term for Mauritians of Asian descent‚ was coolie. The island soon became the key-point in the trade of indentured laborers‚ as thousands of Indians set forth from Calcutta or Karikal; not only did they modify the social‚ political and economic physiognomies of the island‚ but some also went farther‚ to the West Indies. The meeting of a mosaic of people from India‚ China‚ Africa and Europe began a process of hybridisation and interlectual frictions and dialogues‚ which poet Khal Torabully has termed
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Physical unattractiveness‚ deformity‚ and disfigurement have been associated with evil since antiquity. In the Iliad‚ Homer described the wicked Thersites as possessing thin hair over a "misshapen head‚" with one blinking eye and a lame leg. Physiognomy (the "science" of reading personality characteristics into facial features) traces its practice to Homer’s Greece. When Socrates was convicted for heresy and the corruption of youth in the fifth century B.C.‚ a physiognomist charged that his face
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of what they regarded as corrupt‚ sinful practices. | Sepulchers (n) | A small room or monument cut in rock or built of stone‚ in which a dead person is laid or buried. | Inauspicious (adj.) | Not auspicious; not conducive to success | Physiognomies (n) | A person’s facial features or expression‚ esp. when regarded as indicative of character or ethnic origin. | Augured (v) | To predict‚ especially from signs or omens; foretell. | Betoken
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INTRODUCTION In the name Allah‚ The Most Gracious and The Most Merciful‚ all praises to Him because finally we managed to complete this assignment successfully with the help and guidance of our lecturer‚ Madam Maznah binti Mazlan. Without the encouragement and support from our friends and classmates also‚ we may not be able to finish this assignment within the time given. We were given a task on the biography of Islamic scholars and we had chosen Imam Shafi’i because we were mesmerized
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the New World prior to 1492 through research on Africans’ immigration in the New World‚ either through tangible or non-tangible evidence. The first of the two is shown through visible witnesses; first-hand and archaeological encounters‚ Negroid physiognomy‚ radio-carbon dates‚ seacraft and oceanography‚ botany and the influence of African and Egyptian cultural history. The latter is demonstrated through the study of philology. Sertima said in his book‚ ‘They Came Before Columbus’‚ With respect to
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THE RECURRENCE Shawnee‚ Ohio. (A Native American nation formerly inhabiting parts of the Cumberland and central Ohio Valleys‚ with modern-day populations in Oklahoma. The Shawnee figured prominently in the resistance to white settlement of the Ohio Valley by the end of the 1700s and early as the 1800s. Shawnee‚ Ohio‚ tranquil and antique‚ one would not recognize that it as the twentieth century‚ the present. The aging‚ yet fit‚ Henry Gandy commenced his morning as usual with a lite breakfast
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Name: Renee Hughes Date: School: Facilitator: 5.02 The Scarlet Letter Chapters 1-8 Symbols Form Complete the Symbols Form below (20 points) Symbol Meaning Significance Prison The prison‚ a "black flower‚" contrasts with the beautiful rose bush‚ which grows naturally. The prison punishes‚ Nature and the rose bush forgive. Prisons are a "black flower" because though they are meant to punish sin (represented by the color
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(Page 165-170) In chapter seventeen of the novel‚ Brontё hones in on the social structure of Victorian times. This particular scene consists of a celebratory atmosphere where Jane‚ the lowly governess‚ is criticized and attacked both professionally and personally by Rochester’s aristocratic guests. While the haughty Lady Ingram and her equally haughty children‚ Blanche and Theodore‚ discuss the atrocious nature of governesses at large—namely that of their own over the years—Jane grows increasingly
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Throughout the passage‚ the Puritans are described in such a sense that characterizes them as a monotonous and ruthless society governed by laws and religion. As the Puritans are standing outside the prison‚ they all shared the same "bearded physiognomies." The narrator is being contemplative in saying this because it suggests the Puritans are a lifeless society. Not only do the Puritans seem insensible but the reader can infer they are also unimaginative when he states "in that early severity
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Salzburg‚ Austria Died: 1791 Personal Life: Family: Mozart’s father showed eagerness to show him off‚ and profit from his son’s great talent. Mozart had a loving father and mother‚ and he was introduced to music early on from them. Health and Physiognomy: Mozart was ill many times. Suffering from a variety of illnesses ranging from smallpox‚ to rheumatic fever which has been deemed what killed him. Personality: Mozart’s personality in the beginning of his life was very dependant. He relied on his
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