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    PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP (PPP) Assignment on NH-7 project reference no:NS2/BOT/AP-7 INTRODUCTION: This project is between NHAI and M/s.Patel KNR Heavy Infrastructures Pvt. Ltd. on BOT annuity basis. SITE OF

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    Hunger of Memory In Richard Rodriguez’s passage from Hunger of Memory‚ the superficiality of material success is depicted well. The Rodriguez children have achieved the American Dream of material success. The material success that they have accomplished has made them have very little or no concern towards their parents and siblings. In the Richard Rodriguez’s description of his family at Christmas‚ the emptiness of material success is made clear through descriptions of siblings‚ mother

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    James Baldwin and Richard Rodriguez are writers or authors with similar stories based on racism and religion. Baldwin recounts his stay in a tiny Swiss village where he was the only black man and relates his experience in this village with his experience as a black man in the United States. Besides‚ Richard Rodriguez focuses on race and diversity; his principal concern how Hispanic learn to adapt to American society. For vacation‚ Baldwin went to a Swiss village where he was the only African American

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    The point of this essay‚ “The Chinese in All of us” by Richard Rodriguez‚ was to show that America is one giant melting pot. That there is no such thing as an “American” culture. An American culture cannot exist as one central thing because there are so many cultures that mixed together to form what we have now. It’s a never ending cycle of growth as a country. The immigrants come to America and with them‚ they bring their ideas and customs. While they learn the customs we already have we‚ in turn

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    “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” -Richard Rodriguez The author is a scholar‚ essayist‚ journalist‚ and television commentator. In this essay Rodriguez writes about his childhood experience as a bilingual child. He tells us about going to school without having a good English education. He is forced to start speaking English at home with his parents and he feels like he loses being so close to his family. “Politics and the English Language” -George Orwell The author is a writer‚ was

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    that he does not want to follow his parents way of thinking‚ food topics‚ life style‚ dress code‚ and more that reflects back. He decides to change the rules because why not right? Going back to the idea of shaping America can be shown with Richard Rodriguez as he chooses to follow the Chinese culture and not the country’s nor his

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    When Rodriguez says "you can’t use family language in the classroom" (London) he seems to be explaining that it is the family’s role to teach the offspring about their culture. On the other hand it is the dominant cultures institution‚ school in this case‚ which has to teach about its culture.  He seems to think nobody agrees on how assimilation works and so there are assumptions about cultures from other cultures and this causes confusion. When Rodriguez says “they may be fighting in gangs right

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    think and feel in the language I used‚ to find my own voice in it‚ to sense that how one speaks influences how one means”‚ Barbara Mellix discussed in her memoir “From Outside‚ In” (298). Barbara Mellix grew up speaking three different types of English‚ black English‚ standard English‚ and college English. She understood where and when it was acceptable to use each of these languages. Black English was to be spoken with her family‚ while the standard English was spoken in public. Growing up‚ her father

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    December 1‚ 2011 Relating Differences-“Los Pobres” In the essay‚ “Los Pobres”‚ by Richard Rodriguez‚ a young educated man wants to show his people he can do manual labor. Earning money was more important for his family. Money allowed Rodriguez’s family security and social mobility. Even though Rodriguez was a college student he did not use the tools of manual labor correctly. He did not fit in with the laborers. Rodriguez was book smart but was not able to communicate with the other workers. In the end

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    Work” by Richard Rodriguez is about a young man struggling with self-confidence. He seeks to build his self-esteem by participating in real manual labor over a summer job. When Rodriguez is offered a job working on a construction site he doesn’t hesitate to say yes. His father had always told him he could never understand the hardships of “Real work’‚ and Rodriguez felt that completing this summer job would make his father proud of him‚ and in many ways consider him to be a “Real man”. Richard Rodriguez

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