A. R. Rahman

Rahman was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India in a middle-class Tamil family. His father, R. K. Shekhar, was a film-score composer and conductor for Tamil and Malayalam films; Rahman assisted his father in the studio, playing the keyboard. After his father's death when Rahman was nine years old, the rental of his father's musical equipment provided his family's income.[11] Raised by his mother, Kareema (born Kashturi),[1] Rahman was a keyboard player and arranger for bands such as Roots (with childhood

Many times there are different groups in society who fight and don’t get along real well. That is the majority of this book. Two groups of kids in which one group feels safety and rescue is the way to go. The other hunting and being uncivilized, and carefree. The civilized more organized and having rules group is Ralph’s. The group being uncivilized and thinking that hunting is going to save them is Jack’s group also known as his choir. Having goals for your group is very important but the

“To forget would not only be dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”- Elie Wiesel. Daniel James Brown, the author of The Boys in the Boat, knew Joe Rantz, the main character in his book, personally, and wrote his book with true facts and real memories. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, narrated the book and wrote it from personal experiences. The Boys in the Boat is about 9 working class boys on the University of Washington’s rowing team who qualified

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?... If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can,” asserts J.R.R. Tolkien. We occasionally need to have our heads in the clouds and be lost in those. Everyone, at some point in their lives, has the desire to escape from the dull routines of everyday lives. James Joyce

Over the summer while in a pet shop I happened to see a hamster in one of the glass cages, on the cage it listed the hamster as being a “Teddy Bear” hamster. When I showed him to my mom she said if I were to take care of it, she would allow me to have it. So we bought him and all of the supplies that we would need at the pet store. We got him home and I was curious about what exactly a “Teddy Bear” hamster was so I researched hamsters and was able to figure out that the hamster was a male and I also

When I was in 5th grade, I had a little crush on this boy named AJ. I did not think he liked me very much so I did a lot of things to try and get him to notice me. I would tell him a bunch of things about myself that were not true and I would lie to try and make myself look good. I would tell him that I really liked things that he liked when I really did not or I would tell him I didn’t like things when I actually loved them. I did not think that he would ever like me and I did not want to seem uncool

Violence Breeds Adulthood In the time as which my parents grew up the world was very different. They played outside at all hours of the night and they got into more trouble with each other and less with the law. Growing up I had always heard my dad’s stories of wandering around the small town with his friends getting into fights and meeting girls. Somehow now day’s things have changed but remain the same. For instance, we often act like boys fighting at a young age is just stupid or even “childish”

Both Willa Cather’s My Ántonia and O. E. Rölvaag’s Giants in the Earth portray the difficulties of everyday life in unexplored territory, with similar themes and context. Although the overarching themes of both novels are similar, the manner in which characters behave with each other, the dependency families have on each other, and the ability of individuals to mitigate conflict is different. Both My Ántonia and Giants in the Earth portray an array of sources causing conflict in relationships. However

When placed somewhere new and confusing, filled with unfamiliar sights and sounds, people will desire to make sense of their environment, no matter their previous conditioning as to what is right or wrong. In the novel The Lord of the Flies, young boys are stranded somewhere totally new, both in its physical and social environments, and once civilization is stripped away, a clear dividing line separates those who fight the savagery from those who embrace it. The physical environment of the

WILLIE For some unexplained reason, on our way back to the cabin after a successful couple of hours on the lake, my thoughts drifted back to my childhood again. This time I was fishing for American Shad from the shore of the Hudson River at Crawbucky Beach. Shad is a salt water fish from the Atlantic Ocean. They are a silver scaled fish with black spots on its back and adult shad often reach the weight of 4 or 5 pounds. Each spring the shad return to the Hudson River to spawn in their ancient hatcheries