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    conversation with her during the trip. Mr. Kapasi imagines a future correspondence with Mrs. Das‚ picturing them building a relationship to translate the transcontinental gap between them. However‚ Mrs. Das reveals a secret: she tells Mr. Kapasi the story of an affair she once had‚ and that her son Bobby had been born out of her adultery. She explains that she chose to tell Mr. Kapasi because of his profession; she hopes he can interpret her feelings and make her feel better as he does for his patients

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    Aparna of “Hell-Heaven” and the grandmother of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” are two completely different characters. Aparna is young and committed to her role as a mother and wife while the grandmother is older and strives only to fulfill her immediate desires Though they are characters very much unlike each other‚ they both fulfill their prospective author’s goal to inspire emotion in a reader. Both Aparna of “Hell-Heaven” and the grandmother of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” evoke strong emotions

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    Life and death in the film “Knockin` on the Heaven`s door” How often do we think about that we have in daily life? How often do we notice the beauty of the surrounding in daily life? How often do we remember the things that are valuable for us? And what if we had a few days to live‚ what would you do? Is it possible to make our dreams come true? The film "Knockin` on the heaven`s door" is about how two men with untreatable disease realize their dreams. The film was recommended me for many times

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    ‘Comparing Athens and Sparta is like comparing Heaven and Hell’ The two rivals of ancient Greece that made the most noise and gave us the most traditions were Athens and Sparta. They were close together on a map‚ yet far apart in what they valued and how they lived their lives. Athens and Sparta were different in many different ways and were very much like Heaven and Hell. One of the main ways they were similar was in their form of government. Both Athens

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    In the book When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip‚ Le Ly was just one of many peasants trying to survive during war time. Survival meant having to make some hard decisions; decisions that may make peasants go against their roots. However‚ as we see Le Ly do throughout the book‚ peasants do not completely abandon their family traditions. Le Ly was very close to her father and kept everything he taught her in mind while she made some difficult choices. "My father taught me to love

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    religious traditions‚ hell is a place of eternal torment in an afterlife‚ often after resurrection. It is viewed by most Abrahamic traditions as a place of punishment.[1] Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as eternal destinations. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations. Typically these traditions locate hell in another dimension or under the Earth’s surface and often include entrances to Hell from the land of the living

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    Aguiar‚ Arun. “Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri.” PIF 1Aug. 1999: n.pag. Web. 17Sept. 2011. Bala‚ Suman‚ ed. Jhumpa Lahiri: The Master Storyteller. New Delhi: Khosla Publishing House‚ 2002. Print. “Diaspora.” Oxford Dictionary Online. 2011. n.pag. Web. 17 Oct. 2011. Grossman‚ Lev. “Jhumpa Lahiri: The Quest Laureate.” Time Magazine 08 May 2011: n. pag. Web. 13 Aug. 2011. Kadam‚ Mansing G. “The Namesake: A Mosaic of Marginality‚ Alienation‚ and Nostalgia and Beyond.” Jhumpa Lahiri: Critical Prespective. Ed

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    Life with Other Races On pages 283-284 of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places‚ Le Ly meets a Korean proprietor‚ Lee‚ through Red‚ her boyfriend. Lee makes her spin around foolishly and asks her if she can dance. Le Ly is confused and says no because there is not any music playing. Red replies that Le Ly dances like a “firecracker”. She is still so confused until Lee explains the whole thing. Lee says that he would pay her a week’s worth of hospital wages if she works as a “go-go dancer” in

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    Heaven as I see it is not above the Earth. It is an ever expanding planet at the end of space. Even though it is a great distance from Earth‚ one just has to look skyward as if looking into a massive telescope and will see the far reaches of space. Gigantic planets and clouds of different colored gases and lights are as easily seen as the faces of your loved ones back on Earth. Every morning starts with a sunrise that is more intense and awe-inspiring as the one the day before. During the day there

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    Insight paper: “The Story of Earth” The Earth is said to be “the only home to life in the universe” but five billion years ago there was no signal of the planet that we can call it home. Instead there was only a new star and a cloud of dust in our solar system. Over billions of years‚ a series of violent changes led to the formation of our world and‚ eventually‚ the creation of life. As stated in the movie 4500 million years ago the earth looks like hell than home. Also‚ we can definitely see it

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