mother did not appreciate the fact that Deborah had made sure that my parents‚ who did not eat beef‚ were given fish instead of filet mignon like everyone else. She kept [...] complaining about the formality of the proceedings‚ and the fact that Pranab Kaku‚ wearing a tuxedo‚ barely said a word to us because he was too busy leaning over the shoulders of his new American in-laws as he circled the table. This passage from Jhumpa Lahiri’s story‚ “Hell-Heaven‚” is important in explaining the significance
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attached to their roots‚ and the different point of views of the life between people who were born here like Usha‚ an undergraduate student who met the Usha’s family‚ Kaku‚ who is from the same country as Usha’s family‚ and Usha’s parents more specific her mother. First of all‚ the first important event is when Usha and her mother met Kaku in the beginning of the story‚ and he became part of their family making a change in their routine lives‚ and gave us an idea on how shocking could be life in USA
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On saturday‚ myself along with 3 of my friends went to an orphanage in Dapodi‚ Pune. It is located in a slum-like area and run by Mrs Tulve who started it in 2000. On reaching there we had a discussion with Tulve Kaku (or simply Kaku now onwards). The story goes like this in her words- "I was in affection with orphan kids from times even before starting the orphanage. Once I saw a small orphan girl raped by somebody and the girl was left on road with her pains. I rushed that girl to hospital
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Jake Kral Canon Case Study Executive Summary - When Canon jumped into the business in the late 1960s‚ most observers were skeptical. Less than a tenth the size of Xerox‚ Canon had no direct sales or service organization to reach the corporate market for copiers‚ nor did it have a process technology to by-pass the 500 patents that guarded Xerox’s Plain Paper Copier. Over the next two decades‚ Canon rewrote the rule book on how copiers were supposed to be produced and sold as it built up $5 billion
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“ ‘Who here is psychic? Raise my hand!’ ” Everyone has heard of the typical spoon bending‚ telepathy‚ and precognition‚ the primary psychic powers. But‚ do they know the truth behind them (Radford)? Telekinesis occurs when people move objects without any physical contact. There have been numerous cases proving why telekinesis is legitimate. On the other hand‚ skeptics use scientific research to backup the reason why telekinesis is a hoax. The media has played an important role in keeping the paranormal
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The short story “Hell-Heaven” was an excellent read that incorporated many aspects of America’s culturally diverse society. For the entire existence of the United States‚ the country has been a place of convergence for many cultural backgrounds. This convergence of cultures can cause friction amongst families trying to adapt to American life. In “Hell-Heaven” Usha and her mother‚ referred to as Boudi‚ grow apart from each other as their cultural upbringings clash with each other. Boudi‚ a Bengali
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“People of the current” is the translation of the word Tausug. “Tau” means man and “sug” means current. Tausug people are the majority Islamized group in Sulu. They have a total number of population at around 502‚918 and most of them are predominant in the northern part of the Sulu province. The name of their province Sulu came from their own language “sulug” or “sug” which means “ocean current” and the name Jolo is the Spanish word for corruption. Tausug literature is very rich. It includes
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Lahiri shows this when the mother tells the narrator‚ “Don’t think you’ll get away with marrying an American‚ the way Pranab Kaku did‚” (75). This sets up what duty is important on the generation before the narrator. Later‚ the narrator shows what she values when she said that she “began to pity [her] mother […] She had never worked‚ and during the day she watched soap operas
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How would you feel if your family was destroyed? I without any doubt would be incapable of imagining my life in such a way. Family is something that is so precise and valuable to me. Which is why‚ it should never be taken for granted. The two short stories differ on how the families’ destruction come to be‚ yet both exterior sources cause the family to be broken. My objective is to compare and contrast the representation of family in Hell-Heaven by Jhumpa Lahiri and Where Are You Going‚ Where Have
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