Today‚ India is one of the most powerful forces of the developing world‚ it is part of the BRIC nations that are predicted to be super powers by 2050 and holds an influential position in world politics. Therefore‚ it is no wonder that the government felt it was time that the rupee join the elite club of US dollar‚ British pound-sterling‚ Euro and Japanese yen that have their own symbols. In 2009‚ the government announced a competition to design the new rupee symbol. The finance ministry wanted the symbol to
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In The Great Gatsby you will see a lot of references to colors. Some of the colors include green‚white and yellow. All the colors have special meaning behind them. The novel‚ The Great Gatsby ‚ is like a mystery behind a painters palette. F.Scott Fitzgerald uses the color green to represent hope throughout The Great Gatsby. “Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light‚ minute and far way‚ that might have been the end of a dock.” In this quote the color
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Several motifs appear throughout the narratives of traditional medieval romantic texts and The Carl of Carlisle is no exception to this. As established the giant character of these texts acts as the foundation on which the rest of the narrative forms around; The Carl of Carlisle reads as a series of tests given to prove the courtesy of the knights in a place where courtesy is stripped from them‚ truly testing their commitment to the chivalric code. At the first test both the Bishop and Key fail as
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Essay Outline: I. Introduction: A. Background Information. In the past 10 years the usage of nuclear energy has become one of the most polarizing issues of the world. Especially in the Middle East when a country reveals information about its nuclear program‚ the west considers this country as a threat and tries all possible ways to stop this program. B. Thesis Statement. Nuclear energy is a double edged sword. It is every country’s right to own nuclear weapons as a defence mechanism against any
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Former president John F. Kennedy once said that “change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” This statement is very true because some people that never move on from something sad tend to be depressed. There are also other people that do not believe that the past is gone‚ and think that things never changed. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Jay Gatsby resembles the second kind of person as Gatsby fails his dream of being with
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A woman once said‚ “There is no life without color.” This is just the case with the main character of “The Life of Pi”‚ Pi Patel. Pi is a cast away on a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger‚ an orangutan‚ a hyena and a zebra. There is one color that was mentioned multiple times throughout the story‚ the color orange. In the novel “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel‚ this color is used as a symbol for hope and survival. To hope means to wish for something with expectations of its
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Barack Obama once said; “There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America—there’s the United States of America.” In this statement he spoke to the national pride of every American. Nationalism is an ideology which asserts that an individual’s allegiance to the nation state surpasses other segregational differences such as race‚ religion‚ gender or sexuality. It provides a collective identity for people whose single greatest commonality is their belief in the strength
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Assess the historical significance of the French Revolution. The French Revolution‚ which took place at the very end of the 18th Century in France‚ was of crucial significance to the history of modern day society. It was to be one of the most important political and sociological reformations in history‚ and brought an end to the legitimacy and sovereignty of the monarchy‚ aristocracy and clergy‚ and instilled reforms upon liberal principles and democratic notions and important fundamental notions
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S I G N I F I C A N C E O F S T U D Y O F K A N D L A P O R T 2.1 R e s e a r c h P r o b l e ms Statement of the problem I have chosen this topic to study about economic pattern of Kandla & Non Major Ports with socio economic conditions and port development in Saurashtra and Kutch region. The study is mainly focused on various types of ports that are developed in the said region. This study highlights the problems during the development of ports and on other side gives suitable
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Waiting for Godot The Boy Twice in Waiting for Godot‚ both Gogo and Didi meet the “boy” sent by Mr. Godot‚ once toward the end of Act I and once again at the end of Act II. When the boy appears‚ the only information he has to offer the two tramps is that Godot will come the following day‚ and shows no knowledge of coming with the same message the day before. This is Beckett’s way of addressing hope as an illusion‚ and of emphasizing the repetitive cycle of everyday life. This theme is central
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