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    Shooting an Elephant

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    ’s justification for their actions in taking over Burma. Nowadays imperialism‚ transformed to capitalism and a lot of the characteristics are the same. Firstly‚ if we take a look to George Orwell ’s life he was born in 1903 in Bengal‚ in the British Colony of India‚ where his dad was working. His mother though was the one that brought him to England at the age of one. While he was in primary school‚ and other greater levels his teachers made clear that he was disliked by some

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    Bengali New Year

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    Bengali New Year is the first day of the Bengali calendar‚ celebrated in both Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal‚ and also in Bengali communities in the other Indian states. It is celebrated on 14th April in Bangladesh and on 15th April in West Bengal. The traditional greeting for Bengali New Year is "Shubho Noboborsho". There is a noticeable difference in the nature and essence between the Bengali New Year and English New Year. While the English New Year’s day is also comprehensively

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    wheat that was being sold to other countries went towards Stalin’s Five Year Plan to modernize the Soviet Union and to help finance his military. It was estimated that Stalin sold enough wheat to feed all of Ukraine for two years (“Stalin’s Forced Famine”). They had so much excess grain that they would even dump some into the sea or let it rot right in front of the Ukrainian people’s eyes (Perloff). The Soviet Union then closed off all borders so that nobody in Ukraine could get anything in or out

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    The Ganga Project

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    who will assure you that some chemical property in this holy water does not allow germs to survive. And it is a fact that although all the great cholera epidemics of India‚ which have sometimes spread to Europe and North America‚ have started i n Bengal and been borne up

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    The Ukrainian Famine Genocide Background In 1922‚ Ukraine assisted in founding the USSR and joined it as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkSSR). At the time‚ the leaders of the USSR became aware that the people of Ukraine greatly resented their new regime. To indirectly pacify this resentment‚ the leasers in Moscow permitted a great amount of local autonomy in the UkSSR. This was to prevent uprising and instability in their newly founded Soviet Republic. The genocide When Joseph Stalin

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    ‘St. Thomas Christians’ there are a living proof of it. Yet‚ many a Muslim and Hindu in India‚ Pakistan‚ and Bangladesh wrongly consider Christianity a recent phenomenon and a foreign one at that. The Advent of the Portuguese and Christianity in Bengal: Renowned Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope of South Africa in 1498 and landed at Calicut (present Kozikode of India) by discovering the sea-route to India. From 1500 onwards‚ the Portuguese established their power

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    Independence Day (India)

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    India‚[2][3] decided to end British rule of India‚ and in early 1947 Britain announced its intention of transferring power no later than June 1948. As independence approached‚ the violence between Hindus and Muslims in the provinces of Punjab and Bengal continued unabated. With the British army unprepared for the potential for increased violence‚ the new viceroy‚ Louis Mountbatten‚ advanced the date for the transfer of power‚ allowing less than seven months for a mutually agreed plan for independence

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    2013‚ marks the 81st anniversary of the most devastating event in Ukrainian history—the Holodomor‚ or the government induced famine of 1932-1933. Historian Robert Conquest uses Soviet census data to arrive at a death toll of around 5 million people throughout Ukraine and another 6.5 million deaths during dekulakisation—the elimination of landowners‚ prior to the Great Famine (Reid 116). These numbers add up to twice the number of deaths recorded during the Holocaust with a lingering possibility of

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    Branding Bangladesh

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    Assignment On Branding Bangladesh Course Code: MKT 202 Course title: Introduction to Marketing Submitted To: Omar Nasif Abdullah BBA Program‚ North South University‚ Dhaka Submitted by Abrar Khan ID: 1330663630 Section: 7 Date: 06/04/2014 BANGLADESH A LAND OF NATURE Introduction: Bangladesh is a country of natural beauty. She is blessed with endowment of almighty. A paper by Majbritt (2010) argues that the six

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    images and mottos‚ along these lines stimulating Muslim suspicions in regards to the common character of the Congress. Occasions like the Urdu-Hindi discussion (1867)‚ the parcel of Bengal (1905)‚ and Hindu revivalism‚ set the two countries‚ the Hindus and the Muslims‚ assist separated. Re-revocation of the allotment of Bengal in 1911 by the British government brought the Congress and the Muslim League on one stage. Beginning with the sacred participation in the Lucknow Pact (1916)‚ they dispatched the

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