“And I must ask the forgiveness of your mother and of all my people. Never again will I demand that the old people of our village be sent to the mountains to die. Rather‚ they will be treated with the respect and honor they deserve and share with us the wisdom of their years.” The folktale “ The Wise Old Woman” was Written By Yoshiko Uchinda Is a story that takes place in medieval Japan. The story starts when a young ruler makes a decree that all people over the age of 71 must be sent to the mountains
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(January 2000: Mitra O Ghosh) Arun Mitra pointed out that there should be a clear line of demarcation between creative literature and literray criticism. For him‚ critical literature can never be considered as creative‚ nor it should ever have any impact on the mutual bond between the reader and the writer of creativer literature. Criticism should be enjoyed as a separate genre. How much misunderstood has Arun Mitra’s poetry been! How a totally wrong suggestion about Arun Mitra’s poetry has incited
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Linguistic Perspectives and Existential Anxiety in Arun Kolatkar’s Poems This paper focuses on the linguistic perspective and existential anxiety in Arun Kolatkar’s poems. Arun Kolatkar is not a familiar name for many of us‚ in fact until he was included in the undergraduate syllabus of English Honours by West Bengal State University two years ago he was not known to us. Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar (1932 –2004) was a poet from Maharashtra‚ wrote in both Marathi and English. Radically experimental
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The Wife of Bath’s Relation to the Old Woman The character of the Wife of Bath in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales takes a special interest because of her powerful character and points of view at a time when women were meant to be passive and undermined. When reading the Wife of Bath’s prologue and tale‚ several similarities as well as modifications can be found between the Wife of Bath’s character and the character of the old woman in the tale. Some apparent similarities are how both are depicted
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In The Wise Old Woman by Yoshiko Uchida there is a cruel young lord that made a rule that when you turn 71 you are to be sent to the mountains to die. The farmers mother just turned 71. The farmer refuses to leave her up there and brings here back down. Then Lord Higa comes to the village. He gives three riddles for the people to solve and the only one that can is the farmers mother. She solves the riddles saving the village. Throughout the story the boy and the mother make sacrifices for one another
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Work from home new mantra for IBM employees The last time Kumar‚ a sales executive working with IBM India‚ visited his company’s registered office in Bangalore was some six months ago to get his broken attendance card replaced. Kumar‚ 35‚ is among nearly 50‚000 IBM India employees who are working from anywhere‚ but the office. "I do not have to show my face to my boss anymore‚ well at least for a few weeks or months at a stretch‚" says Kumar‚ who requested that his first name not be revealed. "I
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Case Studies Read the case studies below and answer the questions that follow in two short essays that will be submitted as one deliverable. Case Study #1 Ms. A. is an apparently healthy 26-year-old white woman. Since the beginning of the current golf season‚ Ms. A has noted increased shortness of breath and low levels of energy and enthusiasm. These symptoms seem worse during her menses. Today‚ while playing in a golf tournament at a high‚ mountainous course‚ she became light-headed and was
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UNIVERSITY Broad Field of Research : Fiction (Indian English Literature) Title : The Theme of Alienation in the Novels of Arun Joshi. Name of the Supervisor: Dr. R. Gandhi Subramanian. M.A.‚ M. Phil.‚ Ph.D.‚ THE THEME OF ALIENATION IN THE NOVELS OF ARUN JOSHI INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION Literature has said something always fascinating. It is to man’s advantage that he has always managed to derive a message from
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In the story "The Wise Old Woman" is a Japanese folk tale‚by Yoshiko Uchida ‚ is about how a young leader does not approve on the elderly being in his village and later on realizes his mistake. This folk tale basically tells‚ just because one can not do something doesn’t mean they can not guide us with their wisdom. This shows how the elderly can give good ideas and confidence‚without being able to work and have a living. You can tell how the characters feel about their cruel leader and his rules
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Dutch painter Rembrandt. He often used the themes that Rembrandt painted for his own works. This piece‚ the Old Woman Reading a Bible (c.1630) is very similar to Rembrandt’s own Old Woman Reading (1631). Dou was very similar to Rembrandt in style‚ he seems to be more detailed and meticulous in his execution. His scenes of domestic‚ bourgeois life were tremendously popular. The woman is in this painting seems to be sitting in near-darkness. She is reading a story from her Bible about the entry
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