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    Maharajah’s Feast The time is set around the 1940s when Britain’s military and government occupied India. Dr. Indiana Jones‚ Willie and Shorty were guests of the Prime Minister at the Maharajah’s feast in the Pankot Palace. Pankot Palace‚ a beautiful‚ elaborate retreat somewhere in remote India. We enter the dining hall where the room is smoke filled and hazy from dozens of candles and incense burning. High ceilings adorn sheer‚ brightly colored fabrics and crystal chandeliers

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    Chez Evans KSP 220W Reflection We Shall Remain The film We Shall Remain explained what happened after the first Thanksgiving feast. In southeastern Massachusetts a leader of the Wampanoag tribe by the name of Massasoit Negotiates a friendship with new English settlers. Due to the sickness of the english Massasoit decided to help them survive through the winter‚ as the settlers started to bring more of their people to this new land the Wampanoag

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    Jaipur Literature Festival is an inclusive platform‚ a festival of ideas where several dimensions of issues are debated‚ discussed and a lot of intellectual churning and brainstorming happens. It is not a political platform. In such an atmosphere‚ every argument has a context and that should be appreciated. At the very outset‚ it is important to understand that Mr. Nandy’s assertion is no way related to the ethical or unethical aspect of corruption. Given the fact that corruption is all pervasive

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    loyalty and duty‚ power and respect. Pietas and gravitas are two ideals are both quite evident in Stevens‚ the main character of the novel The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. In the preface to the Aeneid‚ Bernard Knox defines auctoritas as “the power and respect won by men of experience‚ of successful leadership in war and peace” (p.14‚ Aeneid). In The Remains of the Day‚ Stevens contemplates the idea of “professionalism” – a sense of dignity and poise that all great butlers supposedly carry. Stevens’s

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    The Largest Feast May Not Cure Hunger Ernest Hemingway discusses the theme of hunger throughout A moveable feast by exploring and describing the different types of hunger that he felt. He aims to explore this theme in the passage where he strolls with Hadley‚ and they stop to eat at the restaurant Michaud’s. Through repetition and use of unconventional detail and word choice‚ Hemingway shows that he has more than one type of hunger‚ and needs to differentiate between them. Hemingway strives to

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    The overlapping characteristics of M. Dupont and Edouard Daladier in The Remains of the Day are illustrated from the descriptions given by Stevens and dialogue between characters such as Mr. Lewis and Lord Darlington. The descriptions and dialogue points out that the presence of Dupont and/or Daladier during the conference was crucial to the Treaty of Versailles’ outcome. Dupont is presented as a fictional character built on top of Daladier and is described as an “extremely illustrious Frenchman”

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    The distinguished painting‚ Samson Tells a Riddle at his Feast‚ by artist Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn‚ interprets the knowledgeable scene of a biblical figure‚ Samson‚ and his wife at their wedding feast. Judges 14 of the Bible details the background story of the painting – how Samson met a Philistine woman and chose her as his wife. Before he can take his new bride’s hand in marriage‚ Samson is withheld by a dangerous lion. Samson‚ however‚ is determined to join his lady and slays the beast. Oddly

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    Ventura Professor Atkinson History-1301 81201 29 Sep. 2015 We Shall Remain: After the Mayflower In March of 1621‚ in what is now southern Massachusetts‚ Massasoit‚ the leading sachem of the Wampanoag‚ sat down to negotiate with a ragged group of English colonist. Hungry‚ dirty‚ and sick‚ the pale-skinned foreigners were struggling to stay alive; they were in desperate need to help Native help. The film was called‚ “We Shall Remain: After the Mayflower‚” it was release in April 13‚ 2009 – May 11‚

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    and display of human remains at Pompeii and Herculaneum. Though the problem lies in the determination of what is actually right or wrong‚ as attitudes vary between cultures and can change over time. So people have different ideas and opinions about it. Many think that displaying and studying human remains is further damaging the bodies and not having respect to deceased person but others also think that it is a gain rather than a loss. Studying and display these humans remains from Pompeii and Herculaneum

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