mountain village of Viscos with eleven gold bars in his possession. He buries the first ten in a particular spot in the surrounding forest‚ and places the eleventh in a different location‚ all of this unbeknownst to the villagers. He then brings Miss Chantal Prym‚ a Viscos villager longing for the big city‚ into the forest with him and shows her the location of the gold bars. He then proposes a deal: if she can convince the townspeople to kill any nonspecific citizen in Viscos‚ the eleven gold bars
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Case study: Naman Swaroop MBA- Final Semester (please find the answers below) Latha Jishnu: Killing them ever so softly: CASE-I Latha Jishnu / New Delhi July 11‚ 2009‚ 0:33 IST Widespread pollution by the Vedanta refinery in Orissa raises serious questions about environmental monitoring. At first sight the images are picture perfect. [In the newspaper there is a grey picture of the fly-ash effluents from the factory in a beautiful setting in nature]. There are gurgling streams‚ a rushing
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by Bhuvan (Aamir Khan)‚ the villagers beg Raja Puran Singh (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) to help them. He tells them that much to his regret‚ he is also bound by British law. It is after their visit to the Raja that the people of the village first witness a cricket match. Bhuvan mocks the game and gets into a fight with one of the British officers. Taking an instant dislike to Bhuvan‚ Russell offers to cancel the taxes of the whole province for three years if the villagers can beat his men in a game of
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minute documentary which reveals the prevalence of AIDS in Yingzhou district‚ located in Anhui Province. Yingzhou District is a rural and impoverished village. People living there have a low income. The situation prompts a substantial portion of villagers insist of selling blood so as to earn a living‚ which is the fundamental cause of AIDS in the area. In the documentary‚ the reality of an AIDS prevalent community is brought to light. It is a society full of misconception‚ fearsome and discrimination
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lottery is one unlucky villager being brutally murdered each year‚ it shows that by doing so they never left their primitive ways to begin with. Following traditions aimlessly‚ leads to lack of questioning the actions‚ tradition is its own justification. Traditions passed
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Rural Ireland in 1979‚ in which she attempted to explain the social causes of Ireland’s surprisingly high rates of schizophrenia (Scheper-Hughes 2000:128). Saints was met with a backlash of criticism from both the anthropological community and the villagers who had served as her informants. The criticism eventually led to Scheper-Hughes being expelled indefinitely from the village in which she had worked (Scheper-Hughes 2000:118) and raised serious questions about the ethics of anthropological inquiry
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in its velvety petals.’ Fragrance of Roses is about a pitiful foreign old man who had lived in a poor village for twenty-five years. His only work was breeding roses in a glasshouse behind his house. After two Israeli agents arrested him‚ the villagers who disliked him openly finally discovered his past as the former commandant of Auschwitz and his beautiful black rose‚ which became their prized possession and tourist attraction. Auschwitz was a deadly Nazi concentration and extermination camp
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Some characters are criminalized‚ ostracized‚ and viewed as outcasts‚ unable to conform to “normal” societal activities as demonstrated in “The Bridegroom”. The more progressive society exists in “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”‚ where the villagers change their way of life to accommodate a revered dead body‚ and in turn‚ they appear to collectively become more fulfilled and ambitious. Should society change to accommodate unconventional people‚ or should people conform to societal
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the story “The Woman in the Dunes” by Kobo Abe‚ the woman‚ whose husband and child bury in the sand and die‚ lives in the dunes along. The only way she contacts to the outside of the world is a rope ladder hangs from the top of the dunes by the villagers. Meanwhile‚ she has to keep shoveling the sand to prevent buried in the sand and protect her house; however‚ the work is endless because the new sand will
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cheerless themes to match the style. Perhaps the most obvious one that can be inferred from the subtext is that of power and authority in society. There are several facts and instances indicating that the Castle exerts some sort of power on the villagers‚ at least it seems that way at first. For one thing‚ the village is property of the Castle. Also‚ K. is constantly instructed and reminded of the importance of getting clearance from the Castle to carry out his job‚ or even to continue being in the
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