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Sri Lanka was relatively poor as it was still a developing country. Their average income was roughly $1,000 US dollars. Nobel prize winner, Mohan Munasinghe, describes the community as primarily homeless and unprepared for this catastrophic event. He uses the term civil society to describe the mass of people who came together and formed local groups to help evacuate remaining survivors. The groups set up refugee camps in safe neighborhoods and schools as well as provided food and water. The…

Jasmine is considered a shrub or vine, most closely related to the olive family. There are around 200 species scattered around warm or tropical regions of the globe. Jasmine originates from the Far East, namely India and China. In the Himalayas it was considered sacred throughout the region, especially in India where it is the sacred flower of Kama, the god of love. Jasmine are recognized by a characteristic showy, flowering bud whose fragrance can easily envelop an entire room or garden.…

Looking to save their company from going under, the East India Company was searching for various solutions to this economic downfall. The first of their ideas was to have the Townshend duty repealed, but the North ministry was not willing to do that because it might be interpreted as a withdrawal from Parliament's position that it had the right to tax the colonies. Also, the tax collected from the was used to pay the salaries of some colonial governors and judges. Another possible solution for…

Scots also benefited from other opportunities granted by the unification as well. Now Scots could now join the East India Trading Company as employees and investors and were not barred by the Navigation acts and merchants could now go to the colonies directly for trade. Many Scots quickly joined the Trading Company and rose through the ranks joining many Englishmen into riches earning the title of “Nabob’. The most notable early Scot in the East India Company being James Macrae, born in…

Michael Ondaatje expresses the concept of human nature and its struggle to survive the cruelties of death and war through various character developments throughout his Canadian novel Anil’s Ghost, particularly through Gamini, the brother of Sarath. Specifically, late in the novel, the main plot involves Anil’s investigation report being confiscated and her well being at risk, while the sub plot in the perspective of Gamini reveals that Sarath—who finds safe passage for Anil out of the island—…

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The novel Island of a Thousand Mirrors, traces the life of two families who are each on opposite sides of the Sri Lankan civil war. The story examines how war affects the families both on the Tamil and Sinhala side through the eldest daughter’s perspective. As the story progresses, Saraswathi transforms into a suicide bomber, who eventually sacrifices her own life. The key factors that drove Saraswathi’s transformation were caused by a change in role models, an unforgiving environment, and…

people of different backgrounds may believe the other is completely immoral and insensitive. In the novel Island of a Thousand Mirrors, Nayomi Munaweera, 2012, paints the stories of intertwining characters, one of which who becomes a suicide bomber in Sri Lanka. Looking into young Saraswathi’s life, Munaweera introduced her as an intelligent girl who dreamed of one day becoming a school teacher. Yet unfortunately, she was living in a time of civil war and bloody massacres. After being stripped…

I was not interested in politics for most of my life or that was what I thought up until the year 2007. Previously my views and conceptions of politics were often based on a restricted understanding of the subject and the lack of trust in politicians. I perceived it to be irrelevant to my life because then I had other priorities such as sports, exams, and other school related activities, hence I became alienated from politics. As I grew older, my interest in political affairs was realized at…

Bosnia/Former Yugoslavia The Bosnian Conflict is a conflict with two parts, one included an armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina; another is the Bosnian Genocide of the Bosniak people. The Conflict was caused in part by the splitting of Yugoslavia, during the early 1990s near the end of the cold war. The Bosnian Genocide coincided with Bosnian War, the genocide was a mass killing or ethnic cleansing of the Bosniak people and their culture, which occurred shortly after the…