Thus, they contributed little or nothing to any literary tradition, thereby limiting the scope of Indian-English poetry in the pre-independence period. ... Parthasarthy' in 'Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets', "An important characteristic of Indian verse in English is that it is Indian in sensibility and content, and English in language. ... Lines from Nissim Ezekiel's poem, Night of the Scorpion', that reflect a truly Indian sensibility This poem can be called Indian not only in the sentiment but also in the jargon used. ... Ten hours of steady rain ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The story began when ten people received a mysterious letter from a person named U.N. ... After everyone went to their rooms they noticed that each of them had ten little Indian statues. ... Everyone gets very suspicious and someone remarked that the deaths are going in accordance with the "Ten Little Indians" poem. ... The main symbols of this book are the ten little Indian statues and the poem. ... Also the poem about the ten little Indians made the story just down right creepy. ...

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The "Ten Little Indians" rhyme tells of a series of inevitable deaths and the novel acts out this rhyme. ... The guests are charged with their past murders and all the guests are murdered on Indian Island. ... Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks." ... The poem "Ten Little Indians" hangs in each of the guests rooms. All the guests die one by one as the ten little Indians die in the poem. ...

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Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None "Ten little Indians going out to dine; One went and choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little Indian boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. ... Two little Indians playing with a gun; One shot the other and then there was one. ... "When the voice on the recording makes the accusations against them, most compound their guilt by lying (Overview of the Ten Little Indians)."" ... From this point on, the novel is continued with the deaths of nine of the people on the island, and the cou...

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Rogers are butlers at the manor on Indian Island. ... The book begins when the ten strangers arrive on Indian Island for various reasons, some believing that there seeing old friends, others because they think they have gotten a job on the island. ... The group takes notice of the poem in each of their rooms about ten little Indian boys and how the murders so far have reflected the poem. ... Also they first take notice of little Indian statues on the dinning room table, where once they are sure were ten, there only stand six. ... He planned to base the murders on the ten little Indians poem th...

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Thou by the Indian Ganges side Should'st rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. ... The poem is complete. ... In the words of my assignment the poem is uplifting' and inspirational', it is also a little sad and regretful but - so is life. ... Dylan Thomas, Coleridge, T.S.Eliot have all described the sea to my satisfaction but this little poem encapsulates the heart of it - the awe of it. ...

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Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, was about ten people chosen to go on an Island vacation. ... One by one the guests die off in ordinance with the poem about the ten little Indians. ... Armstrong was supposed to be the third little Indian (red herring) and that is probably the largest clue of all. ...

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In addition, at the time the poem was written, the poet's country of birth, the island of St. ... As Walcott is divided in two, so too is the poem. ... Poem Summary The first three lines depict the poem's setting on the African plain, or veldt. ... The migration of both whites and Indians continued, unabated. ... On August 4, 1950, Mau Mau was declared illegal, even though the government knew little about it except that militant Kikuyus were winning over, coercing, or forcing other Kikuyus to take an oath against foreign rule. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gao Zu and his son Tai Zong defeated eastern Turkish empires, reduced the Taim barim to Chinese control, made Tibet a dependency, and even interfered successfully in Indian affairs. ... Tang poems were known to be short, lyric pieces, some long enough to be style narrative poems. ... Contrary to Chuddha, Miaofu chose the nun lifestyle since little. ... After ten years, she became ordained. ... She wrote "Sutra of the Ten Kings" which helped people escape rebirth. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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In New York, British director Peter Brook's nine-hour production of an ancient Hindu epic poem, The Mahabharata, has lately been playing to packed houses and considerable critical praise. ... When the London merchants of what became the East India Company first sent ships to the East in 1601, they were not bound for India at all but for the Spice Islands of the Dutch East Indies, and the English traders who set foot on the subcontinent a little later actually sought to avoid conquest. ... By then, the company had carried home such Indian terms as "bungalow," "verandah," "punch," "dungaree...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Encomienda was a tribute institution where the Spaniards received Indians as an entrustment, to protect and Christianize, but in return could demand tribute including labor ( ). The Indians offered little resistance to the Spanish and by the end of the 16th century only small groups remained in the mountainous areas of the island. ... This war is known as "The Ten Years War."" ... Of the poor people nine out of ten homes had no running water and depended on kerosene lamps for light (Fox, 53). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Abiah is mentioned very little. Josiah's second wife, she mothered ten children with him. ... Keith is impressed by Franklin and resolves to help him, but in effect does very little. ... He had four more children with that wife, and ten more children with Abiah, whom Josiah married after his first wife died. ... However, at age ten he was taken from school and put to work with his father, a candle and soap maker. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For his last three years of high school, he attended Indian Springs School, a boarding school in Indian Springs, Alabama. ... While Green was living in Chicago, he began writing a novel based on his years at Indian Springs and when it was completed, "Looking for Alaska" was published. ... Hazel's relationship with Augustus teaches her that she can be happy and enjoy the life although the cancer she faces: "But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. ... I just walked in behind a nurse with a badge and I got to sit next to her for like ten minutes befor...

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• Has Bibliography
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Bastian Balthazar Bux was a little boy around the age of ten or twelve. ... The counsellor found this hero, but he was quite disappointed, for Atreyu was a child around the age of ten or twelve. He was a Greenskin, a kind of an Indian, their skin was green and their hair was blue-black. ... He saw a pale fat boy around the age of ten or twelve; he passed through this too. ... It was Uyulala, and heard only the words of poems, so Atreyu had to think out rhymes. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Drana Bojaxhiu and the family were left with little money and no means of income. ... She also liked to sing and write poems about her faith. ... In November, she went to India to teach English in an Indian school. ... Joseph's Home, where a group of nuns called the Little Sisters of the Poor welcomed her gladly. ... She began by helping the Little Sisters of the Poor work with elderly people. ...

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This composition will look at protest songs, poems, and chants as a form of peaceful protest used by both black and white South Africans to fight against Apartheid and the effect it had on the collective citizenry of South Africa, European nations, and the United States. ... The colored category included major subgroups of Indians and Asians. ... Protest songs, praise poems, and liberation chants suddenly became a means of communicating their disgust with the current oppressive governmental policies. ...

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Among its domains were Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Indian subcontinent and Ceylon, Malaya, Hong Kong, Singapore, Burma, Jamaica, Trinidad, British Guiana, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Rhodesia, Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria. ...

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World Religions Religions have shaped the nations of our world very much, yet rarely do we ever take the time to learn about it. Religions have defined nations, given purpose to lives of people, and have started wars. This here report is a report on such religions, their beliefs, their founders, and their followers. JUDAISM Judaism was founded by the Hebrew nation of Israel. Abraham, as in the Bible character, is recognized as the Father of this religion. ...

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• Grade Level: High School