SUMMARY When moving into a new house‚ newlyweds Twinkle and Sanjeev find Christian icons everywhere. The first is a porcelain effigy of Jesus found next to a bottle of malt vinegar left in the kitchen by the previous owners. Sanjeev tells his wife to throw both away‚ reminding her that they are not Christian. He feels that he has had to remind Twinkle of the obvious several times when moving in. But Twinkle is attached to the figurine and places it on the mantle – which Sanjeev notices needs dusting
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In "This Blessed House‚" it is slightly different. Sanjeev and Twinkle is a married Indian couple. Can you tell already which one in the couple is somewhat assimilated into the American culture? They had bought their first home together as a newlywed couple. As time goes on into the story‚ Sanjveev realizes that Twinkle is not in touch with her Indian heritage as much as he wants her to be. This is all brought on by Christian statues and replicas found in the new home (American Short Stories
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A House is not a Home Religion is a state of who you are. It signifies a person ’s mental activities as well as their physical attributions to the world that surrounds them. Religion is a form of state that distinguish between different types of groups and cultures. While in a specific religious group‚ one must abide by all the rules and commit to what the religion has to offer. It is known that when a person disobeys their religious they get looked at as an outsider‚ or just as a person from another
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The Misconception of the Earring In the article‚ “Sex and the body‚” by Nelly Oudshoorn‚ gender is defined as the assignment of masculine and feminine qualities to bodies in cultural contexts. In relation gender is a set of characteristics distinguishing between male and female‚ particularly in the cases of men and women. Depending on the writing‚ the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social to gender identity politics. But in most contexts‚ even in some areas of social sciences
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No other group experiences this more than Indian immigrants. Jhumpa Lahiri writes about this inability to communicate emotions in her collection of short stories‚ The Interpreter of Maladies. Lahiri presents Indian immigrants as poor emotional communicators though the characters of Ms. Sen in Ms. Sen‚ and Sanjeev in This Blessed House. She does this to establish the psychological toll forced relationships and assimilation takes on these characters. Ms. Sen cannot communicate with
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Military 5 CHAPTER 3-CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 6 3.1 Conclusion 6 3.2 Recommendation 7 REFERENCE 8 1. Introduction Today Maldives is experiencing the most serious economic crisis of all time and nation’s sovereignty is been challenged in various ways. The biggest challenges to Maldives sovereignty are unemployment‚ dependency on foreign aids including military‚ financial and bailouts or loans. Deficit level has endangered the sovereignty of the nation
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In the book of short stories‚ Interpreter of Maladies‚ by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ there are many flawed couples and relationships. Some of these are flaws that are incredibly annoying such as in "This Blessed House" where Twinkle is obsessed with religious symbols and statues‚ or flaws that are hard to overcome such as Mrs. Das in "Interpreter of Maladies" who experiences extreme guilt that she constantly works at pushing away. With the help of Freudian theory one can analyze the flaws in these people and
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Tax in Maldives Over the few years Maldives economy has grown very much. Various opportunities have been open to investors and small scale business‚ in Maldives and the income that the government get also has increase in the past years. The tax has also effects many house holds and business. With the changes of laws and regulations there are many new taxes and royalties that are taken in from the public and the business organization. In this essay I am going to highlight the effects of the
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the Maldives The Maldives are a collection of nearly 1‚200 islands in the Indian Ocean; The country is located about 435 miles south-west of Sri Lanka. They are very low-lying. In 2007‚ the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that a rise in sea levels of seven to 24 inches by 2100 would be enough to make the Maldives virtually uninhabitable. So the Maldives are very vulnerable to climate change. Climate change and rising sea levels are of great concern to the Maldives‚ which
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