...Describe the "setting" in "Country Lovers". Do not include a summary or the theme. Write between 100 and 150 words. The setting in the short story “Country lovers” takes place in the narrator’s home country, South Africa, and is about dealing with the complications of having a relationship, which includes a black girl and a white boy, during the apartheid period. At first the narrator presents us to the life, of a physical environment, the life on the farms. And the years gone by, and the white people starting there school life far away from the farm. We get encountered with the village, the town and the “dried up river bed” known as the place, where the two lovers meet secretly. The farm is described as the white mans farm with natives surrounding the white men while working for them, and the town is known as the place where the white boy Paulus had been to school and where the trial in court takes place. Describe the setting (and only the setting) in "Tony's Story". Write between 100 and 150 words. “Tony’s Story” takes place somewhere near the city of Albuquerque in the state of New Mexico, that houses American Indian reservations. The first scene is on the 10th of August, San Lorenzo’s Day. We get introduced to two young Indians; the weather is dry, dusty and dehydrated. It is a hot summer. On the reservation were the Indians lived, they were religious, poor and kind they did not want any trouble, but just to be them selves, without fearing the white people...
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...Summary The article entitiled 'Senior Picture Day' was a realistic short story written by Michelle Serros. It tells us a story about a girl's experience that feels not so confident with her looks, especialy her nose. She started to develop a habbit of squeezing her nose to make it look less 'Indian'. Ever since she was in seventh grade, she would squeeze her nose everytime she has a chance, for example while she was brushing her teeth and when she was waiting for breakfast. Also in seventh grade, she met a girl named Terri and they eventualy became best friends. While waiting for Terri's swimming pool to be built, Terri invited her to her house to play on her dad's Citizen Band. Although her father don't like seeing her daughter play with the CB, Terri was actually pretty good at making this sounds better and was making new friends. They met a boy 'Lightning Bolt' and Terri started flirting with him, but was interupted by her dad's complaint. The next day she accidentaly overheard Terri talking bad about her with Lightning Bolt when he asked about her. She heard Terri saying that she has a flat chest, skinny, and what really iinsulted her was Terri joked about her nose and said it was 'Indian'. After that incident, the squeezing began and she never spoke to Terri again. Four years have passed and the squeezing has made an impact to her appearance during senior picture day. Personal response I feel that this story taught me a lot about the troubles of growing up...
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...of 1826-1827 and the Second Seminole War Introduction In this critical review of The Florida Crisis of 1826 – 1827 and the Second Seminole War Canter Brown Jr., tells a very tragic, and hard fought story about the experience of the Seminoles and various groups involved in a plea for life. Brown tells this story in the form of an essay in which he shares his arguments and analysis as a historian, professor, a Floridian, and author in terms of the Florida Crisis. This paper will review Brown’s story as well as his main arguments and will evaluate the quality of Brown’s writing and focus on all areas and his weakness within this account. Summary This section contains a summary of The Florida Crisis of 1826-1827 and the Second Seminole War. The Florida Crisis of 1826-1827 and the Second Seminole is an article by Canter Brown Jr. and it addresses the history of Florida in the war between Seminoles along with other groups of people and the United States. Brown reveals the political, and racial aspects that lead to the history of the war in the United States. The author exclaimed that this war was marked as the most expensive Indian war of all times. This crisis that broke Florida involved the Seminole people and this is why the title “The Seminole War.” The crisis involved the Indian territories and associated free blacks with inhuman repression and suffering; the threat of war ensued due to many transgressions and the desire for revenge. Brown explains the war was started by...
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...Dusk over Atlantic Wharf 1. Summary of Dusk over Atlantic Wharf: Dusk Over Atlantic Wharf, is a short story about a young Indian couple named Anuj and Lata, who lives in Cardiff in Wales. Anuj has been living in Cardiff for Six years, and his wife, Lata, have just arrived to Cardiff for few months ago. The beginning of the story takes place in their apartment, where we meet the two main characters Anuj and Lata. Anuj are laying on the carpet, when Lata asked him to visit a new Indian restaurant so they can do something together. He decides that they should go out, and see a film. The film is filmed in Lata´s home town. She gets so exited when she sees the streets of her childhood, that she forget to see what actually was happening in the film. She starts to comment about the places and stores in the film, which annoys Anuj. When they walk over the road to their car, after the film is over, Lata gets sad and begin to cry because the film reminds her about how much she miss India and all her good memories with her family and friends. 2. Lata and her relationship to Anuj: The relationship between Anuj and Lata is complicated, because they don´t have known each other for more than a few months. It´s an arranged marriage, which is quiet normal in the Indian culture. They don’t know each other well, but they both hopes, that someday they will fall in love with each other. Lata is missing her home town in India, because her friends and family is back in India. I get the...
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...A Passage to India E. M. Forster Online Information For the online version of BookRags' A Passage to India Premium Study Guide, including complete copyright information, please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide−passageindia/ Copyright Information ©2000−2007 BookRags, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Premium Study Guide is offprint from Gale's For Students Series: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works: Introduction, Author Biography, Plot Summary, Characters, Themes, Style, Historical Context, Critical Overview, Criticism and Critical Essays, Media Adaptations, Topics for Further Study, Compare &Contrast, What Do I Read Next?, For Further Study, and Sources. ©1998−2002; ©2002 by Gale. Gale is an imprint of The Gale Group, Inc., a division of Thomson Learning, Inc. Gale and Design® and Thomson Learning are trademarks used herein under license. The following sections, if they exist, are offprint from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: "Social Concerns", "Thematic Overview", "Techniques", "Literary Precedents", "Key Questions", "Related Titles", "Adaptations", "Related Web Sites". © 1994−2005, by Walton Beacham. The following sections, if they exist, are offprint from Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults: "About the Author", "Overview", "Setting", "Literary Qualities", "Social Sensitivity", "Topics for Discussion", "Ideas for Reports and Papers". © 1994−2005, by Walton Beacham. All other...
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...Chapter 1 Handicapped by History Brief Summary As the first chapter in this long analytical book, chapter one serves as the foundation for the rest of the novel, with a basic premise that “history textbooks make fool out of the students.” It shows how portrayal of historical figures and events in the best light for the reputation of United States leads to biased and distorted historical education. Author’s Viewpoint Loewen uses two examples—Helen Keller and Woodrow Wilson—in order to illustrate his point, and I would like to focus on the latter for this analysis. Loewen states that while Woodrow Wilson is often presented as the founder of League of Nations following World War I and the leader of progressive causes like women’s suffrage, textbooks rarely make any reference to racial segregation of federal government and his military interventions in foreign nations (22). Wilson intervened in countries like Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nicaragua, and, which set up dictatorship in those nations, but surprisingly documentary evidences only emphasize his role in withdrawing the troops, which sounds ironic considering that he “wasn’t” the one who put the troops in at the first place (25). Instead, textbooks portray his intentions as building up friendship or take a step further and blame the invaded nations themselves (24). Next argument that Loewen makes is that Wilson was a racist who effectively closed the Democratic Party to African Americans, a fact that...
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...Adversity and struggle are common occurences of our lives. We often find ourselves in a state of adversity when things are not going our way. In Richard Wagamese’ The Indian Horse, Saul, the main character and the story’s protagonist, is faced with severe adversity, and struggle through emotional hardships. As the story progresses, Saul finds ways to overcome some of these issues through hockey and revisiting past memorable places. The following paper will cover the many things that degrade Saul, examine how he is able to ultimately overcome them, and cover his alcohol addiction. Often times people may be mocked, and although they may not express it, can hurt them deeply. Saul is mocked several times throughout the novel. There was a time...
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...boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them...." So begins David Hayden's story of what happened in Montana in 1948. This summer will change his view of his family. His self-effacing father, a sheriff who never wears his badge; his clear sighted mother; his uncle, a charming war hero and respected doctor; and the Hayden's lively housekeeper, Marie Little Soldier, whose revelations are at the heart of the story. It is a tale of love and courage, of power abused, and of the terrible choice between family loyalty and justice. And he will now realize that his family is different if what he though. David takes on a huge development in personality and throughout the story he gets more and more able to understand why people around him perform certain actions. We see this through his narrative point of view; were he, in the start of the story rarely perceive the simplest of incidents to the end were he reads people as if they were open books. In short it could be said that, David escapes his innocence of being a child, and develops a mature state of mind. David Hayden’s transition to adolescence it also explores possible motivations and explanations behind an individual’s actions. David also learns the moral values of responsibility, maturity, protection and trust. The main problem could be family conflict, or family crisis. Summary: Montana 1948 by Larry Watson is a novel about a boy called David Hayden. David is 12 years old and usually...
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...Professor: Dr.Fardanesh Strayer University Organizational Behavior. The effect of increasing the minimum wage in America 11/18/2011 Table of contents Title Pages Introduction Page3 Summary of How Pepsi’s Indra Nooyi Learned to Be a CEO Page4-page5 Summary of Indra K. Nooyi Biography Page6-Page7 Summary of Leadership Style of Indra Nooyi Page8-Page9 Conclusion Page10 Introduction Indra Nooyi, one of the best business leaders in the world is a fascinating Indian born woman. She is the Chairman and chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo, which has the world’s largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 19 different product lines that each generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo’s main businesses- Quaker Oats, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi-Cola make hundreds of enjoyable and wholesome foods and beverages that bring joy to consumers in more than 200 countries. With approximately $60 billion in revenue, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide. Indra Nooyi embodies all the attributes of great leader. She has clear vision for PepsiCo, under her leadership PepsiCo was able to close its most important deals, the acquisition of the Tropicana orange-juice brand in 1998, and two years later the acquisition of Quaker Oats for $14 billion. She has an impressive personal skills, she is a very positive person she tries to keep her calm when facing a challenge. She once said...
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...In the novel Brave New World Aldous Huxley depicts a society where legal hallucinogens keep people happy and the government has disregarded common social norms in favor of a peaceful community. Huxley uses the title Brave New World ironically to emphasize the lack of bravery within the fictional society and the behavior of the main characters within his book. Conditioned to fear deep emotions, individuals within the civilized communities quickly learn “when the individual feels the community reels.” (94, Huxley) Consequently, the people of this society naturally avoid deep thought, alone time, and use pills to increase their happiness. There is not anything brave about this society, not when its member refuse to suffer through mild discomfort without the help of the drugs provided to them by the government. However,...
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...menu had about 25 offerings, and carhops brought the food out to patrons waiting in their cars. Today, McDonald's franchise network is the world’s leading food service retailer with more than 30,000 franchise restaurants serving 52 million people in more than 100 countries. Of those stores, more than 70% are owned by independent operator franchisees (Franchise Direct, n.d). In the following pages a brief summary of how McDonald's has been able to successfully establish itself at National and International Level is presented. McDonald's Success Story McDonald's has over the years continued to stay on the growth curve by recursively innovating and adopting though they have had some setbacks along the way for example about eight yrs ago they reported their 1st loss in a quarter in the history of the company, though many saw this as the beginning of the end of the company, McDonald's looked at this differently and soon took actions to crawl back to growth. Below are some of the reasons for their success story. Pick the best qualified people to own the McDonald's Franchise McDonald's does an upfront filtering of the applicants who desire to open a franchise by asking for the following criteria from the applicants, by doing so they make sure the franchise once operational...
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...American Literature I Prof. Ignacio Magaloni Over the last 5 weeks, there have been many interesting readings assigned. We have experienced readings from Native Americans and European Americans that settled here in America. Through these readings we have learned how each culture communicated with each other and expressed their views. We have also learned many different customs that each culture practiced or believed in. Early European Americans expressed how they felt leaving England and then later becoming a new independent country. As I look back, both cultures did believe in a God or Great Spirit and each one worked in a different way. This is one concept that caught my attention the most, the Native Americans believed deeply in the Great Spirit. In week five, we read stories of the Pontiac and other Native American Tribes. As I read through the stories they all had one thing in common and that was the Great Spirit. The Native Americans relied heavily on the Great Spirit for guidance and worshipped him greatly. “Our Great Father, over the great waters, is angry with the white people, our enemies. He will send his brave warriors against them; he will send us rifles, and whatever else we want-he is our friend, and we are his children.” (449) When the white men were trying to overrun the native Americans it was the Great Spirit who gave them advice to rely on the ancestor’s techniques to overcome the white men. The European Americans on the other hand viewed...
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...The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga The White Tiger is an engrossing novel that highlights the struggles of ordinary class in an economically progressive India. Summary of The White Tiger Aravind Adiga’s first novel revolves around the protagonist Balram Halwai, a self-made man who rises to success in the backdrop of a rising Indian economy. He faces lot of challenges and readers are kept in wondering whether he shall succumb to demands of bribe-seeking corrupt political set-up in India. The hope of better tomorrow is beautifully etched through the world of Balram. Rising from the position of a driver of an obnoxious feudal landlord to an entrepreneur of car rental business in Bangalore, Aravind Adiga’s Balram has seen fortunes rise and ebb. Sticking true to his philosophy of never being self-righteous, he manages to live a life of deceit and murder. The world according to his eyes resembles a long struggle where ideals give way to dark ambitions. The seemingly roguish touch to Balram’s character is justified under the oft-repeated formula of class struggle. This struggle, he suggests, prevents the poor from receiving their dues from the other class, rich. He uses this rationale to defend the murder of his master as a mark of struggle of a poor against the rich. India of The White Tiger is presented as an increasingly progressive state which sadly stills lives among inequalities. Harbouring on being slightly monotonous, the book presents a sordid mixture of injustice, corruption...
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...1. Write a summary of Dusk over Atlantic Wharf: The text Dusk over Atlantic Wharf is about an Indian woman, Lata who gets married off by her father, to a man who lives in wales in England. His name is Anuj and Lata does not know him well. Everything is new for her, in a new town where she does not know anybody. She got married to him because her father thought that she would get a better life in wales. She really misses her life in India, where she had her family and friends. It’s hard for her to get used to the new culture in the new country, but she is trying to. In the end of the story she is really sad because they went to see a movie, and the movie was filmed in her hometown so it brought back a lot of memories. But she ends up accepting her new life and that this is where her future is. 2. Characterize Lata and her relationship to Anuj: Lata is an Indian girl, who has just married Anuj, it was and arranged marriage, because she did not know him, and it was planned by her father. Her relationship with Anuj is not good, because she does not know him yet. Its hard for her, because he does not know what she is going through, she has just married a stranger and moved to a new country. She is missing India, her family and her friends. And its also very difficult for her to fit in, because it is different culture. (p.8, line 55) “Lata stared at Anuj, and then at her hennaed hands. It was true, she was his bride and wanted to love him desperately, but he made it so difficult...
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...Dusk over atlantic wharf (section b) Summary: The story ”Dusk over Atlantic wharf” are about an Indian girl his name is Lata, who lives in Cardiff. However, she is not happy on being in Wales as she has only lived there with her husband Anuj for about two months. As the story begins, she finds the day dull. Thus, Anuj takes her to the cinema in order to watch a Bollywood film. There, she is somewhat confronted with Welsh culture as she spots both young Welsh girls and a diverse Welsh population in the cinema hall. As Lata and Anuj watch the movie, the division between the couple becomes increased. She is quite attentive when she discovers places within the film which she knows from her life in India. However, Anuj does not find this thrilling. When the couple leaves the cinema, Lata finally bursts into tears as she realizes that Cardiff is now her new home. Characterization of Lata and her relationship with Anuj: When one faces an unfamiliar culture, one may become unconscious about one’s appearance and future life. The description above somehow indicates what Lata is going through when facing her new existence. “She walked to the window. The sky loomed large and grey over the chimney tops and television aerials. Lata missed the drama of colors played out in the sky. She observed it had been the same dull grey throughout the day. Just like the bed sheets back home after they had. The ending: The story ends in the parking lot in front of the cinema, where Lata is crying...
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