The movie East is East takes place in Salford‚ Manchester in the early seventies. The family Kahn owns a fish and chips shop on the corner. The father George Kahn‚ tries to raise his 7 children as good Muslims. But the job is not easy when he has to please both his British wife Ella and the Pakistani community. When his oldest son rejects to get married and leaves the bride at the altar‚ Georges world seems to collapse‚ but then he gets an idea. He can marry off two of his other sons and get
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neighboring countries on one another; encouraging trade within two countries or more. COMESA‚ which abbreviates Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa‚ offers very extensive benefits and advantages for its member States as well as the business community. Because of its focus on full private sector participation in integration‚ COMESA offers new opportunities for industrial‚ production‚ investment‚ development and trade opportunities not available under the previous regional arrangements. No investor
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The East is East and the West is West! China is the one of the largest countries in the world. As to population China is the first country in the world. China is a great country. China has a recorded history of nearly four thousand years. Key Issues What is “culture”? Substantial differences among societies arise from cultural differences Culture differences are related to social structure‚ religion‚ language‚ education‚ economic and political philosophy “Culture” and workplace values are
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The Effects of AIDS on Sub-Saharan African Communities “Two-thirds of all people infected with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa‚ although this region contains little more than 10% of the world’s population” ("The impact of HIV & AIDS on Africa"‚ 2010‚ para. 1). “During 2008 alone‚ an estimated 1.4 million adults and children died as a result of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa…[that is] more than 15 million Africans [who] have died from AIDS…since the beginning of the epidemic”("The impact of
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dissertation is entirely the result of my own work‚ and includes nothing that is the outcome of any work done in collaboration. It does not exceed 80‚000 words in length. In the course of my archive research I was helped by the British Institute in East Africa‚ and its former Director Dr John Sutton‚ and assistant Director‚ Dr Shane Doyle. I am especially grateful to Shane Doyle for his help‚ hospitality and humour. In Ethiopia at the University of Addis Ababa I was able to use the excellent resources
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East is East We’ve been looking at East is East; it’s a film about a Muslim family (although the mother is English) living in Manchester. The Khan family are an untypical of a Muslim family because Ella‚ the mother‚ I white and an atheist. George the father tries to arrange marriages for his three sons but they rebel against his strict Muslim upbringing preferring Ella’s non-religious way of life. George is the boss in their relationship; he makes all their decisions. He controls the family
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Film review: East is East The film “East is East” is a British comedy-drama film written by Ayub Khan-Din‚ directed by Damien O’Donnell and released in 1999. The story is set in a British household with a pious Muslim father and an English mother in Salford in 1971. George Khan‚ the father‚ forces his family to follow the Pakistani lifestyle‚ but his seven children‚ who were born in Britain‚ see themselves as British and reject the traditions. This results in many tensions and conflicts
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East is East is a film about a Half-Pakistani family lives in England. The father‚ George/Jahangir Khan is from Pakistan and wants his children to feel connected to his home country. Ella Khan however is the mother of the family and is from England. Because of this there is a struggle for the seven children to find their identity. Mr. Khan expects his children to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways‚ but the children does not really feel like they belong to Pakistan. After having lived their whole
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document is an evaluation of the unemployment and drug dealing situation in East Harlem New York. It is based on five years of ethnographic data that was collected by the anthropologist‚ Dr. Philippe Bourgois of the University of Pennsylvania. As the social worker assigned to this evaluation‚ I have collaborated with Dr. Bourgois to give an anthropological explanation behind the high rates of unemployment and drug dealing in East Harlem. This report is based on the experiences of a man who worked within
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a great Italy and glory‚ by creating a new Empire. Mussolini invested an enormous amount of money in the Italian army but after a while‚ in the mid 30’s‚ the army was set‚ and victories were what was missing. Abyssinia (known as Ethiopia) was an african independent country ruled by Emperor Haile Selassie‚ which was located between Italy’s colonies‚ Eritrea and Italian Somaliland. Before the invasion of Abyssinia‚ in 1896 the Emperor’s army defeated an Italian attack at the battle of Adowa. In order
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