being watched by millions. On this occasion ‚ I would like to remind you of the historic speech that Pandit Nehru‚ the first Prime Minister of Independent India‚ delivered on the 14th of August 1947 - the famous speech titled ‘A tryst with Destiny’. Even though I was not born at that time‚ I am sure that some of the honourable members of this assembly had the privilege to listen to that speech in the first hand. 65 years later‚ today I would like to compare the impact that speech must
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character in the novel‚ Ophelia deserves special attention from the reader because she is treated as a surrogate for Stowe’s intended audience. It’s as if Stowe conceived an imaginary picture of her intended reader‚ then brought that reader into the book as a character. Ophelia embodies what Stowe considered a widespread Northern problem; the white person who opposes slavery on a theoretical level but feels racial prejudice and hatred in the presence of an actual black slave. Ophelia detests slavery‚
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to do that. Ophelia Foreshadowing Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius and whom Hamlet loves. Her role in the play was to be Hamlet’s girl in the play. There was some foreshadowing that led to the dead of Ophelia. In the beginning of the play Hamlet starts to act a little crazy with meant Ophelia was gonna be treated differently. If Hamlet didn’t go crazy and mad ‚ it wouldn’t have made Ophelia depressed making her kill herself later on in the play. Another foreshadowing of Ophelia deaf would be
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to a period after the Middle ages thus traditionally it is associated with the 14th to the 17th Century. The Renaissance was not only a period of history but a cultural movement similar to Modernism and Romanticism‚ only much earlier then the other two. Typically‚ the Renaissance was the rebirth of European culture after the depression and deterioration of the Dark Ages. The Renaissance was born in Italy but later expanded to the rest of Europe. The English Renaissance is believed to be somewhere
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Stacey Jones Barbara Schiffler Composition 1 01 Sep 2007 Two friends with different lifestyles I have heard on many occasions that “opposites attract.” There may be some truth to this statement‚ if opposites did not attract‚ what could bring two people with different lifestyles together? My good friends Shaneka and Carolina are perfect examples‚ “very different lifestyles‚” but their friendship is inseparable. May be they developed respect and trust for each other‚ and that made them inseparable
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Primates There are two different suborders of primates such as strepsirrhini and haplorrhini. All non-human primates are divided by these two suborders; in other words‚ primates with having moist nose are strepsirrhini‚ and primates with dry nose are haplorrhini. In modern day‚ lots of primates still exist in specific regions. For instance‚ ring-tailed lemur is one of non-human primates from strepsirrhini‚ and chimpanzee is one of primates from haplorrhini. Because of living in different environment‚ these
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accepted by the community. However Portia‚ a rich woman who had previously been controlled by men‚ triumphs as she manipulates tricks and saves the lives of the men. We see how she is manipulated by men through her father‚ who though dead‚ still manages to control who she marries from his will. He states in his will that from three different caskets the suitors will have to chose‚ in each of which will contain either a letter to the suitor or a picture of Portia. In one of the three caskets‚ either
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culture that I live in now. Both countries have very different factors which make up their culture; starting from their food and values. The cultures are also similar in the way that they enjoy similar forms of entertainment like music. In Mexico‚ my home country‚ their culture can be expressed by many factors like the food they eat. The same can be said about the United States. My home country has many different plates made up of different foods like shrimp‚ rice‚ beans‚ chicken‚ pork‚ and many
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Intelligence and Two Different Perspectives Psychologists have been debating the definition and the theory of intelligence for many years. One dictionary defines intelligence as "the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations; the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one ’s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria." Different theories exist that try to determine what qualities are a part of intelligence. Two psychologists‚ Charles
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Cukor’s My Fair Lady shares a practically identical plot with its source material‚ George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. This being said‚ certain aspects of the overall story are brought to the forefront or hidden through My Fair Lady’s use of song and dance. When the audience examines the small but important differences in the scripts of both works‚ it is evident that these alterations change the tone of the story from one of a drama
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