Analysis of ”A Gap of Sky” by Anna Hope The short story “A Gap of Sky” is written by the English author Anna Hope and published in 2008. The short story revolts around a girl named Ellie. She is nineteen years old and lives in London‚ England. Ellie lives without her parents and goes to University College London where she studies literature due to the fact she mentions different English authors. The title of the story refers to a specific point where Ellie sees the gap of sky. It is a metaphor for
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Islam and the West: Conflict‚ Democracy‚ Identity Akeel Bilgrami‚ Columbia University This short essay analyzes the deception and self-deception in talk of ‘the clash of civilizations’ and proceeds to diagnose what is wrong in the standard understanding of Islam in the Western media today by looking to the abiding history of colonial relations with Islam down to this day and also looking to the relation between ideals of democracy and the formation of religious identities. The essay closes with some
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“APING THE WEST” Of late the trend has been to follow whatever is done in the west and it is becoming a sort of in-thing to be doing it. Is it due to liberalization of economy that we are also attempting to liberalize our life style. Indians have started aping the west completely and the western influences can be clearly seen in our behavior‚ culture‚ attire and even language. Though to say‚ we are an independent nation but instead of promoting our culture‚ we are aping the west and one would
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believed that morality was based on duty‚ that ethics is absolute‚ not conditional‚ and is based on reason‚ not feelings. (Pojman‚ Vaughn 309) That is exactly the dilemma that Ambrose Bierce writes Carter Druse into in the short story A Horseman in the Sky. I feel there are several parts of the story that flip back and forth between being moral and not being moral or maybe the better words would be that it is ironic on many levels. The story begins with Carter Druse being referred to as a criminal
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The club was originally founded as Thames Ironworks F.C. in 1895 and was later reformed‚ in 1900 as West Ham United. They initially competed in the Southern League and Western League before joining the full Football League in 1919 and enjoyed their first top flight season in 1923‚ featuring in the first FA Cup Final to be held at Wembley that year against Bolton Wanderers. The club have won the FA Cup three times: in 1964‚ 1975 and 1980. They have also been runners-up twice‚ in 1923 and 2006. In
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202G-02 November 28‚ 2012 During the late nineteenth century‚ the west had become a widely diverse place‚ populated by New Englanders‚ Mormons‚ African Americans‚ Mexicans‚ and Latinos as well as immigrants from Europe‚ Asia‚ and Canada. With so many different racial‚ religious‚ and ethnic backgrounds‚ it was impossible for the Native Americans to be the only group of people who suffered from discrimination and prejudice in the West. All of the groups of people listed above‚ were discriminated against
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A: The Decline of the West af Kristoffer Lindegaard The capitalistic world was doing great‚ everyone was making money‚ and spending it like there was no tomorrow. Banks were lending people money to buy bigger houses‚ faster cars‚ and all other material things that an upper class family might need. Everything seemed perfect‚ until the financial world suddenly discovered that these methods weren’t sustainable and thus firing‚ and making no money available for lending anymore was needed. Mike‚ the
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The Decline of the West “The world of the post 9/11 era‚ used interminably by politicians and psychologists‚ was “security”‚ and the more the country had appeared to be policed by men in fluorescent jackets with “Security” stamped on the back‚ the more afraid Mike felt. “ 1 and this development is not only on that turf‚ Couse the post 2000s has provided us whit gang violence on the street‚ kids playing games that can disturb there sense of reality and much more. Mike lives in the upper-class
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The Decline of the West Analysis and interpretation In the year 2008 a huge and comprehensive financial crisis began. For some people it had almost invisible consequences‚ and for others it transformed their everyday life completely. Being used to making and spending money without having to worry about one’s economics‚ a firing can put the world upside down and force a family into a less materialistic life‚ which they are not at all comfortable with. That’s exactly what the protagonist‚ Mike
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A Gap of Sky Sometimes you forget what the essence of life is and what’s important to you. When you forget these things you easily get on the wrong track: you forget the persons that are close to you and you become oblivious to life and its goods. In the short story‚ A Gap of Sky‚ we are introduced to the protagonist of the story‚ the nineteen- year-old Ellie‚ who after a rough night with booze and drugs wakes up at 4.30 pm in her messy flat in London‚ to the tough realities of Monday. She remembers
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