Sri Lanka

Maya Arulpragasam….famously known as M.I.A was born to Sri Lankan parents in London, England in 1975. When Maya was about six months old, her family moved back to Sri Lanka; where Her father led a Tamil independence movement and was always on the move avoiding the Sri Lankan government. Later she moved back to London and graduated from art school in the late 1990s; Maya then progressed onto being a graphic artist and film maker. After this Maya made her way into the musical realm and…

Sinhalese were agricultural people and therefore they settled down in river banks to get water easily to their agriculture. Wet zone and Dry zone are the main two parts of Sri lanka divided according to geographical situation. The wet zone villages were called ran fed villages. These people did not store water because they had enough rain fall. All the dwellings were spread around the river banks with lonely. Each and every…

took off when the Han Dynasty began to fall, which ended their strict beliefs of Confucius. There are two kind of Buddhism, the Theravada Buddhist have strict meditation and reading of teachings of Buddha. This kind of Buddhism is most popular in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. The kind of Buddhism that is most popular in China is Mahayana Buddhism, where believers compare the teachings of Buddha as more abstract and they also accept Amitabha a contemporary Buddha but the Theravada Buddhists don’t…

time as a professional test cricket was the pinnacle of cricket. Now, however, that is not the case as shorter formats have taken its place as the premier sporting events. Furthermore, this decline in test cricket is not just felt in the Caribbean; Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have felt this decline also. The fire to play test cricket is…

assets ratio exceeds above mentioned standard, that is indicated company may not be efficiently using its short term financing facilities (Akinsulire, 2006). In Tal Lanka Hotels PLC current assets ratios are 0.86 times, 1.63…

One went to Southeast Asia, the so called Theravada Buddhism, it’s found in Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, a little bit in Vietnam (not that much). Another wave went through Central Asia to China, and from China to Japan and Korea, and down to Vietnam. And another wave that went later from India to Tibet, and from…

Furthermore, ontological security of identities is crucial for inducement of conflicts, because ontological security fulfillment affirms a group’s self-identity. Groups seek ontological security because they want to maintain consistent self-concept (Steele 2008). Also, ontological security refers to the need to experience oneself as a whole. Thus, when group members feel relatively unstable and fragile about their identity, they can’t understand who they are and a deep uncertainty renders the…

with my grandma’s experiences as well. My grandma did not always think that moving to Canada was a good idea. Back in Sri Lanka, my grandmother did not have enough money to advance her children's education to the fullest of their abilities. She thought about investing all her money and moving away to Canada but did not think it was worth it. In 1983, a civil war broke out in Sri Lanka between the Tamil people and the Sinhalese people over equality and human rights. Due to the massive amount of…

the drink. • KIK cola is the only cola seen in the market as High Quality, but with a affordable price. • World market leaders like Coca Cola and Pepsi are market leaders in Sri Lanka and they are positioned as High Quality High price…

The events aren’t always in chronological order because most of the important events are told towards the end of the memoir. The opening chapter speaks about how the alcohol induced events that made Micheal realize that he needed to go back to Sri Lanka. Alcohol affected a lot of things in his family so this event is ironic. The structure is planned out in the realizations that Micheal comes to. The rising actions gives background information that alters the way the readers interpret the text.…