A Passage to India

that character is Pi’s love interest, Anandi. Pi was sent by his mother to work for a dance class and take his mind off of things and this is where Pi met Anandi. Pi adopts an emotional dedication for Anandi and makes his departure from Pondicherry, India to Winnipeg, Canada even more difficult. He uses her as a source of his motivation by recalling her image throughout various scenes of the…

people have heard of it. Just like Buddhism, Sikhism can be confused with a way of life just as much as a religion. There are approximately 20 million Sikhs in the world today and around 250,000 Sikhs in the United States. Sikhism originated in Punjab, India and is derived from Hindu and Muslim teachings (Sikhism). Sikhs do not have caste systems or many Gods like Hinduism. Similarly, Sikhism does not practice the superiority of men over women found is Islamic beliefs. The founder was known as…

Faith is defined as a “strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.”, according to Google. All religions focus on providing answers to some of life’s most fundamental questions, like Why are we here?, Who am I?, Where will I go after death?, and more. In learning about the faiths and their answers to these age old questions, I have come to terms that there are certain aspects that pertain to all of the faiths and some that do not.…

child can acquire knowledge in the same way irrespective of their backgrounds. Curriculum Theory I would like to give a brief introduction about the Indian curriculum and would like to compare with American education system curriculum. In India, we have different education system, state level or centralized. At my state level in Maharashtra, State Board of Secondary & Higher Secondary Education conducts the SSC examination for the 10th…

In "Captivity," Sherman Alexie retells the historical backdrop of European venture into North America and the expulsion of Native Americans from their conventional grounds. The story appears to claim that Native American history as we probably am aware it rotates around Mary Rowlandson. Toward the start of the story, Alexie quotes Rowlandson's 1676 account, in which she was caught by Indians, one of whom "gave me a biscuit, which I put in my pocket, and not setting out to eat it, covered it…

made enormous profits, while their workers labored in conditions that threatened their beating hearts. They could do this because replacements kept being deployed from the east. Millions of slaves traveled across the Atlantic on the dreaded “Middle Passage” before being sold to an owner in the Americas, as shown on the historically reliable Atlantic…

Atlantic Slave Trade Introduction Upon the discovery of new lands all over the world, the European countries sought after ways to capitalize their newly established colonies and the indigenous people. The earliest Atlantic slave trades are dated to the 15th century, when the first major European world powers the Portuguese and Spanish empires that began with the transportation of slaves from Africa to America for cheaper and easier controllable labors. The slave trade culminated during…

vandalism, and damage to buildings. One example of a non-violent protest is the Rowlatt Satyagraha. The Rowlatt Satyagraha of 1919 protest took place in India. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi created a new type of protest called Satyagraha, a form of passive non-violent resistance. Gandhi organized a passive resistant movement to protest the passage of the Rowlatt Acts, which restricted Indian freedom of speech and their ability to undermine the government. In Satyagraha, protesters went on…

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life. This is the age old doctrine of lex talionis, which appears in the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi that has been used as a code of retaliation for thousands of years. Ancient Babylon used lex talionis as a rule used to decide the severity of punishments for the type of crime committed. If a life was taken, then the murderer was put to death: a life for a life (Hood 1). Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the practice of executing…

Given the library’s availability, I read Henry Seidel Canby’s biography, expecting to learn about Walt Whitman’s childhood, family, and experiences that led him to write Leaves of Grass. The overall assessment of Canby’s book is that it is fair. Canby is frequently wordy, and at least the first third of the book is rather boring because one feels as if he is skimming through Whitman’s life. The photos are interesting, but Canby should have included a time line because he describes events without…