He also has a brother‚ a writer and great mathematician AK Srinivasan. Education[edit source | editbeta] He was educated at Marimallappa ’s High School and Maharaja College of Mysore. In college‚ Ramanujan majored in science in his first year‚ but his father‚ who thought him ’not mathematically minded ’‚ literally took him by the hand to the Registrar ’s office and changed his major from science to English. He was a Fellow of Deccan College‚ Pune in 1958 - 59 and Fulbright Scholar atIndiana University in
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do sins and virtues differ in Steinbeck’s views‚ society’s views‚ and my personal views. Steinbeck sees sins and virtues as similar‚ while the general society views sins as the defiance of God‚ with virtues being the correct way to appease good. In my opinion‚ virtues and sins have become too convoluted that it is difficult to differentiate between the two. The author of The Grapes of Wrath‚ John Steinbeck has clearly identified sin and virtues through his eyes. Jim Casey‚ one of the stories side
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kind of role women would play in the world. Until 1960’s‚ women were treated as a secondary citizen‚ and there were objectified‚ slave of their husband‚ and male gender in general. Even though women are working in high powers and have made their ways in politics however America is the only democratic country that has not elected women as of president. Judy Bready is one of the actives of famines movement in 60’s‚ in her literary of “I want a wife” which it was published at M Magazine in 1971. It is
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Colin Roy English 2401-001 Close Reading Assignment #1 2.10.2013 The poem “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue‚” by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ is a very unique and interesting piece of dramatic poetry. It is certainly considered dramatic poetry due to its lack of focus on God‚ nature‚ and the universe‚ which would classify it as epic poetry‚ and its lack of musical or emotional connection to the reader‚ which would classify it as lyric poetry. Instead‚ it is a narrative piece with both rhythm and imagery
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What does it mean to be a victim of loneliness? Merriam-Webster defines it as “being without company; cut off from others”. In the novel Of Mice and Men we see one character experiencing true loneliness‚ Curley’s wife. Set in the 1930’s‚ during the Great Depression‚ on a ranch in California‚ Of Mice and Men follows the journey of two men. When these two men‚ George and Lennie‚ come to work on the ranch‚ it sends the whole ranch in a new direction. Curley’s wife just hopes that she can find a companion
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The themes of the Drover’s Wife The short story‚ the drover’s wife portrays a strong and independent female in the bush. Her husband is out with sheep‚ leaving her alone with her four young children. She has to face many changes and difficulties in life all by herself. The story is told from the perspective of the woman and is mainly about the process of beating a snake and her recall of the hard past. Though the story is very short‚ it covers several themes. They are respectively equality‚ responsibility
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Analysis of The Astronomer’s Wife In the "Astronomer’s Wife" by Kay Boyle‚ something as simple as a conversation with a plumber about a stopped elbow is enough to trigger an awakening in Mrs. Katherine Ames. When Mrs. Ames realized that the plumber was talking about something she understood (the stopped elbow)‚ she realized that her marital problems were not the result of a division betwwen the sexes; instead‚ she realized that some men‚ like the plumber‚ are as practical as she is‚ and that
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approaches of John Steinbeck and Kay Boyle to the similar thematic. They both deal with marital relationships and it was quite interesting to view lives of ordinary married couples through both "male" and "female eyes". While Steinbeck opens his story describing the Salinas Valley in December metaphorically referring to the Elisa’s character‚ Boyle jumps directly to Mrs. Ames’s inner world. Although both writers give us pretty clear
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Isolation of the characters in ‘Of Mice and Men’ Curley’s wife is the only female on the ranch and is described in a very feminine and incongruous manner‚ “full‚ rouged lips and wide spaced eyes‚ heavily made-up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters‚ like sausages. She wore a cotton house dress and red mules‚ on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers”. The bold‚ heavily made-up appearance matches her personality as she disguises her true
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People are lonely in the book Of Mice and Men. Curley’s wife is lonely‚ Crooks is lonely‚ Candy is lonely without his pup‚ and Lennie is lonely in his own special way. Many characters have a lonely trait in the book‚ Crooks isn’t aloud to hang around with the ranch hands because he is a different color than the other people that work on the ranch. Curley is always leaving his wife to sit in the house by herself so Curley’s wife gets really lonely. When Carlson shot Candy’s dog that really broke his
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