Conc. Elective: Biol 315 (Sp only), 328 (Sp only), 329 (Sp only), 332 (Sp only), *421, 475…
Karch Kiraly is number one in the “Top U.S Players of All Time” for indoor and outdoor beach volleyball. He is Volleyball’s highest governing body and the greatest player in the 20th century. He has won three national championships under head coach “Al Scates”. However, all this success came from hard work during high school, and college.…
Advertising both contributes positive and negative effects to society. As advertisements promote prosperity, it also is propaganda. Although one effect of advertising is to encourage people to help the less fortunate, overall the negative effects of promoting poor decisions about health and creating divisions in society outweigh any benefits.…
Contents: Syllabus for Courses: A.ENG.3.01 – The Elements of Poetry A.ENG.3.02 – Indian Writing in English 1850-1980 A.ENG.3.MS -- Media Studies (Applied Component)…
After the “Indian Golden Age” came a more structured form of Indian theatre. Bharata Muni wrote a book sometime between 200 b.c.e. and 100 c.e. entitled Natyasastra which loosely translates to “The Study of Theatre” or “The Art of Theatre.” This book is often compared to the Roman/ Green De Architectura in that is…
In Siegfried Sassoon’s World War I poem They a great amount of poetic devices such as irony and rhyme scheme are used to develop the overall theme of the poem. The poem holds a very dark and shocking side of a war within its meaning and theme. Drawn from Sassoon’s own experiences he had during his time in the First World War, The strong overall theme of the piece is the changes that war makes on someone.…
every major language and are performed more than plays by any other playwright. He is often…
Born on 23 February 1945 in Manila . (Also known as Krip Yuson.) He has authored 23 books, including novels, poetry collections, short fiction, essays, and children's stories, apart from having edited various other titles. Yuson was conferred the Southeast Asia Write Award (SEA Write) in 1992 in Bangkok, and has been elevated to the Hall of Fame of the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the Philippines ‘ most prestigious literary distinction. He has frequently represented the Philippines in Literary conferences, festivals and reading tours in the United States, Japan, China, Finland, Scotland, Thailand, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Columbia, and his works may be found in many international anthologies.…
His dramatic art and knowledge of Arthashastra are evenly balanced in Mudrarakshasa. He broke fresh ground in Sanskrit drama and gained fame with this play only.…
Biography Premchand was born on 31 July 1880 in Lamhi, a village located near Varanasi (Benares). His ancestors came from a large family, which owned six bighas of land.[3] His grandfather Gur Sahai Lal was a patwari (village accountant), and his father Ajaib Lal was a post office clerk. His mother was Anand Devi of Karauni village, who could have been the inspiration for the character Anandi in his Bade Ghar Ki Beti.[4] Premchand was the fourth child of Ajaib Lal…
* CHISTI SILSILA- Named after people who propagated this. The people had come from a place called Chist…
He may not be a prolific poet but to have published six volumes of poems in the span of seventeen years is no mean achievement, but what needs particularly to be pointed out is the fact that, in recognition of his literary work, he was honoured with the Sahitya Academy Award in 1984. This fact, namely his winning this distinction, is a befitting reply to our grievance against the literary critics for not having shown much enthusiasm to his poetry.…
He is a transnational figure and trans-disciplinary scholar. His academic research ranged across five languages: Tamil, Kannada, English, Telugu and Sanskrit. His major translation works are The Interior Landscapes: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology, Speaking of Shiva and Hymns for the Drowning.…
As a part of modernising, propagating, promoting and popularizing Kathakali, the International Centre for Kathakali at New Delhi has taken up a continuing project since 1980 of producing new plays based on not only traditional and mythological stories, but also historical stories, European classics and Shakespeare's plays. Recently they produced Kathakali plays based on Shakespeare's Othello and Greek-Roman mythology of Psyche and Cupid.…
Kabir was a 15th century mystic poet. A weaver by profession, a free-thinker and mystic by choice, he opposed ritualism and false piety. Kabir's own religious identity was ambiguous. He influenced Hinduism's Bhakti movement and his verses are found in Sikhism's scripture Adi Granth. Kabir was born of Mohammedan parents in or near Benaras. He became the disciple of the Hindu ascetic Ramananda, who was a man of wide religious culture. Till date, scholars and researchers have not been able to figure out from his…