Essay On Intern At Dharamsala

Authors have a way of creating their characters to have individual virtues, but still making them relatable to the audience. They can recognize the common conflicts within the readers and incorporate them into their main characters in a unique way. The main characters from The House On Mango Street and The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian have common internal and external conflicts throughout the story that are relatable to the expected audience. Their physical differences are factors that cause individual problems, but also help to contribute to the connection between the characters and readers.

The Tibetan Plateau is a vast area of elevated land situated in Central/East Asia, covering most of Tibet. Known as the Roof of the World, the average elevation exceeds 4,500 metres. The main scenery on the Tibetan Plateau is grassland and tundra, with some parts covered in forest and shrubland. Summer is relatively cool there, but in winter temperatures can plummet to -16°C. In order to survive in such a harsh environment, the inhabitants, mainly Tibetan farmers and nomad travellers, must adapt. Tibetan people have survived, and thrived, there for thousands of years, and have adapted to the extreme cold, lack of oxygen, limited food sources and exposure to UV light. Tibet was invaded in the late 1950’s by China, and the people and the environment have suffered since.

Why were people born in Bhutan exiled? Some people born in Bhutan were not Bhutanese they held different beliefs like Chandra and Chandra's family. The king didn't want to have different influences from different cultures thus you had to be a Bhutanese born in Bhutan to be prevented from being exiled. Refugees still believed in the custom of Bhutanese and practice it religiously in the refugee camp. The minister of information of Bhutan steps in to say a few words of the refugee camps in Nepal. Minister of information of Bhutan takes this whole situation as if they are immigrants who came from different countries while many were born in Bhutan. The only exception made was that Bhutanese refugees were able to leave and settle in the United States of America. Some refugees will go and some will stay which is very hard leaving your family behind for better opportunities and freedoms that weren't offered in the refugee camp. This is very wrong just because someone has different religious beliefs they are being forced to leave. I can relate to this predicament, when I was in high school I had friends that were Asian(Hmong). In the middle of the school year they had told me that they didn't want to be my friend anymore. After they had kicked me out they created their own group and even termed themselves. I felt just like the Bhutanese refugees like I had been kicked out where I enjoyed being. I can

The book “Love and Honor in the Himalayas: Coming to know another culture” is ethnography by Ernestine McHugh. In the beginning of the book, the author talks about how she developed her interest in the field of anthropology during her undergraduate study since “at that time [she] knew little about [it,] but [she] had mapped out a project relating to culture and the aesthetics of life” (McHugh). It was her mentor Gregory Bateson, under whom she had developed this project who inspired her to carry out this project in Nepal. Although her attempts at writing about her experience failed the first time, during her graduate schooling she was encouraged by her advisor Roy D’Andrade to continue. This book revolves around the ethnic Gurung community who live at the foothills of the Annapurna Mountain; just about thirty miles up from the famous tourist destination in Nepal called Pokhara. At the age of twenty-one, the village where the author lived was called “Tebas.” Although Nepal is a country filled with people who follow Hinduism and the official language is Nepalese, she chooses a place in north central Nepal where people mostly spoke in their own ethnic language which is very similar to Tibetan on contrary to the popular Nepalese language. In this book she talks about how she fully immerses herself in the field work and in the process tells the story of the people who let her in their house and more importantly made her a part of their family. Throughout her stay she was treated

The Dhammapada is a Pali version of one of the most popular text of the Buddhist canon. The Dhammapada, or “sayings of the Buddha”, is a collection of 423 verses that tell about the ideals and teachings of the Buddha. When taken together, these verses provide a structured form of teaching within the Buddhist religion. These verses are a kind of guiding voice to the path of true enlightenment.

“Each funeral was a funeral for all of us”: Notions of Race, Identity and Mortality in Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie is the author of Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. In the novel, a boy named Arnold Junior experiences poverty, friendship, death, and being bullied. In this novel, Alexie uses significant events in Junior’s life to illustrate how even though poverty can lead to adversity, people can lead rich lives in other ways.

Nearly 11.7 percent of deaths among Native Americans and Alaska Natives between 2001 and 2005 were alcohol related, as opposed to 3.3% of the U.S as a whole. In the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is about a poor indian boy that lives in a indian reservation with a drunken father, a religious mother, and his sister Mary. Junior faces many obstacles in his life and goes through them by himself. He faces some on his own and some with friends and family. When they help him, Junior realizes that he is not alone.

Before reading Sold, I did not possess much knowledge about the living conditions in Nepal and India; those living conditions are one thing I found very interesting and slightly surprising. I know that some cities in India are very densely populated, but I never thought about the flip side of that. In Sold, Patricia McCormick describes the village where Lakshmi originally lived as a very poor and almost bleak area. For some reason I never imagined India and Nepal to have a lot of rural areas with residents who are far less advanced than their urban neighbors; however, areas that resemble Lakshmi’s village make up the majority of Nepal. I was highly surprised when learning this new piece of information, but I now have a better grasp of what kind of environment Sold takes place

The Tibet Question is one that centres on territory and control, and whether it is a part of China, or historically an independent state and whether it should be an independent state. Tibetans continue to flee and in record numbers. Led by the Dalai Lama, the 1989 Nobel Peace Laureate, Tibetans struggle to retain their culture. As stated by Robert Dickinson, “The Dalai Lama, is the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetans, he enters his later years, as a window of opportunity to achieve some form of reconciliation that may become apparent to both China and Tibet.” As well, the international community needs to do something about this issue before the Dalai Lama passes away, as China may see an opportunity to do even more harm to Tibetan cultural, religious and human

The world these last two decades is going through a very strong and unstable situation. The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Lybia resulted in the replacement of millions of people. In some cases, the replacement occurs within the same country, but in others, people are forced to leave their dear country, where they were born and raised, the place where they found joy and happiness, where they are around people who they have always been with and with whom the have stories, to venture into unknown lands. The sacrifice is worth for lives to be preserved during periods of war.

India is poor. On a daily basis, I saw young children crying and begging for food and money. I watched with pity as our maid broke her back day and night to do our dirty work. I felt deep sympathy for the young boys working at constructions sites. The miserable state of the people around me made me grateful for what I had. Seeing those unfortunate souls sacrificing themselves in order to afford a survival coerced me to value what I had and live modestly. A lack of flamboyance in my life augments my attention towards learning and working hard. I don’t desire to be rich and famous, I desire to make a difference, especially in the lives of those who are less fortunate than me.

About 100,000 people followed him into exile and he established a democratically based alternative government at Dharamsala in Punjab, India, aptly known as little Lhasa. It has cultural and educational institutions and serves as a “capital-in-exile” for 140,000 Tibetan refugees. In the past decade, the Dalai Lama has tried to negotiate with the Chinese while in the main time pleads for help where ignored by United Nations and NATO who have gone to war to defend the Kawaties, the Bosnians and others. Despite the fact that they have forsaken the Tibetan people in favor of selling products to the Chinese masses the Dalai Lama is still fighting for the freedom of his people until this day. He is 63 years old and hopes to return to his country in his lifetime.

All countries in the world are unique. They are different form one another on their

After independence, the town became an important centre for the resettlement of refugees because of India-Pakistan partition. They were rehabilitated by Jawaharlal Nehru as part of the Pakistani Refugee Resettlement Project (PRRP) following partition in 1947. Also in an attempt to de-clog Delhi, many central government offices were consciously moved to this city. What was previously just a wasteland was converted into a thriving colony. This was also a big and unique human experiment, to resettle people” (Jain L.C, 1998)