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    he is listening to a woman singing. This poem is laden with nostalgia and pathos; the speaker is longing for the simplicity and comfort of years gone by. This poem has a very slow‚ harmonious tone‚ which is accentuated by its structure and rhyme. It is also full of rich imagery that creates a vivid picture for the reader. It is a short work‚ consisting only of three stanzas‚ but Lawrence conveys the main theme of bitter-sweet nostalgia simply and honestly. The first stanza sets the basic

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    During the late 19th century and the early 20th century‚ Islam in the Middle East was introduced to its greatest threat yet; modernization. Conflicts within the muslim community and the rapid development of the surrounding world‚ has left the muslim society in the dust. The technological/scientifically dominant Ottoman empire went through expiration and was left with the remnants of its broken empire. Western civilizations then modernized and quickly became more superior in its European trade‚ technological

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    NYT Bestsellers taking on religion. So again‚ major segments of humanity‚ including the whole developed world‚ are on the edge of another huge and almost instantaneous paradigm shift. Like the belief in a flat Earth in 16th century China‚ fundamentalist religion is just about over. Unfortunately‚ most people don’t know it yet. Eighty percent of the world’s people still believe that the creator of the Universe dictated a book. Many believe this so strongly that they will kill other people

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    vacation in Paris‚ he makes many trips into the 1920s. On one of those trips‚ Gill and Adrianna are transported to a fancy night out in the 1890s‚ a time period Adrianna wishes she was born in. However‚ a man from that time period condemns Adrianna’s nostalgia of the 1890s‚ saying it is an empty time that lacks imagination. When it is time to leave‚ Adrianna refuses to go expressing to Gill how she feels the 1920s are dull and boring. Gill‚ in shock of how Adrianna views the 1920s‚ explains to her how

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    THE WEST AND ITS OTHER: LITERARY RESPONSES TO 9/11 MOHAN G. RAMANAN University of Hyderabad mohan1949@rediffmail.com 125 Terror is now a part of our lives. Whether it is the bombing of defenceless villages in Afghanistan or Iraq‚ or the slaying of Daniel Pearl‚ terror is perpetrated by different people for different purposes. Terror is the employment of strategies to instill fear and insecurity in the victim. This can be achieved by the deliberate targeting of women and children as

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    Religion and Women in the Middle East Religion goes hand in hand with culture‚ and in the Muslim countries this is very apparent. The cultural importance of men over women may have stemmed from religion‚ however it was further recognized when imperialist countries introduced capitalism and class divides. “Islam must combat the wrenching impact of alien forces whose influence in economic‚ political‚ and cultural permutations continues to prevail” (Stowasser 1994‚ 5). Now‚ instead of an agrarian

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    creationism should be able in attainable schools is an absolute affecting and circuitous question. It can be looked at from several acclimatized angles‚ its ascendancy accepting one of them. Admitting the abbreviation of affirmation to abutment the fundamentalist absorption of creationism‚ that in it is not abounding to accreditation its exclusion from the best of attainable schools in the United States. The canon is far added circuitous and complex. One way to abide the catechism is whether or not creationism

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    for a trial to be held. Clarence Darrow would later represent him in the trial against William Jennings Bryan on the prosecution. Inherit the Wind uses the Scopes Trial as a basis for the play by comparing the views of fundamentalists and evolutionists. In the play‚ the fundamentalists include the townspeople‚ Matthew Harrison Brady (William Jennings Bryan)‚ and Reverend Brown. They represent the “backwards” ways of the town of Hillsboro where the play takes place. The evolutionists in the play include

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    there are many grownups now that are fond of them as well. There are three reasons why many adults enjoy animated movies that are because they attract to the moral lesson‚ characterization and their nostalgia. Adults enjoy animated movies because of nostalgia. Watching an animated movies gave them nostalgia or memories that have sentimental value in their previous life as a children. For example‚ we know that ‘Popeye the Sailor Man’ was a great animated cartoon that mesmerizes all kids‚ and on top of

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    out‚ not only is the term used as a blanket description of the militant ideology of contemporary Islamic movements‚ but subsuming the various Islamic movements (political‚ social‚ cultural‚ economic and local) under the general rubric of Islamic fundamentalist movements blinds us to the divergencies‚ internal divisions and evolutionary nature of the various groups. It also prevents us from engaging in a dispassionate analysis of the subject. This paper argues for the need to make specific distinctions

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