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the male population. I am not saying that the females are more intelligent than the males. This is because there are more males who roam the street and idle the time they have. Most of these males are from the inner-city. “Miguel Street‚” by V.S. Naipaul is a book of short stories about people living in the inner-city and the situations and events they experience on a daily basis. After reading the first three stories within the book‚ I realize that the role of wives within this book is more than
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Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul The History of Trinidad Trinidad was inhabited by Carib and Arawak people long before Christopher Columbus arrived‚ but the recorded history of Trinidad and Tobago begins with the settlements of the islands by Spanish. Both islands were encountered by Christopher Columbus on his third voyage in 1498. Tobago changed hands between the British‚ French‚ Dutch and Courlanders‚ but eventually ended up in British hands. Trinidad remained in Spanish hands until 1797‚ but
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People often get options what to do or not to do in life; I always choose my options freely without any pressure. But there are some people in this world who are “genius” but their abilities are often “shortened” or “greatened” by some ill choices or imposed choices. Shortened because they feel problematic with a sense of loss and greatened because that choice or loss leads them and their work to a massive acknowledgement. It can also be again their long fascination which turns to be against own
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itself‚ consciously or unconsciously‚ as a group in displacement. The present anthology examines the works of key writers‚ many now based across the globe in Canada‚ Denmark‚ America and the UK – V.S. Naipaul‚ Salman Rushdie‚ Balachandra Rajan‚ M.G. Vassanji‚ Jhumpa Lahiri‚ Gautam Malkani‚ Shiva Naipaul‚ Tabish Khair and Shauna Singh Baldwin‚ among them – to show how they exemplify both the diasporic imaginary and the respective traumas of Indian diasporas. Corelating the concept of diaspora – literally
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Desai‚ K. (2006). The inheritance of loss. New York: Grove Press. “The Inheritance of Loss” opens with a teenage Indian girl who is an orphan named Sai. She is living with her grandfather‚ a retired judge‚ in the town of Kalimpong part of the Indian Himalayas. The grandfather is a Cambridge-educated Anglophile. Sai is romantically involved with her math tutor‚ Gyan. He is the descendant of a Nepali Gurkha mercenary so their love seems uncertain from the beginning. He eventually recoils from her
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characters who still live on Miguel Street gather to present to the narrator (who is departing for college) gifts representing their own attitudes toward life. Thus‚ the narratives are tied together‚ justifying the label “novel.” According to V. S. Naipaul‚ the genesis of Miguel Street was a shout that he remembered from a Port of Spain boyhood: “What happening there‚ Bogart?” The purpose of the novel is to answer that question. What happens in Miguel Street seems to be a repeated pattern of aspiration
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Eons ago‚ Bor‚ father of Odin‚ clashed with the Dark Elf Malekith‚ who sought to destroy the universe using a weapon known as the Aether. After conquering Malekith’s forces‚ including the enhanced warriors the Kursed‚ on their home planet of Svartalfheim‚ Bor contains the Aether within a stone column. Unbeknownst to him‚ Malekith‚ his lieutenant Algrim‚ and a handful of Dark Elves escape into suspended animation. In current-day Asgard‚ Loki stands imprisoned for his war crimes on Earth. Meanwhile
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Sir V.S. Naipaul is a Trinidadian writer of Indian descent. Very famous for his novels. His novels‚ reached to developing countries .He received the Nobel Prize in 2001 for Half a Life‚ a story about an Indian immigrant to England and Africa. One of his stories too is One Out Of Many. This short story talks about the live of Santosh. Who moved to Washington to follow his employer who is an Indian cook employed by a Washington government‚ when Santosh moved he saw many stranger things. In addition
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IOC Study Guide IB English HL 1 – Ferrara What works will be included on the IOC? • The Fire Next Time • Poetry of Sylvia Plath ▪ Cinderella ▪ The Colossus ▪ Stillborn ▪ The Moon and the Yew Tree ▪ Daddy (extract) ▪ Medusa ▪ Cut ▪ Lady Lazarus (extract) • Pride and Prejudice • Hamlet What will the extract be like? • Length: 25 – 40 lines o
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