Guava

“I am so sorry. I am just …..” She struggled to get the words out. She hurried back to the shore and looked at her phone. There were no messages or missed calls from her husband. She started walking again along the beach. The impressions of her steps she was leaving behind on the wet sand were getting longer and longer. The waves once in a while took the liberty of wiping them off without a trace. She stopped at a place where a girl of around 4 years old was carrying a small bucket full of…

conveyed through the "cockroach-crisp food" (317) served there. Kochamma's dejection in life is referred to her scrapping the "bitterness out of an elderly cucumber" (p20). Folk songs too bear witness to this fact. For example 'an over ripe-guava threatening to fall from the tree and make a mess on the ground….." is shown a basic body urges, "shit"…

raccoon, bobcats, turtle, alligator, and birds. When new grass would grow in the fields, the deer came to feed on the grass, and the Seminole would then catch the deer. The Seminole did not tend their crops. The land was filled with wild pineapples, guava, oranges, mulberry trees, and mangos. They lived off cane sugar and all food was sweetened with it. Each village had an eating-house. This was the biggest house in the village. The women prepared and cooked food for the entire village.…

Kiran Desai’s first novel, Hullabaloo in the guava orchard was published in 1998. She got the Betty Trask Award a prize given by the authors for the best novel by citizens of the common wealth nations and who are under the age of thirty five. Her second book “Inheritance of loss” was appreciated by the critics throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. Kiran Desai has won the man booker prize fellowship by the American academy. Kamala Markandeya was also the great of Indian women writers.…

Coffee became their major natural resource, which became their first major export. They also grow many other natural resources like oranges, guavas, bananas, corn, squash, eggs and rice. Costa Rica’s agriculture makes up 6.2% of their gross domestic product, with industry at 21.3% and services at 72.5%. Their primary industries include textiles and clothing, medical equipment, microprocessors…

Saving Mr. Ugwu is a novel by Lin Anderson written in 2012. The story is about Mr. Ugwu and his family, who live in the African bush, more specific in Nigeria which is a old British colony according to the internet. There is a clear racial division between the white and black race in Nigeria. As if this was not enough, there is also a division among the black race. We have the Hausas and the Igbo tribes. Mr. Ugwu and his family belongs to the Igbo tribe, while people such as his houseboy is a…

Phú Quốc is a small Vietnamese island in the Gulf of Thailand with picturesque white sandy beaches, clear azure water, palm trees, and many resorts. It is truly paradise, in every sense of the word. We spent four perfect days in Phú Quốc, living the luxury vacation life. We stayed at Eden Resort, a massive, four-star, beach-front resort hotel that cost less than a Motel 6 in the states. For a few days, we lived a champagne lifestyle on a beer budget. This was also unfortunately when I got sick,…

The one day in my life I would choose to re-live if I could would be one that occurred a couple of years back. My father, mother, along with myself took a Wild Africa Trek safari at the Animal Kingdom Lodge where we stayed at one of the Walt Disney World Resorts. What an invigorating experience. I can not wait to go back and experience it all over again. The Animal Kingdom Lodge is set on four lush savannas’ that is home to some thirty species of wildlife that includes Zebras,…

In Fig 4 pore size distribution profiles of the Y and MY is observed. By the BJH method, which uses desorption branch of the nitrogen isotherm in order to calculate the pore size distribution and the adsorbed volume[12], the pore size in the range of only 1.4 nm could be seen in Fig. 4a. Presence of various distribution of pore size is the manifest of the related BJH of the MY zeolite in Fig. 4b. As can be seen there are the pore size distributions from 1.2-6 nm in which the pores in the range…

The definition of cultural diversity is “the cultural variety and cultural differences that exist in the world, a society, or an institution,” and in this novel cultural diversity is one of the main elements discussed. Diversity affected all the characters in this novel in some way. There are so many different way cultural diversity affects each character when it comes to race, religion, national origin, and disability. Samad Iqbal a Bengali Muslim, from Bangladesh, who has a disabled hand…