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    EXISTENTIALIST FOCUS ON PROTAGONIST SITA - ANITA DESAI’S -WHERE SHALL WE GO THIS SUMMER ? The protagonist herself has an existential entity. Desai‚ has presented an intense identity crisis of the central character Sita‚ a sensitive woman in her late forties.Existentialism’ is a difficult term to define and an odd movement as many feel‚ but it not totally impossible to define. ‘Existentialists’‚ tend to take freedom of the will‚ the human power to do or not do‚ as absolutely obvious. Only now

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    Post Colonial Impact on Urdu Language Lovers in Anita Desai’s In Custody Dr.A.CHANDRA BOSE‚ PhD.‚ Assistant Professor of English The Madura College (Autonomous) Madurai‚ Tamilnadu -625 011 boseac@gmail.com Introduction Anita Desai is an important women novelist in the firmament of Indian fiction in English. She unfolds lot of complex things for example‚ struggles of innocents‚ problems of human relationship and decay of Urdu language

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    the authorities‚ moving from one ill-paid job to another. What binds these seemingly disparate characters is a shared historical legacy and a common experience of impotence and humiliation. "Certain moves made long ago had produced all of them‚" Desai writes‚ referring to centuries of subjection by the economic and cultural power of the West. But the beginnings of an apparently leveled field in a late-20th-century global economy serve merely to scratch those wounds rather than heal them. Almost

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    I’m currently on an intermittent fasting diet. It’s when you would eat at a certain time and stop eating at a certain time. Before I ate at 9 a.m. but I pushed it back to 12 and I would stop eating at 7 p.m. So‚ I’m basically fasting for 17 hours. My co-worker at worker is on a gluten free diet. He would only eat gluten free meats‚ fish‚ and seafood. He would clean the grill off at work before he would make his food. My girlfriend is on a paleo diet. My experience evaluating her‚ I would say that

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    nation. For example‚ Anita Hill put her integrity on the block for sexual harassment by Judge Clarence Thomas. She may have lost the battle to Judge Thomas and his appointment as a Supreme Court Justice‚ but she won the war when it came to helping thousands upon thousands of women of every denomination in America to stand up to sexual harassment in the work place. African American women continue to gain leadership skills and positions to become educators‚ principals‚ politicians‚ professors‚ business

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    was quickly gaining ground as women began to be granted job positions which had been predominantly male roles‚ and were no longer confined to a life of dreary domesticity‚ this is reflected in the way Anita is living‚ and her general thoughts on the idea of living as a mother and house wife. Anita is a well-educated‚ self-supportive woman who rejects the male ideals of being a dainty‚ do-nothing

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    ------------------------------------------------- Body Shop ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Anita Lucia Roddick‚ née Perilla‚ was born in Littlehampton‚ England in 1942‚ one of four children of Italian immigrants. Her parents settled in Littlehampton to run the Clifton Cafe. Her father died when she was ten and the children then helped to run the cafe. From school she went to Bath College of Education where she took a Teacher

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    Kiran Desai is the daughter of Indian author‚ herself short-listed for Booker Prize on three occations. Her first novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard which was published in 1998 and won the Betty Trask Award was given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age thirty five. Her second novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006) was widely praised by many critics around the world such as‚ Asia‚ Europe and United States. And also she was awarded

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    olive-colored eyes are large and her look is nobel and calm. As she steps in a half moon‚ in her right arm‚ she holds a small child‚ and on her and the child’s head‚ rests a golden crown and steps on a half moon. This is the image of Our Lady of Santa Anita‚ from a town in Jalisco‚ Mexico named after her; she is best known to look out for the sick and for miracles. It is common for people in the town to devote hope on the image to help with their sickness. For this reason‚ there are annual parades where

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    Frequently Asked Questions 1. Eat every 3 Hours or Intermittent Fasting. Which one is right? A. This has caused much debate within the nutrition world. Some say you should eat small meals every 3 hours [6 a day]. Others say restrict your calories to a small window of e.g.. 12-8pm [intermittent fasting]. Well let’s examine this a bit further. B. Eat Every 3 Hours?? The idea behind this is that regular eating reduces your insulin spikes and keeps your body active throughout the day. Since

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