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I am Karuna Ravi. I completed my high school. I took Engineering Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET) and waited for the results. My Father, Nageshwara Rao Ravi, working as charge-men in the steel industry. My Mother name is Surya Kumari Ravi, Housewife. I have a sister (Lavanya Ravi) who is working as a computer engineer in a reputed company. We live in Visakhapatnam, India while my sister lives in Bangalore. I believe, my mother is the most amazing and hard working woman in…

There are many words that one can use to describe the indigenous people of Mesoamerica: brilliant architects, pioneers in mathematics and astrometry. However, there are a few words that are hardly ever utter out loud; cannibals and superficial individuals who perform human sacrifice. To our modern society, the practices of the Aztec people may seem a bit strange and a little bit extreme but to the Native people it was a part of their religious practices. If you can imagine it, it would be like…

Chiomara When Mom asks Dahlia and me if we want to go with her to the Nasty Women’s First Annual Camp and Rant, I tell Mom I’d rather die, but good for her. Dahlia says she wouldn’t miss it for the world. She says that no matter what, she is going, and if I don’t go, I’m being complicit to Trump’s administration. “You’re, like, a sexist,” says Dahlia. “I can’t be a sexist,” I say, “I’m a female.” “You can be sexist against women and be a woman yourself,” says Dahlia. “It could be really…

The Soviet cuisine encompassed a variety of tastes, from the Ukrainian salo to the Korean sliced carrots. In Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking, Anya Von Bremzen takes the reader on a personal journey through the Soviet Union’s history using food as her framework. Each chapter represents a decade infused with descriptions of her recreating dishes from that era in the present day. This book does not solely focus on the author’s personal family history, but it is simultaneously the story of a…

end. My heart pounded as I approached the small cluster of nurses. Huddled at the end of a patient’s bed, the group of women in white aprons and pink button-up dresses whispered amongst themselves and avoided the gaze of the fuming lead nurse in front of them. Maria yanked the wool blanket off the patient beside her and threw it onto the linoleum floor. “Who admitted this man? He shouldn’t be here.” I rose on my tiptoes, struggling to get a glimpse of the patient. A Naseeri Arab man. Uncovered,…

gotten part of the glory of killing them herself. And no longer would she listen to them tell stories, dreaming of the day she would have stories of her own to tell, for now; she was a full-grown. “I am proud of you Nathaira.” Athrysion murmured, licking her affectionately on the face “Very proud.” Nathaira’s heart swelled even more, if that was possible. “Come,” he said, “Zeythra will want to hear of your first kill.” He stepped back from her and their bodies began rippling as if they were…

In the twentieth century, women were known to be the less dominant figure in the family. The men were seen as the ones who kept the family stable for they were the physically strong ones and the hard workers in the family. Nowadays, women are becoming the independent and self reliant figures in society. In The Grapes of Wrath written by John Steinbeck, Ma Joad, the motherly figure, holds a depictive role in the novel. In the beginning of the book, the male figures were the ones who kept the…

Diets in the southern parts of the country (Lagos included) consist of corn, yams and sweet potatoes normally served with a palm oil based stew including chicken or other assortment of meats. Additionally, tropical fruits such as papaya, pineapples, coconuts and mangoes are particularly popular. This varies considerably from the north which uses millet and corn as the basis of several meals…

The Heart of the Matter is an exploration of same existential issues as have been found in Brighton Rock and The Power and the Glory. In The Power and the Glory. Greene deals with the dehumanizing elements in modern life, and shows the importance of faith rising from man’s personal experience. It hints at Greene’s dissatisfaction with organized religion as it limits the individual’s freedom. The ideological conflict between the lieutenant and the priest forms the central pattern of the book. The…

by any of the countless vulgar terms to insinuate sexual immortality. “It was different for a girl” (Meyer 275). By expressing the emotional stress of the character through metaphors and similes such as “You begin to feel diluted, like watered down stew,” leads to the assumption that rather than vilifying the female for her sexual encounters, Minot sympathizes with the character (Meyer 277). Though the panther in Rilke’s…