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    writer has written many novels and short stories. In all her novels she deals with the theme of social, political issues. She also deals with problems faced by women in Indian society. One another theme is relationship. In all her novels, she deals with some kind of relationship. In the novel The Ghosts of Vasu Master Hariharan deals with the relationship between a teacher and a student. She also says about the importance of teaching and education. Similarly in this novel, Hariharan says how…

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    frighted to speak,write and read in English. I was feeling so insecure about my skills that i avert of doing what i love: read. Throughout the semester i triumph my fear with the help of a woderful teacher. Before this class I used to read without realizing that the author was trying to teach us valued lesson and also potray themselves and their life in their novels like in the case of F. Scott Fitzgerald.He reveals his history and desires in his marvelous novel The Great Gatsby. I remember as…

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    Holocaust”  Tagline: This brief documentary follows a graduate student’s exploration of an unusual choice of textbooks in a high school classroom: graphic novels.  Estimated length: 15-20 minutes  Proposed date of completion: April 21st, 2016 Introduction: Goals and Voice of the Documentary  The overarching question I ask in this film is how graphic novels about Holocaust and other events of genocide are enabling experiential learning in high school classrooms.  Therefore, I asked specific…

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    Cultural Competence 101 The medical biographic novel” The spirit catches you and you fall down,” by Anne Fadiman is a magnificent time capsule of the experiences faced by the Hmong peoples during their migration to America. However amusing the novel was from a literary standpoint, the novel described many deeply discerning attributes of the American health care system and Social Work arena of that time period. Although this novel describes the journey of one peoples immigration to America this…

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    is not English. Many like to judge those individuals harshly and unfairly. Society has played a huge part in the lives of individuals who have ‘limited’ English. Even though, there are many that do not talk or understand English properly yet they should still be treated fairly. Amy Tan and her mother relate to this stigma. People should not judge a book by its cover because you never know if that individual with ‘limited’ English can soon read, speak, and write similar to a native English person…

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    treated and discriminated against, as a member of the ‘visible minority’. In 1968 she immigrated to Canada with her husband clerk Blaise. Mukherjee’s novels are about mental stress, physical sufferings, deep emotional, immigrant, cross cultural, tradition, the characters in the novel suffered these. Mostly in her novel…

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    The dominance of English language in Indian writing is but an obvious result of British presence in India. The hegemonic governance of British company over India for almost two-hundred years brought English language as most dominating language amongst all the vernacular languages. The 1980s period is recounted as the period of renaissance in Indian writing in English. The recent past years had brought recognition to India and Indian Novelists…

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    better than Joseph Conrad in his Nostromo? It is Joseph Conrad’s political novels that bring us into the twentieth century with this problem. Conrad’s early novels are set in isolation from the society but beginning with Nostromo, he starts to deal with the themes of society. The most striking feature of Nostromo is Conrad’s use of language to convey a rhetoric obscurity and loud presentation of events. His style in this novel express the disturbing changes which dominate this era of modernism…

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    provoking and well written novel highlighting the depths of human nature. Written through alternating points of view, Cleave connects two unlikely characters; a white woman from Kingston-upon-Thames and a sixteen year old Nigerian girl. On a vacation to Nigeria, Sarah, the woman from England, sacrifices her finger to save the Nigerian girl, Little Bee, from a mob looking to kill everyone in her village. While their story begins there, they share a connection throughout the novel, showcasing the…

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    In 2002, a novel thought to be the first written by an African-American woman became a best seller, praised for its dramatic depiction of Southern life in the mid-1850s through the observant eyes of a refined and literate house servant. But one part of the story remained a tantalizing secret: the author’s identity. That literary mystery may have been solved by a professor of English in South Carolina, who said this week that after years of research, he has discovered the novelist’s name: Hannah…

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