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Salaam Mira! Acclaimed Director, Writer and Producer, Mira Nair, grew up in Odisha (India), and studied in Shimla, Delhi and USA (Harvard). Initially she explored acting and was actively involved with theatre but then got drawn towards film-making and from 1979 started making documentaries that explored the concept of India and Indianness. She found them to be “a marriage of my interests in the visual arts, theatre, and life as it is lived”. Her second non-fiction, “So Far from India” (1982)…

should realize the creators’ jokes should be viewed as what they are intended to be: a harsh reality rather than crude. Peacocke argues that when taken at face value, Family Guy’s humor could potentially be considered offensive. Instead, the creator Seth Macfarlane intelligently uses satire to mock American culture. The article is overall effective with one minor weakness. The article gains a majority of its effectiveness from the author providing her own personal experiences to help the reader…

Ali’s close partisan constitutes the Shi’at Ali, along with the general Islamic belief in Allah, Muhammad's message, and the Quran. The Shiites believe in the Imam as the true leader of faith and the veritable interpreter of the Quran. According to the Shia doctrine, the prophet-- shortly before he died, appointed Ali as the leader of the community and initiated him into the esoteric aspects and the mysteries of faith, and also his particular designated descendants, in turn, inherited this…

Upon graduating from the United States Military Academy, I will commission into the Army as a Second Lieutenant and serve as an infantry officer. Knowing this, I have set out to gain a good understanding of what is expected of me upon my arrival at my unit. One way to gain this understanding is to continuously conduct interviews with the past and current members of the infantry branch. By conducting these interviews, I have the ability to learn a lot about what is expected of me and where junior…

The Merchant’s Tale follows a genre of the narrative common to the medieval French literature known as a “fabliau.” According to Christina von Nolcken “these types of stories are often short, comic, and involve a person stealing another person’s wife.” The key plot of The Merchant’s Tale fits this, especially with the stock features of the lustful old man cuckolded by a young woman. Von Nolcken continues, “part of the comedy of a fabliau of this kind is the folly of the old man who thinks he can…

The Fly is a movie directed by David Cronenberg in 1986. It is actually a remake of Kurt Neumann’s 1958 movie of the same title, which starred Vincent Price. The Fly is best know as a Horror Sci-Fi movie, but has also been labeled under Drama and Romance because of the connection between the two main characters. According to a review post by Film School Rejects, the mix of genres brought in a larger audience than the typical horror and sci-fi fans and is what Cronenberg believes to have been…

South Korean Education: The Immobility it creates Introduction: The South Korean education system provides exceptional teaching, academic support, and competition. The largest factor, however, isn 't one of these things. It is how much hard work each student spends outside of the school day on their academics, that sets them apart from other countries. The influences and high focus on their study habits and the additional private tutoring that they are expected to take part in, is what I do not…

“High risk, high reward.” This phrase can be applied not only to Wall Street investors, but South American migrants. “But what qualities make the migrant’s high risk? Authors, Jacqueline Maria Hagan and Seth M. Holmes attempt to answer this question in their works on migrant workers (Hagan 2008; Holmes 2013). In her work, Migration Miracle, Hagan illustrates the coping mechanisms assigned with the migrant’s journey. Likewise, Holmes discusses in his work, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies, how the…

from humans. For naturalism , humans treat themselves as the more superior party as compared to non humans. Non humans are there to be exploited and for human’s consumption. Evidence of this can be seen in literary text :The Elephant and the Tragopan (Seth 1993: 7). Non humans are lamenting over the new dam built that affected their living environment. There are also evidences of humans exploiting the animals for instance hunting the leopard for its fur, the elephant’s ivory and even ripping…

Within the past decade, an average of fifty-five percent of terminally ill patients died in pain (Seth). Thousands and thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer or other diseases that can put them in a difficult situation if death comes into play. Constant debate of Physician-Assisted Suicide and/or Euthanasia has caused a spark within the medical industry, causing more hospitals and medical facilities to accommodate special request from terminally ill patients. Within the majority of…