu.com/barnolipi.php © REFLECTION Mentoring Services 84 Ruskin Bond’s Biographical Sketch Gulnaz Fatima Aligarh Muslim University‚ India Ruskin Bond is a well known Indian writer in English. He has written more than hundred short-stories‚ six novels‚ three collection of verse and over thirty books for children. Bond has written two autobiographies. The first‚ Scenes from a Writer’s
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GURU NANAK PUBLIC SCHOOL MODEL TOWN EXTENSION HOLIDAY HOMEWORK-2012 Class : V ENGLISH: 1. One of the craziest oddities of the English language is that there are so many different collective nouns that all mean ‘ group’. Make a list of atleast 10 collective Nouns and paste pictures to illustrate them. 2. Make an attractive Book Mark. Write a Quotation on it. 3. Read Newspaper daily. Make a collage of News Headlines.
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The Joy Luck Club The Key to understanding Lindo Jong is that she is a very strong and imaginative woman. She thought up a lie to get her out of her arranged marriage as a child‚ while still honouring her mother and father’s intentions for her. However‚ aside from Lindo’s creative and fun personality‚ she is also very proud and narrow minded. Lindo Jong was brought up as a Mandarin Chinese woman. As being so‚ she followed her parent’s plans and tried to be more and more like her mother. Lindo was
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In the poem " The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" the narrator is J.Alfred Prukrock. T.S Elliot writes this poem and in this poem he uses a combination of human sympathy and ironic wit. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is not a poem about love‚ but about the thoughts of a man with a low self-esteem. The poem talk about one man’s inability to love and who does not believe good things will ever happen to him‚ or that the world has anything to offer him. Prufrock does not love any body or does he
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The true-life story of John Newton‚ a former slave ship Captain‚ who became a clergyman and fought to abolish slavery. STORY COMMENTS A WRETCH LIKE ME is a character driven story based on the true-life narrative of John Newton‚ who helped abolish slavery and composed the lyrics to the haunting and soulful song AMAZING GRACE. The story centers on John’s emotional and psychological personal journey as he went from commanding a slave ship to championing the abolishment of slavery. His life experiences
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A Critical Analysis of “My Kiowa Grandmother‚” and “Take My Saddle from the Wall: A Valediction” A Critical Analysis of “My Kiowa Grandmother‚” and “Take My Saddle from the Wall: A Valediction” The essays‚ “My Kiowa Grandmother‚” by N. Scott Momaday and “Take My Saddle from the Wall: A Valediction‚” by Larry McMurtry‚ both seek to understand the values and traditions of an old way of life that has been lost to the trials and tribulations of time. By reaching back into history through their
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Rossner‚ Judith. “I Am Cinderella’s Stepmother and I know My Rights” Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Ed. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J Rosen. Boston: Longman 2011. 662-665. Print. In her essay “I Am Cinderella’s Stepmother and I Know My Rights” Judith Rossner humorously argues and sues the Disney Corporation for bringing out a movie that was not put into the right perspective of her family. She states “she never said her girls were easy” and after her first husband passed her girls “became
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However‚ despite how close a family is‚ family members still encounter problems communicating with each other. For example‚ in both stories‚ "A Visit to Grandmother" by William Melvin Kelley and "My Father Sits in the Dark" by Jerome Weidman‚ the characters dealt with communication problems within their families. In the story‚ "A Visit to Grandmother‚" Chig and his father‚ Charles‚ decided to go back home to visit their family. When Chig and Charles arrived home‚ Charles’ family was ecstatic to see
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Essay One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Chief Bromden (Chief Broom) Chief Bromden is the narrator of the story. In the first chapter‚ we find out about his physical appearance. He is very tall‚ strong and a half native American. He pretends to be deaf and dumb‚ but actually he is not‚ because he says that the black orderlies of the mental institution think that he is deaf and dumb‚ because he never says anything. He seems to be a very awkward character‚ because of his size and people’s attitudes
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Mr. Clarence E. Harris Unit 5 Math 133 Discussion Board Grace is a grandmother who is looking for a long-range investment for her grandchild Elliott’s education. I searched the internet to find a Certificate of Deposit‚ which is a CD plan that earns compounded interest to invest her $25‚000. I used the advertised rates‚ the number of compounding periods per year and the time the funds will be invested‚ from the web site I researched to calculate the future value of her investment. Here
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