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    Question 1 Indian Removal The Indian Removal Act was the forced relocation of Indian Tribes from their homelands to federal lands further West. The people of the South supported this Act because they wanted to gain the fertile Indian lands. A type of Indian resistance would be that they attempted to adopt “white” practices‚ like large farms and even owning slaves. Another type of Indian resistance would be going to war. The First Seminole War‚ for example‚ tried fighting against the Americans for

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    like chronicle of Narnia‚ the Lords of the Rings‚ that has given a whole new outlook to fiction. While talking about contemporary writers we cannot forget the name J.K Rowling a writer of harry potter‚ Enid Blyton whom children adores and Selman Rushdie whose Midnights children won booker prize. There are others like Isabel Allende who wrote house of spirits and created a writing style of magical realism. Jonathan franzen writer of the corrections that won the national book award 2001. Zadie Smith

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    conclusion as to whether there is a pattern in the empowering or disempowering aspects of the ocean or whether there is something else at work. The African community finds the ocean heavily disempowering‚ as it is what separates them from their homeland and families. In his first experience at sea Equiano notes his despair ‘I now saw myself as deprived of all chance of returning to my native country‚ or even the least glimpse of hope of gaining the shore.’[1] Equiano uses the words ‘deprived’[2]

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    occasion were Mr. Salman Khurshid ‚ Honourable Minister of State for Corporate Affairs and Minority Affairs . The Guest of Honour for the occasion was Mrs. D Purandeshwari‚ Honourable Mininster of State for human resource development. The celebrations began with the bhajan ‘O Palan Hare’ sung by Shivani Singh of S6A. And a group song ‘Purane Din Purane Pal’ sung by the S7 students of the School Choir. After this‚ it was time to officially begin the proceeding for the day. Mr. Salman Khurshid‚ along

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    Ugo Panzani During the last decade‚ many theorists and writers have remarked the peculiar fictionalisation of the facts of 9/11. For instance‚ as Salman Rushdie explains‚ “we all crossed a frontier that day‚ an invisible boundary between the imaginable and the unimaginable‚ and it turned out to be the unimaginable that was real” (Rushdie 2002: 436-437). Martin Amis pointed out that September 11 “marked the apotheosis of the postmodern era – the era of images and perception” (Amis 2001:

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    INDIA: TRUELY A DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY??? India is a democratic country. How do you feel when you say so?? Obviously proud‚ because it is said that India is the largest democratic country. But question is that whether this democracy is really intact for what India used be known of?? Not only I you or anybody‚ everybody believes that India is a democratic country. But it doesn’t sound realistic today‚ and it needs a discussion and a lot of cerebration. Whether democracy means merely a term or just

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    particular the making of social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace) have aided this change and according to research conducted by the Pew Research Centre has created the largest generation gap since the political clashes in the 1960’s (Salman‚ J. 2009). Some of society’s older‚ and therefore more traditional generation have said that today’s youth show a growing lack of respect and are far too concerned with their

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    savings‚ at the age of 15‚ migrated to Bombay. Under the supervision of his Grandfather he established his own shop in Hanuman Building‚ Tambakatha. Ahmed Dawood started his own shop and named it M/s Salman Ahmed after his younger brother and himself. 1941 Ahmed Dawood migrated back to his homeland Bantva. 1947 Mr. Ahmed Dawood migrated to Pakistan. Understanding the need for industrial development as the only means for the prosperity of this newly born state‚ he initiated a number of industrial

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    On Nov. 16 the city of Syracuse got an highly unusual taste of aristocracy when His Royal Highness Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud visited the Salt City to receive Syracuse University’s Chancellor’s Medal for Outstanding Achievement. Prince Sultan is the second son of Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud‚ head of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense and next in line to the throne. It took a little more than two years for Syracuse to get a blue blood sighting. The previous

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    novel are portrayed in a subtle and intriguing manner through the central characters. The theme of Diaspora in the world of literature describes loss of identity and isolation witnessed by the Indian writers who are settled abroad. Writers like Salman Rushdie [5] ‚ Vikram Seth [6] and Kiran Desai have given insight into what it means to travel between the West and the East. The novel is set in modern day India‚ and the story is narrated to depict the collapse of established order due to insurgency

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