Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. ... Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. ... Hancock continues to stress how well Mistry has done in such a short time and proposes, "Is writing a gift you have?" ... I just don't re...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. ... Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. ... Hancock continues to stress how well Mistry has done in such a short time and proposes, "Is writing a gift you have?" ... I just don't re...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Especially in a city like Chicago; a city that suffers through extreme springs and falls full of heavy rain and strong wind gusts, and winters cluttered with frozen roads, inches of snow, and deadening temperatures. ... African-Americans were also at an increased risk, and when taking into account their relative populations, three blacks died for every two whites. ... Klinenberg uses a comparison of two adjacent West Side neighborhoods in an attempt to better explain these findings. ... Little Village is one of the most densely populated areas in the city, while North Lawndale is over 50 pe...

• Word Count: 2648
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An eighty-page mixture of short, fragmentary chapters, photographs, and illustrations of medieval architecture and manuscripts, the Postscript is partly a poetics designed to "help us understand how to solve the technical problem which is the production of a work." ... Their success seems to have surprised Eco, who puzzled for "two years" after the publication of his first novel, "trying to figure out why the book was being read by people who surely could not like such 'cultivated' books" (Eco, 1983). ... William's reflections on his incorrectly-arrived-at, yet correct solutio...

• Word Count: 4697
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After the Ice Age finished Ireland was mostly populated by settlers from Scotland, although there were probably those who came across when there was still a land bridge between the two countries. ... Two groups of them settled in the British Isles; The Brythoni who settled in Britain, and the Gaels who settled in parts of Scotland and all over Ireland. ... These two powers fought each other so fiercely for control that they tended to nullify each other. ... They founded Ireland's first city, Dublin at the mouth of the Liffey in 841, and they also demonstrated the urge to settle just as t...

• Word Count: 10019
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By being an author, publisher, and lover of books, Friedrich Schumann influenced his child's younger years; Robert spent much of his time reading books such as the Greek classics, the imaginary Romantic tales of Byron and Sir Walkter Scott, as well as other Romantic literature and poetry. ... A short time after, Schumann's mother gave her approval, letting her son live with the Wieck family at Leipzig. ... To spite Wieck, the two married on September 12th, 1840, one day before Clara's twenty- first birthday. Clara wrote in her diary: First came chorale, and after that a sh...

• Word Count: 4114
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By being an author, publisher, and lover of books, Friedrich Schumann influenced his child's younger years; Robert spent much of his time reading books such as the Greek classics, the imaginary Romantic tales of Byron and Sir Walkter Scott, as well as other Romantic literature and poetry. ... A short time after, Schumann's mother gave her approval, letting her son live with the Wieck family at Leipzig. ... To spite Wieck, the two married on September 12th, 1840, one day before Clara's twenty- first birthday. Clara wrote in her diary: First came chorale, and after that a sh...

• Word Count: 4114
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although they are caught between two different cultures and expectations, Vietnamese refugees and immigrants successfully adapted and integrated into America with their infinite perseverance and diligence. ... Based on a short-time study of Little Saigons, a Vietnamese ethnic enclave, and Paris by Night, a musical cultural variety show, this paper examines the social, cultural, and emotional significance of such culture preservation in the lives of immigrants. The paper focuses on two specific aspects: how these developments create or recreate a sense of identity and how has it helped the Viet...

• Word Count: 2794
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mao Zedong Mao Zedong rose from peasantry to become one of China's most historically significant political leader. While working in the Peking University library under Li Dazhao, Mao became a member of the CCP. His political ideology was formed in the 1930's when he rose to party leadership. Mao believed that China's Marxist revolution would be victorious for the peasant class. Mao's political platform included rousing the nation's masses to create a united front including the peasantry, the urban petty bourgeoisie, and national bourgeoisie. ...

• Word Count: 4353
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to the DSM-V (APA, 2013), diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia involves; Criteria A: Two (or more) of the following, each present for a significant portion of time during a 1 -month period (or less if successfully treated). 1. ... During these prodromal or residual periods, the signs of the disturbance may be demonstrated by only negative symptoms or by two or more symptoms listed in Criterion A present in a diminished form (e.g., odd beliefs, unusual perceptual experiences). ... The psychological evaluation of schizophrenia would be viewed from two different dimensions; socio-cultu...

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• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this way, some specialist think about the diverse dimensions of USA and China keeping in mind the end goal to make the distinction between these two cultures. ... The two nations that will be researched in this papers, USA and China, show enormous culture differences in the greater part of dimensions, aside from the manliness measurement, and the uncertainty avoidance measurement. The table above demonstrates the contrasts between the two nations in each dimension. ...

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Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. ... As its name implies, the middle class falls between the upper and working classes as an unstable site of mediation between the two. The instability of the middle class means that arriving at a definition is difficult, but a point of departure might be the consideration of the broad terms of work for the middle class, which requires a degree of intellectual engagement and is remunerated at a leve...

• Word Count: 7291
• Approx Pages: 29
• Grade Level: Undergraduate