Aravind Adiga is an Indian-Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel‚ The White Tiger‚ won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. He was born in Madras on 23rd October 1974. He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the prize‚ after Salaman Rushdie‚ Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai.He began his journalistic career as a financial journalist‚ interning at the Financial Times. He was subsequently hired by TIME‚ where he remained a South Asia correspondent for three years before going freelance. During his freelance
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Advanced Placement Literature and Composition Outside Reading Books (ORBs) & Summer Reading Instructions- 2010-2011 Patrice Norris- Instructor Email: elwyn.norris@mnps.org READ THIS HANDOUT VERY CAREFULLY BECAUSE THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE QUITE SPECIFIC Part I. All AP Literature students are required to read How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster. You will refer to this book throughout the year. The book is very entertaining and very informative as an introduction to
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Historian as curandera Abstract History is story we tell ourselves as Khalil Gibran Muhamad defined it ‚ or Story we tell ourselves about how past explains our present and the way story is told is shaped by contemporary needs as Aurora Levnis Morales nicely put it. Likewise it could be stated that we become stories we tell ourselves. Thus‚ history has role in construction of our identity. Given the importance of the story for us‚ could it be different story then the one we are told in mainstream
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INTRODUCTION: Our natural environment includes all living and non living things like land‚ forests‚ minerals‚ water bodies‚ the atmosphere‚ etc. Some of these resources are renewable and others are non renewable‚ which get depleted and ultimately exhausted with their continuous use. Even the renewable resources may get degraded or polluted. Economic development leads to increase in the rate of national income. Increase in national income would result only from increased production of goods and services
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Language is a system for communicating. Written languages use symbols (that is‚ characters) to build words. The entire set of words is the language’s vocabulary. The ways in which the words can be meaningfully combined is defined by the language’s syntax and grammar. The actual meaning of words and combinations of words is defined by the language’s semantics English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the most widely used language in the world
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Narmada Bachao Andolan From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Narmada Bachao Andolan logo Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) is a social movement consisting of adivasis‚ farmers‚ environmentalists‚ and human rights activists against a number of large dams being built across the Narmada river. The river flows through the states of Gujarat‚ Maharashtra‚ and Madhya Pradesh in India. Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat is one of the biggest dams on the river and was one of the
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The Importance of English in the World of International Business ‘English is now a global language that belongs to all those who speak it.’ (Nigel Newton‚ publisher) It is the technology that allows people to travel further and faster than ever before. It is the Internet that links people regardless their nationalities and countries they live in. And technology is also the reason why lots of business people are active globally and why more and more entrepreneurs are on the move than ever
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Gender Charles’ Dickens Tale of Two Cities‚ Virginia Woolf’s Orlando‚ and Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things all explore gender as a facet of modern literature. Madame Defarge‚ Orlando‚ and Baby Kochamma all challenge the traditional feminine ideals imposed on them. Whether through physical violence‚ poetry‚ or gardening‚ these characters represent what it means to be a woman in the modern era. These women are particularly striking characters because of the way they interact with gender stereotypes
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Climate change is the greatest example of market failure we have ever seen. - NICHOLAS STERN‚ FORMER WORLD BANK CHIEF ECONOMIST Today‚ our world is headed towards a crisis where a booming population is faced with imminent threats of global warming‚ including rising seas‚ extreme weather conditions‚ and environmental disasters‚ as Hurricane Sandy recently evidenced. Once lush lands are drained dry of life from water scarcity and droughts. If there is water‚ much of it can be filled with chemicals
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