In Amitav Ghosh’s‚ "In an Antique Land"‚ the author compares his life with that of a slave named Bomma. He reveals that both men live in antique lands‚ foreign to their culture and surrounded by very different people. Ghosh also relates the book to Percy Bysshe Shelly’s poem Ozymandias‚ a piece on mankind’s hubris and the insignificance of the individual. Ghosh effectively juxtaposes Bomma’s life with his own as he tries to find himself and unlock the slaves past through the ancient papers of the
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IN AN ANTIQUE LAND BY AMITAV GHOSH In An Antique Land is a very capturing and an educative chronicle of a traveler‚ Amitav Ghosh‚ who perfectly weaves Indian and Egyptian history into one single story spread across various time periods. As the contents of the book suggests‚ the novel is divided into six parts namely‚ the Prologue‚ Lataifa‚ Nashawy‚ Mangalore‚ Going Back and Epilogue. The story begins with the Prologue where Ghosh reads a “short article by the scholar E. Strauss‚ in the 1942 issue
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Donald Judd A simple three dimensional (3-D) cube‚ circle‚ or rectangle you may ask how could this possibly be a work of art. Some artists don’t follow the traditional interests of expression that are elicited from painting with paint brushes. Different mediums help to create different experiences for both the artist and the viewer. Artists such as Donald Judd take a different approach to their work and look to create something new. To appreciate and understand Donald Judd’s “Untitled (blue)” you
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Sexual Selection Sexual selection is the process whereby individuals advertise both their own requirements in a mate and their own attractive characteristics as a mate. Selection involves attracting the mate with the greatest fitness whilst at the same time maximising the chances of being selected as ’fit’ themselves. Fitness in the context of evolution theory refers to the
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Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Summary Works of art have always been reproducible‚ through imitation. Mechanical reproduction characterizes a new period in reproduction‚ with new limits and repercussions. Each new technology employed in the production or reproduction of art increased the speed with which they could be done so. Lithography allowed for multiple images from one original‚ keeping up with the happenings of everyday life‚ and then photography
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Commonly Used Atrazine Herbicide Adversely Affects Fish Reproduction Dan Larson The herbicide Atrazine‚ one of the world’s most commonly used herbicides has now been shown to affect reproduction tracts in fish‚ according to a study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey. “Concentrations of atrazine commonly found in agricultural streams and rivers caused reduced reproduction and spawning‚ as well was tissue abnormalities in laboratory studies with fist‚” says Donald Tillitt‚ a USGS scientist and
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rich in protein‚ amino acids‚ vitamins and minerals. It is the only plant used as biofertilizer in agriculture or as a green manure for wetland rice in Northern Vietnam‚ and Central and Southern China because of its high nitrogen content. In early 1980’s the use of Azolla in South Cotabato‚ Philippines was widely published. Azolla plants have been described by the Chinese and Vietnamese as being miniature nitrogen fertilizer factories. Azolla is traditionally used throughout Asia and parts of Africa
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This essay will discuss the comparative benefits and costs of two forms of reproductions; parthenogenesis and sexual reproduction. To narrow the scope of the piece‚ the area of parthenogenesis is going to be largely limited to organisms that are obligately parthenogenetic. Parthenogenesis is the “production of an embryo from a female gamete without any genetic contribution from a male gamete” (Mittwoch‚ 1978). Sexual reproduction is the process of cross-fertilisation in which the genomes of two parents
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whenever conflict ensued between a chapter’s President and the Ritual Chair. Essentially‚ when it came time to select the chapter’s new Executive Committee for the 2017 calendar year‚ the Ritual Chair was viewed as many to most likely become the next President as she had become an extremely influential and promising leader. However‚ having a say in the new positions‚ the President did everything in her power to ensure the Ritual Chair was not selected to be the next President‚ but rather saw to it she
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Design and make a coffee table Aims and objectives for project: ● Make coffee table ● Elegant ● Creative ● Doing more with less ● Modest in scale ● Fit in with existing furniture in the room ● Elegant proportions ● Design the beauty of wood CONTENTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. BRIEF ANALYSIS OF BRIEF INVESTIGATION RESEARCH FINAL SOLUTION/DESIGN PLANNING WEEK BY WEEK REVIEW OF WORK PLANNED CONCLUSION EVALUATION RESEARCH & INVESTIGATION: ● What’s already in the market: 1. This a great simple coffee
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