Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses addresses much more than the infamous controversy within Islam. It is about nationalism‚ migration‚ religion‚ postmodernism‚ politics‚ rebirth‚ hybridization‚ transformation‚ compromise‚ and Islam. However‚ the great controversy of the Satanic verses‚ as portrayed in Rushdie’s novel‚ serves as the template from which all the other issues can be examined. Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa‚ likewise‚ can be seen as an expected response that seems to fit the themes addressed
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DATA MINING FOR POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS: East – West Airlines/Telcon Jermaine Paul 12/12/2013 BUSINESS PROBLEM East-West Airlines (EA) is entering into partnership with the cellular service provider‚ Telcon‚ by marketing their service through direct mail. In order to achieve this‚ EA dataset is provided to categorize their customers to identify which ones would be likely to purchase Telcon’s services through direct mail. If the accurate categorization is done the partnership will save
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Salmon Rushdie he creates a sense of life and death between two characters Senior and Junior. Senior being death and junior life‚ they both share very strong connection because of their name that could never be spoken of. Other than sharing the same name‚ they were the same age and they both lived in the same apartment building. “By curious chance-which they had to come to think as destiny…” or as a curse‚ these two old men were very much alike in their physicality and personality. Rushdie creates
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When Public and Private Life Meet in Christiane Bird’s Neither East Nor West Neither East Nor West is a travel narrative by Christiane Bird about her travels in Iran. As a child Bird called Iran home‚ and wanted to go back as an adult after hearing about the country all over the news in her current home‚ New York City. In Iran‚ Bird experiences a large disconnect between the private and public lives of most Iranians; the people on the streets are very different from the people in the privacy of
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East West University Department of Economics Spring 2013. Course Title: Principles of Macroeconomics ECO102 Gazi Quamrul Hasan Assignment 01 1. Write short notes on 1) Gross Domestic Product 2) Real GDP 3) GDP deflator 4) Consumer Price Index 5) GDP calculation in income method 6) GDP calculation in expenditure method 7) GDP calculation in production method 8) Procedure of value addition 9) Difference between CPI and GDP deflator 10) Consumption function 2. Draw
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Publishers‚ 88 Post Road West‚ Westport‚ CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group‚ Inc. www.praeger.com Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48–1984). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 RMZ coniugi amatissimae Contents Figures Preface Timelines for Ancient Civilizations Introduction 1. The Far East: China‚ Japan‚ and Korea 2. The Middle East (Excluding Egypt)
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Mesopotamian and‚ of course‚ Islam. The Ottoman state‚ like the Turkish‚ Mongol‚ and Mesopotamian states rested on a principle of absolute authority in the monarch. The nature of Ottoman autocracy‚ however‚ is greatly misunderstood and misinterpreted in the West‚ particularly in world history textbooks. The central function of the ruler or Sultan in Ottoman political theory was to guarantee justice (Adalet in Turkish) in the land. All authority hinges on the ruler’s personal commitment to justice. This idea
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Rushdie Vs. Thiong’o The difference between two writers can be very similar or very different. Often times authors have similarities whether they are from different backgrounds or not. In some sort of way two authors can think the same way due to keeping original languages and upbringings in their writings. On the other hand‚ they can also differ immensely. Salman Rushdie and Ngugi wa Thiong’o had two different upbringings‚ education‚ and attitudes toward literature. An author’s upbringing
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West vs East Germany After World War II‚ Germany was in ruins and the world was divided. In a famous speech Churchill expressed his view that an Iron Curtain had now descended across Europe (Harbutt 551)‚ “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic‚ an iron curtain has descended across the Continent” (Perry 452). The “Iron Curtain” that had fallen across Europe‚ separated the West and East. A Cold War had begun between the two major powers: The U.S and Soviet Union. It was Capitalism\Democracy
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CASE OF EAST-WEST DIVAN ORCHESTRA In 1999‚ a Palestinian-American called Edward Said and a famous Argentina born Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim founded East-West Divan Orchestra (Willson 347). Young musicians from Israel and Arabic countries were brought together to establish this orchestra. In other words‚ members from countries‚ cultures where there is a significant political conflict (Israel- Arabian Countries) had the opportunity to come together through this project. In this essay‚ East-West
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