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    Krishna Sobti Essay

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    writer, famous for her novels and short-stories and is considered to be the grande dame of Hindi Literature. She won some of the most prestigious awards including the ‘Sahitya Akademi Award’ in 1980 for her novel ‘Zindaginama’, the Shiromani Award in 1981, the Hindi Academy Award in 1982, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1996 and the first Katha Chudamani Award in 1999 . She was offered the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2010, which she declined, stating that, "As a writer, I have to keep

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    The Oscars is an award show that showcase the best people in front and behind the camera. Unfortunately there was barely any diversity in the nominations this year since most nominators were white, even though there was many diverse films that were considered Oscar worthy. With that being said,people protested that there needs to be more diversity in these categories and some actors agreeing by using the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite in social media. To make things worse, the Academy Awards members are majority

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    Transcript of Chris Opening Monologue for the Oscars mainly conveys the unnecessity of boycotting the Oscars in a humorous way. He uses exclamation marks and question marks to make the audiences involved in the speech. He asserts them to question people who boycott racism. Moreover, he answers his own questions like; “Is it “Fetch me some lemonade” racist? No!” It creates Ethos in the audiences. Moreover, Rock also tries to find the real problem in Oscar. “He says we want the black actors to get

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    In the Book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian written by Sherman Alexie, demonstrates that poverty causes many complications in life and is a real issue for some people, as shown in the scene when Oscar, Arnold's best friend is sick and his family can’t afford treatment, or missing school because he can't afford to go, and when he has to pretend to not be poor just to fit in with the others. Poverty has shaped Arnold's life since the time he was born, but not until a hot summer day

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    girl named, Sophronia Temminnick is sent to Mademoiselle Gerlandines Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. Though Sophriona soon realizes the true meaning of the part Finishing. It means the Art of Killing others. The school is actually a training school for young assassins. It also teaches you to do that while becoming a lady of class. Sophronia and her friends set off on an adventure up in the floating academy to find an object gone missing: the prototype. The main character in this book

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    Schindlers list so we just watched the schindlers list. The movie in all was great. At the beginning, I wasnt sure if I would get into it. I was wrong. I didnt really know what to think about Oscar, I believe he was way different at the beginning of the movie. Defenitly had a different perspective of him of first, he only really focused on himself and getting money. A bit selfish. I think deep down he was a good man at heart. He defenitly dealed with things a lot better than others did. The other

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    started comedy rock, hippies,drugs and sexual revolution in which he used to influence his comedy stand up shows. He soon moved to Los Angeles to continue doing stand up comedies and this is when he started getting really big.Williams won a Grammy Award for the recording of the 1979 show at Copacabana. New York, "Reality...What a Concept". Later some of his yours, after he became a Tv star, include An Evening With Robin Williams , Robin Williams: At The Met and Robin

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    The Virtue Of Diversity

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    Republican candidate Donald Trump, and bragged about Hollywood’s growing diversity. “Are we ready to make the Emmy’s great again?,” joked Kimmel at the end of his opening monologue. The 68th Annual Emmy Awards on Sep. 18 marked the second time that the late night TV host emceed the awards, previously hosting it in 2012 when the event last aired on ABC. While the evening celebrated performances in the television industry, the nominees shared the stage with hot button issues such as diversity in

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    Many shows could not compare to Pretty Little Liars. Pretty Little Liars has gone on for seven years, winning a total of 31 awards and nominations in many different categories. Pretty Little Liars has had approximately 3.3 million viewers throughout its many seasons. Pretty Little Liars is an overwhelmingly addictive show. Pretty Little Liars is based off books written by Sara Shepard. Pretty Little Liars has 16 books in the series, which they have been awarded in the New York bestselling series

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    The Calvin Klein company has been trapped into a crisis in 2015 after the Annual Academy Award ceremony because of a stolen dress full of fake pearls it designed. The public felt betrayed by the organization because they have been noticed that the pearls were precious and priceless from the previous news. This crisis largely influences the organization’s reputation in a negative way in the next few days. In this case, the TMZ company plays an essential role in this crisis as a primary stakeholder

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