Bengal

Pi is stuck with Richard Parker, a bengal tiger. Tigers are territorial animals, and like to mark their territory. Pi would have been in great danger if he didn’t decide to tame RP, because the tiger would have ultimately believed it was superior to Pi and would have attempted to kill him…

Between Two Worlds In her novel The Namesake, Jumpa Lahiri presents us with a vivid and insightful interpretation of the life of the Ganguli family and allows us to witness the many struggles that accompany their condition of immigrants. As we witness their efforts to adapt to living in the US, we can clearly appreciate the difficulties immigrants usually go through and what it takes to adapt to living in a foreign land. Ashima Ganguli, the Bengali wife and mother, eagerly tries to adapt to…

freedom”. Smith talked about how his protest wasn't about the flag. He said “I'm proud of that flag because we made it our flag” (The timeless appeal of Smith). After the Olympics Tommie Smith graduated and played pro football for the Cincinnati Bengals for 3 years (Tommie Smith American Athlete). He later became a track coach at Oberlin Ohio College, where he also taught sociology (Tommie Smith American Athlete). Tommie was inducted into the U.S. National Track and Field Hall of Fame. (Tommy…

(Intro) Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” and Garrett Hardin’s “Lifeboat ethics” are contradictory philosophical works that examine whether scarce resources should be shared with the poor. Singer’s argument is that “suffering and death from lack of food, shelter and medical care are bad" (Singer, 1972); therefore all people become morally obligated to help the poor. While Hardin argues that ethics of a Lifeboat should be followed because there is a finite amount of resources…

The Industrial Revolution and India Script Aya and Jad AYA The Industrial Revolution Summary The Industrial Revolution was a significant time in world history. It was marked as the change of time, labelled as a new era, and identified as the largest transformation to grace the planet. It began around the 18th century due to the fact that the British needed to make money. Great Britain was the nation to outset this because they had more advanced resources and technology than any other country…

indulge in rejuvenating spa treatments and water sports. Distance from Chennai: 52 km Best time to visit: December – March Source 2.Pulicat A small seashore township, Pulicat resides on the island of Sriharikota dividing the Pulicat Lake from Bay of Bengal. Itis renowned for its…

The Outbreak of Cholera in Haiti Ayva Rodriguez Felician College The Outbreak of Cholera in Haiti It’s been almost 5 years since the cholera epidemic in Haiti affected thousands of people that even until now the pathogenic organism are still around claiming the lives of Haitian individual ("Combat Cholera," 2014). Cholera may have been around during the time of the Greek physician “…Hippocrates (460-377 BCE) and the Indian peninsula” as their record indicates the similarity of the disease…

After these invasion and attacks the people lost complete faith in the capabilities of the Mughal army. The Mughals neglected the development of navy which was “the last nail in coffin” for them. They did not pay any attention in the coast line of Bengal or the south India, may be they think the sea power is not necessarily to rule the land. This mistake by the Mughals were well used by the Europeans who came to India by sea, established their trading company and then establish their mastery…

the cook (hyena) but ends up killed and decapitated. Gita’s animal is the orangutan in Pi’s story because primates are the closest animal that reminds humans of us, so, Pi uses an animal that reminds him most of his own mother. Richard Parker is the bengal tiger that Pi spends the majority of his adventure with. Richard is a symbolism of Pi’s feral instincts. To survive, Pi must act like a tiger and do whatever it takes to survive even if it means to kill another person, “A person can get used…

focused on Nautch dancing culture in 2009. Both authors challenged how the average American defined orientalism, where the Asian identity was the property of China, North and South Korea, or Japan rather than countries by the Arabian Sea or Bay of Bengal. In Locations for South Asian Diasporas, Sandhya Shukla discusses transnationalism amongst the South Asian immigrants and how they were very connected with their…