IDS Documentary: No More Tears Sister 1) Explain Historical‚ Political‚ Cultural and Socioeconomic factors that caused a civil war‚ killing more than 75000 people‚ between the Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka. Paul Collier outlines four reasons for what causes and attributes to civil wars in his book the Bottom Billion. Out of his four reasons there are two that I will compare the Civil war in Sri Lanka to. The conflict was started in 1983 by a group called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
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At the beginning of the journey‚ Helen sees Rachel as uptight and restricted‚ for she is not yet comfortable in her womanliness and comfortable in her identity. When Helen first encounters Rachel‚ she notice her that “Her face was weak rather than decided‚” (13). Rachel does what needs to be done and is unable to speak her mind at the proper time. Helen also notices “a hesitation in speaking‚ or rather tendency to use the wrong words‚ made her seem more than normally incompetent for her years.” (13)
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Unfusing and its Complications As seen in STEVEN UNIVERSE‚ episode KEYSTONE MOTEL (Season 2‚ Episode 12) In an alternate universe‚ a small group of rebel aliens came to earth eons before humans existed and fought for the freedom of this planet. These aliens are actually sentient rocks. Their main powers‚ their being‚ even their physical form all originate from gems placed on their body somewhere. This is why the race is referred to as ‘gems’. Each character is named after the mineral that makes up
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with barely four lines in the epic-narrative by Valmiki. Volga presents Urmila as a feminist who raise questions on the misogynist norms‚ questions the biased rules of Dharma and emerges as a bold individual. Sita’s Promise by Uma Parameswaram is a dance drama created to link modern Canada with India through myth and dance. It is the story of Rama‚ Sita and Laxmana with some bold deviations. In this play‚ dance is given the prominence than the myth and various forms of dance have been presented
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In Lu Xun’s Medicine‚ it tells a story which shapes the bourgeois democratic revolutionary Xia Yu’s personal selfless sacrifice and as a pioneer of the heroic revolutionary image‚ he reveals the tragedy of the Chinese society due to its people’s ignorance and calls for the urgent need to awaken the people but they have no awareness and even feel hostile towards it. Xun shows that the Chinese society must be freed from the long rule of Confucius and feudal superstition; otherwise there is no hope
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John Wright‚ a farmer from a small country town‚ is found murdered in his bed; a thick piece of rope is bound tightly around his neck. His wife‚ a peaceful and passive woman‚ is held as a suspect for the unlawful death. The killing baffles investigators; although a gun is established in the home‚ the weapon of John Wright’s demise is a piece of rope (Glaspell 5). This intriguing murder-mystery is the plot of the one-act play‚ Trifles‚ which was written in 1918 by Susan Glaspell. The tragedy is loosely
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McCullough‚ David. 1776. New York: Simon and Schuster‚ 2005. The words never judge a book by its cover have been spoken many times‚ but some covers beg to be judged. The cover of 1776‚ with its wartime painting and bold red lettering on the front‚ immediately draws people into it. However‚ upon opening the novel it is visually intimidating with many quotes in the middle of pages and nearly one-hundred pages of sources‚ notes‚ and acknowledgements. Despite this‚ McCullough delivers a personal story
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It was a race to finding element 43; A race that would earn honor to any scientist‚ in The disappearing spoon a book written about chemistry specifically the periodic table which most notified in Chapter 8 From physics to biology. In this chapter Kean opens it up by talking about the competition to finding element forty three great scientist such as Segre‚Pauling‚Glenn Seaborg and Al Ghiorso brought the hunt for the unknown element to a new level of sophistication.Many scientist searched
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I Am Malala Book Report Would you take a bullet for freedom‚ especially if that freedom was the right to be educated? Many young Americans take education for granted. High school drop out rates have soared over the years. But what if education was not granted to the majority of citizens in America? Would that change our viewpoint on education? Would that cease the complaints towards the most powerful weapon we can use today? Well over twenty notable countries do not grant girls and women the right
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The book‚ Cupcake‚ was composed by Rachel Cohn and was published in 2007. “Cohn’s first book‚ Gingerbread‚ was published in 2002. Since then she has gone on to write many other successful YA and younger children’s books‚ and has collaborated on three books with the author David Levithan” (Rachel Cohn‚ 2017). Cupcake correlates Cohn to an eighteen year old moving from San Francisco‚ CA to Manhattan‚ NY after high school. The novel illustrates a young woman that is contemplating if she should move
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