. . Again no bridegroom and the priest in the house. She could not remember any other sorrow because this grief wiped them all away. Oh‚ no there’s nothing more cruel than this—I’ll never forgive it. She stretched herself with a deep breath and blew out the light.
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THE DOWRY PROHIBITION ACT 1961 ACT NO. 28 OF 1961 [20th May‚ 1961] An Act to prohibit the giving or taking of dowry. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twelfth Year of the Republic of India as follows.1. Short title‚ extent and commencement. 1. Short title‚ extent and commencement. (1) This Act may be called the Dowry Prohibition Act‚ 1961. (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jam and Kashmir. (3) It shall come into force on such date’ as the Central Government may‚ by notification
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into battle in Duncan’s stead‚ and it would be hard for any present to forget his daring and fearless attitude‚ particularly not on the day he defeated Sweno’s Norwegian invasion and Macdonald‚ the rebellious Thane of Cawdor. I termed him Bellona’s bridegroom for his ferocious and splendid skill‚ and when Duncan was informed of Cawdor’s treachery‚ he saw Macbeth as deserving a higher status‚ proclaiming that what “[the former Thane of Cawdor] hath lost‚ noble Macbeth hath won.” All will acknowledge he
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The Right To Keep And Bear Arms Thursday‚ 19 August‚ 1996 "A well regulated militia‚ being necessary to the security of a free State‚ the right of the people to keep and bear arms‚ shall not be infringed" (Bill of Rights‚ Article II). This seemingly simple phrase is probably the source of more debate and argument than any other single sentence in American history. The argument is not black or white‚ pro or con. Rather‚ it encompasses many shades of gray. At the one end of the spectrum you have
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The Algernon-Gordon Effect The reputation of Daniel Keyes is a result of "Flowers For Algernon.” In 1959‚ Keyes won the Hugo Award for best short story. The version of the novel also received The Nebula Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1966‚ for the best novel. As a reader of this short story‚ one could be overwhelmed with anticipation and emotion. Keyes enhances the story with the use of the progress reports and the first person point of view. The progress reports used
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Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels’ Remedy to Industrial Capitalism Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels were considered two of the most perceptive critics and influential thinkers of the nineteenth-century European society. Both Marx and Engels had a more radical opinion of the European period of industrial capitalism and predicted its end of as the citizens united and took control of the corrupt system that demoralized them and treated them equally to machines. Marx argues that class struggles are the
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John M. Murry describes Twelfth Night as having a ’silvery undertone of sadness’ - this view is held by other critics alike. Kiernan Ryan states how "the spectre of death haunts the romantic protagonists’ lives and loves from the start." This can be seen right from the beginning of the play with Orsino’s speech. He describes love as a kind of illness which is ’killing’ him in a sense; "The appetite may sicken and so die." This in itself gives the play a melancholy atmosphere right from the start
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Catherine’s name haunts Lockwood’s sleep as he sees the words ‘Catherine Earnshaw… Catherine Heathcliff… Catherine Linton’ carved numerous times. The haunting quality of Catherine’s name is shown by Bronte’s gothic use of the simile ‘as vivid as spectres’ as these words fill his vision. Lockwood is later confronted by a ghost who sobs the words Catherine Linton as it demands to be let into the house. Indeed this determination to get what she wants is a characteristic of Catherine‚ which becomes apparent
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The Emergence of the Woman: A Reading of Raja Rao’s Kanthapura The woman has always been the unacknowledged and indiscernible core of the Indian society‚ without which its patriarchy would fall apart. Never allowed a voice in the seminal aspects of life‚ the woman yet defines its traditional and cultural boundaries. Raja Rao’s Kanthapura (1938) is a subtle study of the immense change that the Gandhian movement of the thirties brought into the life of the Indian woman and yet didn’t let her cross
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One of the most cherished and misunderstood aspect of life is the relationship between a father and his son. Fear‚ love and admiration go hand in hand in the bond between father and son and often‚ these lines can become blurred. As was the case in the movie “Big Fish”‚ despite the initial problems in the relationship between father and son caused by exaggerated stories told by the father‚ the stories inevitably brought them closer in the end. In the midst of a difficult times in Will Blooms life
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