A Risk or a Benefit? As of 2000‚ there were about ninety million cell phone users in the United States‚ with 85% of them using their phones while on the road (Sundeen 1). Because of evidence that cell phones impair drivers by distracting them‚ some states have considered laws restricting their use in moving vehicles. Proponents of legislation correctly point out that using phones while driving can be dangerous. The extent of the danger‚ however‚ is a matter of debate‚ and the benefits may
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Studying Overseas is good for you Wade‚ Betsy. “Practical Traveler; Study Abroad. How. Where. (Travel Desk)” The New York Times 19 March 1995:3. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. Penfield High School. 23 March 2009 http://find.galgroup.com/ovrc/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC-Documents&type=retrieve&tadID=T004&prodid=OVRC&docid=A155489411&source=gale&srcprod=OVRC&UserGroupName=nysl_ro_phs&version=1.0 “Nursing Students will study Abroad” Post-Bulletin (Rochester MN) 28 February 2009: 2 Custom
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The film I have chosen is “The Namesake” by Jhumpra Lahiri. A traditional Bengali Indian family‚ the Ganguli’s‚ are moving to New England and are trying to stay engulfed in their unique cultural identity. Ashoke Ganguli brings his new wife‚ Ashima‚ to a strange new world‚ leaving her lonely and confused of a culture outside of her own. Ashima needs to learn to love a man she does not know‚ to customize herself to a country she is unfamiliar with‚ and to hold true to her values in a culture foreign
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Lahiri divulges various facets of Ashima’s character‚ and also shows her strengths and weaknesses‚ in her book‚ The Namesake. Lahiri is telling her readers that the role of Ashima in the Indian culture is to get married‚ but not boy choice‚ bear a child‚ and to take care of the child while her husband provides the funds. Lahiri is also trying to get the readers to understand that Ashima’s life in America is a whole different lifestyle than her life in he home country. Coming from India to America
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Robert E Bennett Jr. BIT 111-70 Professor Davenport 10/15/2012 Works Cited Steroids.com. (2012‚ 10 01). Retrieved 09 28‚ 2012 Aronson‚ A. (2012‚ 08 22). Boston.com. Retrieved 10 01‚ 2012 Assael‚ S. (2007). Steroid Nation: Juiced Home Run Totals‚ Anti-aging Miracles‚ and a Hercules in Every High School: The Secret History of America’s True Drug Addiction. New York City: ESPN Publishers. Bloom‚ B. M. (2007‚ 12 13). MLB.com. Retrieved 10 10‚ 2012 Bryant‚ H. (2005). Juicing the Game: Drugs‚
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Works Cited Research Guide to Biography & Criticism. 1990. Web. This edition reprints the original transcript of each poem by Allen Ginberg‚ also tells about his life and why he was the most famous living poet on earth. “Allen Ginsberg.” 2010. Gale. Web. 25 Sept. 2011 Shows all the works and awards he ever got and accomplished. “Allen Ginsberg.” Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. 6. 1 July 2010. Web. Talks about a long poem by Ginsberg and how its attacking American values in the 1950’s
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Chapter 7 A. General Understanding How does Ashima learn of her husband’s death? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Why does Gogol go to Cleveland? What does he do there? __________________________________________________________________________
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THE NAMESAKE REVIEW TRANSNATIONAL MIGRANTS AND THE HYBRID CULTURAL PHENOMENA PREFACE The namesake is a touching story narrating the life of an Indian couple that migrated to the United States during the last 25 years of the 20th century. I was inspired by the profound and warm touch of how the author deliberately telling story. The beautiful language and the thoughtful phrases the author used in weaving the efforts of the immigrants‚ the happiness they try to build in their new living environment
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Tommy Tran English 4 1/6/14 The Namesake Jump Lahiri used woman as a literary device‚ “foil”‚ in her novel The Namesake to help contrast with the protagonist‚ Nikhil “Gogol” Ganguli in order to shape his identity. There were quite a few women that came and went through Gogol’s life span in the novel but three essential women were his mother‚ a woman by the name Maxine‚ and his first wife‚ Moushumi. The literary device that is being used allows the women to either be completely different‚ or
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Cited: 1. Carpi‚ John. "A Pox on the Pox." Scientific American 273: 10 (1995): 32-32D. York: HarperPerennial‚ 1996. New York: W.K. Freeman and Company‚ 1996. Pennsylvania: Rodale Press Inc.‚ 1995 Publishers‚ Inc.‚ 1998.
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