Train to Pakistan One of the most brutal episodes in the planet’’s history‚ in which a million men‚ women‚ and children were killed and ten million were displaced from their homes and belongings‚ is now over half a century old. Partition‚ a euphemism for the bloody violence that preceded the birth of India and Pakistan as the British hurriedly handed over power in 1947‚ is becoming a fading word in the history books. First-hand accounts will soon vanish. Khushwant Singh‚ who was over thirty at the
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spots a wolf‚ he would have to ring a bell and cry out ‘Wolf!’. This is to alert the villagers who would come rushing out‚ armed and ready to tackle the wolf. (Fables‚ 2012) After days without any sight of wolf‚ the boy grows bored. To provide some form of entertainment‚ the boy decides to pretend that a wolf is attacking. The villagers‚ alerted to the boy’s cries‚ arrived without any sight of wolf. The villagers believing that the wolf had escaped‚ praises the boy for his effort. (Fables‚ 2012)
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mark we see the idea of change as he has been sent to Kingcome village. He experiences the change of living in a different world to the western world. Mark has no other choice but to accept this change and adapt to the ways of the Native American villagers of Kingcome. We are told how the priest does this in part one through events such as his first funeral he conducts for the village the day he arrives for a boy who has died‚ where the village people have been waiting for the constable to arrive to
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Ndithi One of the minor characters. The medicine man. Ndithi is a superstitious medicine man for the Labong’o tribe. He is a man that is said to have the ability to communicate with their god/ancestor. D. PLOT a) Introduction The villagers need rain. Labong’o‚
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MANILA‚ Philippines (AP) -- At least 43 villagers and soldiers drowned in a southern Philippine town Tuesday when torrents of water dumped by a powerful typhoon cascaded down a mountain‚ engulfing emergency shelters and an army truck‚ officials said. The deaths raised the toll from one of the strongest storms to hit the country this year to at least 74. Gov. Arturo Uy said rain from Typhoon Bopha accumulated atop a mountain and then burst down on Andap village in New Bataan town in hard-hit
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supervisor bad impression‚ so he closed the path. When the priest of the village tries to convince Obi to reopen the path‚ Obi’s attitude has no change. Two days later‚ a woman dies from childbirth‚ and villagers blame her death on Obi. The conflict between Michael Obi and Villagers rise up. As a result‚ villagers destroy Obi’s school‚ and Obi gets a nasty report from a white supervisor. Obi’s career is ruined. In “Everyday Use‚” the narrator Mrs Johnson has two daughters; Dee is the confident one with formal
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who is a stranger to her village‚ to leave the place before evening. The reason for her restlessness is revealed to both Eman and the readers very gradually. The village has an annual New Year purification rite in which the wrong doings of the villagers are heaped on ‘carrier’- a stranger- so that the community may be redeemed of its sins and have rejuvenation in all sense. There is an inherent idea that the society will be spiritually strengthened as an aftermath of these sacrifices. The play moves
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for good harvest. The children collect rocks and pile them in the square. All the villagers gather in one place and a man named Mr. Summers‚ who runs the lottery‚ holds a black box. As he called all the names of the villagers‚ they will come up and grab a slip of paper. As everyone opens their paper‚ a woman named Tessie finds that her paper was the only one that contains a black dot‚ the symbol of death. The villagers then proceed stone her to death as she screams that it is not fair‚ because she
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Population‚ Composition‚ Dynamic d. Reasons for the research e. Objectives II) Methods III) Assessment of strength and weaknesses IV) Findings and discussions f. Development issues in Kamweshok Village g. Villagers’ perspectives on education h. Reasons for low level of education i. Effects of poor education j. Issues to the access of education k. Cause and effect analysis I) Introduction a. Geography and Climate The
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convention of symbolism into ‘The Lottery’ to create a deep and more profound meaning. The black box a symbol/ icon used in the story is an old‚ worn‚ well used box. This box is an important feature of the villagers’ annual tradition. For example‚ “Mr Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box‚ but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box”. The box is so important that the people are too frightened to renew the box in case the tradition
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