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    [pic] IMAGINE CUP 2012 AZURE CHALLENGE ROUND 1 APPLICATION SUMMARY TEMPLATE Azure Challenge Application Summary Template for Team: Nimbus Instructions This is the Azure Challenge Round 1 Application Summary Template. This is part of your Team’s Round 1 Entry Requirement. It is designed to guide you to include the required components of your Team’s project. Please use the questions in each section to align your submission with the judging requirements. Steps: • Insert your

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    An Analysis of James Baldwin ’s "Sonnys Blues" In James Baldwin ’s short story "Sonnys Blues" a young man questions his brotherly obligations after finding that his younger brother has been arrested for using drugs. In the attempt to rectify his younger brother ’s behavior and life‚ the young man faces his own feelings for his brother and comes to terms with the life his brother Sonny lives. The developments of certain elements-plot‚ character‚ point of view‚ setting‚ symbolism-in the story

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    Socrates – A Knight of Resignation Throughout Soren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling he describes two types of people. The first is a knight of faith and the second is a knight of infinite resignation. While a knight of faith grabs hold of the impossible and clings to it‚ believing that it will be fulfilled‚ a knight of infinite resignation realizes that the goal is impossible and resigns to it. However‚ despite this acquiescence a knight of infinite resignation builds the meaning of his life

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    Tchekov’s followers.  She addresses the life of  inconspicuous common people‚ their characters‚ human drama and shows what the people feel. The main character of her story “A Cup of tea” is Rosemary Fell‚ a very rich young woman. Once‚ leaving the shop‚ she  was  called by a poor girl. She  asked  her for the  money  for a cup of tea. She didn’t  look  like a beggar  and Rosemary decided to take her home.  Of course she didn’t think about the poor girl. It was thrilling adventure for her which would

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    demonstrated in the Famous novella by James Baldwin entitled Sonny’s Blues. This intriguing novella is a prime example of a story that deals with African American oppression present in the 1950s. The text embodies the vivid idea that listening will lead to ones freedom. “Freedom lurked around us and I understood‚ at last‚ that he could help us to be free if we would listen” (Baldwin 90). This reoccurring theme present in Sonny’s Blues is proven through the use of family relationships and meaningful symbols

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    Cricket World Cup is the biggest international event of cricket. The first Cricket World Cup was played during 1975 in England (www.wikipedia.org). The first three matches were also recognized as Prudential Cup with the sponsorship of prudential plc‚ it is a pecuniary services company. Till the1992 Cricket World Cup‚ only 8 teams used to participate in the tournament. Later on‚ the number of teams increased and in Cricket World Cup2007‚ 16 teams had participated. But in 2011 Cricket World Cup 14 teams

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    in Sonny’s Blues Sonny’s blues by James Baldwin is a story about the power of music and its effect on people and their very states of mind. Sonny will grow up and mature as a normal kid‚ but will then come to depend on his family and friends for guidance on his journey to become a musician in his own inner struggle brought upon him by his drug use. On his path he will discover that what he really wants is to be a jazz musician with the approval of his older brother. In Sonny’s Blues‚ the narrator

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    Baldwin’s Blues In Sonny’s Blues the and the autobiographical notes of James Baldwin found in the book show the racism of the time and how subtle it is and how it becomes a part of a person once it is introduced to them. In the auto biographical notes Baldwin says‚ “I was forced to admit something I had always hidden from myself‚ which the American Negro has had to hide from himself as the price of his public progress; that I hated and feared white people. This did not mean that I loved black people;

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    Floyd 1 2/7/12 English 102 Professor Kathy Lynch Sonny Blues In “Sonny’s Blues”‚ the theme of poverty is characterized by the poverty of Harlem Youth’s spirit. The story focuses on the relationship between two brothers at various stages of their lives. The events of the story focus on the building of understanding between Sonny and his older brother‚ the narrator. Even though the story focuses on Sonny’s life‚ I understand his brother’s

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    understand exactly what trials and tribulations Sonny was going through. Having grown up in the projects/low income housing‚ finding out the truth out how his father had really passed and their rocky relationship with one another‚ his turbulent dynamic with his own brother‚ his heroin addiction and the problems it brought on‚ his struggle to fulfill the typical American dream‚ and finding the courage to do what he really loves; play music. Sonny’s Blues are the story of his life‚ and the failures or

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