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    Joke of the Year

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    Semester System - MCQ Pattern 30-20 Pattern: Minimum marks for passing - 12/30 and 8/20 Syllabus Compulsory English –BA/BCom/BSc/BBA/BCA/BCS… First Year Objectives: 1) To encourage the students to speak English 2) To enable students to use English in day-to-day communication 3) To build up their confidence in the usage of English 4) To expose them to light prose and poetry 5) To develop their written communicative competence 6) To prepare them for competitive exams Semester-I Textbook entitled

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    The Southern Cross Expedition‚ officially known as the British Antarctic Expedition 1898–1900‚ was the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration‚ and the forerunner of the more celebrated journeys of Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. The brainchild of the Norwegian-born‚ half-British explorer and schoolmaster Carsten Borchgrevink‚ it was the first expedition to over-winter on the Antarctic mainland‚ the first to visit the Great Ice Barrier since James Clark Ross in

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    What Are Pet Rocks?

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    What are pet rocks? Pet Rocks were a 1970s collectible conceived in Los Gatos‚ California by advertising executive Gary Dahl. Contents [hide] 1 Development 2 Marketing 3 Availability 4 References 5 External links [edit]Development In April 1975‚ Dahl was in a bar (which is now Beauregard Vineyards Tasting room in Bonny Doon) listening to his friends complain about their pets. This gave him the idea for the perfect "pet": a rock.[1] A rock would not need to be fed‚ walked‚ bathed‚ groomed

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    The Landlady Essay

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    The Landlady Essay In the story ‘The Landlady’ Dahl keeps the reader interested by using a range of techniques. This essay will focus on the use of his language‚ setting‚ characters and foreshadowing. Dahl wrights the story about a gullible‚ young boy named Billy Weaver who stays at an unusual Bed and Breakfast run a mysterious old lady that that welcomes him only to drug him and stuff him for her collection. Dahl builds tension by describing the setting in detail. He gives the

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    Democratic Theory‚” Robert Dahl rebuts the arguments presented by the power elitist theory. In a study based on this theory‚ Dahl argues that whereas there was an unequal distribution of power in New Haven‚ authority and influence was shared among different groups that were competing against each other. In addition‚ he coined the term polyarchy in reference to American politics as well as other systems that are characterized as open and inclusive. By developing this concept‚ Dahl was able to establish

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    Dahl introduces Mrs.Maloney as calm and collected housewife in the beginning of the story. “Mrs.Maloney was waiting for her husband to come home from work. Now and again she glanced at the clock but‚ but without anxiety”(Dahl 2). She gives us the impression that everything is going smoothly in her life and that no problems are being introduced. Later on in the story she changes radically from calm and loving and cooking dinner for her husband to violent and emotionally disturbed.Throughout the story

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    close relationship to Willa Cather ’s own life‚ is an accurate and realistic picture of life on the prairie‚ but like Virgil ’s poem it transcends mere local color by emphasizing the eternal beauty of creative life on the rich earth” (Dahl‚ 45). For instance‚ Curtis Dahl states “the first of these inextricably fused themes is Cather ’s desire to celebrate in her novels her own Nebraskan patria” (45). We see this detail vividly in the way she describes the land and can almost feel the connection she

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    Cod Farms Case

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    Jordan Sudberry November 8‚ 2014 Cod Farms Case 1. Did this entrepreneurial activity come from inside or outside the industry? Outside‚ Harald Dahl was a millionaire dotcom executive before he turned his focus to fish farming. 2. 3. What makes the cod farming opportunity: a. Attractive- With the wild stock of Cod diminishing‚ farming cod is a great opportunity since Cod makes around 1 billion dollars a year. b. Achievable- Norway is a Mecca for fish farming and the geography is perfect for it

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    suits.”(Dahl 1) There were men and women in and surrounding the pool having a great fun time. “The girls were English from the hotel. The boys I didn’t know about‚ but they sounded American‚ and I thought they were probably naval cadets who’d came ashore from the U.S. naval training vessel that had arrived in harbor that moment.”(Dahl 1) “I went over and sat down under a yellow umbrella where there were four empty seats‚ and I poured my beer and settled back comfortably with a cigarette.”(Dahl 1)

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    The Werewolf by Angela Carters: FAIRY TALE The Maligned Wolf Little Red Ridding Hood and the Wolf by Roald Dahl (GENRE: POETRY) The Little Girl and The Wolf by James Thurber Little Red Riding Hood ( A new Version) Politically Correct Little Red Riding Hood by K.Hopkins Little Red Cap ( A German Tale) Thee Annotated Little Red Riding SETTING IN PLACE Although Werewolf is a Fairy Tale‚ it is not placeless. -Northern Europe (Evidence: see use of lg.) Placeless Placeless Placeless Placeless

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