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    Stat. N.p.‚ 21 June 2006. Web. 29 Sept. 2012. Faridi‚ Rashid. "Rashid ’s Blog." Rashid ’s Blog. N.p.‚ 4 Mar. 2012. Web. 29 Sept. 2012. Hoosain‚ EMAUDDIN. "A Teacher ’s Guide to the Edition of Nectar in a Sieve." Penguin Putnam‚ Inc.‚ 28 Sept. 1996. Web. 29 Sept. 2012. Markandaya‚ Kamala. Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel. New York‚ Penguin Books USA‚ Inc.‚ 1982. Print.

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    I Do Marriage traditions are an important aspect of the culture in both novels‚ Nectar in a Sieve and Things Fall Apart. These traditions have changed since the time period of each novel’s setting. The changes were either beneficial or detrimental to the culture. In Things Fall Apart‚ the bride’s family presents a bundle of sticks which represent the number of bags of cowries paid to the groom’s family. This bundle of sticks is exchanged non-verbally until a decision is made with the price. Also

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    PLANT TISSUES (pp 261-268) HOW ARE CELLS ORGANIZED IN PLANTS? I. MERISTEMATIC TISSUES A. APICAL MERISTEMS Primary Growth 1. Initials a. Occur near tips of roots and shoots b. Cells have thin walls‚ prominent nuclei‚ and small vacuoles c. Functions 1) Establish patterns of growth. • Leaf pattern. 2) Produce new‚ genetically healthy cells 3) Produce derivatives which in turn account for primary growth i.e. elongation. 2. Derivatives a. Protoderm - becomes

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    asking to be not too little and not too much‚ but just right. (Prasad 37) The struggle of individuals caught between tradition and modernity‚ or between India and the west‚ is a very common theme in Indian literature. This struggle is evident in Nectar in a Sieve‚ as Rukmani often finds herself battling between her traditional views and opinions‚ and the various modern forces that seem to be taking over her life. On the one hand‚ Rukmani yearns for the traditional way of life she has always known and

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    During the twentieth century‚ there has been a gradual improvement in the status of women in Britain. At the beginning of the century sadfaf The Value of Suffering in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve Shoshana M. Landow ’91 (Anthropology 302‚ Princeton University‚ 1989) Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve portrays its positive woman ... the suffragette movement won the right for women to vote in parliamentary elections. By

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    Plant cells are eukaryotic cells that differ in several key aspects from the cells of other eukaryotic organisms. Their distinctive features include: A large central vacuole‚ a water-filled volume enclosed by a membrane known as the tonoplast maintains the cell’s turgor‚ controls movement of molecules between the cytosol and sap‚ stores useful material and digests waste proteins and organelles. A cell wall composed of cellulose and hemicellulose‚ pectin and in many cases lignin‚ is secreted by

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    There are some losses in property‚ but it is a necessary thing to do to improve the community. Urbanization helps the world to be more sufficient. It can help bring up the economy‚ spread cultures and ideas‚ and it is more convenient. In Nectar in a Sieve‚ the property Rukmani and Nathan’s house was bought out by the tannery. “Somehow I had always felt the tannery would eventually be our undoing.” (Markandaya 131). Sadly their land was taken for the tannery but it will help open up jobs and help

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    order them early. How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines‚ by Thomas C. Foster (336 pages) USD 14.00 ISBN-10: 006000942X ISBN-13: 978-0060009427 AND Choose ONE of the following: Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya (208 pages) ISBN-10: 0451528239 ISBN-13: 978-045152823 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (432 pages) ISBN-10: 159448385X ISBN-13: 978-1594483851 A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (311 pages) ISBN-10: 038549081X

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    Botany Lab Introduction to Microscope Circa 1000 AD. = the first vision aid was invented (inventor unknown) called a reading stone. Circa 1284= Italian‚ Salvino D’ Armante is credited inventing the first bearable eye glass. 1590= two dutch eye glass makers‚ Zaccharias Janssen and Hans Janssen experimented with multiple lenses. 1665= English Physicist‚ Robert Hooke looked at a silver of cork through a microscope lens and noticed some “pores” or “cells”. 1674= Anton Van Leeuwenhoek built

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    him‚ but they owned him so to not give up what he knows would’ve been worst than giving it up he knew within his self (35 points) if he gave up‚ His masters win. 2. What do pieces such as “Marriage Is a Private Affair” and the excerpt from Nectar in a Sieve demonstrate about the influence of modern ideas and modern ways on traditional cultures? How are the characters in these works affected by the modernization of their respective societies? In Marriage is a Private Affair‚ It’s shows marriage

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