In the contemporary century where the world is metamorphosed to a global village, the concept of national culture and national literature is certainly belied. The World literature, today, simultaneously represents an important multicultural perspective within individual national literatures as well as more global perspective taking in the phenomena of transculturalism and diaspora confluence. Centripetal and centrifugal forces can be discerned as both antagonistic and complementary forces in cultural
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In American literature, around the 19th and 20th centuries, many writers instituted themes and mythical tales of the “tragic mulatto”. The tragic mulatto was usually a stereotypical, fictional character that was assumed to be sad, or even suicidal, due to being of mixed race. Failing to completely fit in the “white world” or even the “black world”, the “tragic mulatto” is illustrated as a victim of a society divided by race. This depiction typically influenced the notion that there is/ was no place
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The Place” where governmental secrecy is addressed as well as political methods in order to seclude society from oppressive practices. The topics of gender, socialization, power relations and Arab culture are addressed within this narrative. The story is a narrative revolving around a residential Egyptian building, the ultimate social microcosm during the 1970’s. The protagonist is a resident and the story is told from a first person perspective. It explains how a sudden attack of Norwegian rats
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The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Lanyon’s narrative: One of the central themes in this chapter of the book “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” is split personalities, and how that everyone has an evil side to their persona. In this chapter we discover Mr. Hyde’s (Jekyll’s evil, ugly side) transformation back to Dr. Jekyll with the help from an elixir he brews at his college’s (Dr. Lanyon) house. Another theme this chapter consists is silence. Throughout the text we don’t get to know
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Dashiff, Riley, Abdullatif & Moreland (2011) goal in this article was to describe the experiences of parents of 16 to 18 years old adolescent with type 1 diabetes Mellitus (TIDM). Information gained from this research can be use to develop education program that will help parents with TIDM adolescent self-management efforts. In support of the research, a thorough discussion of the difficulty parents have in letting go when their children reaches the age to take over the management of their
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uses both high-key and low-key. The low-key lighting is used in the scenes where Batman is going to fight, or is fighting, it builds up the tension before an exciting scene and keeps the audience on edge. With relation to the narrative of the movie, is a non-linear narrative structure. The editing through the whole movie is done on the computer, to make the movie seem very realistic. This is called computer-generated imagery, but both CGI and
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the backdrop of Mumbai’s mafia kings and is a dark and very close retelling of the original text. The principal characters are played by Irfan Khan, Tabu, Pankaj Kapur, Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah. While Bharadwaj has more or less retained the narrative of the original play, he does move around the settings of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Pankaj Kapur (Abbaji - Duncan) is the reigning don of Mumbai’s underworld and Tabu (Nimmi - Lady Macbeth) is his mistress who loves Kapur’s right hand man Irfan Khan
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containing several paragraphs, and a conclusion. But the trick is to make your life story an interesting narrative with a theme. So how do you determine your theme? You've probably heard the saying that diversity is the spice of life. While the saying is a little old and tired, the meaning holds true. Your job is to find out what makes your family or your experience spicy and build a narrative around that. In other words, you will research on your own life. Start your research by taking a close
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only for their respective wards, Kee and the unnamed boy, to continue without them. However, the most striking similarity between the two media is the abundant mention of faith and God. Faith is mentioned so frequently in these post-apocalyptic narratives that one starts to wonder if such name dropping isn’t to acknowledge the presence of God, but rather the lack thereof. They search so
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Art History 101 – Ancient to Medieval Handout 4 Greek Art: Geometric & Orientalizing (9th-7th BC), Archaic (7th-6th BC), Classical (5th c. BC), Late Classical (4th century BC) and Hellenistic Periods (3rd - 1st c. BC) ! Geometric 800 BC: Prosperity comes again to Greece after the fall of the Mycenaeans. Trade and important ceramic traditions look Eastward for sources. ! 1. Late Geometric belly-handled amphora by the Dypilon master, 8th c. BCE, fig.5.2, use of registers, primarily
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