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to analyse their significance in relation to the definition of invisibility offered in the given text. The novel is set in the United States during the time of the pre-Civil Rights era when segregation laws stripped black Americans from participating in the same basic human rights as their white counterparts. Author Ralph Ellison is a black modernist writer from the United States, who questions whiteness as a collective paradigm and the ‘Invisibility’ of black subjectivities in a racist society…

Abstract:’ The Refugee’ a one act play was written by Asif Currimbhoy.The play portrays the miserable condition of the refugees from East Bengal on hand and on the other hand the play throws ample light on the effects of the refugee problems in social life in India during 1971.Asif combines the major issues with other problems like communalism as it is also led by other issues. It suggests that one problem gives way to other problems. The present play focuses all the issues due to the influx of…

Not just only blacks were discriminated, but also everyone else in other ways by sex, skin color, family background, or even their physical appearance. In the play, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, Mama used some of the insurance money to buy a new home in Clybourne Park. This new neighborhood is a white neighborhood but, they are a black family, so they were not welcomed to move in. This caused everyone in the family to hesitate about whether or not to move in. But, this was Mama’s…

One of the causes of the Sri Lankan Civil War, which falls under external influence, is colonialism. Sri Lanka was under British colonial rule from 1796-1948. The British implemented the divide and rule tactic when governing Sri Lanka, where minority groups, in this case Tamils, are given preferential treatment. This is to aggravate differences between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority. This way, the majority group that was being discriminated against would direct their grievances…

An international language refers to a language in widespread use as a foreign language or second language (Richards et al.,1992, p.234). Over the years, the English language has reached a status of the international language, and has played an important role around the world for economic, education, scientific and entertainment exchange between nations and particularly between people, and commonly is characterized as a lingua franca. According to Crystal (1997), today, more people use English…

throughout the world. They attempted to gain control of southeast Asia, and through many wars fought between the years eighteen eighty-seven and nineteen hundred, the French successfully created a colony called Indochina which was created out of the five kingdoms; Annam, Tonkin, Cochinchina, Cambodia, and Laos. This French Colony only lasted a good fifty…

The British caused many deaths and Indians suffered a lot from being under the British government and was hard for them to live a normal life while having British men roaming the streets. While the British want India's goods and want to make profit off of their cash crops. The British first came to India in the 1600s while the British East India Company started setting up trading posts in Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta. The British East India Company quickly took advantage of the growing weakness…

Orientalism is a term which indicates how the West perceives the East as the ‘other’. Edward Said published his controversial book Orientalism in 1978, which talks about how Orientalism forms an inferior Orient, in terms of knowledge and domination. Edward Said opens his introduction by mentioning the Western’s misconception about the East arguing that “The Orient was almost a European invention” (Said 1). The Orient played a significant role in the creation of the European culture and it…

Every day thousands of people are leaving behind their home countries to move away for one reason or another. With each individual that enters into a new country, there are different challenges, new experiences, and new opportunities for them. Leaving behind everything a person knows can be very daunting and sometimes very difficult to assimilate to the new society. From young children into adulthood, everyone has had a desire to feel like they belong somewhere. The efforts to fit into a certain…

Thesis Over a period of one hundred years, the British Empire ruled over the Indian subcontinent in racially discriminatory, enslaving ways. Deprived of self-rule, the Indians formed groups and alliances in order to politically compromise with the British for Indian independence. In his attempts to rid India of British rule, freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose of Calcutta sacrificed his security and ultimately his life, refusing to compromise with the unjust ways of the Raj. A Patriot, and…