A: The Decline of the West The Decline of the West is a short story by Hanif Kureishi. It is about a husband and father‚ named Mike‚ who comes home from an over twelve hour day at his job‚ to find his wife annoyed and not pleased with him‚ his oldest son the same‚ and his youngest son happy to see him because he have promised to buy him a guitar‚ an amplifier and a microphone. Because of these troubles at home‚ he does not get a chance to tell his wife or the children that he earlier the same
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Of White Hairs and Cricket Rohinton Mistry The subject of mortality and acceptance of the pure reality is explored in this passage through the innocence of the narrator and his growing acceptance. The story drops the reader into a scene where the boy is plucking his ageing father’s grey hairs. The tone in the first few paragraphs indicates the boy’s reluctance to do the task‚ which is antithetical to the end of the story where his enthusiasm sparks up due to his epiphany. The plucking of the
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Settlement of the West With the closing of the frontier and the turn of the 20th century‚ the west side of America was becoming heavily populated and settled in. For America this meant many resources were needed in order to accelerate the expansion of the west. The development of the west brought many problems. How would you transport goods‚ to and from the east? Before any settlements were possible‚ a means of easy transportation was essential. In 1862 the Pacific Railway Act was passed‚
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occurred to those "unassuming‚ long suffering‚ unassertive and submissive" peoples of the Indies that "are with out without malice or guile‚ and are utterly faithful and obedient both to their own native lords and to the Spainards in whose service they now find themselves" (Las Casas‚ 10). As a god-fearing man of the priesthood‚ I utterly deplore the use of my Christian faith as a ruse of the Spaniards in the Indies to justify their agenda of greed and destruction. <br> <br>It is my personal inclination
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Riley Sykes Mr. Ptacek CSJ‚ Period G 8 September 2013 Rwandan Genocide In the film Hotel Rwanda‚ the story of Paul Rusesabagina’s life is put on display. It opens with a scene with the characters Paul and Dube‚ a fictional character based on the Tutsi workers of the Milles Collines. Paul is discussing what “style” is to Dube; they proceed to drive to pick up supplies from Georges Rutaganda. Rutaganda is a businessman and the leader of the Interhamwe militia group responsible for the genocide
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Spanish occupation of the Indies. In A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies‚ Casas provides a scathing commentary on the cruelty exercised by the Spanish colonizers on the natives of Hispaniola—as well as explain the aims that motivated this behavior. The account acts as not only an observation on the practices of the colonizers‚ but is also a reflection of the imperial policies of the Spanish Empire. Through writing A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies‚ Casas aims at bringing
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Topic: Is Cricket Killing Other Sports in India? (In favour of the topic) It is a fact that people in India eat‚ live‚ sleep‚ talk and walk cricket. Some feel that Cricket in India is becoming an obstacle in the progress of other sports. M.S Gill‚ the sports minister of the country painstakingly said‚ “Television‚ commercialization and the advertising world have promoted cricket to an extent that it has become a Mount Everest‚ which is badly affecting other sports in the country.” Cricket has become
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AIRBNB The hotel industry is a saturated industry that normally requires firms to maintain substantial overhead‚ substantial capital property‚ and brand reputation to successfully compete for fluctuating market shares. As a result‚ rivalry is high and there is little room for new entrants in the fiercely competitive and economically sensitive hotel industry. That being said‚ Airbnb has created a market that enables almost anyone who owns sleeping space to become a competitor to hotels and traditional
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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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