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Shortlisted for the Hutch Crossword Book Award in 2006, Home is Manju Kapur’s third novel. The novel is a multi-generation family saga of Banwarilal family who is a victim of communal violence during the partition. The novel unravels the struggle and sufferings of the protagonist Nisha in her search of a home i.e. search for own place of shelter and security in society. The novel emphasizes on the alienation of Nisha in spite of living in a joint family. The novel also focuses on the evils…

The only thing that stressed him out was watching his favorite football team lose. He showed me a newspaper of the reviews of the football games. He read me the scores and figured out the players averages, he even completed the crossword in the back. Mr. Wilson had no problem processing information or remembering information. Mr. Wilson seem to be in a good mood, so I asked if he ever felt depressed. He replied the only day I felt depressed in when my wife passed away. However…

Sometimes in life, the people most unlike us make the greatest impact. It happened to me 11 years ago. I began noticing an elderly gentleman in the Midwestern town in which we both lived. What was unique as I observed him was that he was always delivering homemade cookies. I was a reporter at the local newspaper and I thought he might have a story to tell. I parked behind him one fall day as he was delivering cookies to employees at a bank. When he returned to his vehicle I struck up a…

SUDOKU: LOGICAL NUMBER PUZZLE DEVOID OF ARITHMETIC 1 MAT 135 Final Paper Strand One - J.D. Thomason Strand One: Historical Significance An examination of the history of the Sudoku puzzle should begin with a clarification of its ancestral roots. Sudoku is commonly mistaken as a derivation of the magic square, in which the sum of every diagonal, row, and column of a grid adds up to the same number. Other than the fact that Sudoku takes place on a grid, this assumption could not be further from the…

Color is present in every aspect of life in the way we view objects, admire people and imagine while we are dreaming. They enhance the perceptual experience that a human has with the world to such an extent that a world without color would be vague. Colors influence how we behave and interpret the world an example of this would be, how we correlate green with continuation and red with termination due to the traffic lights we encounter on an everyday basis. As we are exposed repeatedly to these…

throughout the lifespan (Feldman, 2011). It can be developed either negatively or positively, depending on how an individual accomplishes tasks during each stage of moral development. This shows that morality will change as an individual ages and goes through different experiences of life. Kohlberg’s theory consists of 3 stages: pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional. In pre-conventional morality, it is most common in 3-7 year olds. Their motivation is to obey rules to avoid…

English computer scientist and mathematician, Alan Turing. Alan Turing was inspired to do something that had meaning to him, just like Montag had a passion for books and learning about them. Alan Turning had a passion for solving complex puzzles like crosswords, machines and codes. Turing pursued his interests and ultimately cracked the biggest code known to man – the Enigma. He developed a machine that broke the Enigma and helped Britain win the war. The Enigma was a device used by the German…

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is arguably one of the most heartbreaking stories you’ll ever read. The memoir details her life from her earliest memory of three and this work of nonfiction reveals the strife and struggles she endured. Walt Disney suggests, “I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about…

Bhaavna Arora - Keystone setter of Book launch events in Udaipur. Young and effervescent author of India, serving only best sellers to country, Miss Bhaavna Arora is soaring sensation through her pen. As a Former academician and a Corporate leadership trainer, Bhaavna shares her journey of becoming India’s bestselling author of her all the books in her first trip to Udaipur. Udaipur – City of Lakes and emerging literatis onlooked one of the first kind of Book Launch event of a bestselling…

Language is our primary source of communication. Some people even say that language is what separates us from animals and makes us human. Communication is the method through which we share our ideas and thoughts with others. Although there are thousands of languages in this world, the one of languages which obviously became the universal language, English language. There are several factors that make the English language essential to communication in our current time. The main reason why English…