The House on Mango Street The House on Mango Street‚ which appeared in 1983‚ is a linked collection of forty-four short tales that evoke the circumstances and conditions of a Hispanic American ghetto in Chicago. The narrative is seen through the eyes of Esperanza Cordero‚ an adolescent girl coming of age. These concise and poetic tales also offer snapshots of the roles of women in this society. They uncover the dual forces that pull Esperanza to stay rooted in her cultural traditions on the one
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An Essay on Samuel P. Huntington ’s Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order: What He Got Right‚ What He Got Wrong Introduction Samuel Phillips Huntington was an American political scientist at the University of Harvard‚ who published an article in the Foreign Affairs journal‚ entitled “Clash of Civilizations?” in the summer of 1993. This article was primarily published to state his thesis that “the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological
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for providing us their vital information‚ precious time and their spirituous support. INTRODUCTION: This report is based on a study of hawkers and street vendors conducted in Mumbai. The purpose of this study is two-fold. Firstly‚ it tries to objectively understand the problems of street vendors in Mumbai. Its scope is not restricted to street vendors alone but it tries to relate the profession in the wider urban context by examining the legal status of hawkers‚ their contribution to the urban
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The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros emerges as a piece of literary mastery demonstrated through the multilevel narration and celebration of subjective representation. The author utilizes the unusual practice of thorough weaving of the tapestry containing the main character’s opinions and cognitive processes that exist within the matrix of three levels of narration. Furthermore‚ the story world level‚ the level of narration and authorial level appear to execute distinctive functions
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July 2012‚ Terengganu‚ Malaysia Sustaining Penang Street Food Culture and the Reasons for Its Popularity M.Shahrim Ab Karim‚ K’ng Yee Wen‚ Mohiddin Othman‚ Hazrina Ghazali and Nurhasmilaaalisa Abd. Halim Department of Food Service Management‚ Faculty of Food Science and Technology‚ Universiti Putra Malaysia‚ 43400 UPM Serdang‚ Selangor Darul Ehsan‚ Malaysia. Corresponding author’s e-mail: shahrim@putra.upm.edu.my Abstract Penang street food culture has been one of the main tourism attractions
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What is Street Art? Street art is arguably classed as Urban Art and also known as Contemporary Art. This form of Art represents the voice of the lower class in debate with the political class‚ they express themselves with sprays on plaster and endure ’A life spent scribbling in books scrambling over walls and fences‚ scrawling on any available surface’. It is today accepted by designers and artists who also are influenced by these contemporary visualised forms‚ this form of contemporary art has changed
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A street child is a young person‚ under the age of fifteen‚ who lives and sleeps in the streets‚ whose family ties are broken and who can’t or won’t return home. Street children live in the streets without their families. Each child has to learn how to survive alone‚ since no adult takes responsibility of them. Often they are very young and completely ignored by their families. These children don’t like to be called as "street children". They live‚ or rather struggle to survive; they are usually
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------------------------------------------------- Street crime Street crime is a loose term for criminal offences taking place in public places. It has moved to occupy the place once held by mugging. According to London ’s Metropolitan Police Force‚ street crime is: Robbery‚ often called ’mugging ’‚ and also includes thefts from victims in the street where property is snatched and the victim is not assaulted. [1] Crime on the streets of a city may include many other types of offences‚ for
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STREET ART: A REBELLIOUS REVOLUTION --Rian French Rebellion is a healthy thing. It keeps our civilization from becoming stagnant. It keeps the art world from becoming stagnant. It is the status quo and it keeps it on its toes. Why should art be sanctioned by permission‚ inside a neat little gallery o museum or something? Why can’t art just be the expression of humans wherever the hell they please? -Lady Pink (Artist/Street Art) Street art is an ever growing phenomenon which can be found all
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The Occupy Wall Street Movement The Occupy Wall Street Movement is a movement that has garnered extensive popularity in the last few months. The movement has been covered by all the major news agencies and magazines of our time and is considered to be an iconic representative of the unrest that is steadily accumulating and reaching bursting point in the masses. The movement has been the subject of countless debates that have sought to determine if the movement is justified or if it is an exploitation
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