Anchorage

Introduction Manju Kapur is one of the most distinguished Indian English writers of the contemporary times. She has been able to make a mark with her five novels written in the last two decades. Her stories mostly hover over frustrations, refusals, retaliations and breach of conventional expectation. The Immigrant, published in 2008, is her fourth novel. With her profound understanding of human nature, Kapur discusses a wide range of issues in this work of hers. Commenting on the themes of…

Rockbolts as a ground control technology are just one in the very long list of ground control technologies that exist in mining and civil applications. The simplicity and reasonable cost associated with rockbolts are the primary driving forces for the research causing their wide variations for numerous public and private uses. The ease of calculation and implementation also makes rockbolts a go to option for engineers who would rather spend more time calculating other variables during a job…

Are you a television watcher? If so, how does that activity balance with your other “free time” activities? If not, why not? Are you a television watcher? If so, how does that activity balance with your other “free time” activities? If not, why not? We don’t have TV’s in our house, instead we have 5 computers with big screens as monitors. My home pc has a 52 inch TV for a monitor, my wife has a 42 inch on her computer, the living room has a 52 with a win 7 tower, and the bedroom has a ASUS…

Immediately I get the impression I am reading a book, about a person in modern day New York City, even the sentence “Rome never sleeps” confirms this for me. New York City is known for being the city that never sleeps. The magnitude of Rome was palpable to the citizens. The monuments, libraries, and temples can put many modern cities today to shame. I have never been to New York City still; I can imagine people feel that this is where life is happening. This is the tone I get from ancient Rome…

She is strong because she is looking out into the distance and not directly at us. She is hopeful for the future. This particular piece has a caption alongside it, stating “perfection is my right” which also happens to be the title. This provides anchorage to the image like we have learned throughout the course of the semester. The colors are just simply black and white in this – it conveys a lot of meanings based on the location of the piece and because of the artist. The locational aspect of…

It’s a big world Let 's start by going over a typical gap year; a gap year is a time that graduating high schoolers take off between graduation and when they enroll in college. The amount of time they take off varies, but most commonly around a year is taken off. There are many reasons that make a gap year a good idea to consider, such as: feeling burnt out from spending 12 years working hard in school, not knowing what you want to do for a career, and as a result jumping into a degree you…

Bharathi Mukherjee is an erudite, Indian born American writer whose literary career started as early as 1970. Calcutta born, She migrated to the US to do her M.F.A in Creative Writing, in 1963. She is presently a professor at the University of California, Berkely. She is married to Clark Blaise , an American writer. She is an ardent admirer of the writings of Malamud and V.S.Naipaul. Shashi Deshpande, Jumpha Lahiri, Anita Desai and Shoba De are some of her contemporary writers. Bharathi…

Driving is an ordinary entity in millions of individuals lives that allow them to commute to and from work/school/home, but could easily turn into a nightmare that is never woken up from if not taken seriously. There are many diversions that exist while driving, but distracted driving is quickly becoming one of the most prevalent factors for causes of a car accident, and might even be more dangerous than it is reported. The time that it takes to become distracted and be a victim of a fatal…

Youth culture is the way in which youths live their life and the way in which they have unity via similar sharing norms and values. Youth culture has notable differences from older generations, and is often associated with the idea of being a period of time in your life that transitions you from child to adulthood. Or, as the functionalist Eisenstadt phrases it, it is the transitory stage in which children transition to adulthood. It is also important to note that the ideology surrounding youth…

Should the government be able to restrict the American people’s access to assault weapons and limit magazine sizes? This question has divided the nation. The Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 banned large capacity magazines and assault weapons. Then in 2004 the ban was lifted and never renewed. Now Americans are wondering if it should be renewed after many mass shootings like in Newtown, Connecticut. According to the FBI, more people in America are murdered every year by weapons such as knives,…