Lahiri’s stories make us aware of the loneliness people experience as they go about their ordinary lives. Discuss. In her collection of short stories‚ Interpreter of Maladies‚ Lahiri depicts the lives of a range of different characters‚ and the loneliness they experience‚ whether it’s due to deportation or broken down relationships. In “A real Durwan”‚ Boori Ma was taken away from her family‚ and her lies separate her from the community. In “Sexy” Miranda feels lonely‚ and turns to Dev for false
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I met his parents. His father was dressed in shorts; his blue veins appeared like lumpy knitting knots running up his shins. His poor little tiny feet looked like they were about to explode trying to carry the load. Ashok’s mother was dressed in a sari and rarely made eye contact; she was not warm and spent the entire time fussing over Ashok. Of course Ashok said I was imagining things but the other American women here told me it is because I am a Christian and not Hindu. I can’t see why Hinduism
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Discuss 3 ways in which creolization has impacted the development of Caribbean art forms. Creolization is the coming together of new-comers and cultural strangers in a subordinate society. Creolization has highly influenced the development of Caribbean Art form in quite a few ways; Caribbean literature‚ fashion and music‚ all due to the colonial experience. Creolisation has played a major role in the evolution of music into several subgenres and fusions. Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that
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become a teacher in a Lorretto school. She devoted 17 years of her life to it. In 1946 she left the school to serve the ’poorest of the poor’ of Kolkata. She discarded the black and white dress of the Lorretto nuns and wore a coarse‚ blue-bordered sari. Sister Teresa became an Indian Citizen in the year 1948 and came to be known as Mother Teresa. She had boundless faith and courage in her heart. She set up her organisation‚ the Missionaries of charity. It began formally in October‚ 1950. In the
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The funeral was the prettiest thing. There was so many flowers and the bright colours. I recognized her clothing from the day she pulled all her saris out of her drawers. The smell of the candles burning took me to the India she had always talked about. It was loud‚ as she had always said it was‚ through the night. Then‚ somehow‚ I could recognize some of the people that she told me about in her
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The speaker event that I went to was a Women on Wednesday event‚ about black girl magic. There were three speakers there and a mediator as well. The speakers were all St. Cloud State University students‚ Luna Gabriel‚ Sari Sims‚ and Breanna Carey. This speaker event was similar to an interview‚ the mediator asked a question‚ and each speaker gave her own response‚ and at the end there were time for questions from the audience. The speakers discussed what black girl magic is‚ what it means to them
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On the other hand‚ Horizontal racism occurs when people from targeted racial groups help the dominant system of racial discrimination and oppression. It can happen between members of the same racial group (an Asian person telling another wearing a sari to ‘dress like an American’; a Latina telling another Latina to stop speaking Spanish) or between members of different‚ targeted racial groups (Latinos believing stereotypes about Native
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Prepared by Dr. Ami U. Upadhyay Engineering Branch UNIT -1 Communication Skills Prepared by Dr. Ami Upadhyay Page 1 UNIT -1 Communication Skills INTRODUCTION Communication is one of the most indispensable aspects of human existence. It is natural to all living creatures‚ including non-human beings too. Everyone spends a major part of the day in communicating with others. A person speaks or listens‚ reads or writes thus keeps him/her self busy in communication. When a child is born‚ his or
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Amandla Stenberg‚ one of TIME’s most influential teen said “Appropriation occurs when a style leads to racist generalizations or stereotypes where it originated‚ but is deemed as high fashion‚ cool‚ or funny when the privilege take it for themselves”. Some people may confuse it with culture appreciation and say appropriating another culture is not a social issue‚ but it is a social issue. Culture appropriation is an issue because it strips culture of their identity‚ some celebrities have been appropriating
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Drawing on what you have learned from the Making Social Lives DVD and Learning Companion 1‚ describe some inequalities on City Road. ‘Inequality’ refers to the unequal distribution of valued social resources within a society or between societies (Blakeley et al‚ 2009‚ Page. 24). Throughout this essay I will be drawing from what I have learned from the study materials to describe some of the inequalities on City Road in Cardiff. I will be looking at the younger community compared with the elderly
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