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    Gunabhiram Barua Summary

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    Samaj, he adopted Brahmaoism and wished that Assam might prosper by accepting this faith, which had been actually propagated by Sankardeva and Madhavadeva centuries ago. He was greatly influenced by Iswarchandra Vidyasagar, and not only advocated widow marriage, but himself…

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    In a society, the majority of the people in the society greatly affects how the minority would act or think. The social pressure created from the majority group would cause the person to conform to the majority. This leads to a group of people to be afraid to think against society’s ideas, which is what Twain criticizes. Twain criticizes society by using satire, which is a literary technique that is used by many writers, it is the use of humor, irony, or exaggeration, to criticize or shame…

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    staying with the widow. He becomes lonely and wishes for companionship in his dull life. He feels like he has no friends and the adults only scold him. Page 75 “Pap always said it warn’t no harm to borrow things, if you was meaning to pay them back, sometime; but the widow said it warn’t anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it.” Huck has trouble deciding what to do. He has conflicting thoughts based on what he has learned from his father and the widow. The…

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    Midnight's Children Quotes

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    subject to this trap. Upstone using words like “space” and “confines” portrays woman physically being trapped in a small place, showing both how they felt trapped and actually were trapped in their home. However, the Widow breaks away from these stereotypes of woman, as “Mrs. Gandhi, the 'Widow' in "Midnight's Children" is a terrifying picture painted in dark colours, ‘no colour except green and black’” (Literary Contexts in Novels: Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children".). Mrs. Gandhi was a…

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    The book the adventures by Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain focus on the character Huck Finn and his journey to morality. Thesis: The three biggest impacts on Huck’s morality are emerging into the novel by living with a drunken and abusive father, being assisted with Jim to gain his own sense of morality, and him learning right and wrong throughout the book. By that I mean he learns how to make good decisions and bad decisions depending on the situation. One impact on Huck’s morality is trying to…

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    In “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain, a young boy named Huckleberry Finn lives a rough life. He lived with a widow in a home too “civilized” for his suitings, but then his alcoholic father returned and kidnapped him. His father kept him in a secluded cabin where he would abuse him. Huck escapes from this cabin and finds a slave, Jim, who had ran away from the widow’s plantation. Together they set out for their own personal freedom, and on this trek Huck experiences and sees how…

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    Ahmad Sadat: Case Study

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    he is Foad and he is the brother of the decedent’s widow, not Ahmad Sadat, the uncle of the widow as identified on the witness declaration. Further, he testified that it was his witness declaration, but the printed name and relationship were incorrect. He also testified that brothers are sometimes called uncles. Karima Sadiqi gave him the declaration to sign, but he does not know who drafted it. Finally, he testified that the decedent’s widow does not have an Uncle Ahmad Sadat. The…

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    Living in a “programmed” society as the ones depicted in the play A Doll’s House written by Henrik Ibsen and the film Water directed by Deepa Mehta, the main characters in these two works were all trapped by their religious faith and the social conventions during that particular setting. Both works were surrounding the theme of female rights and this showed how even in different countries and time, discrimination toward the women was the same. These difficult conditions incentivise the main…

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    on considerable many frills since I’ve been away. (Twain 23) You’re educated too; can read and write. You think you’re better than your father, don’t you, because he can’t? I’ll take it out of you. Who told you to meddle with such foolishness? The widow…Well I’ll learn her how to meddle…I’ll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father” (Twain 24). During this time period, it was not expected for people to change the economic class they were born in, but “This generation…

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    Otto Dix The War Analysis

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    showing themes of pacifism, sacrifice, and mourning. Two examples of artworks from her portfolio that show suffering caused by war include The Parents and The Widow II. The Parents show the sorrow of parents who lost a child in war, much like Käthe Kollwitz herself, whose son, Peter, died in combat in 1914. The Widow II is a woodcut of a dead war widow and her child. This woodcut shows the suffering of many Germans after the war because rising inflation demolished buying power, which led to a…

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