Expatriate

In the mean time, I found a job at a foreign exchange shop that exposed me to expatriates a majority of them worked for the United Nations. Interestingly, a particular individual after several conversations told me how the UN employment application worked, they furnished me with one, and the next time they came to work in Accra, Ghana…

Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Namesake” (2003) is a cross-cultural, ultigenerational story of a Hindu Bengali family’s journey to self-acceptance in Boston. ‘The Namesake’ explores the theme of transnational identity and trauma of cultural dislocation. The novel is a narrative about the assimilation of an Indian Bengali Family from Calcutta, the Ganguli’s, into America. The cultural dilemmas experience by them and their American born children are quite different. The spatial, cultural and emotional…

Results and Discussion Shellfish is considered a good indicator for environmental pollution with heavy metals, simply because it can accumulate high levels of these metals. However, these organisms are considered valuable source for animal derived protein, vitamins and essential trace elements, especially for people living nearby sea. Thus, estimating the residual levels of these metals, in particular the toxic ones, assessment of the possible human health risks and trying to find effective…

In the recently published first volume of memoirs, Istanbul: Memories and the City, Orhan Pamuk describes how a 1950’s child hood among Europe -yearning cosmopolitans in the crumbling ruins of the Ottoman Empire helped to shape him as a writer. The key, he said, is to understand the concept of huzun. This turkish word describes a kind of melancholy, he says, not so much a personal state as one shared by an entire society, a mood of resigned despair for the great past - a murky, black white…

Ferrari is an international auto mobile company based in Italy, Maranello the place where the founder Enzo Ferrari was raised and started the production of these luxurious cars. It has been established in the late 1940s, that very same year Enzo Ferrari drove the very first model of a Ferrari car, 125 S out onto the roads. That very same year Ferrari also took part in Formula 1 racing, with their very own car instead of the Alfa Romeo that they used to race with, and has ever since conquered…

The Victorian Period is marked by Queen Victoria’s reign from 1837 to 1901. The Romantic Period preceded the Victorian Period and served as a transition period between 20th-century literature. The salvaging of themes in classical literature and medieval literature were repurposed into the writings of the English Victorian Period. The Victorian writers displayed well-established styles of writing from previous eras, while at the same time pushing original customs to new and interesting directions…

DENMARK Denmark, a Nordic country, is a part of Northern Europe. It is situated north of Germany yet it is the southernmost Scandinavian country. The Kingdom of Denmark comprises Denmark, Faroe Islands, and Greenland. It has another 443 islands as its part, of which about 72 islands are inhabited. The country is bordered by Germany in the south and just touches the southern peninsula of Sweden to north east. Rest of the country’s borders are covered by the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Danish…

The Hot Zone is a nonfiction novel written by Richard Preston; a book about “the terrifying true story of the origins of the Ebola virus” as the cover states. The novel is written in the perspective of the author, Richard Preston, as he interviews, medical staff, researchers and family members of the victims. The reader learns about the first of many known outbreaks of the virus, different strains of the virus, similar viruses and much more. The book is broken into four parts, each filled with…

international DINA agents like Michael Townley. Townley was an American citisen born in Waterloo, Iowa (Kornbluh 167) although his background being American Augusto Pinochet and his regime heavily influenced him as he spent quite a bit of his life as an expatriate kid in Chile. Townley become a part of the Patria y Libertad a pro-fascist military group and in 1973 and by 1974 he had joined the DINA and lead his first successful mission of killing a former leader in Chile, Carlos…

When Similarity Creates Differences As the great F. Scott Fitzgerald best put it, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function” (source). This is greatly evident in the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his characters Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. The ideas that are presented in “The Great Gatsby” are similar as well as different in many ways to the life F. Scott Fitzgerald had. These…