The Tamils are an ethic group and lives in southern India and on Sri Lanka (mainly in the state of Tamil Nadu); it is an island of 21 million people odd the southern tip of India. According to a 2001 government census‚ most Tamils live in the eastern and the northern Sri Lanka‚ and they comprise approximately 10 percent of the island’s population. From their religion most of them are Hindu but Tamil language set them apart from the four fifths of Sri Lankans who are Sinhalese; the members of a largely
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Discourse On the Tamil Tigers “I would prefer to die in honour rather than being caught alive by the enemy” (Towards Liberation 83). V. Prabakaran‚ leader and founder of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam)‚ said this during an exclusive interview with the magazine the “Sunday.” This statement represents how most Tamil Tigers feel about their fight for freedom. Tamil Tigers are dedicated to dying in battle rather than being caught by the enemy (Sri Lanka military). The Tamil Tigers were founded
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Introduction The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)‚ also known as the Tamil Tigers‚ are a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka. The LTTE is infamous for introducing the suicide bomb jacket‚ as well as the use of women in suicide attacks. They are blamed for a dozen high profile assassinations‚ over two hundred suicide attacks‚ and its war against the government has cost more than seventy thousand lives. The LTTE‚ which may have between 7‚000 to 15‚000
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There are three main actors that factor into the normalization of violence in society. The state‚ the media‚ and the individual are large contributors to the instigation‚ magnitude and normalization of violence in a society. The movie V for Vendetta gives the audience a lens through which they can look at the role and impact these three actors play in the perpetuation and normalization of violence. The state; as a system of surveillance‚ coercing individual’s conformity‚ and soliciting submission
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Thanjavur: The sprawling campus of Tamil University‚ spread in more than 800 acres‚ in Thanjavur was flocked not only by the young students but also by migratory birds. The university founded by then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M G Ramachandran in the year 1981 as a high – level research centre in Tamil language‚ literature and cultured‚ later blossomed into a teaching university. M G R was gracious enough to allot around 1‚000 acres of land in the outskirts of the ancient town and the erstwhile
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1 Non-Violence as the Bigger Statement In the documentary _Eyes on the Prize_‚ John Lewis- an attendee of the 1960 Nashville Lunch Counter Sit-In‚ regales the use of nonviolence in their fight for racial equality‚ saying "We took our seats in a very orderly‚ peaceful fashion…We just sit there‚ and we continue to sit all day long... But for me‚ I ’ll tell you; it was like being involved in a holy crusade. It became a badge of honor" (PBS). The Civil Rights Movement‚ which began in 1954‚ was so deeply
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FACTS ABOUT TAMIL LANGUAGE INTRODUCTION: Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of South India and North-east Sri Lanka. It has official status in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu‚ Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Tamil is also a national language of Sri Lanka and an official language of Singapore It is legalized as one of the languages of medium of education in Malaysia along with English‚ Malay and Mandarin. It is also chiefly
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Task 1: Language Analysis of Tamil Speaker Tamil Language The Tamil vowel system consists of: — Five pairs of short vowels: /ʌ/‚ /ɑ/; /ɪ/‚ /ɪː/; /e/‚ /eː/; /o/‚ /oː/; /u/‚ /uː/. — Two diphthongs: /aɪ/ (like the vowel in buy) and /aʊ/ (like the vowel in cow). — All vowels are undiphthongised. — For the vowels /o/ (rounded‚ short) and /oː/ (long equivalent)‚ there is no equivalent in
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Gujarat’s Contribution to India • 17% of Fixed Capital Investment • 16% of Industrial output • 22% of India’s exports • 16% of Value of Output • 12% of Net Manufacturing Value • 10% of Factories • 98% of Soda Ash production • 80% of Diamond Export • 78% of Salt production • 62% of Petrochemical production • 53% of Crude Oil (Onshore) • 51% of Chemical products • 37% of Groundnut production • 35% of Cargo Handling • 31% of
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