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Decreased Recognizability in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist After the attacks of September 11, many postcolonial novels emerged in response to the event and its effect on the world. Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist is often read as one of these novels. While Hamid opposes the violence and racism behind the War on Terror, I argue that the novel offers a more complex critique of the United States’ economic and political practices spanning far before 9/11. Since its rise…

Air Pollution is considered as one of the major contributing factors of the degradation of Mother Earth, and for the Philippines every waking day of a person’s life the matter of ‘gas’ is a part of it. According to an article Source of Air pollution "By inhaling a large amount of air pollution in one’s body system, it can cause serious diseases and in worst case scenarios can lead to death" (2013, par. 1). Having a tainted air that every living organisms, including the humans that are breathing.…

Peyton stood in the elevator. They were all stuffed. Crowed with security guards, full with suited administrators clutching clipboards, carrying manila folders and cold expressions. The university president’s secretary stood at the front of everyone, her tight brown curls like a helmet ready for war. One of the security guards, Frank, took Peyton’s computer from her hands as they entered and placed it in a brown box. The saccharine scent of cheap perfume permeated the enclosed metal box and…

She was allowed to leave camp and travel to the U.S. She waited so long to see her family and would be reunited with them soon. She was very excited to embark on next portion of her journey. Yen boarded a plane in Manila and flew to Tokyo where she took a second flight to San Francisco. It was hard for Yen to contain her excitement as she looked out the plane window to see the gigantic skyscrapers and towering buildings of San Francisco. She blinked back tears and…

Written around the attack of September 11, and the effects it had on a Pakistani student, Changez who studied and worked in the United States. Author Mohsin Hamid doesn’t simply tell his tale The Reluctant Fundamentalist, but delivers it in such a matter where you can interpret several meanings from the simplest things. From the names, their conversations and even to the way the book was composed gives this book such an extraordinary style. From the beginning of the book the reader is drawn…

The Cyclone Event Cyclone Megi, or locally know as a typhoon, was first reported as a cyclone at around halfway though October 16 2010. It continued in a north west direction, at around the end of October 16 2010 Megi was upgraded to a category 4 cyclone. For the entirety of October 17 2010 Megi was a level 5 cyclone, the most powerful level. At approximately 11:25 am on the 18th of October 2010 cyclone Megi, currently at a category 5, hit Isabela province. As shown in figure 1.2. The island of…

The 1970’s was a strange and growing time. Music continued to explode with new genres of music such as disco, hip-hop, punk rock, and heavy metal. Some bands and music artist that emerged popular in the 70’s were David Bowie, the Bee Gees, Queen, James Brown, as well as Creedence Clearwater Revival (Peoples Hist.). The fashion was an ever changing thing of the 70’s. Some fashion trends that occurred in the 70’s were bellbottoms, tie dye shirts, flower power, and mod clothing. It was quite the…

name of China and they believed they will fly across the pacific. “Gou Tai”, is the Mandarin name for the airline which derives from a Chinese idiom that means “Grand and Peaceful State”. The maiden voyage for Cathay Pacific was from Hong Kong to Manila by “Besty”, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft. Under the stewardship of these two men, Cathay Pacific had carried around 3,000 passengers and over 15 tons of cargo between the Asia and Australia routes besides acquired second DC-3 aircraft by the end of…

I'm getting closer and closer to my fate. I don't know why I let myself get into this. As I see his midnight black tinted windows coming towards me my prepaid phone is buzzing off the charts because the GPS tracker the kids had put under bumper. His car is gaining speed closer, and closer. I had bought the phone earlier at the crappy Walmart while the annoying lady behind me wouldn't and couldn't control her kids. I was distracted. Then, I realized I had thrown my receipt away for the phone.…

strong a few times, blew the smoke out of his nose and continued. “Well, I decided to do a background check on you to see what your past was like, and to see if my instincts were really on point and the result are finally in…” Zo opened the thick manila envelope and read the contents aloud. Jamal Keshawn Thomas got arrested on July 10, 2005, for trafficking cocaine. Got jammed with 23 ounces of cocaine and a stolen police issued Glock .9 millimeter with the serial numbers…