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. ... This complex tale of corruption during Indira Gandhi's years in office returns once more to the Bombay Parsi community. ... I just don&#x...

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• 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. ... This complex tale of corruption during Indira Gandhi's years in office returns once more to the Bombay Parsi community. ... I just don&#x...

• Word Count: 4673
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is the story of the Sinhala people working in peace and war under an unbroken monarchy during two millenniums and a half. ... Marvelous tales were narrated about this Island by these merchants when they returned home. the inhabitants of the Island are referred to in these tales as Yaksas and Raksas (daemons) who could assume any form at will, and live in splendid mansions, but were in the habit of luring human beings to prey on them. ... One may suspect that these tales were invented by the pioneers who desired to keep the valuable merchandise from this Island as a monopoly to themselves...

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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...

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The use of only browns, reds and oranges in this artwork emphasises the fact that there was no sign of hope and light during the war years in Sheffield besides the light provided by flames as a result of enemy bombs and missiles crashing down onto the city. ... A sense of movement is present within Painting 1977, with the use of swirled lines giving the effect of smoke and darkness drifting aimlessly throughout the disrupted city. ... As a child, Suzuki was introduced to the concept of pigs being 'cute' by adults through the fairy tale story "The Three Little Pigs". ... It...

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If the ravages of time and human influence had spared the outermost wall that once enclosed the temple proper, city, and royal palace, Angkor Wat would occupy an area of two hundred and three acres within its outer most fortifications. ... Built by the Khmer king Suryavarman the second, the Angkor complex was meant to function as the empirical capital city and state temple during its early history. ... These two deviations in architectural design, coupled with the known fact that many Hindu rituals are performed in reverse during funeral services have lead the conclusion that King Suryavarman ...

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Both texts make reference to the Lamb(s) of God, to a messianic figure who will herald the end of days, to the beasts (dragons and leviathons) who will raze the earth of sinners, and both texts describe a very similar process by which this earth will be destroyed, and replaced by the eternal "holy city.... In a close reading of the two texts it is clear that Revelation and Enoch draw from a shared pool of apocalyptic symbols and numerological concepts. However, a careful analysis of the thematic and theological differences between the two texts provides evidence that Enoch is not, in fa...

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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). ...

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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...

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Best-selling books like Freedom at Midnight re-create the struggle of two great cultures, mighty opposites with a twinned destiny, as they set about trying to disentangle themselves and their feelings before the Partition of 1947. ... Before long, the posts became cities (Calcutta, Bombay, Madras) and their soldier garrisons, small private armies. ... A generation later, after some skirmishes, the company gained permission to set up shop in a stinking mudflat in Bengal; it quickly developed into Fort William (Calcutta, now a city of ten million, grew up around it). ... "Two monsoons are the...

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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. ... The paper focuses on two specific aspects: how these developments create or recreate a sense of identity and how has it helped the Vietnamese immigrants integrate into American society. ... Preserving the culture not only consolidates their ethnic identity, but also integrates the Vietnamese Diaspora into the U.S popular culture, bridging the two cultures and nations. ... Little Saigon...

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The story contrasts the lives and ideologies of two sisters, Marlene and Joyce, and the resultant conflicts between them. ... This is evident in Top Girls, where Marlene has thrown a dinner party to celebrate her promotion and has invited Isabella Bird (1831-1904), Lady Nijo (b.1258), Dull Gret (1562), Pope Joan (854-856) and Griselda (Canterbury Tales). ... In addition, when it is discovered that she is a woman, she and her new-born child are dragged out of the city and stoned. ... These two instances notwithstanding, if feminist theatre is not just about political change, then this play can ...

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"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to t...

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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. ...

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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. ... To spite Wieck, the two married on September 12th, 1840, one day before Clara's twenty- first birthday. ...

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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. ... To spite Wieck, the two married on September 12th, 1840, one day before Clara's twenty- first birthday. ...

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If you were to contrast between these words and his warning to the Governor of Harfleur it is striking; telling a city ruler that he must surrender or "look to see... / Your naked infants spitted upon pikes" (III.iv.33- 38) hardly projects the image of a "gentler gamester." ... He is one who took the throne unrightfully, but kept the throne safe and had no threats to his reign, the only King in Shakespeare's tales. ...

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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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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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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...

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