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    Ernest Hemingway once said ”there is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.” In the story “Indian Camp” Nick, his father and his uncle George travel to an Indian Camp where there is a woman who is having trouble in labor. When approached, the woman is screaming on top of her lungs. Nick asks why, and his father has to explain to him that she is in labor. Nick has an uneasy feeling and keeps looking away. Nick’s father started…

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    in the name of the Queen. My research question is, To what extent did the Indian Military contribute to Allied victories in World War 2 from 1939-1945? Indian soldiers were selected from many different castes, and religions, including Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs. Many, many soldiers were used extensively during the First World War. Lots of them sacrificed their lives for a less purposeful war. A lot of Indian soldiers also had no choice to fight. This subject has greatly interested…

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    Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States of America, he served two terms as a Democratic Republican from 1829-1837. The entire Jackson campaign not only started up revolutionary political election tactics such as rallies, parades, and lavish dinners that supporters paid for, but it also sparked up a whole new era of mass democracy, and gave birth to the political party that we now know as the “Democrats”. Mr. Jackson considered himself, a president for the people, with a…

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    hierarchical structure in society and the people, therefore, believe that they should be reliant on their superior for guidance. The short story about Boori Ma, “A Real Durwan”, in “Interpreter of Maladies” gives a societal example of Power Distance in Indian culture. Boori Ma is essentially a groundskeeper at an apartment complex in Calcutta. She is extremely poor and although she does not work for very wealthy people, there are still clear indicators that she accepts the notion that she is…

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    America and receive an American education. When it came to our education my parents never had any restrictions to what they were willing to do or what they were willing to give up; I was sent to Saturday school, tutoring sessions, summer camp, SAT prep, anything that bolstered my college resume. It’s because of this selflessness that I grew up in a town that can only be accurately labeled as an upper-middle class, catholic, white community, in which we were the only Indian family. It had one of…

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    Indian Ocean Trade

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    The Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean in the world taking the shape of a capital ‘M’. The ocean itself covers twenty-six million square miles and it acts as a link to many important continents and regions around the world. The Indian trading network was established in 800 A.D. and was a place where people used trade routes for bulk trading. The Network extended from the coast of East Africa, to Arabia, to the Persian Gulf, India, across to Burma, down through the Malacca Strait that runs…

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    males won the right to vote and political parties came more organized, the aspect of American politics and culture changed. At the beginning of the early politics of America was very chaotic, which in turn bred feelings of discontent amongst poor non-land owning Americans. Later American politics was in a sense more democratic and because it more democratic there would be consequences that would change the American country and culture forever. Universal white male Suffrage was an important…

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    Reservation Full Of Pain

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    asleep, because everything seems overwhelming and too large to tackle. Native Americans, who have been moved on reservation land that the white government didn’t value, suffer poverty that is so systemic that it seems impossible to solve even on an individual level. Sherman Alexie’s novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, tells the story of Arnold Spirit Jr, a Native American teenager that lives in an Indian Reservation. He isn't really satisfied with his life, since he's pretty…

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    Suswad Case Study

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    serving authentic Indian cuisine. Name of this new venture is “Suswad”. Suswad is situated in the heart of Virginia Beach. The word “Suswad” is a Sanskrit word which means “Good taste”. Suswad serves pure vegetarian Indian cuisine in Indian style in an ambience similar to restaurants in India. In India, large population are vegetarian. Thus, there are many delicious vegetarian dishes popular in India. Suswad prepares Indian vegetarian dishes in Indian style, by Indian cooks. In Indian dishes, a…

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    The Comanches were a very diverse Indian tribe in their culture, war tactics, and the Comanches reservations. The Comanches were a fierce warrior tribe. They were in states such as Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma,and Arizona. They were exceptional horsemen. The Comanches were excellent at hunting and gathering. The Comanches were known as the “Lords of the Plains. The Comanches had a very unique culture. The Comanches were originally part of the Eastern Shoshone, who lived by Platte River…

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