Indian Economy and the curse of Gold The Indian economy grew at around 5% for the fiscal year ending March 31‚ 2013‚ down from 6.2% the previous year. With economic growth slowing for nearly three years now and the economy expected to grow at around 4.8% this year‚ the slump is attributed to several persistent structural issues – prominent amongst which a widening Current Account Deficit (CAD). To quote the RBI governor‚ "The biggest risk to the economy stems from the CAD." CAD represents
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Atticus Finch Character Analysis Atticus Finch is one of the major characters in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus is a lawyer in Maycomb‚ the representative of Alabama in state legislature‚ the defendant of Tom Robinson‚ and the father of Jem and Scout Finch. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Atticus is portrayed as a man of integrity‚ great courage‚ and a parent who is determined to show his kids what is right and what is wrong. Atticus Finch shows integrity and good morals in many
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Character Analysis Ponyboy Curtis Ponyboy Curtis is a 14-year-old boy whose world has been turned upside down. His parents were killed in an automobile accident just eight months before The Outsiders story takes place. He lives with his oldest brother‚ Darry‚ who is 20 years old and has legal custody of him and his other brother‚ Sodapop‚ who is 16. Darry characterizes Ponyboy as lacking common sense. Pony agrees with this assessment. He readily admits that he is smart at school‚ but sometimes
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Pranav Chandrasekaran Mr. Paul Dyer English 3rd September‚ 2014 CHARACTER ANALYSIS: PAPPACHI Pappachi is the original patriarch of the Ipe Family. His real name was Shri Benaan John Ipe. Pappachi had lived during the British occupation of India and had worked as the Imperial Entomologist. In British India‚ Britishers formed the dominating class and ruled over the Indians. In such an environment‚ Pappachi had begun to consider Britishers
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Ophelia: Character analysis Ophelia‚ a young beautiful woman‚ is known to be the young daughter of Polonius‚ sister to Laertes‚ and Love interest to Hamlet. In the play‚ Ophelia is stuck between her obedience to her father and her love for Hamlet‚ which seems to possess some tragic consequences. Ophelia is the archetypal obedient daughter‚ a role required to be played by all young women in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. When her father orders her to
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Carl Sagan asked‚ based on his cosmic calendar‚ “Where would you place your own life on this timeline? Where would you place the life of one of your grandparents? What is the major disadvantage of a time line drawn to this scale? What is its advantage?” To answer his questions about where your life or the life of your loved ones would fall‚ signifies a miniscule amount of time relative to the time line of human history. You simply couldn’t place the life of any single human on this cosmic calendar
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teaches only one of the girls a game she plays and now the girl‚ Windy‚ is part of “the breath sisters” a dangerous game‚ which can ruin a person. I am planning on predicting the future of Elena and Windy’s relationship and evaluating Nina as a character. In this journal‚ I will be predicting that Elena and Windy will become distanced from each other and terminate their friendship now that Nina is in their lives. To begin‚ Windy already likes Nina’s presence in her life more than she does Elena’s
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1 Mobile phones: Blessing or Curse A person is in an unhealthy phase of obsessive and constant cell phone use. This may be caused by the newness of the device or by an emotional problem that makes them use the cell phone to isolate from others who surround them. Or‚ it might be that the increasing use of the cell phone by everyone else causes the person to get one of their own."[1] More often than not; people use cellphones to pull themselves away from a crowd or ring themselves to get out of
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Doux-commerce; A Blessing or a Curse?! Commerce educates people ethically chiefly through its communicative aspects‚ and it encourages conversations among equals and exchange between strangers. Commerce was supposed to civilize humans‚ to make them more sociable and to lead them to collaborate. However‚ their collision and lack of social skills and the strife to gain and excel held them back from exchanging and possessing wealth‚ as it is set in market society. Increase in commerce and growth of
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Character Analysis: the narrator (Raymond Carver‚ “Cathedral”) The narrator in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral‚” is portrayed as someone who lacks insight and awareness of the things around him. He is paralyzed‚ stuck in a destructive way of living. The narrator does not realize the limitations he has placed on himself that prevent him from seeing things greater than life. Carver exposes the narrator’s true personality using a first-person narrative. It isn’t hard to tell that the narrator is jealous
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