historical and platonic standpoint he gives an accurate representation of how it works. Whereas in the novel Things Fall Apart‚ Chinua Achebe chronicles the life and times of an African family located in the lower Niger. The head of the family‚ which the story mostly follows‚ is highly respected by his fellow tribesman for his brute strength and warrior mentality. Achebe tells the story as if he is an all-knowing elder from the tribe‚ which makes it quite natural for the reader to become emotionally
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Current Affairs‚ General Knowledge Questions and Answers for preparing all Competitive Examinations. 1. Who is sworn in as the new Chief Justice of India? Answer: P. Sathasivam. 2. Who is sworn in as the new prime minister of Australia? Answer: Kevin Rudd 3. Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy received the United NationsPublic Service Award for? Answer: For his mass contact programme initiative. 4. Who is the new Railway Minister of India? Answer: Mallikarjun Kharge 5. Who is elected
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The main themes in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe are the language – which is a sign of cultural differences - and the conflict between the Ibo people’s culture‚ traditions‚ what they are used to and the changes that are taking place. Through language‚ Achebe illustrates that Africa is not as backward and uninteresting as many Colonial writers presented it. He shows us the originality and formality of the language of the Ibo. By the addition of translations of proverbs‚ stories and songs from
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tracing his development and changing preoccupations as a writer. His volume of poetry‚ on the other hand‚ spans a much shorter period and is unified by its focus on the civil war and the physical‚ social and psychological consequences of that war. Achebe wrote a collection of poems in which the first poem was named “1966”. It refers to the months preceding the outbreak of the civil war. “Benin Road” is another poem which takes up a related theme of the unexpected but inevitable convergence of fragile
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argument is backed up factually‚ the emotional side of the argument often shines through the pedantic fact based portion. It is the same case with An Image of Africa by Chinua Achebe‚ because the author was very familiar with the land and portrayal of Africa‚ and in turn‚ was deeply offended by Conrad’s writings. In fact‚ Achebe renounced Heart of Darkness as art altogether‚ due to the seemingly unfair portrayals of the natives and their homeland in the book as being savage. However‚ Achebe’s allegations
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Man’s Love Graham Green wrote the beautiful love story The End of the Affair. The content is about the four characters the novelist‚ Maurice Bendrix; the couple Henry and Sarah Miles; and the priest Richard Smythe. Maurice meets Sarah and they fall in love deeply. The more Maurice loves Sarah‚ the more he realizes that there is an indestructible obstacle‚ which prevents him possessing all Sarah’s love. Maurice’s love affair ends‚ he lives in hatred and torment because Sarah staying away from him
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3.0 Christine Keeler and the Profumo affair Christine Keeler was born in Uxbridge on 22nd February in year 1942. Her father deserted the family during the Second World War. Her mother‚ Julie Payne‚ later lived with Edward Huish and the couple set-up home in a converted railway carriage in Wraysbury. Christine later recalled: "The railway carriage was on wheels and I felt like a character from the American television series about the legendary Wild West train-driver Casey Jones." Keeler left the
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people from life time of imprisonment and prove a government guilty. It happened on the treason conviction which took place in 1894 of Alfred Dreyfus‚ a artillery officer in the French army with Jewish origin‚ or as the public knows it "The Dreyfus affair". Dreyfus was accused with passing military secrets to the German Embassy in France. In fact‚ he was innocent. The whole conviction was based on false‚ supposedly incriminating documents. Dreyfus was sentenced to a life time of imprisonment. Secrets
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Current Affairs Week: 16 Jan 2012 to 22 Jan 2012 International Current Affairs 2012. The Government of India and the World Bank on 20 January 2012 signed an IDA credit of 130 million US dollars to finance the project called NERLP (North East Rural Livelihoods Project) Tags: Union government of India‚ World bank‚ Current Affairs January 2012‚ North east region India announced a Substantial Increase in Educational Assistance to Sri Lanka Current Affairs Week: 16 Jan 2012 to 22 Jan 2012 International
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Monstrous Debt Pakistan’s chief problem is a monstrous debt. Without monetary resources with which to fight the numerous problems of the nation‚ Pakistan remains overpopulated and poor. | Sources of debt | Large military spending | Long‚ costly war with India | | | Trade imbalance | Imports exceed exports | | | Power/Fossil fuel issues | | | Debt controls budget | Loans total 25% of revenues | | Loan repayments equal 50% of expenditures | | | Social‚ economic‚ and
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