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    who had to submit to her husband whom she found repulsive‚ and with whom she had no emotional contact at all. She has won many prizes for her work . some of them being the P. E. N. Asian Poetry Prize‚ Kerala Sahitya Academy Award for fiction‚ Asian World Prize for literature‚ Kendra Sahitya Academy Award etc. She was short listed for the Nobel Prize along with Marguerite Yourcenar‚ Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer. On 31 May 2009‚ aged 75‚ she died at a hospital in Pune‚ but has earned considerable

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    Whiteness studies incorporate aspects such as the cultural‚ social and historical factors relative to the people identified as the white citizens in the United States. These studies exist around the idea that white privilege is in fact alive in our social world. Meaning the playing field isn’t level between different races and that white individual’s benefit from it. Whiteness Studies were popular in the mid-1990s. During that time there were numerus studies that surrounded whiteness. The authors of

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    Successful texts encourage us to think about our world in new ways Film: Witness Schaeffer interrogation Scene Eli and Rachel Scene Thesis The film witness encourages us to think about our world in new ways. Witness shows us an underlying theme of corruption and encourages us to think of our society as evil. Witness achieves this through a comparison between the Amish and English world. Schaeffer represents the evil of the English world‚ this is shown through the interrogation scene

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    person could explain. Mom was like him too. I was just plain old me always smiling like usual . That day it was‚ well‚ just about perfect. Mom and I were helping grandpa with his cleaning because he had a lot of work to do. So we wanted to show our appreciation by helping him with his very hard work.The hard work was making me sweat like I was in the desert. We decided to make moist banana bread and banana cupcakes with cream

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    Computers are all around us and can be considered a wonder of the world. Thanks to the computers‚ we drive computerized cars‚ receive letters sent by computers‚ astronauts can go to the space and return safely. The computer has significantly changed our world through advances in science and medicine‚ business and education. In fact the computer is a wonderful electronic brain that we have come to rely on. II. Today in this modern world‚ computers have made a mark able position in almost everyone’s

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    After reading Flannery O’Connor’s "A Good Man is Hard to Find" for the first time‚ I was left with one question that perplexed me‚ why did the Grandmother call the Misfit one of her own children? It’s a question that many believe they have the answer to‚ they research and analyze coming up with theories and ideas. Like many others I will now be putting my theory on the Grandmother’s final words‚ what they meant and why she said them. Opinions on her final word vary‚ with authors like Brandy saying

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    Speaking in “broken English” the grandmother is keen to narrate the events surrounding her daughter Natalie‚ her granddaughter‚ Sophie‚ and her son-in-law John who is also Irish. She does not agree with the American way of raising kids and wishes she could discipline Sophie the way a proper Chinese girl should be raised. The main focus is on how a woman’s granddaughter is growing up differently than how she raised her daughter‚ which brings conflict between the grandmother and her daughter‚ Sophie’s mother

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    The unnamed grandmother in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” considers herself morally superior to others by virtue of her being a “lady‚” and she freely and frequently passes judgment on others. She claims that her conscience is a guiding force in her life‚ such as when she tells Bailey that her conscience wouldn’t allow her to take the children in the same direction as the Misfit. She criticizes the children’s mother for not traveling to a place that would allow the children to “be broad‚” and she compares

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    Grandmother Flannery O’Connor brought to life and portrayed the grandmother as a very manipulative‚ selfish and talkative old lady in the story “A Good Man Is Hard to find.” Grandmother presented herself as a proper little lady who lived in the past and believed her way to be the best way. Throughout the family trip‚ that she wasn’t warmly welcomed to attend‚ the Grandmother ran her mouth consistently and frustrated her son Bailey as well as his wife and eldest children‚ John Wesley and June Star

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    SONALI KANSAL (M)+91-7503344266 sonali.kansal@gmail.com KM-74‚ Kavi Nagar‚Ghaziabad‚ UP-201002 • To learn and enhance the horizon of my knowledge in the field of web development and to gain the experience of working in IT industry and prepare myself for future • Comprehensive problem solving and analytical abilities • Confident‚ excellent communication skills‚ energetic‚ possess leadership qualities‚ open to learn new things

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