Land and Law in Colonial India Anand V. Swamy Williams College December 2010 Forthcoming in Debin Ma and Jan Luiten Van Zanden eds. Long-term Economic Change in Eurasian Perspective‚ Stanford University Press. 1 1. Introduction The East India Company’s conquest of various territories in India typically brought one issue to the forefront right away: How would land taxes‚ the principal source of governmental revenue‚ be collected? But taxation was not a thing unto itself; it was
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Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is not a novel about the Vietnam War. It is a story about the soldiers and their experiences and emotions that are brought about from the war. O’Brien makes several statements about war through these dynamic characters. He shows the violent nature of soldiers under the pressures of war‚ he makes an effective antiwar statement‚ and he comments on the reversal of a social deviation into the norm. By skillfully employing the stylistic technique of specific
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In the book The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien there were many characters that could be considered a “lead character” but by far First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross was the character who demonstrated an enormous amount of leadership‚ courage‚ and determination. Throughout the story it is difficult to see where First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross gathers his strength from. In the beginning of the short story‚ he seems very strong but towards the end of the story he also seems to still be gathering strength
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The ordeal that a soldier experiences during a war is often unshakable‚ haunting both memories and the current happenings in one’s life. In the beginning of The Things They Carried‚ by Tim O’Brien‚ O’Brien describes the lasting turmoil both he and Lieutenant Jimmy Cross feel as a result of the war: “... Jimmy rubbed his eyes and said he’d never forgiven himself for Lavender’s death. It was something that would never go away‚ he said quietly‚ and I nodded and told him I feel the same about certain
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The world has changed a great deal over the past thirty years. Lives based on a comfortable home in the suburbs‚ a station wagon‚ three kids‚ and thirty years of job security with one employer have become memories. (1) Even the way we view relationships has changed significantly. Today more people are choosing to be in a long distance relationship than ever before. In a study recently performed by the University of North Carolina‚ it was shown that there are currently over 85 million people in the
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of each of the characters depend greatly on the geographical location that you have come accustomed to and it is from this that the plot and characters develop. None more prominent or contrasting then in the two novels I have studied in this course‚ Tim Winton’s‚ ‘’Breath’’ and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s‚ ‘’Nervous Conditions’’. The characters in both of these novels fall victim
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The reading of belonging in Cloudstreet is one of the more apparent and dominant readings. We as human beings have an innate need to belong‚ which makes the reading all the more prominent for the reader. For Winton to put such a focus on belonging in his book‚ he must have struggled with belonging sometime during his own life. Although we are told that as a child he had a close-knit family where everyone belonged‚ no matter how strange they were. Initially in Cloudstreet‚ no one belongs anywhere
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Laila Lahnin December 5th‚ 2012 Ms. Morrotti ENG 073 Assignment: Final Essay Technology of 21st Century Technology is different types of devices and products that everyone uses nowadays‚ whether it’s internet‚ cell phones‚ to social networking and Skype. Technology is the easier way to discover and do things basing off knowledge‚ connecting and interacting with society‚ personal‚ school‚ and working lives. Technology has differed over the years‚ growing into bigger and better things. It
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Cover Letter Mrs. Dawalt‚ The majority of the feedback I received addressed my formatting. I knew when I completed my first draft that that would be the case considering formatting definitely isn’t my forte. I feel like I have learned a lot more as to how to format well by writing this. I’ve gotten much better at inserting headers‚ footers‚ and page numbers. I knew how to do it before but I almost had to re-learn it every time. I only received one peer review. The main thing that was brought
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In a very far away land‚ lived a man‚ a man with a very different life compared to you or me. He doesn’t know right from wrong. He sits by himself all alone‚ wondering what his purpose in life is. He’s always wondered what’s going on in the town below him. One day something very scary happened‚ a visitor came. He doesn’t know what to once he was exposed to the town. This is very usual in Tim Burton’s films. Tim Burton’s eerie style is best conveyed through his use of pan‚ establishing shot‚ and front/back
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