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tension between family members. Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day shows how war, specifically the partition of India, affects a particular family. The partition of Indian in 1947 created the separate countries of India and Pakistan, consequently ripping families apart. The partition, initiated by India’s independence from Britain, attempted to accommodate irreconcilable religious differences between Muslims and Hindus by forming the

Tension and Conflict in Things Fall Apart and Clear Light of Day       How does the tension between traditional and modern views of the world play itself out in Achebe's "Things Fall Apart", and Desai's "Clear Light of Day"?           In both Achebe's and Desai's novels, tension and conflict between the new and the old, traditional and modern are the strong undercurrents that move the story and the reader into an unconscious emotional uneasiness.   In both novels

Heroes and Heroism in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day       When one asks a child, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" a usual response is "a fireman" or "a ballerina."  In Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day, however, the young Bim and Raja are somewhat more ambitious; they answer that they want to be a hero and heroine.  Later, Bim asks somewhat bitterly, "The hero and heroine-where are they?  Down at the bottom of the well-gone, disappeared" (157).  Bim has lost track of her heroes;

All people are diverse and come from many backgrounds. Most people settled here in America as an immigrant to start a better life for their future generations and for opportunities. Most people came here with nothing but bringing along their cultures, knowledge, beliefs and behaviors which they can be shared amongst others in groups and society. In society, starting with the earlier generation there was always shared culture of classes, although everyone portrays immigrants as the lowest status.

Providence when not divine ,it is foresight' was a thought that was always haunting me from childhood,little knowing that later in my life the writer in me is taking its shape.At times I thought why I could not solve problems academic as well as personal by using the same kind of thinking which we used when we created them ,as my greatest problem was what to do about all the things I couldn't do anything about. Time passed and I set sails for SJSU.On arriving here ,I realised that I had grown

little fuzzier than it was before, as if you were gazing through a tinted window. Light will still be able to filter into your home, and the light that makes it through your doors should cast a slightly tinted shadow based on the color of film that you have installed.

they obtain nutritive organic molecules (1), in other words, their food. Plants are denominated as autotrophs, organisms that can produce their own food from abiotic sources surrounding them, such as light, carbon dioxide and water (2). Plants use these three factors in photosynthesis to convert light energy into chemical energy, which is then stored until the plant needs it, or used right away (3). The process of photosynthesis takes place on organelles (substructures inside eukaryotic cells) called

driven a car seen the difference between brand new headlights, and dirty headlights. Jesus uses our eyes as an example of goodness and darkness. Jesus told a group of people that “The lamp of the body is the eye. Thus, your eye is clear, your whole body is full of light; but if your eye is soiled, your whole body is dark” (1156). The way Jesus tells this parable can reveal a great deal about a person. This parable has so much meaning behind it. It can tell you why people act the way they do. Throughout

begins with is light-dependent, and therefore needs a light source of some sort. In such an experiment, it is possible to use light sources of various wavelengths as a variable to determine if the rate of photosynthesis is directly affected by colored light. While photosynthesis is producing oxygen for the cell, cellular respiration is also occurring in the cell simultaneously and consuming oxygen. Submerging the leaves in sodium bicarbonate

Yoshimoto uses the motif of light and darkness in her work to contrast the characters ' outward expressions with their internal emotions. The usage of the motif of light in the book is vast enough to be spoken about on its own in the first paragraph, which will prove the thesis by giving an example of how with the motif of light can relate to the characters emotions shown greatly. The significance of this point is to give a clear example of what some of the motifs of light are in the book. The quote