INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH POEM THE BEGINNING The renaissance in modern Indian Literature begins with Raja Ram Mohan Roy. The infiltration of western culture‚ the study of English literature‚ the adoption of western scientific techniques‚ gave a jolt to India’s traditional life. It shocked us into a new awareness‚ a sense of urgency‚ and the long dormant intellectual and critical impulse was quickened into sudden life and the reawakening Indian spirit went forth to meet the violent challenge of
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|Word 1 |Meaning |Word 2 |Meaning | |accept |to agree to receive or do |except |not including | |adverse |unfavourable‚ harmful |averse |strongly disliking; opposed | |advice |recommendations about what to |advise |to recommend something | |
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English Words ‘The air is always thick with our verbal emissions. There are so many things we want to tell the world. Some of them are important‚ some of them are not. But we talk anyway. A life without words would be a horrendous privation.’ (from the Introduction) Words and language‚ keys to human identity‚ are fascinating subjects. The aim of this book is to arouse curiosity about English words and about the nature of language in general‚ especially among students who are not intending
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A Abominable—thoroughly unpleasant or disagreeable Abscond—leave hurriedly and secretly‚ typically to avoid detection or arrest. Affable— 1. easy and pleasant to speak to; approachable. 2. gentle and gracious. Alexithymia— inability to describe emotions in a verbal manner animadversion— strong criticism; a critical or censorious remark annihilate— 1. to destroy completely; to reduce to nonexistence; to defeat decisively; vanquish. 2. to nullify or render void; abolish. apposite (AP-ah-zit)
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The Life of Galileo Bertolt Brecht Foreword Two SCENES‚ numbered 5 and 10 in the original version‚ are omitted from this edition of The Life of Galileo to reduce it to manageable length for students. A reader can follow the theme of the play clearly enough without them; on the other hand‚ what they contribute to its background‚ in the panic-stricken atmosphere of the plague and the wild hilarity of the carnival‚ needs stage presentation‚ even more than most of the other scenes‚ for its full effect
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Part One Essays CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: THE FORM OF LITERATURE a. Elements of Essays b. The essay and other forms of literature c. The essayist and the reader d. Four essays and commentaries • The essay as argument: Persuasion • The essay as story: history • The essay as poem: Meditation • The essay as play: Dialogue Total Essays 10 1. Cocksure
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IS THERE A PHILIPPINE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION? OR BETTER STILL‚ FOR WHOM IS PHILIPPINE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION? 1 Alex Brillantes‚ Jr. and Maricel Fernandez 2 I Yes‚ there is a Philippine Public Administration Is there a Philippine public administration? A number of our colleagues asked us why we are asking that question again as we were planning this colloquium. Indeed that question had been asked 20 years ago‚ and answers have been provided us by eminent scholars of Public Administration such as
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VERBAL ABILITY Direction for questions 1 to 40: Each question gives a word following by four choices. From the choice‚ select the most suitable synonym (word which means the same) for the main word and mark its number as the answer. 1. ABSTRACT (1) Peculiar (2) Summary (3) Normal (4) Diagnostic Answer: (2) 2. COMPLACENT (1) Disappointed (2) Evasive (3) Satisfied (4) Flimsy Answer: (3) 3. Exterminate (1) Evict (2) Dissociate (3)
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Updated 4/10/13 1 Table of Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................... 3 About Us ................................................................................................................... 4 What is Magoosh? ...................................................................................................... 4 Featured in ....................................................................
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Heart of Darkness Conrad‚ Joseph Published: 1902 Categorie(s): Fiction‚ Literary Source: University of Virginia 1 About Conrad: Joseph Conrad (born Teodor Józef Konrad Korzeniowski‚ 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born novelist. Some of his works have been labelled romantic: Conrad’s supposed "romanticism" is heavily imbued with irony and a fine sense of man’s capacity for self-deception. Many critics regard Conrad as an important forerunner of Modernist literature. Conrad’s
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