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    Hedge Funds & Vulture Funds - Their existence and their impact on the Indian Economy The funds have given a plenty of opportunity for people to diversify their portfolios but they are very mysterious. Let us have a look in the context of Indian economy what effects does this mysterious funds have on the country. Submitted By: Pralabh Bhargava (07BS2905) Rishikant (07BS3437)   ICFAI BUSINESS SCHOOL HYDERABAD BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE It is Certified that this project report

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    the events that lead up to the death of Ezeudu’s son creates an unbiased and unemotional recounting of the events that pushes the reader to determine for himself what he believes is the emotional effect of the events. Sometime during the incident Achebe tells the reader‚ “All was silent‚” (123) a statement clearly lacking any reference to the time in which it took place. What causes a silence is imperative in determining the emotion in the silence‚ but without this the reader is pushed to consider

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    Achebe communicates his personal beliefs on the way Western civilization studies the culture of those thought to be more primitive than their own when he closes his novel with the District Commissioner’s thoughts and book title: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger. Despite giving the book’s title “much thought‚” the District Commissioner ends up highlighting the insensitivity and ignorance commonly used by the District Commissioner as well as by the Western civilizations when

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    the utmost conviction. His intensity is startling for all who witness it‚ and he even goes so far as to defy the gods because of his conviction‚ "...Okonkwo was not the man to stop beating somebody half-way through‚ not even for fear of a goddess" (Achebe 73). In this quote it is stated that he would not go back on his decision even for fear of a goddess. Okonkwo’s actions shows the utmost conviction. Does that make him the worst? I don’t think so‚ because he is a valuable warrior on the battlefield

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    In the novel “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe has a prominent theme of choices and consequences. Throughout the novel‚ characters make choices that have consequence. The consequences could be the littlest thing or could change their entire life. Lawson Purdy once said “Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by their own failures and their own successes.” Unoka‚ from the novel “Things Fall Apart”‚ was kind and loving. He loved to play music

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    ever questioned things like this? If you have then you are a peculiar character and kudos to you! If you haven’t then you have a similarity with the Igbo culture. In Things Fall Apart‚ Chinua Achebe shows that if you keep on doing what you’ve always done you will keep on getting what you have always gotten. Achebe shows this through family‚ religion‚ and government. You can’t rule or be essential personnel in the tribe when you don’t have strong family ties and don’t have your house in order. How

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    Compare how ‘Vultures’ and ‘Night of the Scorpion’ explore people and human nature Both these poems explore various factors relating to the behaviour of people and human nature. Each poem makes numerous points such as the fact that there is good in all evil‚ the importance of belief and faith‚ as well as how people react in a crisis. Vultures uses a creature seen as a “dump of gross feathers” as a metaphor for humans‚ exploring how there is good hidden beneath all evil. The vulture is often seen

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    In the novel‚ "All Things Fall Apart" Achebe used siginifcant sayings in chapters 1-3 that were called proverbs. The proverb that stood out most to me is located in chapter 3. The wise saying was used while Okonkwo was asking Nwakibie for help with yams. He contines with saying that he knew how it is to trust young men these days with yams especially when they are afraid of work. Then he says that he is not afraid and brings the proverb in to make a point; "The lizard that jumped from high iroko

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    How does Achebe depict Ibo culture in ‘Things Fall Apart’? Chinua Achebe’s‚ Things Fall Apart‚ is a story of a traditional village in Nigeria from inside Umuofia around the late 1800s. This novel depicts late African history and shows how the British administrative structure‚ in the form of the European Anglican Church‚ imposed its religion and trappings on the cultures of Africa‚ which they believed was uncivilized. This missionary zeal subjugated large native populations. Consequently‚ the native

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    Professor‚ Thomas C. Foster reveals the implications that violence in literature poses about a character. Through a slave women’s suicide‚ Foster reveals that in some situations‚ "the only power they have‚ is that they may choose to die" (101). In Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart‚ Okonkwo’s suicide‚ an act of self-directed violence‚ was his way of escaping from the control of the white missionaries and preventing himself from facing the fall of Umuofia. Okonkwo is an aggressive man who despises

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