The poem ‘Telephone Conversation’ is written by Wole Soyinka‚ who is Nigerian by origin. In the poem‚ the poet shows a telephone conversation between an African who is in search of a house and his landlady. The poet thus briefly explains the treatment of the African people in European countries‚ especially England‚ where the so-called ‘superior’ white people‚ suggesting the theme of racialism. This poem takes place in London as it is evident from the poem about the presence of a red booth‚ red pillar
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The play was set back during the time of War World 1 or 2. The story starts in a Nigerian village where the women of the village are sitting down talking and folding pieces of cloth. Elesin Oba (the Chief Horseman) walks thought the market with young man and drummers the women stop and put away their things. They start to flirt with Elesin because today is his last day on earth before he is to join the king on the other side. Elesin tells the women of the story of the Not I bird and how the bird
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associated with Coronations and Royal Weddings‚ pomp and ceremony‚ which in itself invokes a smile and feelings of great expectations. It is very different from the banal‚ sombre title Soyinka uses. The form of the poems differs. WA takes the form of a revealing monologue; an opportunity for intimate‚ uninhibited conversation that is so ludicrous it is funny. This is different to the humour in TC‚ which is a dialogue written in typographical form where different fonts represent the different participants
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* Vishal Patel TRANFORMATION OF TELEPHONES Modern man enjoys a number of wonderful gifts of science. The telephone is one of them. It is the quickest means of conveying messages from one place to another. After the invention of this instrument‚ man has conquered time and space. Our lives have become so busy in the new world and have no time for our family members and relatives. But this distance is not the end because the new technologies have changed our lives in many ways and have connected
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The Telephone “Before the telephone came to Magdaluna‚ Im Kaleem’s house was bustling at just about any time of day‚ especially at night‚ when its windows were brightly lit with three large oil lamps‚ and the loud voices of the men talking‚ laughing‚ and arguing could be heard in the street below—a reassuring‚ homey sound” Anwar F. Accawi (p. 46). It’s hard to imagine that a single device such as the telephone‚ albeit a breakthrough in technology‚ could change not only a person’s day to day
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Question No. 01. Anwar F. Accawi starts the essay “The Telephone” by telling about the way people in his village looked at the time was to notify that time was not important for the people who lived in his village at his period. Accawi in his first paragraph writes that “time didn’t mean much to anybody‚ except may be to those who were dying ‚ or those waiting appear in court…” from these lines Accawi tries to states that time was not important for every people in his village except for some who
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The Telephone About 100 years ago‚ Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone by accident with his assistant Mr. Watson. Over many years‚ the modern version of the telephone makes the one that Bell invented look like a piece of junk. Developments in tone dialing‚ call tracing‚ music on hold‚ and electronic ringers have greatly changed the telephone. This marvelous invention allows us to communicate with the entire globe 24 hours a day just by punching in a simple telephone number. It is the
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The Telephone By Alexander Graham Bell [pic] The invention of the telephone is the culmination of work done by many individuals‚ the history of which involves a collection of claims and counterclaims. The prerequisite for the development of the telephone goes back to the year 1833 were Carl Friedrich Gauß and Wilhelm Eduard Weber invented the electric transmission of signals in Göttingen which set the fundamental basis for the technology that was used in all inventions
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In Anwar Accawi’s story “The Telephone” had a deep explanation of the importance of community. This essay reignited my feelings about the community I had back in Bangladesh. I used to live in a setting similar to Magdaluna’s. It was a neighborhood where everybody would know everybody else. If anybody would get sick‚ other people would come to see and wish him/her quick recovery. People tend to ignore sick people nowadays but there was a time when people would go visit their neighbors and extend their
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All men are created equal‚ therefore all men should be treated as so by one another; it is expected though‚ that absolute equality will not be achieved in a society due to people’s differences in beliefs‚ values‚ and opinions. An idea in the Declaration of Independence that is heavily supported by citizens is that people have certain natural unalienable rights such as life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness. People are guaranteed by nature the ability to freely live however they please to attain
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